[Resolved] Website extremely slow, missing dependencies

[troyw]

Hey guys,
For the past week or so, this website has been running extremely slow. I have established that the Smart Slider and the Shippit Plugin are part of the problem, but even with these disabled, the biggest issue appears to be someting to do with the GP theme.

To get a better look at the issue, I installed ‘Query Monitor’ and it presents this;

Missing Dependencies chld_thm_cfg_separate http://www.mywebsite.com.au wp-content/themes/generatepress-child/ctc-style.css

Based upon this, I looked at the CTC style sheet, which is empty, apart from this;

/*
CTC Separate Stylesheet
Updated: 2020-09-02 10:12:33
*/

As there is nothing in the sheet, I tried to simply remove it in cpanel, but I am still getting the error? Do I need to be using this sheet now for CSS instead of the Child style.css file?

I’m not sure if this is related, but I am also getting a ‘Duplicate Query’ warning related ton GP-Premium;

generate_menu_plus_mobile_header_logo()
1 call
generate_do_navigation_branding()
1 call

Any ideas what could be causing this and why the website is crawling along like this would be gratefully appreciated.

Many thanks

[David]

Hi there,

Missing Dependencies chld_thm_cfg_separate http://www.mywebsite.com.au wp-content/themes/generatepress-child/ctc-style.css
thats from the child theme, and it looks like its related to the Child Theme Configurator plugin. Has that been used on the site ?

The duplicate queries, that simply because the same logo image is used for the Mobile Header. We could probably improve that but it really won’t make a difference to the sites performance.

[troyw]

I think back then I did use a Child Theme configurator plugin, which i don’t use anymore, I just use your GP Child theme. Should I swap the current style.css for your one and just copy the css across?

[troyw]

I have swapped the style.css file and still have the same issue. Do you know how I would remove the Missing Dependencies chld_thm_cfg_separate http://www.mywebsite.com.au wp-content/themes/generatepress-child/ctc-style.css as I really need to get to the bottom of this performance issue and this might be it something to do with it.

I am also taking a look at the CSS to see if i can improve this too. Is there anything that jumps out at you as being off?
Thanks

[David]

I am not familiar with that plugin, did it add any code to your child theme functions.php ?

[troyw]

Thanks guys, seems to running much better now.

[David]

Glad to hear that !

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