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July 16, 2014 at 10:14 am

Hi gpin,

We received your support token request and investigated. It turns out that there’s a bit of code in the theme’s functions.php file that was added as a way to try to speed up the website. The code follows:

////////////////////////////////////////////
// SPEED
////////////////////////////////////////////
if( !is_admin() ) {
	// Move all JS from header to footer
	remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_print_scripts');
	remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_print_head_scripts', 9);
	remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 1);
	add_action('wp_footer', 'wp_print_scripts', 5);
	add_action('wp_footer', 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 5);
	add_action('wp_footer', 'wp_print_head_scripts', 5);
}

While it’s a fairly common optimization to move JavaScript files to load at the bottom of the page where possible, the above code doesn’t take into consideration load order or script dependancies. So with the above code in action, the calendar’s scripts dependancies were not met and with that, the calendar couldn’t load as it normally would.

I simply commented out code, and the calendar starting working. Along with that, most of the scripts on the page are loading at the bottom of the page, so the above trick was likely not helping much in terms of page speed.

If you’re interested in speeding up the load time of the web page, you might try combining and compressing the scripts where possible. This will reduce the number of http requests, which can really speed up the load time of a web page because a high number of https requests is usually where the bottleneck is.

The WP better minify plugin is one I have used with success to make that happen.

July 17, 2014 at 1:06 am

Hi,

Is it OK to now mark this thread as resolved?