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Alejandro, nice to have an update as the previous version stopped me being able to edit articles within Joomla, one thing though - are there any plans to streamline and compress the files involved at all? I have the reviews module published on my frontpage which bumps up the loading times considerably.

As an example, the page size without the reviews module is 147626kb which is seriously increased to 219851 published. Obviously in the world of trying to decrease site loading as much as possible if this is something that can be done it would be very helpful.

cheers

leigh

Hi Alejandro, the xajax still appears to be showing up on page loads despite turning off the ajax pagination. The main thing I can see that is causing the bulk of the size is from the module calling all the theme images/files etcwhen IMO it really does not need to do so. When you take into consideration the 16116 bytes of the main theme css file and the remaining other files (images etc) weigh in at 37102 bytes being able to configure the module more easily would make a huge difference - for instance in my case I do not need most of the theme css images to load, simply the stars and the editor rating icon, no doubt others would want to eye-candy theirs up a little so there is a flipside.

What would make more sense is a less centralised theme so that in the module template an individual css can be created based on the individual requirement of the module in question, removing 53kb+ from loading on a frontpage could make the difference between being able to use Jreviews to its full potential or using a stripped down version of what was planned.

I must say though, I have huge respect for the work you have put in to this component and I love it! I would like to see it keep improving though so I hope these suggestions are of some use.

cheers

leigh

I will let you know

Cheers Alejandro, I thought I must have been missing something.

leigh

When you upgraded to build 15, did you also replace the module files in the /modules folder for both listings and reviews? I made a change to prevent xajax from loading if ajax pagination is disabled. When you open the mod_jreviews_listings/reviews.php files you should find something like this:


The boolean parameter for the jreviewsDispatcher class determines whether xajax is loaded or not.

Have you checked the module's php files to see if they contain the code as shown above?

You can try hard coding the false parameter to see if that helps:


It might be also that xajax is loaded for the front page. You can try disabling jReviews from the frontpage in the jReviews Comments Plugin parameters.