Even though Directory theme performs the best in the market when it comes to speed, it has been a concern when we were considering hundreds and thousands of listings on a single site. Team templatic has continued to find better ways to improve the performance and have provided periodic updates. Earlier today we released important updates for Directory, all child themes and most add-ons. Most of these are focused on optimization and speed improvements which should significantly improve your directory site speed. Speed optimization In order to decrease website loading times we minified several CSS and javascript files. You should be able to notice these faster loading times on the homepage, category pages and detail pages. These improvements are located inside the core Directory components so you don’t have to do anything special to apply them… just update Directory (all 4 components). Along with minifying certain files we also implemented AJAX into several widgets. Expect the following widgets to load much quicker in the latest version of Directory… All Categories List Events Calendar Recent Reviews Browse by Categories/Tags To get these improvements you’ll need to update the main Directory product (4 components) and these two add-ons: Events and MultiRating. Image optimization With version # we removed a number of image sizes that were rarely used. As a result WordPress won’t need to create as many thumbnails for each image you upload. This will not only save storage space but also make image management easier. To implement this change we updated all child themes and the following plugins Tevolution – Events Tevolution – Classifieds Tevolution – RealEstate REST API compatibility A number of you have requested this compatibility over the last few months so we decided to investigate and ultimately add it to the theme. The compatibility is achieved via the WP REST API plugin. To make your Directory theme compatible simply update it to the latest version (all 4 components) and install the REST API plugin. WP REST API will allow you to send listing information to other applications. It will also make it easier to receive information from other sources. You can learn more about the API here. Important Tevolution – Events update Along with the Events Calendar widget update mentioned earlier, the new version of the Events add-on also comes with improved recurring events. Archive pages (search page, category page, etc) will now display recurring events differently within... Read more »
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