Hello, I use the Toocheke Premium theme on my WordPress-based website, and I’m using the latest version of WordPress and tested things using PHP 7.4.1 and 7.3.
Last week I tried to activate the Patreon plugin for my website so I could make certain content subscriber-only. The plugin seemed to work for editing purposes, except one thing: My site slowed down from taking around 4 seconds to load to around 18-22.
Individual images, including tiny icons, each took several seconds to load. This occurred even after strenuous optimization efforts. (My Google speed test score, with Patreon deactivated, is around 42 now.)
I isolated all my plugins and found Patreon to be the one that critically slows things down. I’m wondering if the plugin is checking every single image I post to see whether it needs to be blocked to nonsubscribers. I tested it with all content being open to everyone.
Have you heard of any similar plugin problems related to this and how to fix them? I’d like to still use Patreon on my Wordpress if at all possible.
Damn I wish I would have seen these posts before spending this money. My site is so slow now and the reason is this plug-in. And I am not even using advanced features. All I need the pro version for is the VIP button but this has caused more harm than good. Now I have Patron pissed off which they weren’t with the free plugin. How do we get a refund. I guess I have to go with mpp
Image locking is an advanced feature and if you enable it, your web hosting account may not be sufficient to handle it. You should make sure you have a capable hosting account before turning that feature on. And image locking feature is not specific to Patron Pro. Its a feature of the free plugin.
This is not something that can be worked around through code. Image locking requires the image request to be handled by PHP rather than Apache/Nginx (or other webservers). Otherwise images cant be locked. PHP needs to receive the image request, check if the user is a qualifying patron, then serve the image if conditions are filled.
Trying a hosting with SSD storage may help. I havent seen much performance difference in between showing the image via webserver and PHP in such setups. PHP-FPM seems to perform the best.
Ok. So I’m not doing image locking. There were not any issues before I installed pro. Everything worked great. Then I added pro and it was syncing posts and creating them. After this caused a meltdown I removed all the syncing. I’ve never had any image locking. I do need the pro plugin because I now have VIPs. But with syncing off and image locking off, why is one of the plugins making constant queries to various Patron posts. It has no reason to. It need only block certain WP posts as it was doing before. It has no reason to talk to Patreon beyond oauth in my mind. As I mistaken?