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  1. 02-11-2013, 08:51 AM #1
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    Default The problem with commercial Wordpress themes - unstable?

    I'm checking out Elegant Themes and I've discovered a template I like. In fact it is used by Rookie Designer and I am thinking of getting in touch with them to ask a question.

    My question is whether the latest Wordpress update addresses some of the issues brought up regarding the Delicate News theme at this site and if it a good idea to use this theme at all.

    Allegedly there are issues with a comment count script.

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    Delicate News (version 2.0) by Elegant Themes

    The template looks great. We do some modifications based on client's requests and everything is fine. It runs on development site with a real set of data copied from the live site, so we should have a good idea about it's performance. The number of database queries is perfectly normal this time.
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    The problem appears as soon as we take the new site live. There is some inefficient code, as the site runs out of PHP memory. So we quickly troubleshoot the issue, until we found that it's in the template:

    Delicate News template tries to use a better count of comments posted to an article than WordPress does and it's running that algorithm each time a post is displayed. On the index page, we display around 10 posts plus this site has a lot of comments - put these two things together and your site goes down like a rock.
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    I'm poking around the search engines to see if my question is answered but I'd rather get opinions from those proficient with Wordpress as of today. Lots of articles/tutorials published online may already be out of date.
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    You could try increasing the php memory.

    This comes from Digging into wordpress by Chris Coyier & Jeff Starr

    Increase PHP Memory

    If you are receiving error messages telling you that your “Allowed memory size of xxx bytes exhausted,” this setting may help resolve the issue. As of WordPress version 2.5, the WP_MEMORY_LIMIT definition enables you to specify the maximum amount of memory that may be used by PHP. Here are some examples:

    define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');
    define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '96M');
    define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '128M');

    By default, WordPress will automatically attempt to increase PHP memory up to 32MB, so this setting is only needed for values higher than 32MB. Note that some web hosts disable your ability to increase PHP memory, so you may need to ask (or beg) for them to do it.
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    Does Elegant have a public forum? This is also what I like to check for before buying a Premium theme. That's often one way to test and see how active and dedicated their support is. If they have a forum, see if anyone has posted about this and if they are working on it or resolved it.
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