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As a buyer who decided the lack of CDN functionality, random images not loading, conflicts with plugins and the constant bugs of this theme were too much to deal with on a professional working website... i decided on another solution over at https://forever1995.com. Wasted many weeks of time though.

I've been popping in and out of this forum weekly and amazed at the non stop problems with this theme, your plugins, the updates and the non stop bugs. It's staggering. In the 20 years i've been involved with wordpress and the community i've never seen so many issues with a paid theme and plugins.

Seriously guys, is this theme and your plugins really ready for sale yet? Ethically, do you feel it's appropriate to sell the theme even though, you know it does not work properly?

Using the Lay Grid plugin fixed my issues for a while, but low and behold, there are now bugs, slow downs, and more bugs after your bug fixing. It's very frustrating.

I'm really interested in how you can sell a product that does not work and waste peoples time with a lack of transparency, and focus on a project that clearly is not getting the attention it deserves.

Thoughts? Meanwhile i wait for yet another fix to fix a problem and look forward to the issues that causes...... like many others.

Paul

@leonie This issue is most likely related to the URL's of site content not working now you have moved domains. I doubt it is related to the theme. I've had similar issues in the past - so much so - i start again if i shift domains.

Sounds like your host messed up!

@dnlbrv Nice. How did you add the loading png while the images appear? Considering your images are 4000px wide it loads OK. Are you using a cache plugin?

NICE work!

@julien501 Beautiful work!

@nuotio I had the same issues and only resolved by not using Laytheme :(

Check this out http://laythemeforum.com/topic/3888/cdn-does-not-work-cloudfront/14

Your work is beautiful BTW!

I went ahead and setup a new theme. Researched the standalone Gridder plugin used across other sites and noticed better behaviours, so took a gamble and purchased it.

http://forever1995.com

Gridder plugin allows the CDN to work on a theme that is well developed. So now I have amazing load speeds inline with what was expected. More importantly, there are now no random no loads and all images load sequentially. https://gtmetrix.com/reports/forever1995.com/4bslszJF

I hope that helps.

Thanks :)

Totally blank here too from NZ.

Welcome to Laytheme :)

Thanks Armin, even with pages optimised with a few KB of images and no plugins turned on - hosted on a SDD VPS server people get blank images. I'm on a fibre connection and this theme does not load.

I've heard you loud and clear. All the best!

Can this theme be used minus the Gridder plugin? If i try to add a gallery to pages using another plugin i cannot see a way to do it?

Thanks Armin,

Firstly, here is my experience with Laytheme :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IW6qQwFwiA&feature=youtu.be

Using a CDN does not work with this theme! I've tried three CDN's and all of which result in this themes code being horrid - slow and buggy. So not sure how you can conclude it is not a problem. A CDN is a massive boost to a sites loading time as well as helping with poorly coded themes and plugins ;)

It seems like you don't actually understand what a CDN does- and how it dramatically increases page load times. There are hundreds of page requests using this poorly coded theme that require so many server resources and time pulling images that it is limiting to what you can add to the pages of Laytheme!

http://paulpetch.co.nz/portfolio/chelsea-sugar-operations-photography-auckland/ has a plugin that truly serves smaller images as thumbs (via plugin) to then load the full sized images in the background so that when you do click on it- it loads instantly. It's a very clever and efficiently coded gallery that truly accomodates different browsers sizes and devices. In comparison Gridder and Laytheme lightbox are basic. All good ... if there is a CDN to help.....

Rather than blaming the issue on optimisation (images are compressed enough to yield a quality image and load time on large screens on BOTH sites - one of which has an efficient theme, gallery plugin and a CDN.....)- can you please add the ability to use a CDN and even better- develop a lightbox/ gallery that is clever- in that it truly delivers optimised images as thumbs/ galleries that cache the full size in the back end to deliver.

IN 2018 It should not even be an issue- themes should work with a CDN. The fact it does not indicates a problem.

There is also a resource that 404's for some reason?

https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js?ver=5.0.2

![alt text](http://forever1995.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2

Thanks,

Does Laytheme use custom directory for images?

https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_upload_dir/

Thanks Armin.

Look at these results. https://gtmetrix.com/compare/bR5Azl9n/M35oQ4Fr

Because the CDN does not work there are 282 requests and massive page size of 50MB with 20 seconds of loading. My commercial site has the same sized images and also 50mb of images and instead of 282 requests it's optimised to just 2.31 MB and 3 sec load!

I appreciate your refund but honestly- without an ETA on a working CDN- and so many other bugs i can't wait around. You really need to fix this man.

I hope you work it out. Cheers.

An update. Armin will work on this later. Solution is to use a free un supported cache plugin that does not use a CDN and has a bad rating on Wordpress.

So, i need to just wait. No ETA, no date.

I'm disappointed to be honest, I paid approx. $200 NZ for a theme that does not load properly or can use a CDN. There is no road map to when a CDN will work- which in 2018 is an industry standard. We can't all keep using low quality 1024px images when screens are 27" + in size. That's why a CDN is needed and popular.

So i guess i'll wait- and thats OK. I understand what it takes to make something that is GREAT and also operate a business. So please take your time Armin- and Good luck.

Thanks very much.

Paul