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By Abhishek Ghosh April 13, 2015 10:38 am Updated on April 13, 2015

Load Github Gist on WordPress in Non-Blocking Way

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Here is How to Load Github Gist on WordPress in Non-Blocking Way. If We Use The Default Js, on PageSpeed Insights it Shows Up as Blocking Item. But a slight modification can help to get rid of this trouble. No WordPress plugin or tons of snippets is not needed for this task.

 

Load Github Gist on WordPress in Non-Blocking Way

 

This is an example gist of a Shebang script which counts the number of your balls. Your balls means the balls on commonly shared diagram on Facebook where a pyramid of balls appear. Obviously, if you can count how many EYE balls you have your situation is quite sad. The copied Js to be embedded looks like these :

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<script src="https://gist.github.com/AbhishekGhosh/847323ec7d35c678fa26.js"></script>

It is fully blocking script. If we simply modify it :

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<script src="https://gist.github.com/AbhishekGhosh/847323ec7d35c678fa26.js" async defer></script>

async and defer will cover 90% of the browsers. It will get loaded in asynchronous way. This is live example :

 

Bonus! Add CSS to Github Gist on WordPress

 

Whatever CSS you want, you can add it on the page as in-line CSS or add on your Theme’s CSS file. For a fixed height and width, we will use this CSS :

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<style type="text/css">
  .gist {width:500px !important;}
  .gist-file
  .gist-data {max-height: 500px;max-width: 500px;}
</style>

If we want to use kind of a theme, then this can be an example :

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<style type="text/css">
div.syntaxhighlighter {
border-radius: 3px;
border: 1px solid #AC9!important;
}
 
div.syntaxhighlighter, div.syntaxhighlighter div, div.syntaxhighlighter code, div.syntaxhighlighter table, div.syntaxhighlighter table td, div.syntaxhighlighter table tr, div.syntaxhighlighter table tbody {
font: 13px "Courier 10 Pitch", Courier, monospace!important;
}
 
div.syntaxhighlighter .line.alt1 {
background-color: #EFC!important;
}
 
div.syntaxhighlighter .line.alt2 {
background-color: #EFC!important;
}
 
div.syntaxhighlighter .line.highlighted.alt1, div.syntaxhighlighter .line.highlighted.alt2 {
background-color: #EFC!important;
}
 
div.syntaxhighlighter .keyword {
color: #007020!important;
}
 
div.syntaxhighlighter .value {
color: #208050!important;
}
 
div.syntaxhighlighter .string,div.syntaxhighlighter .string a {
color: #4070A0!important;
}
 
div.syntaxhighlighter .comments,div.syntaxhighlighter .comments a {
color: #408090!important;
font-style: italic!important;
}
 
div.syntaxhighlighter .functions {
color: #06287e!important;
}
 
div.syntaxhighlighter .plain,div.syntaxhighlighter .plain a {
color: #333!important;
}
 
div.syntaxhighlighter .line.highlighted .content {
border-left-color: #c65d09!important;
}
 
div.syntaxhighlighter .line.highlighted .content code {
font-weight: bold!important;
}
 
div.syntaxhighlighter .color1, div.syntaxhighlighter .color1 a {
color: #007020!important;
}
div.syntaxhighlighter .line:first-child td {
padding-top: .3em!important;
}
 
div.syntaxhighlighter .line:last-child td {
padding-bottom: .3em!important;
}
</style>

Load Github Gist on WordPress in Non-Blocking Way

Combining all, we can have a live example :

Embedding gist is a bad idea on self hosted WordPress except when we can not avoid it or we need to give the raw url.

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About Abhishek Ghosh

Abhishek Ghosh is a Businessman, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Author and Blogger. You can keep touch with him on Twitter - @AbhishekCTRL.

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Cite this article as: Abhishek Ghosh, "Load Github Gist on WordPress in Non-Blocking Way," in The Customize Windows, April 13, 2015, January 23, 2021, https://thecustomizewindows.com/2015/04/load-github-gist-on-wordpress-in-non-blocking-way/.

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