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The ping result is much better for the secpro Golf which is just 115 ms. It could be that this site was put on a better server.

Checking the IPs of your site shows the following:

207.210.72.19...

I was able to check your site now and I believe the slowness has something to do with your hosting provider. I have checked with Pingdom Tools and the ping took more than 422 ms. Hostgator shared...

I too preferred to have proportionally sized thumbnails and achieved this by changing line 270 in includes/theme-function.php as follows:

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// get 50x50 v3.0.5+ image size
$adthumbarray =...

You may try this plugin WordPress › Scissors « WordPress Plugins . I have yet to test it and so kindly update us of the outcome.

Great, easy-to-understand and follow information in the sticky, mod!

Can you point me in the right direction of a thread for issues with the "featured listings" feature?

Thanks!

Try changing the media settings in Wordpress admin-settings then Media. Try increasing the image size specifically the "Large size" image option.

We are talking about two simple slashes here. If you make a backup of your original file you can reupload it in the unlikely case that it shouldn't work. Not much risk involved.

Wow... a lot of people feel exactly the same way I do - at least that’s given me some comfort.

I know the Theme Release Status page says:

"It is highly recommended to NOT schedule client...