PHP script of WP plugin takes 11 seconds to load

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I’m no .php expert, so I’m looking for a little help (or at least an explanation)

A plugin I’m using on my organization’s site (called Coin Slider 4 WordPress) is slowing the site to a crawl. I ran a full page test on pingdom tools and the plugin’s .php file (coin-slider-4-wp.css.php) takes more than 11 seconds to load. The .php file itself is only 1kb, and nothing else is particularly slow.

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And here’s the text of the .php file in question: 

/*  Coin Slider jQuery plugin CSS styles
    http://workshop.rs/projects/coin-slider
*/

.coin-slider { overflow: hidden; zoom: 1; position: relative; }
.coin-slider a{ text-decoration: none; outline: none; border: none; }

.cs-buttons { font-size: 0px; padding: 10px; float: left; }
.cs-buttons a { margin-left: 5px; height: 10px; width: 10px; float: left; border: 1px solid #B8C4CF; color: #B8C4CF; text-indent: -1000px; }
.cs-active { background-color: #B8C4CF; color: #FFFFFF; }

.cs-title { width: 920px; padding: 10px; background-color: #000000; color: #FFFFFF; }

.cs-prev,  .cs-next { background-color: #000000; color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0px 10px; }

#coin-slider-coin-slider { width: 940px}

Not really sure what’s going on, but any tips/advice would be great, as this is obviously making our site unusable :/
Thanks!

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  1. The coin slider 4 WP plugin hasn’t been updated in 2 years. I’d recommend adopting something more stable and actively maintained such as Nivo Slider

    UPDATE: You could also tell the plugin not to call that php file.

    Open the Editor in WP in your Plugins sidebar. On the right you will see a drop down with the different plugins you can edit. Slect the coinslider plugin. Now below that dropdown, you will see a list of files. In your coinslider-content.php file, there is a link to your CSS file.

    Remove this line:

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="".$path."css/coin-slider-4-wp.css.php" type="text/css" media="screen" charset="utf-8"/>

    From:

    function cs_head(){

    $path =  get_bloginfo('wpurl')."/wp-content/plugins/coin-slider-4-wp/";

    $script = "
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="".$path."css/coin-slider-4-wp.css.php" type="text/css" media="screen" charset="utf-8"/>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="".$path."scripts/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="".$path."scripts/coin-slider.min.js"></script>
        ";

    echo $script;
}

    Once you have removed that line, copy the content from your coin-slider-4-wp.css.php file. Click Editor on you Theme sidebar on the left. On the right you will see a list of files, one of them being style.css. Paste the contents of your coin-slider-wp.css.php at the bottom of your style.css (stylesheet) file.

    Once you have done all this. It should remove that 11s it takes to request the file. Try it out and let me know if it works.