Mark,
Thanks for your response. While I have no doubt that your solution is great, I am simply using a theme someone else created and am not really in a position to implement your suggestion, at least I don’t think so.
While I have decent knowledge about how to use WordPress and plugins and some knowledge of php and js, I can’t say that I know nearly enough to make significant edits to the theme itself.
Manuel, thank you for that suggestion. At least now my site doesn’t crash after I activate it.
Hoping the developer will come out with an update soon.