Hi everyone !
First of all thanks for this wonderful wordpress theme, i love it ! đ
But i have a problem with my blog (culturezvous.com) since i’ve installed Newspaper. the outbound connections have increased enormously (from 2 to 25 per minute!). My host (OVH) informed me that there were many connections to the Facebook API and thus blocked my outbound connections which is very annoying.
OVH asks me to identify the plugin causing this problem. Maybe this can be related to tagDiv Social Counter. What do you think ?
How can I fix this problem?
Thanks for your help !
Hello culturezvous,
Please notice that the speed of your website depends on how well your site is optimized. Notice that is not a simple task and if you do not have any experience in this regard you will do not bring good results for the theme. Also, notice that we have a speed optimization tutorial but this is addressed only to advanced users. So, if you follow the steps which are presented in this tutorial here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ you can increase the page speed loading and if you are not aware of the steps in this regard, please consider hiring a freelancer/developer to help you because the speed optimization services are not covered by our support policy, as you can read here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/support-policy-2/ Check our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/ regarding on dedicated server to fit our requirements.
Unfortunately, our theme does not have such an option to minify the style.css file and we cannot recommend any plugins with this functionality because is not tested with our theme. For minifying this file, we are using CloudFlare for our demo and works fine. If you want to read other views from our users, please check this topic -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tip-how-to-easily-minify-your-css-without-breaking-your-site/
One of our top members here on the forum wrote his own optimization tutorial here:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/ and here -> https://www.infophilic.com/get-almost-100-pagespeed-newspaper-theme/
Basically, these are the theme requirements
â https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/
Thanks for your understanding!
Yes, disabling the social media functions that ‘ping’ the sites for ‘number of shares’ will limit that issue. All plugins that ping ‘number of like/shares’ have to go look up that info for you. Some plugins can cache that (some do it on their own servers), but most people really don’t care how many shares your article has.
@Catalin-l, thanks for your answer but my problem is not the speed of my website but the high number of outbound connections.
@neotrope, yes i’ve disabled the tagDiv Social Counter plugin but i still have a big number of outbound connections. I’ll try to disable the facebook like button… i hope it will solve the problem.
Hello culturezvous,
Unfortunately, please keep in mind that we do not have any bad reports in this case until now! Regarding on outbound connection, notice that is not a problem regarding our theme, sorry! Check again your theme version to be the latest one, remove all of the untested plugins, clear all the caches, purge all CDN files if you are using the Cloudflare and check the results. Also, make a new clean install to a new sub-domain for testing and check the results.
Thanks.
I disabled the BOTTOM ARTICLE LIKE / TWEET option. Since then, the number of outbound connections has dropped sharply. The problem came from there I think.
Hello culturezvous,
Please keep in mind that we have checked the entire theme in this case and this problem does not exist in our theme. Everything seems to work as expected, sorry! The problem seems to be only on your side. It happens due to your additional customizations if you have something like this or also, another possible way coming of these outbound connections would be some existent untested social plugins which can interact with the theme core files and cause a lot of unknown issues. Try to disable all of them, leave just to be active only the plugins that come bundled with the theme core files and check the results.
Thanks for the message!
Nope i have the exactly same problem with OVH : they are warning me about 300 requests per 5 min but the maximum they allow is 250.
For the post likes and shares on the post only or the social counter (in the sidebar, only the number of followings) also ?
anything that goes out — uses resources … turn everything like that OFF, then turn things back on to see how it impacts your site/hosting… folks too often turn every bell and whistle on then things crash… start with all the extras OFF, then add a little at a time and test!
But why isn’t there a cache mode for those officials plugins ?
We paid for them, I need them on my website, i didn’t have any problemes so far with free themes. I think the developpers have to fix some issues with this plugins, “turning them off” is not a satisfying solution for customers.
It’s only an issue with some hosting systems. WP does, in fact, micro cache a lot of that, and if you’re using a proper caching plugin, that should help as well.
I don’t work here, but just some feedback. Most people don’t actually care how many followers you have as those can be inflated by zombies/sock puppets anyway, and so are not relevant to anything except perhaps ego (my own opinion, anyway).
I agreed but if the theme proposes this it shouldn’t make some issues with OVH đ
I use WP Cache wich is the only one approved by the theme, btw.
Hello,
The only tested and recommended plugins to use with our theme are these ones:
WP Super Cache- caching plugin
Contact form 7- used to make contact forms
bbPress- forum plugin
BuddyPress- social network plugin
Font Awesome 4 Menus- icon pack, supported in the theme menus
Jetpack- plugin with lots of features *it may slow down your site
WooCommerce- eCommerce solution
WordPress (Yoast) SEO- SEO plugin
Wp User Avatar- Change users avatars
WPML – multilingual plugin
Anything beyond this list is not tested and I cannot say for sure if it will work or not.
Thanks.
