Hello,
The theme is not displaying correctly at all. It seems it may be an issue with W3TotalCache, as it breaks when that plugin is activated but works fine when it is deactivated. This is odd since you guys recommend W3TC in the theme documentation. I have activated W3TC so you can see what the problem look like here: http://dev3.beta.dailysundial.com/ Note that it displays just fine when I deactivate it.
Any clues as to what is causing this? Note that I tried disabling Minify options (which can mess with some themes) to no avail. I am using the latest WP release and the latest release of Newspaper. All plugins are up to date.
Thanks for your help!
Hi,
We do recommend the use of W3 total cache plugin with just the page cache enabled and without the minification options or CDN: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ the fifth step.
I have checked your site and noticed that you do use CDN which generates lots of errors: http://screencast.com/t/Iww2px49is
Please make sure that you disable CDN and just leave page caching active then check for this again without any plugins active, disable all of them leaving just Visual Composer and W3TC and test again.
Please let mew know how it goes!
Thanks
Disabling W3TC worked, but we really need to use a CDN for the site. Is there any way to use a CDN without it breaking the theme?
You would need to sort out how to connect your caching to save caches and load caching from your CDN. Some CDN’s do that for you, which makes local caching redundant. Very tricky to setup; not really theme related, though. Lots of articles on this in Google (I went through this a year ago; we ended up not using CDN but we have dedicated server.)
I really just need to use the CDN for the images at this point. It was working great with W3TC on my old theme.
Hi Lucian,
It looks like we were able to get the CDN to work! However, Newspaper is still taking a long time to load. It wasn’t an issue on the old site, but it’s causing huge load times in the new theme. What do you recommend for retroactively re-sizing all the old images to work with Newspaper? There’s still a couple hiccups with CSS and javascript causing minor issues, but our major hurdle is getting our images to load fast on Newspaper. From here on out, all uploads will be re-sized by staff with uploading to web in mind, but we need to keep the old content in the new theme. As it stands, the site will take receive a much lower search engine ranking if we launch with the pages loading so slow.
Hi,
For your site’s page speed I can use the tagdiv speed booster plugin and this guide: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ but first I suggest you turn off all plugins, empty cache/purge files and use this guide to regenerate your thumbnails so that the theme creates the thumbnails for old images form your content: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-fix-strange-thumbnails/
You can also follow this topic to find out how others fixed their issues regarding pagespeed: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/pagespeed/
For remaining js/css errors I suggest you enable/disable plugins to find out which ones are causing issues.
Thanks
Hello again Lucian,
I tried regenerating the thumbnails for the site last night, but it hung at 36.7% last night, so I’ve restarted it right now. There’s 11,907 photos to resize and some of them up to 3mb. It looks like the images within posts have been resized, but the ones on the homepage are still a large size and being resized by the browser, causing long load times. Do you think you could take a look?
Hi,
Seems that you also use CDN: http://screencast.com/t/CO50qKXb
I suggest you empty cache/purge files then try again as you CDN is loading old content.
Thanks
