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I was testing with the site performance a bit today when I noticed via pingdom that every time someone visits a page they have to download about 3,7 – 3,8mb. (Not counting what they have in their browser’s cache)
A large portion of the 3,8mb visitors have to download consists of fonts (roughly 2mb).
So I was wondering whether it was possible to load fewer fonts?
Didn’t notice it, but have you tried using cache plugin like WP Super Cache?
Maybe it helps.
Try turning off all plugins except visual composer.
Did you clear all site/CDN caching, and web browser cache?
You can also try my “migrating from newsmag to newspaper” sticky topic for updating theme, as this also works for moving to the theme first time 🙂
As noted previously if you’re missing functions of the actual theme, including the “Newsmag Default” sidebar, then you likely have one of the two cases:
1) conflicting plugin
2) theme not updated properly.
for 1) try turning off all plugins except VC, clearing all caches
for 2) delete existing theme folder; install clean version of theme
Only reason something part of the theme is “not there” is
a) something blocking loading elements in admin panel, typically plugin with bad behavior
b) theme missing components due to incomplete install.
c) broken cache loading old files not seeing new files (common with some cache plugins, or CDNs)
Simple as that. 🙂
Happy Holidays!
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This reply was modified 11 years by
simchris.
Hi,
You mean just going to Permalinks and pressing save again?
Well I just did that, then cleared and purged cache, but it’s still not working.
Any more suggestions on how to fix it?
Thanks!
You likely need to clear site cache, cdn cache if using them.
Try reinstalling the theme and visual composer.
Theme works with all browsers.
Wordpress 4.1 broke visual composer, hence theme update with updated vc version.
Remember you need to fully delete old version of vc before updating it.
If site not loading and you cannot fix, why not switch to default theme?
Hi everyone! I have a problem with my website because when its loading the nav-menu will displayed as list. Anyone can advice me? I have installed plugins like W3 Total Cache, Leverage Browser Caching Ninja, Better WordPress Minify and WP Smush.it but still showing but theres quite improvement. Cheers!
Hi Marius,
I’ve deactivated all the plugins including the ones newspaper required, empty the cache but unfortunately still blank on IE8 🙁
JB
Hi,
Thank you for your reply. I deactivated all the plugins, emptied caches but the link is still not working on Facebook and LinkedIn. (I activated the plugins again so the website looks ‘normal’)
Can you help me out?
Hi Lucian,
I’m experiencing a similar problem with the search: when I press the search button nothing happens.
I tried what you recommended above – deactivating all plugins, purging cache etc., and it didn’t solve the issue.
I believe it might have something to do with the fact I had to move my WordPress installation from a subfolder to the root directory, according to the recommendations of my host:
http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/wordpress/329-move-folders
The initial subfolder was http://www.cobras.org/Home, so maybe the search engine is still fixed on that?
Thanks!
Thanks. I tried that and have found that apparently certain plugins (i.e. W3 Total Cache) can have issues when other plugins are updated “on top” of them. I believe I must disable W3 and a couple of others while I update Bakery. Then I can re-enable W3 and everything will work fine.
I appreciate the help. Issue is resolved for now.
Have an Awesome Day!
Philip
Hi,
my site is http://theconstructor.org/ and when I activate speedbooster plugin, the homepage does not have any content. Just adsense ads are displayed and all other content does not load. I have only enabled page cache in W3TC plugin. This happens only when I activate speed booster plugin 3.1 . When I go back to v3, there is no such problem, but it does not help me in putting css at the bottom.
If you’re using some kind of image management plugin, it may be the culprit (e.g., JetPack Photo, etc.).
I’ve never seen this happen on ANY WordPress website before.
You might try
1) clear all caching; reset CDN if using one.
2) disable any image modification plugins.
3) perhaps try regenerate thumbnails plugin.
The theme doesn’t do that, so it’s likely something funky you’re running on your site which is doing that someplace. Often you need to clear cache, turn off all plugins except Visual Composer, then check your pages again. Then go from there.
Aaah forget it, I guess it was something with the cache.
i Have this problem even when i deactivate w3total cache
Hi,
@Ryuko We don’t recommend using the minify option for js and css also because we had numerous theme issues reported and the vast majority of them proved to occur because of minified js/css or when using CDN host services which can deliver old file content if not used right.
Taking all this into consideration we don’t recommend using the minifying option for js/css only if this are done manually and carefully studied which scripts can cause issues if minified and ignore them. This is also the reason we only recommend page cache as fro the database cache you can use MySQL Query Cache and find more info about it here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/query-cache.html
Unfortunately we don’t have any documentation on this or tutorials and you can enable and use the js or css minfied but you should take note of that first if you have any theme related issues and errors in your console and disable them to check if the issue is due to the minfier.
So in conclusion please note that we don’t guarantee that using js/css minification will definitely cause issues but we just don’t recommend them to be done automatically as they could case issues.
@Aedin84 If the minify settings work well for you, that’s ok, you should consider them first though if you have problems or other js conflicts.
That happens because the theme panel changes are loaded after the main styles and using the speed booster plugin moves scripts and style to the footer determining the content to loaded first the the styles.
Hope this makes sense!
Thanks
Hi Lucian,
Thanks for the quick reply, but it’s not working.
I added it to the css, purged cache and everything – but it’s still the same (white text color) on Firefox:
This is all the CSS changes I have so far, maybe there’s a conflict:
@-moz-document url-prefix() {
.sf-menu > .td-menu-item > a {
font-family: Roboto;
font-size: 14px;
line-height: 47px;
font-weight: bold;
text-transform: capitalize;
color: #ffffff;
}
}
.td-menu-placeholder {
top: 6px;
}
@media (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1018px) {
.td-menu-placeholder {
top: 32px;
}
}
@-moz-document url-prefix() {
.td-header-menu-wrap li a {
color: red;
}
}
Hi,
I have checked your site and found that the copyright filed is empty: http://screencast.com/t/cDSx3CWzI6 meaning that you either not set it or you have and use cache.
Please make sure that you have set it right: http://screencast.com/t/M3dyH9Q3Oipz and that you also empty cache as I have tested this and works fine using the latest theme version (1.3).
Thanks
Hi,
When uploading an image and when you set a post to video mode the theme generates this thumbnails sizes: http://screencast.com/t/DuBXXSuMhy which are used on blocks,sliders..
This are generated once for each image/video, this is normal so if in your case thumbs are created for the same video or same image each time you update a post or edit it please make sure that this is not cause by a plugin and check this without any plugins active, empty cache and try again and please let me know if this still happens as I have also tested this and didn’t found any issues.
Thanks
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This reply was modified 11 years by
Lucian.
Hi,
can you please explain why I shouldn’t use the minify options? I searched for guides on google for the best settings when using W3TC and CDN. All of them seem to recommend enabling minify + other options like browser/database cache.
Do you perhaps have some screenshots or maybe video going over the optimal settings in W3TC? I don’t have the minify option enabled under the W3 general settings – but if I click on the minify below the general settings
JS minify and CSS minify are enabled. Should I disable those too?
Hi,
Yesterday I bought this Theme and it’s really great.
But this morning when I tried to login to the admin panel I got this error.
ERROR: Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies before you can use WordPress.
I tried all possible cleaning the cache on Broser, chrome, firefox, internet explorer is still the same. I contacted the hosting provider because the hosting has turned on cache. But they say not to them but to the theme.
By the way have installed the latest version NewsMag 1.3. I worked on a lot of wordpress site but this had never happens except now.
thank you
Hi,
You don’t need to disable the tagDiv Speed Booster plugin as this should all work together but please note that when using W3TC we only recommend using page cache without minifying js or css. Same with the CDN we don’t recommend any javascript minification.
If you want to do this you would need to do it manually and search and exclude the scripts which generate errors.
Thanks
Hi thanks for a great theme! I recently setup our site with MaxCDN and integrated into W3TC plugin. I read thru your documentation carefully — making sure to only use for page cache, not JS minify or anything else.
After implementing the CDN, I next tried using a plugin called Imsanity to optimize all my images. Somehow once I regenerated all my images, it seems to have broke my CSS. Especially the woocommerce product image sizes.
Our site is http://www.askdrmaxwell.com
Can you please take a look at the homepage (towards the bottom) there are 5 products, and they are supposed to be all next to each other in one row.. however now the spacing is all jumbled and not right.
Also on any individual product page, the images are now much too large! I’ve tried to set woocommerce product size in woocommerce settings.. and then use regenerate thumbnails plugin, and also reset cache. However, this does not fix the issue.
Can you please help?
Thanks again!
James
If I get CloudFlare’s CDN should I disable tagDiv Speed Booster? Or do CloudFlare’s CDN, tagDiv Speed Booster, and W3 Total Cache all work together?
I’ve tried Disabling ALL plugins and then cleaning the cache. Reloaded the page, reloaded in a different browser, used incognito, etc to make sure it wasn’t cache issue, but the space below the video is kept the same.
Would there be some class I could attribute to the script not to allow it to occupy the whole space? (PS: I’m not a programmer, just trying to figure out an easy workout).