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Hello,
1. Here are some tips about what we use on our demo https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/theme-speed/#post-900 also use W3 total cache plugin for more speed or our plugin SpeedBooster (beta – color from TC not work and could have some plugins conflicts)
2. We have only Google Font, if you want to change to verdana, edit your style.css and find and replace the font.
3.
– Edit function.php and change the featured image size at 300 x 250
– Change in Theme customizer to Crop http://screencast.com/t/3DQqv1H3l
– Add this in style.css
.post .thumb-wrap {
display: inline-block;
float: left;
margin-right: 23px;
}
– Edit td_module.php and add this code like here:
$buffy .= '<div style="height: 30px; background-color: #ffffff;"></div>';
$buffy .= ' ';
http://screencast.com/t/9OBS1D2YmKT
Hope you manage it. Thanks
Score for my site is 96 without using any cache plugin … you may need to check your hosting setup as this impacts the speed as much as the theme.
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simchris.
Hi all,
I discovered that deactivating tag-div speed boost resolved my problem. Maybe it was caused by cache…
Thanks.
Hello,
1. Not your site, your browser to make it in private, means that have no cached stored when you visit pages. Here is for Firefox browser: http://screencast.com/t/eY99Gncfc
2. W3 total cache
3. Crop the images at the same size using an external editor or from wordpress crop when edit a photo(i think should work)
4. I don’t know which is the best, sorry, search on Google about that
5. We don’t use any backup plugin, i can’t recommend one, sorry, try on google hope there you find which is the best.
6. Use <br> or <p>...</p> for better spacing
Thanks
Few things:
1.How do i make my site in incognito or private mode?
2. I have Super cache plugin. Do you recommend another delete cache pluging less strong? Like w3 total cache…
3. How can i post photos in vertical and horizontal with the same widht? (Right now the horizontals get bigger than the verticals).
4. Can you recommend a pluging against spams and hackers? Better WP security or wordference?
5. Recommend a back up plugin also please.
6.Important. Everytime I add a widget to the side bar for some reason there is not much space between them (see the welcome widget I just added with the photo and text and facebook widget are to close together). For some reason there is less space. I don’t understand why that happens even though I clear cache.
Please help.
Many thanks,
Susana.
@Marija1m1 I would recommend to only use the full page cache module. The other stuff isn’t doing much to speed up the theme
any recommended settings for W3 total cache
Hello,
try w3 total cache with full page caching only. That should speed things up.
The problem was with WP Super Cache plugin. Via FTP, I deleted the folder of the plugin, and problem solved. But now, I don’t have Cache Plugin. What plugin for cache, you suggest me?
Hello
The Version 1.7.1 is 1000X sloooooooooooower than the version 1.0.1
Example:
http://hdslr.com.br/ V 1.0.1 VS http://filmmaker.com.br/ V 1.7.1
Same hosting, same pages, same plugins, same posts, same videos, same images
I am completely disappointed
PS V 1.7.1 + plugin W3 Total Cache
Ive solved it with uninstall my IE11 and install IE10. Must have been some strange cache-incident for the microsoft-product. But maybe good to know for others webmasters and TagDiv.
Yes in general when something is not changing, it’s a cache issue ;).
resolved…deleted cache on theme and now we are good.
Case closed? I Activate WP Super Cache and then shut it down … now it works and running like I want.
Hi Radu !
how to exclude counter views of cache. if possible !
Hello,
I’m the guy that configured this server ( http://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/ ) that gets 99-100 in google page speed and since we don’t yet have a guide about how to configure the theme and server for top speed I will write here some sugestions.
If you have any questions about speed, this is the thread for you. I will make it sticky and I will check it periodically to respond to all your questions.
– the demo is running a stock Newspaper theme
– the demo uses the tagDiv speed booster plugin – basically that plugin activates the compressed javascript from the theme and it also moves all the stylesheets and javascripts to the bottom of the html. This may break compatibility with some wordpress plugins (the ones that we recommend when you install the theme are well tested and work perfectly)
The list of speed recommendations:
– we recommend that you use W3 total cache with just the full page cache module enabled. If you have a lot of ram on your server you can use the APC full page cache (if anyone is interested I can make a tutorial for that but this option requires a dedicated server)
If you have a dedicated server / VPS:
– make sure that you have APC installed or another op cache for php. We have receive some reports that eaccelerator has some problems in specific configurations with our theme and Nginx. This will reduce your server response time.
– make sure that you have compression enabled on your site for html/js/css but not for images
– leverage browser caching – https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/LeverageBrowserCaching google page speed requiers that you set an expiring cache of 7 days or more
Hello, congratulations for the template, very nice.
I installed the latest version 1.5.1
I have 2 problems, the first (in question) is that in the pages (not articles) do not display the comments.
The second is a problem with the function minify of W3 total cache, if enabled does not work research.
w3C cache does implement many of the tricks for optimizing your site. Note you can also do some of that yourself using your htaccess file and make sure you optimize the heck out of your featured images (mine are about 16-24kb max for 700×406). There are quite a few great articles out there on implementing some of the W3C stuff without using the plugin, if you only want to test bits of that. Also setting up an Amazon CDN (S3+cloudfront) and hosting your JS/CSS and fonts there will also speed up your site. You can’t entirely rely on the “theme” to manage your site optimization, as a bunch of that is related to hosting, optimization of images, and minimizing using plugins and fancy jetpack stuff (basically anything that calls out to another site slows yours …). Putting more than two ads on the page from AdSense really slows it down, using anything connected to facebook or twitter “on the page” slows it down. Etc.
We use W3 total cache and it is a beast. Absolutely speeds up your website, especially when you have a lot of content and a lot of visitors. We use page cache (memcached), browser cache and database cache (also memcached).
Hey Radu,
Would you think about giving us instructions on how to minify the css with a plugin like W3 Total Cache? I’ve tried it but those settings are quite complicated, but the plugin itself is extremely helpful.
I tried the W3 Total Cache plugin, didn’t give me any speed at all.
This can be closed….
I found the issue, I forgot to delete my cache between updates and it created an issue with the way content was showing. After deleting my cache and refreshing the pages everything seems to be fine.
I used w3-total-cache and it seems to drop the load speed from 3.6 seconds down to 1.26 seconds.
Still looking forward to some minified CSS and JS but until then the caching plugins are the way to go.
Hello !
Plugins Cache,
Read before installing:
http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/
http://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/
I use, It Pays:
http://wp-rocket.me/