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Hi,
I am using speed booster and when speed booster is activated, font declarations are taken to the bottom section of the page.
Normally when speed booster is not active a font declaration is encoded and has “extended” properties:
and non-latin, extended characters are being rendered fine. But when I activate the booster, the font declaration at the bottom of the page becomes non-encoded and no declaration for extended non-latin characters:
http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=PT+Sans:400,700,400italic|Ubuntu:400,400italic|Open+Sans:400italic,400|Oswald:400,700|Roboto+Condensed:400italic,700italic,400,700
Any tips to sort this out?
Hi there,
I uploaded the 2.0 update and imported the demo then I created a child theme.
When activated, the child theme is quite different from parent whereas I brought no modifications in either themes and particularly child theme brings the logo + text that appears in the footer of parent version in the top header menu and I don’t know how to take it off.
I also noticed html codes for the 2 pages parent & child were very different. I don’t undestand why, as child theme imports css from parent without any change for the moment.
Thank you for your help.
Hello,
Add this CSS in style.css
.sf-menu > li > a {
color: white !important;
}
Thanks for the message!
Hello,
Today we will release the patch fix. Please replace this files elements.png, elements@2x.png and style.css from the full theme(not patch)
Thanks!
I edited style.css and it is fixed now, but still it’s not a very nice. Maybe you should add some margin. I usually use Tiled Mosaic and it is very nice, but this time every pic should had the same dimensions.
I will send you login and pwd to check the issue with the empty row. Be careful.
Thanks a lot.
Additionally, I use the WP-Optimize plugin to regularly optimize my WP dbase. Cutting 800kb out of your dbase once a week, or after a large number of posts/pages, also speeds up your system overhead.
Typically, we post several stories, then do backup of WP dbase for safekeeping, then run WP optimize to clean house of all the temp files, overhead, etc.
Much like SEO, “Page Speed” is a program and not a plugin. It requires research, implementation and support ticket with your hosting provider, or if you have a VPS or full dedicated box, they don’t turn anything on for you by default — you have to tell them what you need to make it go. We had to test our server cache settings as the first time they were too broad, and we dialed that back (you don’t want to have your home page cached for a week, obviously, but images can be cached for a month or year, for example as they don’t change).
Enabling gzip or similar compression on web server is mandatory, and this is good for 20+ points on Page Speed (SERIOUSLY!). What this does is compress the files sent to the web browser which the web browser decompresses on the fly (modern PCs and Macs are mini supercomputers after all); so instantly almost everything sent from the page to the browser is cut by 50-80% — THAT speeds up the page immensely.
THE TAKEAWAY:
1) web server compression MUST be enabled and setup — this is good for 20+ points on Google Page Speed !
2) proper expiration headers must be served for static content like local hosted fonts, favicon, apple icons, images — this also impacts page speed as it tells browsers like Chrome and Google’s caching server not to keep loading content over and over again.
3) images must be properly optimized before upload to your blog/publication — don’t upload a 50kb file if a 25kb file will do —
4) avoid bad behavior plugins such as those which load additional style sheets not needed, or loading too many ad units (10 ad units on a page will slow it down!)
5) consider using a caching plugin like W3C which can fix things like combining CSS, moving JS to footer
TEST, modify, review, TEST, review, adjust.
Obviously Radu, Marius and co need to setup a FAQs/knowledgebase page for all their themes on this topic or folks will keep posting again and again asking why their WP page doesn’t get 99. The theme is part of the picture, not the only item in the picture.
Sharing all of this as this topic has been the #1 thing I’ve been working on with our other sites, including our main business site which I have up to 99 PageSpeed and 96 YSLOW, using a CDN on top of our own dedicated server, but NOT using WordPress. It’s a complex subject, but Radu and co have done a freaky good job in making this theme work with all the other pieces — and I bought about 10 other themes before this one — and they all sucked, as we say here in the states.
Peace and hope all of that helped somebody 🙂
Just as an fyi, for an example our magazine site under redevelopment for Jan 1 relaunch; here is a test article page (my article), which has a Google Page Speed of 96; with no caching plugins or anything beyond the web server properly configured, images properly compressed, and not using any “bad behavior” WP plugins that adversely impact the DB calls or phone out to other systems needlessly.
http://ga-ga.com/1204/beginning-adventure-space-time-reveals-roots-doctor/
We have not yet implemented tagdiv’s cache beta, nor using W3cache, or have it connected to our CDN (yet). So, “96” is pretty awesome.
See GTMetrix speed/performance check:
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/ga-ga.com/y8YUj6GI
Be aware YSLOW penalizes heavily for not using a CDN — so anybody looking for high YSLOW scores needs to use something like W3Cache or similar.
For those who expect the THEME to manage your page speed, you must remember you need to have both your hosting properly setup for caching, headers, and other elements, *and* you must have your domain setup properly.
For example we add this to our .htaccess file in addition to having proper expire headers and caching setup on the server:
AddType text/javascript .js
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
ExpiresActive On
# Favicon (cannot be renamed)
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 week"
# Media: images, video, audio
ExpiresByType audio/ogg "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType video/mp4 "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType video/ogg "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType video/webm "access plus 1 month"
# CSS and JavaScript
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 1 week"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 week"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 week"
# Webfonts
ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-fontobject "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-font-ttf "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-font-woff "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType font/opentype "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access plus 1 month"
</IfModule>
Can someone please tell me the css to use on the child theme to change the color of the main menu text? Thanks!
Hello,
Add it in style.css file http://screencast.com/t/Ma6bPslwj2
Thanks for the message
Hello,
Edit style.css and delete this lines http://screencast.com/t/4LlFtIkCFd66,
Also if you want use Tiled mosaic from jetpack is a nice gallery feature instead of square.
About empty rows could you provide access to your wordpress to see the issue. Send via email at contact@tagdiv.com
Thanks for the message!
Hello,
You can use from Theme customzier the Header Style 3 and upload a full image instead of logo.(this will be the background for header)
or if you want to make the header transparent add this in style.css
.td-header-bg .container {
background: none transparent !important;
}
Thanks
Hello,
Edit style.css and find the selector that send you to edit and make the changes. Should work. If you add it with new values use with !important to rewrite the initial CSS.
Thanks
Hello,
Add this in style.css
.td-full-logo .container-fluid {
padding: 0px !important;
}
.td-full-logo .td-grid-wrap {
padding: 0px !important;
}
Thanks for the message!
Following the first two instructions, it seems to have no effect. I’ve even went as far as putting all the padding dimensions to zero and when I compare the before and after changes to style.css, the homepage looks exactly the same.
Yout suggestion does not fit. I have cleared it with css and floats.
Hello,
The Child theme should work fine for CSS. Try with !important on CSS in some case and see if works.
Thanks for the message!
Hello,
1. Edit from style.css http://screencast.com/t/Lpu3SfwTZb9
2. http://screencast.com/t/eTeVQmm9
3. Give me a link on your site to inspect the logo from there.
Thanks
Yes, i found it. i think main menu is not a fixed menu in mobile like desktop, So there wont be any problem with the 2 menus on top of the page. now i had used responsive menu plugin and made top menu as responsive and works great. 🙂
But i am having issues with the child theme style.css. styles i am adding there are not overriding the main styles. Can you tell me why it is happening.
Thanks for the support.
Hello,
Yes @DavisBeatz add that style in style.css to remove the arrows for list. .widget_text ul{list-style:none}
Thanks @offminded for the help.
@@DavisBeatz if you don’t manage it, please reply.
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Marius.
Hello,
See here only I’ve paste the code in style.css and all my title is like that: http://screencast.com/t/SDrQzaF9D8F
If you want send us access to your WP and we will take a look. Send via email at contact@tagdiv.com
Thanks
Hello,
We hide it on mobile because there is no space for 2 menus. You can display it again from style.css search for .td-header-menu-wrap and change like here http://screencast.com/t/JnPrGv0P
Thanks for the message!
Hello,
Yes, change like here: http://screencast.com/t/muVilSCfEx and add a line height in style.css for the title .td-sbig-title-wrap .td-sbig-title
Thanks
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
I found out what the problem is but no clue what causing it or how to fix it. I followed this guide in the Newspaper FAQ and tutorials section:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-manage-html-structure-compromised-the-site-looks-bad-broken/
It turns out that the problem isn’t with HTML but with my CSS structure. I used the W3C CSS validation service and the results are below if @radu can please have a look.
regards,