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Hello Rasken,
Please tell me what kind of header style do you use? I need to know this because depends then I try to change the color of the hover and the classes are different.
If you are using header style to default, you should try the code below to change the hover color, like this:
.menu-item-913:hover {
background-color:red;
}
The result: http://screencast.com/t/qeroQ2Ml2
If you are using, for example header style 3, it is a bit more complicated because appear a lot of classes, like this:
.td-header-style-3 .black-menu .sf-menu > .current-menu-item > a, .td-header-style-3 .black-menu .sf-menu > .current-menu-ancestor > a, .td-header-style-3 .black-menu .sf-menu > .current-category-ancestor > a, .td-header-style-3 .black-menu .sf-menu > li > a:hover, .td-header-style-3 .black-menu .sf-menu > .sfHover > a {
background-color: red!important;
}
The result: http://screencast.com/t/Lweewp77j
As default font, our theme use ‘Roboto’ and ‘Open Sense’.
For more information about pagespeed, please check our tutorial here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
About your second request, you can try to do minification to style.css to improve your website speed. We do not recomend this thing because it is possible to appear some errors in our theme but you can try to do this. We have reports about this that function properly. As reference, you should check this tutorial http://screencast.com/t/lgzXo4l8iG and also you should find a plugin to do this for you.
You can do a quick search through the forum to see other tools you can use: https://forum.tagdiv.com/search/minify/
Hope this helps and let us know how it goes!
Thank you for the message!
Please see the help in the theme docs (link right side of page) on how to speed up website.
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
also
https://forum.tagdiv.com/category/tutorials/
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/
Thanks Chris. I followed your suggestion and now my website is even more faster.
Thanks
Yes,
you need to spend some time researching how WP works and also hosting, and other speed optimization tricks.
Theme doesn’t control your hosting setup or optimization of your site processes. It’s just a theme. Optimizing WordPress applies to *any* theme sitting on top of WP and PHP.
For example, to increase memory for WP, you have to
a) edit your wp-config.php file to specify the memory
b) specify max RAM in your hosting php.ini setup
(you need to do BOTH)
For best speed, you need to set proper gzip compression, set TTL settings, minimize external element loading (e.g., Jetpack, ads, etc.)
Note there are some resources here to help:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/
hope that helps! It’s a process we all end up learning at some point — so be patient, read a lot, and then soldier on ! 🙂
Hello,
I just spent some money with Bluehost to “optimize” my site. It takes longer than it should to load pages and they have pointed a finger at the theme. Here are their comments:
Reduce server response time -> Your server response time is actually very low. The server only took 254ms to respond to the first request in the final scan included in your post service report. What they are actually looking at is the overall load time of the site, which is greater than 2 seconds. This in and of itself is not a major issue. There are many successful sites that can’t load in faster than 5 seconds. As explained in your report there are several design concerns that are preventing the site from loading in 2 to 3 seconds, and are causing the site to spike in load time up to 10 seconds. These include external requests that can take longer than normal to load and javascript requests that the browser can slow down on. Unfortunately the optimization service is not a design service. What this means is we can’t change the basic way that your site looks and feels from our end as part of the service. We try to compensate for these issues in the settings that we configure on the back end of your site, but some issues are going to need to be looked at by the designer/developer of the site.
Any ideas on what I can do to speed up the site loading?
Also, in the PHP memory allocation, I set to 128 megs before we did any of these tests. Still, the “system status” still says the allocation is at 40megs and should be increased. Seems like there’s a problem, here.
Hello,
You can do a number of things to increase page speed and optimize images. The first thing would be to disable the lazy load animation: http://screencast.com/t/dGh3GJav
Other than this, you will have to improve your website loading speed. You can follow this guide to see how it can be done: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
Thank you!
Hello nusagrunge,
I’ve checked your website and I saw that you have some problems. Please try to disable all the active plugins, except Visual Composer and install only the plugins that come bundled with our theme. If you are using the Photon plugin (Jetpack) please try to disable because does not work properly with our theme and we do not recommend it. Also, this is known to be a problematic plugin and you should find an alternative. I will recommend you to use a WP Smush, as you can see in our documentation, here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/.
After this changes, if your problem is still there, please let us know.
Hope this helps!
Thank you for the message!
Hello bebiboy,
Please try to disable all the active plugins, clear all cache and install only the plugins that come bundled with our theme. You have to regenerate the thumbs for the images with the Force Regenerate plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/force-regenerate-thumbnails/ Most of our clients who have used this plugin were satisfied.
Unfortunately, the Photon plugin does not work with our theme and we do not recommend it. Also, this is known to be a problematic plugin and you should find an alternative. I will recommend you to use a WP Smush, as you can see in our documentation, here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ .
Hope this helps and let us know how it goes!
Thank you for the message!
Hello,
You need to update your theme to the latest version as many improvements were made since 6.2 :
If you update to WP 4.4. then you need to update the theme as well as some fixes are necessary for their compatibility.
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/
You then need to update the visual composer plugin: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin/
And also the tagdiv social counter: https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-social-counter-tutorial/ as it was modified a bit due to facebook changes.
After all these are done, you can use this guide to improve loading times: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
I hope this helps.
Thank you!
thank you. all good now..
can i put the code above in style.css. to make it load faster?
Heh …. well, the short version would be … just install the main theme, don’t use child theme at all; don’t even upload it. (I don’t use child themes on ANY of our sites or client sites.) So, this way you have one set of things to optimize, manually minify, one set of functions, css, etc.
Just keep track of snippets with a map of which files/customizations you do. SO, when there is theme update you can paste in your functions.php changes into new file, for example; or if you mod the main style.css – make not of what you changed (e.g., search/replace default fonts). Use a good text editor with line numbering — so, you keep track of “I edited the hook at line 55 in file /theme/includes/td-whattheheck.php” etc.
Faster – no CSS redirect from child to parent; no mix of files, smaller to do backup of your site via FTP, blah blah blah.
So – that was short version. Long version would contain a lot of other commentary you don’t need to hear from me on this topic 😉
I thought it was the Newspaper v 6.6.1 or because i minified the css, so i downgraded to v6.6 and it was still the same.
When I deactivated speed booster, it was back to normal.
I think a lesson here to anyone will be let them test the speed booster on their setup and if it behaves weirdly, they should remove it.
Nice work there.
Factwide is faster than ever!.
Hello,
I have checked your website on gmetrix and google and it seems there is still work to be done. You can use speedbooster to move more render blocks to the footer by following the method here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ and to optimize images as you get a notice about those to. You can use wp-smush https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/
Unfortunately we can only offer suggestions. It is still you who is going to have to make the modifications necessary. For every problem highlighted by gmetrix or google, there is a how to button next to it. Please use it to get an idea on how it can be done. Also use google to find lots and lots of pagespeed insights online. More than we can ever offer.
Best of luck on your project!
Hi friend
If you fine tune the settings of Newspaper theme, you can easily lowered memory resources consumed by the theme. Will you please share the URL to take a look on it to suggest something about how to load newspaper theme faster?
(Note: Based on your profile link, here i have run one of your site test via pingdom and got result as shown in the link here http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/cdCq0e/http://www.iaspaper.net/
The page weight seems too heavy and its around 17.6MB and sending around 600 requests to the server which is very high and not necessary even for rich media sites.)
Sometimes i too getting delayed response from developers, but they seems very genuine and offers great support. Thats why Newspaper theme is one of the most selling themes in themeforest.
So you turned it off and still issues? pfff
Well I just like it too much to turn it off. Page seems faster with it.
I have before post share buttons and after. So when I try few times the upper buttons and they don’t work, I switch to bottom ones and it works 🙂 – or vice versa.
if you followe these steps you will get a faster side loads 🙂
unfourtanelly i cant provide you my url site for personal reasons 😛
Just follow this tutorial https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
Note: you need to install cache plugin, it’s very important because your servers doesn’t working like a charm. Or optimize your server response times.
Tag div recommends we cache. It’s a free solution. I recommend you wp rocket, has a cost but it’s a magazine cache plugin and includes options like send files to footer.
well, first of all google pagespeed its diferent than website speed 😛
PageSpeed
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.upsctoday.com%2F
Google Page Speed show you / make recomendations to get better web site experience. Like your problem now
Optimize CSS Delivery of the following: You should move to footer CSS related to your plugins wysija-newsletters, contextual-related-postsm, Easy table, and add to any, because they are blocking your site render speed.
You should move to footer wp-spamshield too.
Web Site Speed is how faster your site its loading for everyone.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.upsctoday.com/FR1sMTBQ
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/bIZ6TD/http://www.upsctoday.com/
Reduce server response time
You can check waterfall/timeline and see how your server is responding slowly. I check your source code and i cant find eneabled some cache plugin, Do you installed?
Only your server its making 4 seconds initial waiting time to start loading site resources. This cloud be dropped to 0.2 seconds if you activate Wp-cache or Zen Cache (free plugins)
Hello,
Unfortunately to make a website run faster you will need to have at least basic knowledge not necessarily ‘tech savvy’
You will need to follow this tutorial on page speed:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ Gzip compression needs to be active and also read about how you can compress the images. I suggest to get someone to help you if you cannot manage.
Also please make sure that Speed Booster is active, check System Status for this – http://screencast.com/t/LDPniI0Qpv The plugin is tested only with these plugins – http://screencast.com/t/hcjLnOqh4i2 and if you have others active it will be automatically disabled.
In order to use the tagdiv speedbooster with all plugins you will need to remove this code – http://screencast.com/t/RZLIOPUNdqh
I hope this helps
Thank you!
Hi,
Please make sure that the Speed Booster plugin is active, check the System Status – http://screencast.com/t/LDPniI0Qpv and the please go through this guide – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
The theme stylesheet file should be moved by default, I have checked this on my side and works properly – http://screencast.com/t/XFyHAgsi
Thanks!
Hi,
I have checked your site again and you still have the following issues – http://screencast.com/t/qdONbihPTV
Please read and apply step by step to solve your errors – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ Gzip compression is still not active and also read about how you can compress the images. I suggest to get someone to help you if you don’t have basic knowledge as we cannot provide custom services, sorry!
Also please make sure that Speed Booster is active, check System Status for this – http://screencast.com/t/LDPniI0Qpv as like Bogdan stated above it is tested only with these plugins – http://screencast.com/t/hcjLnOqh4i2 and if you have others active it will be automatically disabled.
To always enable speed booster remove or comment this code – http://screencast.com/t/RZLIOPUNdqh
Thanks!
Hi Bogdan,
Just closing this out on my question about the sidebar. After I removed the Chris Custom Mods, the smart sidebar started working as intended in Chrome again. I didn’t go through the Chris Custom Mods line by line to figure out what part of it was causing the issue, but I might do that later since I liked having some of the Chris Custom Mods to make the site run faster.
and, oh my gosh … it’s still there!
I guess the file names “update_log.txt” and “changed_files_6.5_6.6.1.html” are not specific enough?
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NEWSPAPER THEME
Thanks for your support and feel free to contact us any time 🙂
https://forum.tagdiv.com/
~ Radu, Marius, Emil, Alina, Lucian, Nicu G., Alin and Nicu S. ~
[ Version 6.6.1 ]
– new social counter version. Facebook requiers now an API key, read more here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-social-counter-tutorial/
[ Version 6.6 ]
– new: Custom code panel. We realized that all the custom css, html and javascript should be in one panel. We also added a custom HTML code section. All the input areas from this panel have autocomplete (ctrl+space) and error checking.
– new: whatsapp share for article on mobile devices
– new: added http channel test status in the system status panel. You can now check if the theme is able to get the tweet count, like count etc from your host.
– new: filter posts by ID in blocks. You can add/exclude specific posts on all the blocks now.
– new: the theme now has it’s own logging system. We can now debug hosting issues easier.
– new: a new self diagnosting and self configurating module that allows our theme to pull data from other sites more reliably.
– fix: smart list 7 and 8 – sometimes the content was doubled
– fix: g+ new icon
– improvement: video playlist is now more reliable and all the code is loaded only when needed via autoload. The youtube videos information is now collected using just one API call instead of multiple API calls for each videos.
– improvement: speedbooster 4.2 now supports woocommerce better and moves the style.css to the bottom
– improvement: the theme panel works better now when adblock is used
– improvement: all the ajax functionality of the theme is now loaded only when needed
– improvement: better security checks on all the ajax requests
– improvement: html is allowed now in the copyright section of the footer
– improvement: social counter button is clickable on the entire area
– improvement: almost all the javascript code now passes jshint. We still have about 15-20% of the code to refactor to the new standards but with time we will get there.
– improvement: the theme’s data source class can now be overwritten from the child theme
– improvement: all the widgets from the theme are now optimized to work better. The widget_builder class is now deprecated and all the functionality was moved to td_block_widget
– improvement: the video playlist now downloads the videos metadata on render, not on save post. This allows us to use the playlist on the on click demos.
– improvement: the following modules of the theme are loaded on demand now: td_log, td_remote_http, td_remote_video, td_data_source, td_video_support, td_more_article_box, td_page_views, td_review, td_ajax. This means that the theme loads them only when needed. We mesured a 10% faster load time after this tweak.
– fix: theme animations where incompatible with some plugins and the visual composer gallery. The animations still worked but all of them looked a bit strange.
– fix: bug with the demo loader – the dinamic css for a specific demo was still loaded even after the demo was uninstall
– fix: header style 8 top submenu z-index fix
– fix: image aligment issue when using custom article paddings
– fix: the documentation url for demos was wrong in wp-admin
– fix: we updated the ads links to point to the right documentation
– fix: Social counter now shows the followers instead of +1 on google plus. Please update your social counter to see the improvement.
– fix: styling issues with the latest version of BuddyPress
– fix: on rare ocassions with some plugins the theme was emitting warnings in the server logs like: “Catchable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string”
– fix: error that was showing up in logs when the theme panel was saved
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I am sorry you feel this way Sharozdawa, we do try to help out as much as we can but unfortunately we are a small team and the support was overwhelming these paste 3 days. Now it is lighter and we can answer faster. We already replied your other topic yesterday. Please consider the time zone as well. We are in GMT+2 here. I think the support of our users confirms we do not try to fool people.
Thank you for your understanding!
Hello,
Sorry for the delay, but if you keep writing in the same post you will move your topic up to more recent ones. We answer in chronological order from oldest to newest. We answer every question on the forum so posting once is enough to get an answer on time.
Our theme has gotten pretty ‘heavy’ due to more and more options getting implemented but there is a solution to make your website faster. Please follow this topic to see how it can be done: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
I hope this helps.
Thank you!
