- NewspaperHow to Make the Site Faster
- NewsmagUsing the theme translations together with WPML
- NewspapertagDiv AMP Plugin Tutorial
- NewspaperNewspaper Theme Support
- NewsmagRequirements for Newsmag
- NewsmagSmart sidebar
- NewsmagTheme thumbs
- TutorialsWhat is Ajax preloading?
- NewspaperCustom ad spots
- NewspaperRequirements for Newspaper
Hi,
We recommend now Wp Super Cache plugin, it seems to be more faster, but please use it. Also we recommend to be used as default (no minify) – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
Please also disable all plugins except of Visual Composer, clear cache and purge your files if you use CDN and if you still have this issue provide a link so we can take a look.
Thanks!
Hi Alin,
I have implemented all your suggestions. The tagDiv search function (icon in main menu) is still responding many times slower than the inserted wp-search function I have placed in the top menu (to replace the original theme search function in order to provide a faster search). However I would prefer to keep the original build in search. Please, try to compare the two search functions in the top menu and main menu here: http://naturguide.dk/
Thanks,
Hi,
Please check documentation(Requirements for Newspaper) – https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/ and this guide – https://forum.tagdiv.com/pagespeed-guide/ We recommend now Wp-Super Cache instead of W3 Total Cache, it seems to be faster and we will change this also in the documentation.
Also try to use only plugins that you need. The speed booster move the js and css at the bottom of the page to eliminate render-blocking, but not for all plugins.
Thanks!
Hi,
This usually happens because of the speed booster plugin which move the css and js at the bottom of the page structure so that the page will load faster, this is why the theme default color appears first then changes, because of the cascading property of css. A solution is to change the color directly into css stylesheet, which will make your colors to load first and stay that way. You could also deactivate the plugin if you don’t need it.
Thanks!
Hi Alin,
I am having the same problem and I am using the child theme. I am using 6.2 (latest release) and all plugins are updated and being used. Tested turning off all plugins as well. It works great in the main newspaper theme when I change it to that theme, but it breaks when I activate the child theme. I think there is an issue with the child theme. I have tested different grids in the lower main content areas and they appear to work. It is that first grid at the top of the page.
You can use my test site to test.. http://test.paleoctopus.com
Not trying to Hijack your thread Mark.. 🙂 Just thought I can help us both get the answer a little faster as I have already done a bunch of testing and we are having the same issue.
Cheers,
Will
Year, GZIP been opened. It does a lot faster.
But still needed 3,4 seconds .
How I do in order to achieve within three seconds ？
Very grateful .
Hi all,
İn this page https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
i used “4. Remove render blocking css/js – using the TagDiv Speed Boosterplugin (Advanced Users)”
but when i used this codes;
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘FILE-ID’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘FILE-ID’);
in wp admin page show me
Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context in /home/muhendisbeyinler/public_html/wp-content/plugins/td-speed-booster/td-speed-booster.php on line 283
how can i fix?
Hi,
This is not the right way to get the script’s id: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8bsycipt3souyo0/Screenshot%202015-06-30%2008.59.41.png?dl=0 for that you need to use the function provided in our page speed guide (forth section): http://screencast.com/t/QBLRliM54jA – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
Thanks
Hi,
We tested WP Super Cache with the theme and we decided to recommend it to be used with Newpaper theme, it seems to be faster. Also we recommend to be used as default (no minify) – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
Thanks!
Alright, got it figured out.
For the first part, the database was storing old options from the last theme I used that also used VC. I wiped those out to remove any mentions of the old theme and inserted the values from my dev site. That wiped my theme settings out so I imported those again (thankfully I had them saved), and then I went to VC settings and selected all shortcodes for administrator and saved. Viola! I have all the Newspaper blocks available in VC now.
But for the second part, I’m still getting the screwed up styles in the page builder. It’s because I still have VC v.4.3.5 installed and not the latest version.
I’m hesitant to install the latest version just because of recent conversations on here regarding NewsMag (which I also have) and the Shim plugin because of how new versions of VC are slowing sites down to a crawl since NewsMag v1.7.
So, if I upgrade VC to v4.5.3 as distributed with Newspaper v6.1, will the site run slower than it does with VC v.4.3.5 as distributed with Newspaper v4.6.1?
Whatever option is faster is what I’ll stick with. Would really like to hear @NeoTrope weigh in on this as well.
Thank you, Marius. I’m very pleased with how it came out. Even more so because the theme is faster than ever. You guys did a great job with the v6 update. Bravo.
But I haven’t fixed it, just found a temporary fix that doesn’t seem as obviously broken while we work on it. Here are the problems:
1. Categories Filter ** This was my bad. Didn’t correct the offset properly for the block after the ad while building the page.
Category filtering in blocks on the home page I’ve built is set as default, to show all categories, but it’s only showing the first category, alphabetically, from the site (Cowboys Blog). I’ve tried updating it several times and checking the other categories but no luck. All categories work fine when I select them individually, but not when selecting “All Categories” from the filter. This occurs with and without unique articles enabled, and after all caches have been cleared.
2. Newspaper Block Shortcodes in VC
Visual Composer is really not reading the themes blocks. See the screenshot for what I see:
That has remained constant on InsideTheStar.com (Main Site) while it was not a problem on Dev.InsideTheStar.com (Development Site, also live). It remains constant whether I use v6.1 parent or child theme, and whether I use VC v4.3.5 or v.4.5.3. I’ve checked upload type (binary vs. ascii) and uploaded fresh copies from the theme directory of the whole theme multiple times. I’ve also removed VC via both methods and reinstalled but no fix, yet.
I was able to create the homepage I’m using now by taking the page on my dev site, reverting to the classic editor so it would show me the VC shortcodes, and copied those shortcodes into the classic editor on the homepage for the main site. I couldn’t use the blocks any other way. With VC v.4.5.3 (as distributed with Newspaper v6.1) I couldn’t even edit those blocks at all on the main site, just move them around (couldn’t edit, duplicate, or delete them from the VC editor).
3. VC Editor Styles
I’m also seeing this issue while using Newspaper v6.1 with VC v4.3.5 (the only version I can access this following screen from):
I can still use the box with that broken style for the tabs up top, but it hints at the main problem, I’d think.
I would have liked to get it figured out already, but all I was able to do was get the site limping well enough that most visitors won’t notice (it’s a production site).
Any ideas? The only thing worth noting from the system info tab of the theme is that I’m running at 40mb instead of 64mb. It’s not the problem, though. Both the main site and dev site are running on the same host with the same setups, and the dev site is not experiencing any troubles with VC v.4.3.5.
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We have finish design/optimization our site and with out the theme speedbooster i was able to fix all those important issues under the hood with cloudflare/speedbooster pack plugin via worldpress.
Google pagespeed results :https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjahliveradio.com%2F&tab=mobile
GTmetrix :http://gtmetrix.com/reports/jahliveradio.com/kBQTuZkg
Finally the less stuff on your site the better your score will be and the faster your site will be as well..
Hi,
Seems that sometimes Google’s testing tool could preview your site’s in different ways. Recently we had as similar report about the site looking unstyled or just a white screen, but it didn’t had actually any issues in the browser.
Also for errors on the test please follow the steps added in the documentation – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ Also Christopher topic may help – https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-pagespeed-2015/
Thanks!
Hi,
it may affect the global loading time but the background image will probably load faster. We’re working on a solution for this and hopefully it will be out in the next version.
Radu O.
Hi,
I need the infinity loading to be bit faster than the current one, current one take about 3 sec to load
Infinity load is active on my home page latest stories section.
This is my site:http://bit.ly/1P3acOY
Thanks
Bharath
Hi,
@geekykant you need to regenerate the thumbnails, i see the images are not cropped at the right size. Also you can compress them a little to pass the speed test.
Read more here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
Thanks for the message!
Hi,
This usually happens because of the speed booster plugin which move the css and js at the bottom of the page structure so that the page will load faster, this is why the theme default color appears first then changes, because of the cascading property of css. A solution is to change the color directly into style.css – http://screencast.com/t/HYAkKVIoHBv
Thanks!
Hi,
I did a lot of this things, but I think there is a problem with a part of the tutorial and Newspaper 6 (Remove render blocking css/js – using the TagDiv Speed Boosterplugin in https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/). How I have to put the codes of this part of the tutorial? It doesn’t work and block the web if I write anything in this plugin file.
Hi,
Please check documentation(Requirements for Newspaper) – https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/ and this guide How to make the site faster(please take a look at point 4 for your issue).
Also Christopher topic may help – https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-pagespeed-2015/
Thanks!
Hi,
New update of the theme is great,I just have few few questions. This is my website http://aktuelno24.mk/
1. On the bottom of the site on left side there is a smileface icon, that is showing only on not logged users.
I don’t know what is it?
http://postimg.org/image/55txyc32x/
2. The logo on header style 5 isn’t changing and the some is happening on 3,4,12 header styles. When i change to other styles is showing new logo, but when i go back, its the old one.
3. Favicon is not showing very nice even is 20×20. this is how looks like?
http://postimg.org/image/z7hckb0wh/
4. The custom CSS at the beggining was working, but now its not. I don’t know why?
http://postimg.org/image/i0czw7djz/
5. Sometimes when website is open first the menu is black and then is changig to red. How i can fix that? Maybe something with stylesheet?
Please give me your feedback about my website, something to change, to make it better, faster? 😀
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards,
Aleks
Presuming you regenerated your thumbnails?
You have tons of things you need to deal with since you’re loading everything and the kitchen sink … e.g.,
Regen thumbs to load correct image sizes
•http://www.droidgeeky.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/xiaomi_mi_4_silver.jpg is resized in HTML or CSS from 635x475 to 140x104. Serving a scaled image could save 37.7KiB (95% reduction).
Are you using Revolution Slider ? If not, disable the plugin – do so for ALL plugins you don’t actually use.
You’re loading a HUGE amount of stuff from Google, Doubleclick, Facebook, Twitter, wp.com tracking pixel, etc.
For faster speed, you need to load less stuff and optimize what you do load!
Figure out how to load this via sync:
•http://www.droidgeeky.com/why-you-should-choose-microsoft-over-linux-2 loads http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js synchronously.
Hi,
I see that in the documentation is recommended W3 Total Cache, I have changed it also there. We tested WP Super Cache with the theme and we decided to recommend it to be used with Newpaper theme, it seems to be faster. Also we recommend to be used as default (no minify). Sorry for misunderstanding!
Thanks for reporting!
Hi,
The theme uses featured images to display posts on pages, it generates thumbs from those images to keep the page size as low as possible.
1. First check if the gzip compression, browser leverage cache and image compression are set – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ – https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-pagespeed-2015/
2. Then check if the thumbs used on your modules are enabled – http://screencast.com/t/4A8qWhlovXW (disable the unused ones)
3. Next regenerate the thumbs – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-fix-strange-thumbnails/
4. Check the error.log to see if there are any strange errors which may cause high cpu usage.
Thank you!
Hi. I used W3 total cache. You suggest it on this guide: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
But until Newspaper 6 update I see WP Super Cache plugin on that page as “5. Use a cache plugin (WP Super Cache)” and in your Speed Booster plugin’s code.
Which one do you suggest?
Hi,
We use xampp installs for testing, we didn’t tested other tools so i cannot recommend you something else.
First backup the site files and database, in case something goes wrong you just use the backup to restore the site. Usually c-panel comes with an option for this, or you could do this manually – https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
You can’t keep the old theme in the same folder, you either delete it an install the new one or move it to another location.
In v6.1 we fixed some of the issues which were reported on v6.0:
[ Version 6.1 ]
- improvement: added global colour for block headers in General theme colors section
- improvement: now you can change the fonts on Lists in post content from Theme panel
- improvement: added .screen-reader-text class for better usability
- improvement: visual composer updated to the latest version
- improvement: better documentation + first video tutorials
- fix: UI improvements, key images now have a specified height, this prevents repaints and it makes the page appear that it loads faster
- fix: unique articles work now as expected
- fix: better review import from version 4
- fix: speed booster 4.1 works better now + buddyPress fix
- fix: big grids on iOS where missing titles until touch
- fix: block 20 css fix + speed booster
- fix: content bottom and top content ads css fix for safari, firefox and IE
- fix: various css fixes
- fix: social counter instagram
- fix: main menu z-index
- fix: missing Ajax filter option for IOS slider
- fix: visual composer single image block alignment issues
- fix: space issue when turn off the top menu on header style 12
- fix: the ajax dropdown filter sometimes disappeared when the mouse was moved down to select ca category
- fix: ajax filter - was deselecting all the selected filters from the page on click
- fix: better alignment on reviews
We may consider releasing beta versions in the future, thanks for your suggestion.
Thank you!
