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The new “speed” method I am recommending for next gen sites is

a) make sure you have images properly optimized, minify style css and main js file once site “designed”
b) make sure your time to live and gzip settings are correct
c) minimize or eliminate loading ANY external resources
d) consider moving to php 7 with opcache
e) consider moving to https + http/2 which serves pages as one compressed packet/bundle via gzip

Unfortunately, you can’t “lock down” a theme and still make it easily editable by developers, and also ease of use in control panels, etc.

Still advisable to only load ONE CSS file, and advisable to minify it.

(I don’t work here.)

Yes, looks like you need to spend some time optimizing your site/server setup!

See the theme docs/tutorials for some tips on how to speed up your website regardless of theme.

You can also ‘test’ one of your posts with GTMetrix.com to get some specifics on stuff like caching, time to live, gzip compression, image compression, doing a manual minify of your style.css, etc.

( I don’t work here. )

Do what I do — removed the stuff in the style.css not being used, then minify it 🙂

Thank you for your reply.
http://cssminifier.com/ this tool cannot minify newspaper style.css.
I thought other solutions.

Thanks

A.. file is compressed if you have gzip/deflate properly setup on your server.
B.. you can minify the css file once done making any customizations to it.

I just login to check the plugins and I noticed there was a plugin update for Minify HTML plugin. So I updated it and it has fixed the problem.

Thank for all the help. Problem solved.

Regards,

Vic Stathopoulos
http://www.aerospaceguide.net

All of these for newspaper. Probably work for newsmag?

https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tip-how-to-easily-minify-your-css-without-breaking-your-site/
https://www.infophilic.com/get-almost-100-pagespeed-newspaper-theme/

Sorry. I was referring to Newspaper, that is what we are using.

A couple of comments from customer perspective.

1. “You should disable the server cache ”
—- To the best of my understanding you can’t really disable the servr cache on WP engine (and why should you :))
And WP engine doesn”t allow to use W3 Total Cache at all.
So you are basically either forcing your customers to use different hosting or to not to use your mobile theme.
It doesn’t seem like a great approach.
Majority of my clients are on WP Engine.

2. My personal experience with W3 Total Cache is pretty bad – it broken a couple if sites (even with minify feature disabled, so it is a good plugin – but it is hit and miss.)

Good day.

Kindly see chat below which I had with support at MAXCDN.

TO summarise:

“Hi Etienne, I’ve used CDN rewrite for CDN integration, however, when I initially configured the issue was still there
but, i tried to exclude all css files from it and it appears that it is working now
so it’s definitely some of the core theme css files that is conflicting with CDN URL’s (external URL’s)
I am not sure which one since this requires further debugging by testing every css file on your theme when CDN is enabled
if you don’t mind, you can contact your theme devloper about this

but note that CDN is still enabled and all other files including js and images are being served from the CDN”

Kind regards, Etienne

Original chat:

Etienne:

Good day.
We have updated our theme files: https://themeforest.net/item/newsmag-news-magazine-newspaper/9512331
We have updated here on our staging site. You can see the nav issues at the top as well as the padding issues in the body: http://staging.adworld.ie/
username:adwrld
passw:adwrld
Current live site to use for comparison. This is still running old theme files and works fine: http://www.adworld.ie/
We have determined that this issue only happens when we enable the CDN > MAXCDN option on the W3 total cache plugin. When we disable it it works fine. We have tried to enable it and clearing all caches to no avail.
So in short – W3 total cache with CDN enabled breaks our site with our new theme files – it was fine with the old files.
Have you come across an issue like this before?
Kind regards;
Etienne

Ivan:

Hi Etienne and thanks for reaching out. Are you by any chance using minify or some other sort of backend caching on your origin? From what I can see there are no errors on CDN files themselves, but the theme has some issues with its styles, so I would recommend disabling all caching/minify options in W3TC and leaving CDN option enabled only.

Let me know if this works for you.

Ivan

Etienne:

Hi – thank you – gonna try that now
Hi there – I had a look and already the minify option is disabled on W3TC. The tick box is not ticked. Very strange. The only option that makes the theme files work correctly is if I disable cdn. Would you perhaps want to have a look in my wp backend?

Ivan:

Sure, that would be great if you could provide me with access credentials
great – thanks
http://staging.adworld.ie/wp-admin

Ivan:

Do I have your permission to temporary disable W3TC and try with some other plugin instead?

it will be just for debugging purposes

Etienne:

hi – sure – no problem
I do have a backup of the files etc.
As long as it’s for debug – unfortunately we do require this plugin as you know
Thank you

Ivan:

Hi Etienne, I’ve used CDN rewrite for CDN integration, however, when I initially configured the issue was still there
but, i tried to exclude all css files from it and it appears that it is working now
so it’s definitely some of the core theme css files that is conflicting with CDN URL’s (external URL’s)
I am not sure which one since this requires further debugging by testing every css file on your theme when CDN is enabled
if you don’t mind, you can contact your theme devloper about this

but note that CDN is still enabled and all other files including js and images are being served from the CDN

Etienne:

Hi Ivan
Thank you kindly for your feedback – I will contact them with this new information.

Ok, so let me re-state my question and forget the thing about minify, How do I rid off the “redundant CSS code” that is appearing on my HTML? Redundant because it’s also appearing on my main style.CSS.

Hi Catalln,

I am sorry for such huge delay in answering your messages. I was on a long vacation and back then I have actually replied to the email which are no-reply email address I have noticed later.

Here is what I was trying to send you long time ago:

Hi,
I kinda understand that there is no such option and that you won’t customise it according to my need but can you explain why it has such negative effect on loading for mobile phones?
Would you be that kind and have a look at it what you’ll have time. I just enabled the lazy loading for you to have a look at it what I mean. I am still trying to make my pages as small as possible in order to load faster on mobile devices. I already tried your mobile plugin and it’s awesome regarding the page speed loading time but I kinda use different menu plugins and I haven’t managed to implement it for the mobile version yet. However, I am about to make my pages load fast on mobile devices with no use of you mobile plugin and that brings me to the lazy page loading and also I wanted to ask you how to minify newspaper JavaScript as I have tried to either combine it or even minify it but it always break my site. I have managed to combine and minify most of the js except the jQuery and newspaper js files. Any kind of help or hint would be very much appreciated. I use W3 Total Cache plugin in order to speed up my web site but as I mentioned I am having troubles to manage to minify or combine newspaper js file along with others. I tried most of the variations but none of them worked for the newspaper js file.
Thanks