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Good Morning, do you have some advice on how to configure autoptimize at best with the newspaper theme? when autoptimize is active, 503.shtml errors appear on the server …. Thanks
a) check the system status in the theme panel
b) check php settings in your hosting panel
c) increase RAM allocated to WP in wp-config.php and php settings in hosting panel
d) consider optimizing site for https via proper server side redirect for http > https queries, add https admin required in wp-config.php vs using plugin for https
e) try disabling plugins that load CSS/js onto admin panels and pages/posts, even if not actually used on those pages (e.g., Contact Form 7 doesn’t need css/js on pages without the form actually being used)
f) test one of your post pages with GTmetrix.com to see if you need to optimize server settings for gzip/deflate, expiration headers
For images
A) better to optimize in Photoshop prior to upload to site (e.g., 40kb image vs 124kb image — slows down system if server has to do that for you)
B) better to set the WP default compression level to 50 in functions.php than use plugin to do that, this will make thumbs uploaded more optimized
Hi there at TagDiv,
The backend of our WP-theme Newspaper 8 has slowed down to a 40 seconds-plus loading speed when editting or creating post, pages or opening the Media Library. Also starting up TagDiv Composer on a (new) page is extremely slow. We have tried everything we could find, like disabeling all the plugins and enabeling them one for one again. Allocating more memory through wp_config.php according to TagDiv specifications, etc. Nothing seems to work. Frontend of our site is flying (well, fast loading). Restored backups of website and database a few times also. We don’t know what we can do to fix this problem. Checked PHP memory: fine, Server specs: great, so we realy need some help here.
Our newswebsite http://www.regioonline.nl is online since January, 14th 2017 using the WP Newspaper theme. We have about 1.100 post to date and approx. 4.500 images. With the theme we use the following plugins: Akismet Anti-Spam, Autoptimize, Better Delete Revision (deactivated), Contact Form 7 & Contact Form 7 add confirm, Cookie Bar, HTML Import 2, Image Watermark, Oypo (deactivated), Physical Custom Upload Dir for Real Media Library, Really Simple SSL, Yoast SEO.
We have used WP Supercache several times, but that did nothing for us. Yesterday installed and used Better Delete Revision and cleaned out redundend revisions (and set max revisions to 2 in wp_config). WP_Memory is set to 64M (even tried 512M with was possible acoording to our webhost One.com). We have a large amount of space (500GB) for our site and 8xCPU from the server. Only thing we can think of is maybe a corrupted database, but we don’t know how to check that of fix it. Enabeling repair in WP_Config did not work.
Any help is much appreciated in advance!
Hi guys,
I created a website but I can see it on a mobile phone it is not optimized. I used the google developers speed tool test and it got 52%. I am not a coder and don’t know how to make it load on mobile. Could you please help?
Thank you!
Alejandra
You need to optimize your site, no theme can do that for you.
See my long winded optimization thread for tips in the tutorials, DIY, best of forums section.
There is a complex process to do this, but if your host will be supporting php 7 + https + http/2 you no longer need to do a lot ofthat, as http/2 will package the entire page as a single element which solves the issue.
Normally you would move elements to footer, and put critical CSS in the head, among other things, or use some tricky plugins that might or might not work. (Speedbooster tries to do some of this…)
Perhaps not answer you were looking for, but having done this for a lot of site myself, looking at http/2 is the best solution to look into with your hosting provider for 2018 ‘best way’ to do that.
(you can try the free ‘scripts to footer’ plugin also … )
Hello,
If you use a plugin like smush or an external tool to optimize images, then the quality loss can come from there. For the cropping, make sure you use a plugin to regenerate thumbs such as ‘force regenerate’
For the page title on the chrome tab, you will have to use SEO by Yoast as the theme cannot change the titles in the browser tabs. I’m not sure about the redirect issue though. It could be a plugin conflict with other plugins.
If a color is added to a block then the hover color also changes.
If you want to remove the hover color from all blocks, please add this code in the theme panel-> custom css box:
.td_block_inner .td_module_wrap:hover .entry-title a{
color:black!important;
}
Thank you!
You Editing it every day? Make sure you clear all the revisions and also limit the revisions, you are cluttering the database with duplicate entries.
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Use WP-Optimize Plugin to keep it optimized
Use Revision Control Plugin to limit it to 3 or 4.
Hi Eeshan Bashir,
I have inspected your website on Google Insights and it seems that your website needs some work, as you can see here -> https://www.screencast.com/t/TBgsiP9y
Please notice that the speed of your website depends on how well your site is optimized. Notice that is not a simple task and if you do not have any experience in this regard you will do not bring good results for the theme. Also, notice that we have a speed optimization tutorial but this is addressed only to advanced users. So, if you follow the steps which are presented in this tutorial here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ you can increase the page speed loading and if you are not aware of the steps in this regard, please consider hiring a freelancer/developer to help you because the speed optimization services are not covered by our support policy, as you can read here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/support-policy-2/ Check our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/ regarding on dedicated server to fit to our requirements.
Unfortunately, our theme does not have such an option to minify the style.css file and we cannot recommend any plugins with this functionality because is not tested with our theme. For minifying this file, we are using CloudFlare for our demo and works fine. If you want to read other views from our users, please check this topic -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tip-how-to-easily-minify-your-css-without-breaking-your-site/
One of our top members here on the forum wrote his own optimization tutorial here:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/ and here -> https://www.infophilic.com/get-almost-100-pagespeed-newspaper-theme/
Basically, these are the theme requirements
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/
Regarding on Google Fonts, notice that if you will follow all the steps from our useful guide, you can move to the footer this render blocking.
Please keep in mind that at the moment, we cannot provide optimization services because this task involves time-consuming and we do not afford to do this, sorry! We only can provide support for basic theme settings.
If you are not aware of these steps which are needed to take in this regard, please consider hiring a freelancer/developer to help you because we cannot provide custom work at the moment, sorry!
Thanks for your understanding!
Also, note most http/2 installs *do* require https, and site fully configured and optimized for that (meaning all elements, content, scripts, external files, etc.) served via https.
Hello There.
My website http://www.automotivelectronics.com is slow as compared to other same theme website. Can you take a look into the website and suggests me how i will optimize the website and so that it will be loaded fast.
Also tell me how do i optimize my website theme so that it will be optimized with search engines and come on first page of google search engine.
Thanks and Regards.
Eeshan Bashir
Better to manually optimize the main css and js files yourself (see my long winded optimization thread for links to the best tools for that, esp js) vs running plugin. That way the optimized files get cached, not a process running to optimize stuff at same time as caching it (conflict).
Food for thought anyway 🙂
Hi Catalin, but when i autooptimize active I get errors 503 and Speed Booster does not work
Hello Federico,
I have inspected your website on Google Page Speed and it seems that your website is right optimized, as you can see here -> https://www.screencast.com/t/nbqDJYDdQ Your score is good! We have only this useful manual -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ for optimization.
Thanks for your understanding!
Good morning, on my site http://www.ecomesifa.it with your theme, I tried to install Autoptimize to minimize and concatenate CSS and JS. Unfortunately, maybe because hosting uses LITESPEED CACHE, I have many 503.shtml errors, how can I fix it since SPEED BOOSTER does not work? Thank you
Salut. Sociedelic.com, acesta este site-ul meu pe care incerc sa-l optimizez cat mai bine, am reusit sa rezolv problema cu cache-ul pe desktop, atunci cand accesam un link de pe mobil si ii facea cache, daca il accesam apoi de pe desktop il afisa ca pe mobil. Dar acum nu reusesc ca pe mobil sa-mi foloseasca tema de mobil, incarca toate chestiile de pe varianta normala. Stiu ca nu e testata tema cu acest plugin, dar cred ca ar fi frumos sa incercam niste teste. Va pot da user si pass in privat. Multumesc!
The theme is fast — but theme cannot manage your server settings, content you already have like giant unoptimized images, lack of gzip/deflate running, expiration headers, etc., which need to be done for ALL sites/themes.
Test one of your posts with GTMetrix.com to see actual help and recommendations if you’re new to WordPress.
Hello narinder912,
I guess that your problem comes from your speed optimization, sorry. Please notice that the speed of your website depends on how well your site is optimized. Notice that is not a simple task and if you do not have any experience in this regard you will do not bring good results for the theme. Also, notice that we have a speed optimization tutorial but this is addressed only to advanced users. So, if you follow the steps which are presented in this tutorial here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ you can increase the page speed loading and if you are not aware of the steps in this regard, please consider hiring a freelancer/developer to help you because the speed optimization services are not covered by our support policy, as you can read here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/support-policy-2/ Check our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/ regarding on dedicated server to fit to our requirements.
Unfortunately, our theme does not have such an option to minify the style.css file and we cannot recommend any plugins with this functionality because is not tested with our theme. For minifying this file, we are using CloudFlare for our demo and works fine. If you want to read other views from our users, please check this topic -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tip-how-to-easily-minify-your-css-without-breaking-your-site/
One of our top members here on the forum wrote his own optimization tutorial here:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/ and here -> https://www.infophilic.com/get-almost-100-pagespeed-newspaper-theme/
Basically, these are the theme requirements
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/
Regarding on Google Fonts, notice that if you will follow all the steps from our useful guide, you can move to the footer this render blocking.
Please keep in mind that at the moment, we cannot provide optimization services because this task involves time-consuming and we do not afford to do this, sorry! We only can provide support for basic theme settings.
If you are not aware of these steps which are needed to take in this regard, please consider hiring a freelancer/developer to help you because we cannot provide custom work at the moment, sorry!
Thanks for your understanding!
Hi
When I do a pagespeed test, this line shows as render blocking css: http://fonts.googleapis.com/…
If I block or remove google fonts using Autoptimize, will that break anything in the site?
Thanks & Regards
Narinder
Hello alexvaltin,
Please notice that the speed of your website depends on how well your site is optimized. Notice that is not a simple task and if you do not have any experience in this regard you will do not bring good results for the theme. Also, notice that we have a speed optimization tutorial but this is addressed only to advanced users. So, if you follow the steps which are presented in this tutorial here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ you can increase the page speed loading and if you are not aware of the steps in this regard, please consider hiring a freelancer/developer to help you because the speed optimization services are not covered by our support policy, as you can read here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/support-policy-2/ Check our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/ regarding on dedicated server to fit to our requirements.
Unfortunately, our theme does not have such an option to minify the style.css file and we cannot recommend any plugins with this functionality because is not tested with our theme. For minifying this file, we are using CloudFlare for our demo and works fine. If you want to read other views from our users, please check this topic -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tip-how-to-easily-minify-your-css-without-breaking-your-site/
One of our top members here on the forum wrote his own optimization tutorial here:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/ and here -> https://www.infophilic.com/get-almost-100-pagespeed-newspaper-theme/
Basically, these are the theme requirements
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/
Please keep in mind that at the moment, we cannot provide optimization services because this task involves time-consuming and we do not afford to do this, sorry! We only can provide support for basic theme settings.
If you are not aware of these steps which are needed to take in this regard, please consider hiring a freelancer/developer to help you because we cannot provide custom work at the moment, sorry!
Thanks for your understanding!
Run your website through Google’s PageSpeed Insights for tips on how to optimize your website. Also put non-essential code at the bottom of your body, like Adsense and Analytics-code. 🙂
That should bring you a long way.
Hi,
I believe for the moment there are no plans to implement this in the theme. This might change in future updates, but I could not say for sure when this will happen.
There is a mobile theme plugin provided in the package that is optimized of performance on mobile devices
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-mobile-theme/
Please note that every theme update is meant to add more functionality and features to the theme, and it is hard for the developer team to decide what gets implemented as soon as possible, and what gets delayed.
Thanks
Hello,
I know, Newspaper is compatible with AMP and Yoast SEO plugin, but are you seriously considering to support it by yourself? I mean, there’re many themes/templates on Envato that now supports AMP with a first-party plugin and a dedicated lightweight template for it (and to be honest there’s is a clone of your template, it has the same clean design, its name is Publisher).
The fact is that Google is now officialy supporting AMP and increasing indexing of the sites that use it (actually Google Adsense is suggesting me to use it to optimize my website.) so i’m extremely interested to use it. But here is the problem, there isn’t a dedicated AMP template that respect my website primary design (Newspaper) and i don’t want to buy another one, because i love Newspaper and i spent a lot of time to optimize my website at the best (92/90 Google Pagespeed).
So i’m here to ask you what are you doing about it.
Thanks.
What is your favorite image optimizer plugin and content cache plug-in?
How long have you used it with the Newspaper theme?
Looking for some general feedback… There are so many options nowadays! Wooh.
Thanks in advance 🙂
Hey Chris, I’ve made my mind and stept off of AMP for now. Will optimize my pages further to make the speed go up and deliver a better user experience. Already upgraded to PHP 7.1, moved some non-essential JS-code to the bottom of the header, minified CSS + JS including above the fold optimization. It really works wonders so far. Have tried multiple times on a test-VPS to get http2 to run, but Custombuild 2.0 (DirectAdmin) doesn’t natively support it yet. The following tutorial for example:
https://www.vultr.com/docs/how-to-activate-http2-support-on-directadmin-centos
Everything goes well, until cURL comes around the corner. Online checks don’t show my websites using http2, and the following command is not being recognized: ‘curl –http2 example.org’. Can’t get it set up right, but might have to do something with the ISO that my provider uses for CentOS 7 + DirectAdmin VPS’s.
Anyway, that’s not a story for this forum. 😀
Thanks for your information so far! It has been very helpful.
Try
a) clear cache on ios device browser, Safari
b) clear cache on website, clear transients with wp-optimize
c) disable the image animation effect (fake lazy loading)
d) some ads may freeze browser – not much you can do about that; we switched to ‘text ads only’ with AdSense to fix that issue here on some sites (I use my iPad every day!)
