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Hello Scottseol,
Please keep in mind that our theme has two mobile design -> the mobile responsive and the mobile theme plugin. The mobile responsive will display the same desktop layout but it was optimized for tablets and mobile devices. The second one is Mobile Theme and for more information about this concept, please consult here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-mobile-theme/
If you are using the Mobile theme and this will not work as properly, notice that issue happens due to WP Super Cache.
Try to refresh your page and check the results. Clear all your caches after this. Also, try to remove all the server caches and if you do not have any access to do this, you should consult the hosting provider and request this task.
Please notice that the mobile theme makes some troubles due to WP Super Cache plugin. Also, the WP Super Cache plugin is compatible with the mobile devices, but if you are using the Mobile Theme, please notice that you should make some changes for a better working. This could be a problem from wp super cache and not the browser. If you use the plugin, please use this method to fix the issue:
Use this link and add the customization as marked here: https://github.com/Automattic/wp-super-cache/pull/185/files
Edit wp-cache-phase1.php and add the green code from the right column as it shows there. Otherwise, if you do not want to make these changes you should simply disable the mobile theme until the WP Super Cache plugin will be updated.
Thanks for your understanding!
Hello fellas,
Just trying to make Newspaper theme 8 abit more useful :). I’m delivering a short post to all the fellas who are still trying to somehow rank their website, hope it helps.
1. The Title on top of page is already H1 Title, so don’t include H1 tags in your post. Instead, use H2 tags, these will appear as Site Links in SERPS. Here are just two of my posts that appeared on Google:
2. Don’t fall for green light for Yoast, it’s a stupid (yes!) for keywords. Use your imagination, google already uses synonyms if you have ever done a google search yourself. Instead of stuffing up your article with keywords, focus on content and mix up keywords variation.
3. Disable Yoast auto stop keyword stripping. It’s a dumb feature again. Say you have a post- How to download video, it will detect to and remove it automatically. Disable it under Yoast>Advanced>Permalinks>Clean up permalinks>Keep Stop Words in Slug.
4. Use Excerpts as a different version of your meta description. Don’t underestimate the power of them, they are not jsut useful to your readers on your site, but also useful to Search Engine Bots. Use them wisely to add secondary meta description.
5. Image- I would recommend you optimize the image size first before uploading it. Name the file with your keywords before uploading to WordPress and add Alt tags, Title and Description to it. Sometimes, images rank better in Google if optimized correctly and they can help you beat up the top ranking posts. Use Wp-Smush also.
6. Use External Links plugin to disable free juice passing from your website to other sites. Use it globally to keep the Search engines to crawling your website only. You don’t want to send cream to other sites, do you?
7. Do constant interlinking, it’s part of super seo!
8. Use cornerstone articles from Yoast wisely. These can actually help you rank better some of your very important posts. I am currently targeting three posts to test it out.
9. If you want to reduce bounce rate, try Inline Related Posts plugin. It’s superb to show related posts inside your post.
10. Disable Jetpack breadcrumbs. I am still testing it though, but they were kind of messing up with Newspaper default breadcrumbs.
11. Remove Websites under comments, a Website tab will just confuse users and will also add to spam. To disable it, simply add code below in your theme functions and also mobile theme functions:
add_filter('comment_form_default_fields', 'website_remove');
function website_remove($fields)
{
if(isset($fields['url']))
unset($fields['url']);
return $fields;
}I hope it helps, will try to update the guide as much as i can though. Do help me with it if you also want to help others. You can follow me here: https://medicforyou.in
And be sure to check my other guide too on forums: Speedify your Newspaper Blog
Hello Ankush Das,
Please keep in mind that TD Composer is our page builder who wants to replace the Visual Composer. Our page builder is too optimized with our theme because this is fully integrated into the theme and work as expected. You can use the Visual Composer but notice that on the future, we will improve our builder and all the features will be made exclusively for this TD Composer and all of these will not work for Visual Composer. Yes, we will provide the updates for Visual Composer but we will not implement new features.
Thanks for your understanding!
Thank you for advice! The problem was with one of the plugins.
Now I have another inconvenience. Images have different sizes and I’ve got these grey gaps: 
What should I do for solving this problem? I want the system automaticly optimize sizes picking them from articles and resizing for grids.
And why is it impossible to change the order of articles in grids manually? There are so many options like “latest”, “oldest”, and “a-z” but there is no simple opportunity to make it by myself.
You might fully disable and clear *all* caching which needs to be done with any major theme change/update — 8x is totally new, so if you end up loading old CSS via cache on server and/or browser, stuff will not work right.
Also worth
a) resave permalinks
b) clear all transients with WP-Optimize
c) force clear all cache in browser (e.g., Chrome)
Hang in there !
(I don’t work here.)
Hi,
This last theme update is a major step and reflects the direction the theme will follow. The new tagDiv composer is more optimized and lighter in most ways then the Visual composer editor. Future theme updates will include more features and options for the new editor. We know the transition will not be easy for all cases, that is why we tried our best to make it as smooth as possible.
You can keep using the Visual composer and deactivate the tagDiv composer, but you should take this into consideration.
Thanks
Hello pstgibson,
Please notice that exists a lot of browsers around the world, right? But please keep in mind that we cannot optimize the theme for ALL browsers because this thing is impossible. As you can see, our recommended browsers on which our theme is fully tested and compatible is -> https://www.screencast.com/t/fahRiXFTFQD. Notice that any other browser that is not listed may be incompatible with the theme.
Thanks for your understanding!
Hello JohnBull,
Please notice that our Page builder is light than Visual Composer and after our tests, the theme seems to be faster than using Composer plugin. Most likely, you have some problems or customizations through your website which might influence the page speed and we recommend to optimize it, according to t our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
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.
Thanks for the message!
Basic follow up recommendations are already provided by the developers. I will give you some additional tips (considering you are using the mobile theme plugin already):
1. Optimize images
>Reduce the size of files just before uploading. Use this software- Caesium, and set quality to 80 (i set 60-80 depending on existing size). Resize image to 1280 maximum, unless you really need to show images with high quality.
>Use Wp Smush and regenerate thumbnail plugin.
2. Use a CDN– Cloudfare is free. Its easy to set up too.
3. Https support– trust me, its really good. You can always google https vs http to find why https is good. You can get a FREE SSL certificate from Cloudfare indeed and implement it on your website.
4. Remove query strings– so far, i use Remove Query Strings From Static Resources plugin to fix it. Query strings are actually calling server for something specific.
5. Use WP Super cache (supported by theme) and Cloudfare and yes, GTMetrix plugin. These 3 will make your website god of speed.
6. Heartbeat control– its pretty much for reducing load on your server, not recommended if you can’t implement it properly.
7. Wp Optimize– cleans out waste garbage in your database.
Hope this helps. I personally tested them all out. So far, i just couldn’t figure out a way to fix those etags.
Hello,
What version of php are you using? what plugins are you using? There are many factors that can influence this.
If slow loading is your problem I would start at the memory allocation. Please use this guide: https://forum.tagdiv.com/system-status-parameters-guide/
Also the recommended version of php is 7.0
Then you will have to optimize your site loading speed using this guide: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
Thank you!
Hello silviarehn,
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 is 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. For an example, you should check our demo preview because this website is optimized.
Thanks for your understanding!
Yes, some things aren’t possible to optimize only via the theme alone, but when I test Newspaper vs. other themes (six other ones) out-of-the-box using the same test post content, Newspaper is always the slowest and has the worst scores (both on Google PageSpeed and GTMetrix).
Again, I love the theme, but wish it was better optimized for speed.
Newsmag working fine for us with latest WP.
Usually you can try
a) resave permalinks
b) clear all/any caching
c) clear all transients with WP-Optimize plugin
make sure all plugins you are using, which are not included with latest theme version, are updated to work with WP 4.7x. Try disabling everything except visual composer.
Good luck!
( I don’t work here; just trolling for free gingerbread cookies … c’mon nobody has sent me any yet!! đ )
Hi,
there is no way to use your td-mobile plugin for Thema Newsmag. Because I can not optimize for the mobile version this thema.
Using the speedBooster plugin, the mobile pages do not open fast.
I would like to bring Google PageSpeed Insights score for mobile at least 85/100. While at the moment after the latest optimizations it swings from 67 to 76 …
I do not want the usual answers you give, where to find people who optimize your site. Because I’ve already used all the tips you’ve put in the forum and the tutorials.
hello @tollywoodfans
Glad, this tutorial helped you to get a good score.
You may use image optimization plugin to optimize images on your blog.
Try – EWWW Image optimize or WP Smush it
Note – my California website found in the showcase has not been “re-optimized” — we had server crash, went to backup, then stopped tweaking with mod_pagespeed off, in favor of testing the move to http/2 … but still 89/91 when loading ads on page, with https, and with mod_pagespeed OFF and no caching plugin …. so…. it’s doable even when half-assed like mine are right now đ
Hi Chris S,
I deleted Visual Composer, used WP-Optimize.
Created a new page, but error remains.
Your system does not work
You cannot edit an existing page created with Visual Composer, such as home page. You need to make *new* page solely with TagDiv Composer.
Also remember to disable VC, clear all caching, resave permalinks, clear transients with WP-Optimize.
Thanks to both of you! Are there any examples of sites that achieve good scores? Even the demo has poor Google PageSpeed results:
https://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/the-most-anticipated-charter-flights-in-the-canary-islands/
Google PageSpeed Result:
– Mobile: 51/100
– Desktop: 60/100
If the demo is most highly optimized, that does not give me confidence that we will be able to optimize ours. Hoping to find other examples as well.
Thanks!
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
Hello frankcf,
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 is 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. For an example, you should check our demo preview because this website is optimized.
Thanks for your understanding!
Hello orlando,
Do you have checked our useful guide, like this -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ Try to consult it because there you will find all the needed steps which you need to do in order to achieve best theme results. After this, try to clear all your caches and check the results. Notice that the Speed Booster is an optional plugin and if you fail to optimize your site you should consider hiring a freelancer/developer to help you because our support does not cover the optimization services, sorry!
Thanks for your understanding!
Hi,
I really like the Newspaper theme, but whenever we test it on occasion, it always ranks slowest vs. other themes out of the box. Are there any examples of sites that are using a current version of the Newspaper theme that are fast and optimized? Would love to see some examples and understand how they achieved it.
Thanks!
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content
Your page has 1 blocking CSS resources. This causes a delay in rendering your page.
None of the above-the-fold content on your page could be rendered without waiting for the following resources to load. Try to defer or asynchronously load blocking resources, or inline the critical portions of those resources directly in the HTML.
Optimize CSS Delivery of the following:
https://fonts.googleapis.com/âŠ%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C900&ver=7.8.1
In the future update, is it possible to load the Google Fonts after the ATF section is loaded? It helps in SEO rankings.
Thank you
Hello ouropretooficial,
I have inspected your website and I saw that you still using some untested plugins, such as Autoptimize plugin, like this -> https://www.screencast.com/t/3i5BYnSt If you want to bring best results with our theme you should disable all of your untested plugins, leave just Visual Composer to active, clear all your caches and install only the plugins that come bundled with the theme core files and rule out any conflicting plugins. Do you have tried this thing? If the problem is still there, you should make a new clean install from scratch via FTP way and install the theme only with bundled plugins and check the results.
Thanks for your understanding!
