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You should fully optimize your site before worrying about the optional speedbooster plugin. That does not fix the server side issues, or stuff you need to do with image compression, caching/time to live, gzip/deflate, etc.

Test one of your posts at GTMetrix.com to see the work you need to do for your page score, regardless of theme used.

Prior version not causing any weirdo stuff on my sites; but with 3.1 I am waiting for 3.1.1 as they *always* have some bug with new dot revisions (seriously, 5 fixes first week for 3.0).

If the prior version was working, deleting both (either); clear cache if using.

Run wp-optimize to clean dbase, and clear ‘transients’ —

do clean install of 3.07 (or whatever it was), then go to the basic/general setting page in Yoast and hit “save.”

Dumb as that sounds, I’ve had to do THAT process in the past.

(Sure hope that helps!)

Hi Bogdan,

sorry for the late reply and thank you very much for your support!
With your solution I’ve managed to solve my needs with a little hack, since your code remove the Page style 8 effect.
This code worked for me:
.single-post #td-outer-wrap{width:100%!important;}

Oddly enough this one didn’t
.single-post .td-boxed-layout #td-outer-wrap{width:100%!important;}

I don’t know where my problem comes from.
Maybe it’s related to Cloudflare rocketscript messing with your javascript?
Anyway I’m planning to move away from W3TC and to implement a Varnish + other local cache + optimized deferring in the near future.
100% of the problem is on my side but if you want I am glad to provide you any information you want.

Lastly, I’m using WP performace pack to serve my images on the fly. I’ve seen some php scripts (other than timthumb) that does the job and that can be included in theme development. Why don’t your theme implement that solution in your next work?
I’m sure everyone (including me) will buy that no matter the price!

Regards,

– Luca

Yes, you need to optimize your website and wordpress setup.

See the theme docs, tutorials and diy, how to speed uo your site.

In the same section you can view my tutorials in the best of forum section.

7.7 seconds is pretty slow; 3.7 seconds would be “good” for the entire complex page. 1 second would be “insanely great.”

Although important to note, test one of your POST pages for speed NOT your home page!

Seems like maybe a good caching plugin would help, but be aware what SLOOOOOOWS down a page a LOT is loading too many external things (e.g., Jetpack, counters for social stuff, loading avatar for author image externally vs local hosted image, too many ad networks, not properly optimized images and thumbnails, etc.)

Hi, Lucian
you don’t need to do anything with the theme at this time, as the plugin being updated by Automattic is theme agnostic and they have the manpower and connections with Google and are keeping it moving forward for their VIP clients (e.g., TIME magazine, etc.).

Newsmag and Newspaper both WORK with the plugin just fine, so at this time nothing theme authors need to “do” as long as nothing being injected into header to “break” the /amp/ functionality.

Example with Newsmag (a few versions back, and not fully optimized due to me messing with mod_pagespeed and trying to move server to https/2 and realizing we need full OS reload, which I’m not quite ready to do yet due to having to offload all sites, update server, then reload sites! UGH!!!)::

http://californianewswire.com/in-new-book-soviet-union-born-author-details-compelling-story-of-bondage-to-freedom/amp/

So, at this time — I’m “suggesting” you might make this thread a sticky one, and/or add to tutorials as you will be getting a lot of forum posts on this as Google rolls this out ostensibly for March 1.

Nobody “has to do this” — but many folks will “want to do this” — hence my adding this thread so we don’t see 50 posts next month on this same topic 😉

Feel free to “sticky” this for the next week, to lessen the torment.

SHOULD YOU DO IT OR NOT?
Note that adding AMP support is *not* necessary, required, and might not even be the best solution to add to your site for mobile, if you already have a well optimized mobile post setup, want to retain certain plugins, social links and ads, which might not translate well to the AMP format.

For example, initially you might have poor ad support, so if revenue is your main metric, this is something you’ll want to play with, or wait until it is more mature.

Google will start support on Feb. 24, 2016.

AMP IS NOT SUPPORTED BY MANY YET, GOOGLE AND ONE OTHER VENDOR I KNOW OF.
So, for example if your main audience were on Apple iOS, primarily using Safari, might not make sense to worry about this just yet! 🙂

One tip, you need to highly optimize all the thumbnails.

From my optimization thread in the tutorials > DIY > best of forums; one thing you can do is change the default compression level for thumbs to 50 from 90, then regenerate all your thumbs.

If you test your home page with GTMetrix.com you can also see some pointers on things that might need some tweaking 🙂

AMP is simple plugin, and was updated this week. Google will start supporting it on the 24th.

However, it only works with supported platforms … so, still best to optimize the theme’s mobile setup on your site, as you’re trying to do.

AMP is just another “option” to consider at some point as Google will start to “show” that version if enabled on compatible devices over the theme version, if AMP is setup.

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Also, I think we used this once, but not recently….

a) install the wp-optimize plugin
b) switch to default theme
c) delete old theme folder via FTP
d) in wp-optimize, optimize your DB, and delete ALL transient data
e) use the WordPress database reset plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-database-reset/

[ read the docs for above plugin before use !!!!!! ]

you should then be able to reinstall the theme and there should not be any pre-existing data from the first theme setup …

this is presuming you have a blank slate test website, and presuming you have a full backup of your data and mysql file for safe keeping.

If you want the best optimized view for mobile for users on Chrome/Android, you might also check out the new “AMP” protocol from Google; and get the free plugin made by Automattic (people who make WP) in the WordPress.org plugin repository.

SEO Yoast optimization plugin is not for image optimization, is it? With EWWW i increased a lot my pagespeed. Is there any other plugin i can use to optimize images that is compatible with the theme?

You need to edit your pagespeed.conf file to be optimized for your site, caching module, CDN loading, etc.

Are you running mod_pagespeed on your server /VPN, or are you doing that via Cloudflare ?

We have our own dedicated high end server here, so we manage our own stuff and don’t need CDN, so my suggested settings only address the ideal setting AFTER you setup the pagespeed.conf file properly with the Apache module (see the Google docs on how that works).

For instance, if you are running the module on your own server/VPN, and loading stuff off CDN, you have to actually tell mod_pagespeed where those CDN resources *are* — for our test we setup a subdomain as cdn.oursite.ooo which was a CNAME for the CDN bucket.

But again, not theme specific, so likely best to talk to Cloudflare and explain your use of mod_pagespeed and how best to connect. 🙂

You can find my example mod page speed settings I believe in my long winded tutorial, or someplace in the forum history as we fully enabled this — using WP and Newspaper — back in Jan. 2014.

Note the mod_pagespeed settings should be optimized for WordPress; they are not “theme” specific. There are numerous tutorials online re setting up mod_pagespeed to work with WordPress you may want to look at, going back to late 2013, and mostly in 2014. There is some trial and error.

Upshot, it’s not theme related, but WordPress related.

For example, you should NOT use lazy load, not use minification other than comment removal and spaces removal, and ideally not use things that move scripts to bottom or top of page as theme already does that, as does WP.

Point being there is not one ideal “snapshot” of a config file for every server, and setup.

For example, you may want to put the path to a static folder location. Read docs on how to do that.

You may want to hook mod_pagespeed to connect to caching module on server, but you would need to actually work with your hosting provider to set that up properly.

Using mod_pagespeed with external resources is also tricky, such as CDN, where you need to put in lines to specify how that connects — if using cloudflare they should be able to help you with that.

Again, mod_pagespeed is *not* theme specific, but WordPress and Cloudflare setup should be addressed to the Cloudflare folk.

Hi
you can optimize the images quite a bit more.

You can also figure out alternative to the things being loaded from external sources.

You can also optimize quite a bit more things from my tutorial in the docs > tutorials > DIY > best of forums.

Cut back on several of the plugins or find alternate ways of doing things — smile fonts? Scroll bar ?

The more stuff you load the more time it takes to “build” a page, and the more pieces you have.

Userpro plugin is loading a *lot* of things.