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Thanks!
As I wrote above Gravity Forms worked with TwentyFifteen but not Newspaper.
But when I disabled OptimizePress it also worked with Newspaper. So there was some plugin conflict between OptimizePress and Gravity Form that occurs when Newspaper is the theme.
Anyway – problem solved!
Hello StockFanatic,
Our theme is optimized for Seo. Please notice that all the Seo customization it must be done manually by you. First of all, you have to install the Seo Yoast plugin and start to configure this. For more information about this plugin and How you can optimize this, please check this link: https://yoast.com/wordpress-seo/
Hope this helps and let us know how it goes!
Thank you for the message!
Hi, is newspaper 6 template optimized for SEO?
Photon was known to cause issues with our theme, but as i said in another post, plugins get optimized/updated. We have reports of it working now after the last update of jetpack so you could give it a try.
Thank you!
I will suggest you go back and remove that code in your functions.php file
Uninstall WP Smush.it then install EWWW
Clear your Caches,
Deactivate all plugins except Visual Composer and Regenerate Thumbnails
Regenerate again, then go back to EWWW and Bulk Optimize
Your site should show super quality HD photos and they will be optimized for speed.
Contrary to Bogdan’s opinion, you should try Photon. I use it and my site is incredibly fast.
Awesome site you’ve got there by the way 🙂
I read the cloudflare tutorial and searched the forum, but couldn’t find recommended settings for cloudflare and WP Super Cache.
I’m running the latest Newspaper and WordPress with WP Super Cache and cloudflare. Newspaper increased my homepage average page load times from 400 ms to 1500ms, measured via pingdom. This is most likely due to the big grid and other images now on my homepage.
I installed cloudflare hoping it would reduce the page load times but no luck, still 1400 ms. Before I spend days iterating through all the combinations of settings, I wanted to check what others are using to optimize Newspaper for Cloudflare.
Hi,
just some input … what we do is upload images via FTP we don’t want multi-cloned; like logos, or branding, or “about us” stuff, avatar images, etc.
For posts, one way we cut down on multiple image creation is this
a) upload featured image via post panel; then select as featured image
b) additional images on post, we load via html, from FTP versions, so only ONE file exists.
c) for optimizations, we did the most common tricks
— 1) set the default WP sm/med/lg sizes to the 3 sizes we most commonly use, and set largest size to the larger block image on front page, sometimes larger than our post image (640×480)
— 2) turn “off” image sizes we are not using from theme panel, limit sizes used on sidebar to same module sizes used for smaller home page sections
— set all category, archive, 404, author, search templates to use same size images
d) normal WP image compression optimizations, as in our case we pre-optimize uploaded files, and we set the default compression for ImageMagick/GDlib used by WP to 55 or 60 vs default 90.
This helped control the sizes.
On one old site, where images had not been compressed well, and/or could not all be “regenerated” we downloaded the image folder via FTP, then applied a local application to optimize all the images then uploaded the optimized image folder back to server.
Hope some of that helped, or perhaps food for thought 🙂
Hello,
I just spent some money with Bluehost to “optimize” my site. It takes longer than it should to load pages and they have pointed a finger at the theme. Here are their comments:
Reduce server response time -> Your server response time is actually very low. The server only took 254ms to respond to the first request in the final scan included in your post service report. What they are actually looking at is the overall load time of the site, which is greater than 2 seconds. This in and of itself is not a major issue. There are many successful sites that can’t load in faster than 5 seconds. As explained in your report there are several design concerns that are preventing the site from loading in 2 to 3 seconds, and are causing the site to spike in load time up to 10 seconds. These include external requests that can take longer than normal to load and javascript requests that the browser can slow down on. Unfortunately the optimization service is not a design service. What this means is we can’t change the basic way that your site looks and feels from our end as part of the service. We try to compensate for these issues in the settings that we configure on the back end of your site, but some issues are going to need to be looked at by the designer/developer of the site.
Any ideas on what I can do to speed up the site loading?
Also, in the PHP memory allocation, I set to 128 megs before we did any of these tests. Still, the “system status” still says the allocation is at 40megs and should be increased. Seems like there’s a problem, here.
Hello,
You can do a number of things to increase page speed and optimize images. The first thing would be to disable the lazy load animation: http://screencast.com/t/dGh3GJav
Other than this, you will have to improve your website loading speed. You can follow this guide to see how it can be done: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
Thank you!
Hi,
Please check these resources and make sure you have your robots.txt file configure accordingly.
– https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index/docs/robots_txt?hl=en
– https://www.ostraining.com/blog/coding/googlebot-cant-access/
– http://www.shoutmeloud.com/what-is-robots-txt-file-and-how-to-optimize-for-wordpress-blogs.html
Hope this helps!
Thanks.
Check permissions on your media folder; should be writable.
Some auto-updates of WP can reset this with permission too low.
Try resaving the default media sizes in the WP admin panel.
Be sure to clear all caching (any plugins); *and* in your web browser.
Turn off any/all image plugins (optimizers, Photon, etc.).
“Cameltoe”?
Found the culprit, it’s the Autoptimize plugin that conflicted the smart sidebar and ajax preload. Thanks for the help.
Did you clear all your caching? (if using any caching plugins you must always clear caching before/after major updates). Did you try resaving the home page modules to clear transients? Clear your browser caching? These are most common causes. If you’re using any plugins like Jetpack’s image optimizer (Photon), try turning that OFF. If you’re using any other plugin that changes content on the fly (such as a “rocket” plugin orservice, you need to cleasr/reset that for new updates).
Hi,
Sorry by my english in advance, I know isn’t good.
I have a really big problem that, for some reason, last days has increased a lot. My site shows me (and my colaborators) an error message 500. I know this is a server error and I talk with my hosting provider plenty of times but they ensure me that there is something wrong on my site that cause problems on server. I use a VPS2 so is a good hosting.
Probably the problem exists because a plugin or maybe it’s something wrong on my theme (I’d like to know if there are some cases like mine). I’d like a private support (via mail) and, if is needed, I’ll create an admin acces so you can enter on my site and see what’s happening on it, because right now is extremly difficult work with.
Just in case, I enumerate all plugins I have on my site, maybe one of them is known to be problematic with your theme:
Akismet.
Autoptimize.
better-wp-security.
cookie law info.
imsanity.
js-composer.
kk-star-rating.
regenerate-thumbnails.
shortocodes ultimate.
subscribes to comments reload.
social counter.
thumbnail upscale.
totalpoll.
twitter meta cards.
user rol editor.
Seo by yoast.
wp rocket.
Anybody can help me? Thanks!!
Heh …. well, the short version would be … just install the main theme, don’t use child theme at all; don’t even upload it. (I don’t use child themes on ANY of our sites or client sites.) So, this way you have one set of things to optimize, manually minify, one set of functions, css, etc.
Just keep track of snippets with a map of which files/customizations you do. SO, when there is theme update you can paste in your functions.php changes into new file, for example; or if you mod the main style.css – make not of what you changed (e.g., search/replace default fonts). Use a good text editor with line numbering — so, you keep track of “I edited the hook at line 55 in file /theme/includes/td-whattheheck.php” etc.
Faster – no CSS redirect from child to parent; no mix of files, smaller to do backup of your site via FTP, blah blah blah.
So – that was short version. Long version would contain a lot of other commentary you don’t need to hear from me on this topic 😉
Hi catalin,
I tried disabling plugs in on the main plugins tab of WordPress as well as the plugins on NewsMag panel. But it didnt work. My suspects are the new plugs in installed by my friend:
Autoptimize
Optimizes your website, concatenating the CSS and JavaScript code, and compressing it.
EWWW Image Optimizer
Reduce file sizes for images within WordPress including NextGEN Gallery and GRAND FlAGallery. Uses jpegtran, optipng/pngout, and gifsicle.
Unveil Lazy Load
This plugin makes lazy-image-load possible to decrease number of requests and improve page loading time, and uses a lightweight jQuery plugin created by optimizing Unveil.js in order to only load an image when it’s visible in the viewport.
ZenCache
ZenCache is an advanced WordPress caching plugin inspired by simplicity. Speed up your site (BIG time!) with a reliable and fast WordPress cache.
But not sure on which one from them or if there is any.
The AJAX Preload stopped working last week while the Smart sidebar just a couple of days ago, I can’t track if which plugin has affected it.
My other suspect for the Smart Sidebar is that I put an tagdive Slide. I already removed it tho.
Thanks
1. Okay on the GTMetrix, you will see a Minify CSS. click on “see optimized…”. You will copy it and then go to your Editor, select or clear the style.css, then paste the minified css.
2. Search for EWWW image optimizer plugin, install it and “Bulk optimize” all your images.
3. Then search for Regenerate Thumbnails Plugin. You should Regenerate your thumbnails that way they will fit in your blocks.
4. Download WP Super cache and set it up, use mod_rewrite, it is the fastest.
5. You should get Cloudflare, and set it up as well then click on minify css and javascript but not html because WP Super Cache handles that for you.
All these should reduce your page size and increase your pagespeed.
All these settings I gave you made me score 90+ on desktop and 70+ on mobile before i added the Ads 😉
Factwide is my website, you can test its pagespeed to verify my claims.
I finally got Newspaper working on my stage environment and did a quick test with MailPoet. Subscription forms are working fine, as are sending emails, so it seems to be working for me.
Will need to investigate customizing the various mailpoet pages to optimize them for Newspaper, but that’s a later project.
Before I added Google Ads, my pagespeed was incredibly close to 90+, flunctuating between 85-90 then on Mobile was just a measly 65-75
Not too bad for now. How did I accomplish it.
1. Bulk Optimize your images with EWWW Image optimizer.
2. Use the regenerate thumbnail plugin to regenerate your thumbnails so that they can fit properly in the blocks.
CSS Minification made easy.
3. Go to GTMetrix and Analyse your URL.
4. You should see a Minify CSS followed by a percentage. Click on it to see more of the recommendation.
5. You will see your theme’s style.css in my case it was /…/Newspaper/style.css?ver=6.6
6. Click on see optimized version. It will open in a new tab with your CSS minified.
7. You select all ( Ctrl+A) and Copy (ctrl+C) then go to your theme editor (ie Appearance> Editor) in WordPress. then your style.css, you select all again and Paste (Ctrl+V).
That is it!.
This is just my way of giving back to everyone here that finds time to answer my silly questions and help me out in their little ways. Tagdiv support team, you guys rock, and Chris S as well.
Oh, and my site, Factwide, is proudly Tagdiv Newspaper!.
Hello,
I have checked your website on gmetrix and google and it seems there is still work to be done. You can use speedbooster to move more render blocks to the footer by following the method here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ and to optimize images as you get a notice about those to. You can use wp-smush https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/
Unfortunately we can only offer suggestions. It is still you who is going to have to make the modifications necessary. For every problem highlighted by gmetrix or google, there is a how to button next to it. Please use it to get an idea on how it can be done. Also use google to find lots and lots of pagespeed insights online. More than we can ever offer.
Best of luck on your project!
Yep. Imagine how I was feeling all this time not knowing this option exists. 🙂
However I have superhuge conecerns. I am transfering on Inmotion vps from some shared hosting. Which is actually super great. But RAM usage is every now and then going alot over 300mb so it could be the time to go for vps, which I need to learn how to optimize it more for speed and security.
However I forgot to say that sometimes I need to scroll down to load full page before I share the post to facebook, since everything is on lazy load. Maybe this also bothers facebook. But I really don’t feel like disabling this just to test it out.
Hello felizubi,
Our forum are dynamically and ussualy we make some modification to optimize and update it. Now, our sticky topics are moved in another section on our site: https://forum.tagdiv.com/best-of-forums/ This is the Best of Forum and here we will add some topics in near future that will be useful for our clients.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
Thank you for your understanding!
Just follow this tutorial https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
Note: you need to install cache plugin, it’s very important because your servers doesn’t working like a charm. Or optimize your server response times.
Tag div recommends we cache. It’s a free solution. I recommend you wp rocket, has a cost but it’s a magazine cache plugin and includes options like send files to footer.
well, first of all google pagespeed its diferent than website speed 😛
PageSpeed
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.upsctoday.com%2F
Google Page Speed show you / make recomendations to get better web site experience. Like your problem now
Optimize CSS Delivery of the following: You should move to footer CSS related to your plugins wysija-newsletters, contextual-related-postsm, Easy table, and add to any, because they are blocking your site render speed.
You should move to footer wp-spamshield too.
Web Site Speed is how faster your site its loading for everyone.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.upsctoday.com/FR1sMTBQ
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/bIZ6TD/http://www.upsctoday.com/
Reduce server response time
You can check waterfall/timeline and see how your server is responding slowly. I check your source code and i cant find eneabled some cache plugin, Do you installed?
Only your server its making 4 seconds initial waiting time to start loading site resources. This cloud be dropped to 0.2 seconds if you activate Wp-cache or Zen Cache (free plugins)
ok sir thanks
2- please give me type file to put this cpanel in option gzip compression
