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Hello @swaghermagazine!
Deactivate the Mobile Theme plugin and see the results.
We have 3 options for mobile versions that you can use:
1. Responsive version: A responsive version of your website looks similar to the desktop version. Edit the page with TagDiv Composer. Click on the mobile viewport: https://www.screencast.com/t/XDQJedlggSB; there you can see your mobile version and edit or adjust the elements to look better.
2. Mobile pages: https://tagdiv.com/newspaper-10-3-7-update-brings-customizable-and-fast-mobile-pages
3. Mobile theme plugin: The Mobile Theme is a performance-optimized theme included in the main Newspaper theme that only loads on mobile devices. It comes with its own templates and design for pages, posts, categories, etc., so your current templates from the desktop theme will get converted to the mobile theme layout. Please see https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-mobile-theme/ and https://forum.tagdiv.com/mobile-theme-introduction/ for more information.
A full explanation is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpGkOnJeNZY
You can choose to use whichever one is more affordable and useful for you.
Thank you!
Hello @mojopatrakar!
Please use a single cloud post template and not a standard one. We recommend to use cloud/PRO templates in order to have the possibility to edit them with the TagDiv Composer which contains a lot of functions and features, please check our tutorial here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-composer-tutorial/
Documentation here:
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cloud-library-templates/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/design-post-pages-using-cloud-library-templates/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cloud-library-category-templates/
Make sure your header and footer template are set as Global in the Cloud Templates. In this way, they will appear on every page.
You have to create only a new page Home and set it like this: https://prnt.sc/b5bxSIJQum5V in the WordPress Settings.
We have cloud templates for articles, category, tag, etc. which you can assign directly to any page.
We have 3 options for mobile versions that you can use:
1. Responsive version: A responsive version of your website looks similar to the desktop version. Edit the page with TagDiv Composer. Click on the mobile viewport: https://www.screencast.com/t/XDQJedlggSB; there you can see your mobile version and edit or adjust the elements to look better.
2. Mobile pages: https://tagdiv.com/newspaper-10-3-7-update-brings-customizable-and-fast-mobile-pages
3. Mobile theme plugin: The Mobile Theme is a performance-optimized theme included in the main Newspaper theme that only loads on mobile devices. It comes with its own templates and design for pages, posts, categories, etc., so your current templates from the desktop theme will get converted to the mobile theme layout. Please see https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-mobile-theme/ and https://forum.tagdiv.com/mobile-theme-introduction/ for more information.
A full explanation is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpGkOnJeNZY
You can choose to use whichever one is more affordable and useful for you.
For the option 1 and 2, you need to uninstall the Mobile Theme plugin.
You can easily edit the cloud header and footer by editing the homepage with the Tagdiv Composer(scroll down in the editor to see the footer section).
Thank you!
Hello!
We have 3 options for mobile versions that you can use:
1. Responsive version: A responsive version of your website looks similar to the desktop version. Edit the page with TagDiv Composer. Click on the mobile viewport: https://www.screencast.com/t/XDQJedlggSB; there you can see your mobile version and edit or adjust the elements to look better.
2. Mobile pages: https://tagdiv.com/newspaper-10-3-7-update-brings-customizable-and-fast-mobile-pages
3. Mobile theme plugin: The Mobile Theme is a performance-optimized theme included in the main Newspaper theme that only loads on mobile devices. It comes with its own templates and design for pages, posts, categories, etc., so your current templates from the desktop theme will get converted to the mobile theme layout. Please see https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-mobile-theme/ and https://forum.tagdiv.com/mobile-theme-introduction/ for more information.
A full explanation is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpGkOnJeNZY
You can choose to use whichever one is more affordable and useful for you.
For the option 1 and 2, you need to uninstall the Mobile Theme plugin.
Thank you!
Hello @raketenaffiliate!
Check this guide: https://forum.tagdiv.com/font-customization/
We have 3 options for mobile versions that you can use:
1. Responsive version: A responsive version of your website looks similar to the desktop version. Edit the page with TagDiv Composer. Click on the mobile viewport: https://www.screencast.com/t/XDQJedlggSB; there you can see your mobile version and edit or adjust the elements to look better.
2. Mobile pages: https://tagdiv.com/newspaper-10-3-7-update-brings-customizable-and-fast-mobile-pages
3. Mobile theme plugin: The Mobile Theme is a performance-optimized theme included in the main Newspaper theme that only loads on mobile devices. It comes with its own templates and design for pages, posts, categories, etc., so your current templates from the desktop theme will get converted to the mobile theme layout. Please see https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-mobile-theme/ and https://forum.tagdiv.com/mobile-theme-introduction/ for more information.
A full explanation is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpGkOnJeNZY
You can choose to use whichever one is more affordable and useful for you.
For the option 1 and 2, you need to deactivate the Mobile Theme plugin.
If you use the Mobile Theme plugin, then there are some settings in order to customize it in the theme panel -> mobile theme. Note that you can not customize this plugin’s layout with the TagDiv Composer.
Hope that helps you!
Thank you!
Hello!
We have 3 options for mobile versions that you can use:
1. Responsive version: A responsive version of your website looks similar to the desktop version. Edit the page with TagDiv Composer. Click on the mobile viewport: https://www.screencast.com/t/XDQJedlggSB; there you can see your mobile version and edit or adjust the elements to look better.
2. Mobile pages: https://tagdiv.com/newspaper-10-3-7-update-brings-customizable-and-fast-mobile-pages
3. Mobile theme plugin: The Mobile Theme is a performance-optimized theme included in the main Newspaper theme that only loads on mobile devices. It comes with its own templates and design for pages, posts, categories, etc., so your current templates from the desktop theme will get converted to the mobile theme layout. Please see https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-mobile-theme/ and https://forum.tagdiv.com/mobile-theme-introduction/ for more information.
A full explanation is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpGkOnJeNZY
You can choose to use whichever one is more affordable and useful for you.
For the option 1 and 2, you need to deactivate the Mobile Theme plugin.
Thank you!
I’ve been very interested in this topic for a long time. I’m always looking for discussions everywhere about the topic of AMP or mobile-optimized website themes.
The mobile theme on the newspaper in my opinion is the best choice right now if you want something faster than other themes.
If you install it with AMP it will be an even better choice, but with the big drawback of removing all existing designs. It’s the same as mobile Themes but even faster.
From my latest analysis, if your website is designed for news using AMP is the best choice because you will get exclusive rights from Google that carries this AMP, I recommend it for now.
But if your website is fast before using AMP or mobile themes I don’t think it’s necessary.
*The benefits of using a mobile theme, AMP or mobile theme + AMP differ from choice;
>If you only use a mobile theme, it is possible that other plugins that you apply will work optimally with a simple mobile website appearance.
>If you only use AMP, it allows the website to be faster but very simple and will execute plugins that are not optimal with AMP or do not support AMP.
>If you only use mobile + AMP themes, I’m actually quite confused by this but the mobile website will have 2 versions namely mobile and AMP themes that visitors can choose from.
**Simply put, both mobile and AMP themes aim to make visitors or readers who come can access the page quickly and visitors who have very – very slow internet (even for users who are still using 3G networks) will be happy to access the AMP site.
Hello,
the issue was solved but it re-appeared as soon as I installed WP-Rocket.
WP Rocket has the option to cache different versions for mobile devices – but it seems that the uncaching is not working. It also asks to disable the different caching per device in SG Optimizer.
If you have anything on the issue it will be helpful.
Thank you!
Hello @sunlife989!
Some starting points to improve your website page speed are here:
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/optimize-script-to-improve-site-speed/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/a-few-tips-for-newspaper-x-speed-high-cpu-usage-issues/
– https://www.xtechkr.com/optimize-newspaper-theme/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/score-100100-pagespeed-with-newspaper-wordpress-theme/
– https://www.infophilic.com/get-almost-100-pagespeed-newspaper-theme/
– https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/v5/about
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnkVapqhIHc
Please check the tutorials from those platforms gt metrix and Google Pagespeed Insights and I’m sure you can increase the page speed.
Please note that page speed is not covered by the support team: https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-theme-support/
Thank you for understanding!
Hello Paulinho!
1. Go through the following guide: https://forum.tagdiv.com/general-options-may-interfere-with-newspaper-theme/ to ensure that nothing is blocking this request.
I recommend you use only tested plugins with our theme.
2. Examine the settings or uninstall the Autoptimize plugin to see what happens.
3. Maybe you use the old widget style and that’s why it’s not appearing in the backend, but it should be in Appearance-> Widgets.
Thank you!
Hello @fferrero!
We will try to improve this theme more and more to optimize these aspects as well in every update and add new features. We will try our best to bring you the best solutions in the future and will take into consideration your queries.
Thank you so much for understanding!
Hello @Eighthats!
Some elements have different styles of pagination. The ajax pagination is the one which creates the multiple queries to the database, but you can choose other style of pagination.
We will try to improve this theme more and more to optimize also these aspects.
Thank you so much for understanding!
Hello Simion,
I notice that you add new demos very constantly. Haven’t the dev team thought that is a better idea to optimize the theme instead of keeping adding demos?
If so, does this next update includes the fix of the reported issue?
Thanks
Hi,
On large websites with lots of content and high traffic most themes will struggle. In a way it is expected, a traffic spike for example can cause problems for the duration. Deactivating the composer is practically deactivating the theme, the composer is the theme basically.
To try and see if there is an improvement in the matter, I suggest reducing or removing temporarily the number of ajax pagination used.
For example https://i.imgur.com/ImkD7Qz.png Or replace that block with a post loop element and use numbered pagination.
Or here in the post page https://i.imgur.com/DTBWoxi.png Or anywhere else where ajax pagination is used. Try it as a test if possible.
Also maybe consider using either the cloud library plugin, or the standard pack plugin. Use one or the other, and deactivate the one you are not using. This is why we separated the theme options in 2 plugins, to try and improve the performance, assuming only one of them is used.
Cleaning the database periodically/regularly if possible does wonders as well. There are plugins that can be do this on a schedule even, like this one I believe https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-database-cleaner/
Also if possible, and you haven’t already, I suggest using PHP 8. There should be quite a difference in performance between for example PHP 7.4 and 8.
Our developer team have improved the composer drastically since it was introduced a few years ago. Maybe not every update contains improvements, but the next in line surely will. They will try to optimize it further.
Thank you!
Hi,
The super cache plugin has a setting to prevent the issue you mention from happening, please make sure it is active -> https://i.imgur.com/LyNdtD3.png Clear the cache if you have to activate it.
However, I believe you are also using another cache, the one provided by the siteground hosting -> https://www.siteground.com/tutorials/wordpress/sg-optimizer/supercacher/
So despite installing the super cache and configuring it correctly, there is another cache active, so the issue isn’t solved.
I suggest checking the siteground cache configuration, mainly activating a setting mentioned in the siteground tutorial -> https://i.imgur.com/cQLUcHr.png
Then clear all the caches, and the issue should not happen anymore. Let me know.
Thank you!
Most users, myself included, think that the “TD composer” plugin is a performance issue and that the developers somehow did not optimize the theme and the plugin. Even if we host it on a powerful server, it does not give the performance it should. Future updates should ONLY be for performance.
Hello,
There are many optimization guides provided by our users here in the forum, some made by us, you could check some of them
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cache-plugin-install-and-configure/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/high-number-of-ajax-request/
– https://www.infophilic.com/get-almost-100-pagespeed-newspaper-theme/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/score-100100-pagespeed-with-newspaper-wordpress-theme/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/newspaper-theme-speedify-your-website/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cloudflare-cdn/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/theme-causing-high-cpu-usage-2/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/sql-querys-high-cpu/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/newspaper-theme-slow-to-respond/
– https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/optimizing-your-wordpress-database-a-complete-guide/
– https://underconstructionpage.com/optimize-wordpress-database/
– https://crunchify.com/better-optimize-wordpress-database-all-in-one-guide/
Maybe your hosting provider can provide some advice as well.
Anyway, this issue has been discussed already here, please check:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/excessive-css/
Thank you!
Hello,
There are many optimization guides provided by our users here in the forum, some made by us, you could check some of them
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cache-plugin-install-and-configure/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/high-number-of-ajax-request/
– https://www.infophilic.com/get-almost-100-pagespeed-newspaper-theme/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/score-100100-pagespeed-with-newspaper-wordpress-theme/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/newspaper-theme-speedify-your-website/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cloudflare-cdn/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/theme-causing-high-cpu-usage-2/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/sql-querys-high-cpu/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/newspaper-theme-slow-to-respond/
– https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/optimizing-your-wordpress-database-a-complete-guide/
– https://underconstructionpage.com/optimize-wordpress-database/
– https://crunchify.com/better-optimize-wordpress-database-all-in-one-guide/
Maybe your hosting provider can provide some advice as well.
Anyway, this issue has been discussed already here, please check:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/excessive-css/
Thank you!
Hello,
There are many optimization guides provided by our users here in the forum, some made by us, you could check some of them
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cache-plugin-install-and-configure/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/high-number-of-ajax-request/
– https://www.infophilic.com/get-almost-100-pagespeed-newspaper-theme/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/score-100100-pagespeed-with-newspaper-wordpress-theme/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/newspaper-theme-speedify-your-website/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cloudflare-cdn/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/theme-causing-high-cpu-usage-2/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/sql-querys-high-cpu/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/newspaper-theme-slow-to-respond/
– https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/optimizing-your-wordpress-database-a-complete-guide/
– https://underconstructionpage.com/optimize-wordpress-database/
– https://crunchify.com/better-optimize-wordpress-database-all-in-one-guide/
Maybe your hosting provider can provide some advice as well.
Anyway, this issue has been discussed already here, please check:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/excessive-css/
Thank you!
I use EWWW Image Optimizer (from your recommend) to convert image to WebP but it conflict with theme’s GENERAL MODAL IMAGE (Lightbox) and Lazyload feature
1.When I enable WebP Delivery in EWWW (disable EWWW’s Lazyload) and enable theme’s Lazyload + GENERAL MODAL IMAGE feature my website will load both original image (Jpg) and WebP in the same time (data from chrome develvop Tools (Fn+12)) so it make website more slow down
It this case GENERAL MODAL IMAGE feature can work properly
2.When I disable Theme’s lazyload (GENERAL MODAL IMAGE feature still enable) and Enable Lazyload + WebP Delivery in EWWW the result is WebP feature working properly but image in GENERAL MODAL IMAGE not load when I click on it
3.everything work correctly when I disable GENERAL MODAL IMAGE feature but I still need this feature
Can you solve this problem for me please?
Hello,
I think the problem is that you use Google Fonts and Siteground has the option to optimize the fonts enabled https://www.siteground.com/blog/even-faster-wordpress-sites-with-our-sg-optimizer-plugin/
You can try to ask the host if they can help you, maybe I’m wrong and this option is not to blame.
Thank you!
Hello,
We tried as much as possible to optimize the tagDiv cloud library, and we added options to load each section separately so that they don’t load all of them.
However, here I think it also depends on the internet speed, which I think is quite low.
Thank you!
Hi Anamaria,
Siteground has dynamic cache (full-page caching for non-static resources) and memcached (object caching). Memcached has been turned off.
The host plugin (SG optimizer) is not installed, so I don’t think there’s interference.
Best,
Yen
The tagDiv Cloud Library has been failing to load. It is recommended that the tagdiv team optimize the loading speed of the tagDiv Cloud Library. The error message is: Invalid reply from server endpoint.

Hi Yen,
Please let me what cache you have on the server, it might interface with the options in wp super cache.
Also, maybe that plugin on the server has options to optimize the css and it can interfere with the theme.
For the cache plugin, no additional adjustments are required.
Thank you!
Hi,
There are many optimization guides provided by our users here in the forum, some made by us, you could check some of them
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cache-plugin-install-and-configure/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/high-number-of-ajax-request/
– https://www.infophilic.com/get-almost-100-pagespeed-newspaper-theme/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/score-100100-pagespeed-with-newspaper-wordpress-theme/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/newspaper-theme-speedify-your-website/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cloudflare-cdn/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/theme-causing-high-cpu-usage-2/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/sql-querys-high-cpu/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/newspaper-theme-slow-to-respond/
– https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/optimizing-your-wordpress-database-a-complete-guide/
– https://underconstructionpage.com/optimize-wordpress-database/
– https://crunchify.com/better-optimize-wordpress-database-all-in-one-guide/
Maybe your hosting provider can provide some advice as well.
Thank you!