- NewspaperWP Rocket and Newspaper Theme: Optimization Guide
- NewspaperNewspaper Theme Support
- NewspaperNewspaper theme documentation
- NewspaperWeather Shortcode
- NewspaperCloudflare (CDN)
- NewspaperBest Of Forums
- Thumbnails vs. Featured image size
- NewspaperThumbnails – Fix strange looking images on blocks
- NewspaperRequirements for Newspaper
- NewspaperHow to Make the Site Faster
Hi,
For what I see, you have a very good speed to your website.
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://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/
-> https://technumero.com/minify-javascript-and-css/
-> https://wordpress.org/plugins/fast-velocity-minify/
Maybe one of them will help you!
Thank you!
My website is broken after following Tagdiv Tutorial. https://blog.iammanpreetsingh.com/
https://tagdiv.com/how-to-increase-page-loading-speed/
I added, add_filter( 'jpeg_quality', create_function('', 'return 50;' ) ); in functions.php and visited mt tools to regenerate the thumbs but then i am getting this error…
“Fatal error: Cannot redeclare is_php_version_compatible() (previously declared in /var/www/wp-includes/functions.php:7165) in /var/www/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/functions.php on line 7165”
Then I removed the newly added code, but still, the website is not working. What should I do? Please help.
Hi,
Yes, is possible that the plugins that you have activate to slow the speed, also the images/videos etc can slow the speed, but from what I can see the speed of your website is increasing now http://prntscr.com/oox0mm -> https://gtmetrix.com/reports/templatetester.com/eqn8uSwM -> http://prntscr.com/oox1m9 -> https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftemplatetester.com%2F&tab=desktop but there is still need some improves to increase the speed.
Also our developers are working for a new version of the Newspaper theme that will be more light and faster, is possible that in this moment our theme to be a lite big because have a lots of features on two planes ( default and cloud ), I think that in the coming updates this problem will be solved.
Thank you for your understanding!
Hi Calin,
Thanks for your reply. Even though I am not a super expert I have some experience in this regard. In fact, I was able to optimize by myself the website when the previous theme was installed as well as other websites I own.
My question is not to blame Newspaper, in fact, I have used this theme many times even for other websites and I have always been quite happy with it. This is the reason why I have decided to switch from the previous Studio Press theme to Newspaper.
I just want to know if it could be that some plugins or settings I have are conflicting with the theme. You may agree that going from a score of over 90 with old theme to just 36/37 is quite a big difference in speed and it all happened as soon as I have installed the new theme.
I went through the guide you shared just to double check if something was missing or misplaced but everything looks quite fine apart from the speed.
Hi,
Please make sure that all the settings are like in our requirements, please follow the guide carefully
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/
and please increase all requirements that are lower, and follow all steps.
Also please check this topic where you can find all the information you need to increase your website speed.
-> https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/speed-7/
Hope this will help you!
Thank you!
Hi,
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://tagdiv.com/how-to-increase-page-loading-speed/
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://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/
Thank you!
Hi Vlad,
I have checked the system requirements you specified. The only setting not compliant was PHP that has now been updated to 7.2. All the other requirements are superior to the minimum requirement.
After updating the PHP, the speed dropped even more. According to Google Speed insight, the website went from 38/39 to 36/37. Just a minor difference but not an improvement as well.
I have deactivated more plugins but with no results. It is very strange since with the previous theme and more plugins active my speed never dropped below 90.
For your reference, the website is on Cludflare and I have the following active plugins: Autoptimize, Async JavaScript, Breeze, Webcraftic Clearfy and WP Super Cache.
Any clue if there is some conflict here? Do you have any idea why after installing Newspaper the speed dropped so dramatically?
Thx for your help
Hi,
I have recently switched to Newspaper and I am experiencing some issues I cannot fix.
This is the website https://templatetester.com.
Here are the issues I have:
1. Speed – With the previous template (from Studio Press) my speed on Google Page Speed tool was over 90. After implementing Newspaper it dropped to 40. I tried to change sevral settings but speed doesn’t improve. Any idea why such a difference in performances? Is it due to the theme?
2. Header – Logo is very small. How can I make it larger? I tried to adjust it from the template builder but with no result.
3. Header – This is an issue that happens from time to time on the Italian version of the site. When I scroll down, an empty blue bar appears below the sticky menu.
4.Footer – I have widgets in the footer that I have no idea where they are from. From the widget menu, I have only 2 widgets set. However, as you can see from the website, in the footer I have “Editor Picks”, “Popular Posts”, “Popular categories” plus a logo and an “About Us” and “Follow Us” at the very bottom of the footer.
How do I clean the footer?
Thx
HI
when i check speed test of my website there is pagspeed score and yslow score is good but fully loaded time is to bad. newpaper theme is to havy how i increase my load time with this theme.
Hi,
I tested the website with gtmetrix, looks quite fine from what I can see
– http://prntscr.com/oiu155
Removing the thumbnails from the page would reduce the page size and improve loading speed. Maybe consider using an image optimization plugin, make some tests with it as well.
The color flash you mention in the header section can be visible in some cases. For a brief moment the initial colors of the header in this case are seen, before the custom colors are loaded and applied. It could even be caused by optimization plugins, same for the background image.
There should be a transition before the background image loads, like in this demo post
– https://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/td-post-2015-awards-all-of-the-best-and-worst-moments-from-the-show/
If as a test you deactivate the optimization plugins you are using at the moment, what are the results?
Thanks
Hi,
1. Please provide some more details about the way you get the red bar on the top of your website, please make sure that is not a plugin conflict, because, I can not find it, maybe is from your device or maybe there was only a cache problem -> http://prntscr.com/oi9ft1 -> http://prntscr.com/oi9gl0
2. This button appear for social share buttons -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/design-post-pages-using-default-templates/
3. Those numbers appear automatic because you are using smart lists, you can check our documentation for smart list here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/smart-lists/
4. The blog speed is very slow because you need to optimize your website speed, please check this topic where you can find all the information you need to increase your website speed.
-> https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/speed-7/
5. Please notice that we recommend to use the WP Super Cache Plugin because this plugin was tested with our theme and is working properly, also I do not think that is a good idea to have active more then one cache plugin, if you want to use the “WO Rocket” you can make a test with it to see f this is working properly.
Hope this will help you!
Thank you!
Hi,
Please try this tutorials for speed optimization, is possible that some of them to have can minifie that code and this problem will be solved.
– https://tagdiv.com/how-to-increase-page-loading-speed/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cache-plugin-install-and-configure/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
– 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/
Hope this will help you!
Thank you!
Hi,
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://tagdiv.com/how-to-increase-page-loading-speed/
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://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/
Thank you!
we already use wp rocket + cloudflare on our website
this is my website, https://mypt3.com/
is it compatible to use your plugin wpspeedbosster with wp rocket + cloudflare
is it any problem and issue?
Hi,
The mobile version is look like that because you have the mobile theme plugin that provide you a better speed then responsive version of theme, but in order to achieve that speed you’ll need to create a new content for pages because in the most of cases those were made with builders ( tagDiv Composer, WPBakery ) and you need to use only the mobile editor ( you need to set the content for pages in mobile editor and this content will be display on mobile theme)
-> https://www.screencast.com/t/ebUIzt4se
Mobile Theme: Automatic Optimization for Mobile with Newspaper Theme -> https://tagdiv.com/mobile-theme-automatic-optimization-for-mobile-newspaper-theme/
Also for the 3 blocks, you’ll need to have set same feature posts (that have set feature category) -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/featured-posts-2/ -> https://www.screencast.com/t/QsJ6ppY4
Or you can use the responsive version of the theme.
If you want to optimize the speed of your website please check this topic -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/website-load-speed/
Thank you!
Okay! I got it. You do not support plugins Composer Plugins in Mobile theme. I am am using Mobile theme the page speed is very high but in case I remove the mobile theme it always go down.
I only want to use the right sidebar of my website https://ccrd.vidhiaagaz.com/ in the mobile theme also. I want that wp-subscribe form to be shown in mobile theme.
Hello,
The developers have created a mobile theme so as to optimize the layout for the small screen devices. Looks superficially great.
But when we use cloudflare CDN and cache plugins like WP-Rocket, etc, they store the cache of a website and show it to all the users regardless of their screen sizes. This is very embarrassing.
Here’s what I mean.
The cache plugins and cloudflare knows no difference between the screen sizes because they do the caching for the domain name or the URL and not the screen sizes. So I can’t really understand the thinking of developers behind creating this plugin. Didn’t they know that people use cache plugins for speed optimization and the cache shows only one layout for all the screens.
If any of you people can provide a solution, then please. Because I’ve been trying to get out of this turmoil for two days with no results. I want to use amp + mobile theme and I also want to use cache plugin with Cloudflare. But I only want to show the mobile theme + amp to the mobile devices not everyone.
I hope you have a solution.
Hi, our website is loading images slowly on mobile devices. We’ve ran the site through google page speed tests and optimized several areas of the site, which has helped a lot, but loading several images on the home page of the site is still the main issue. According to the google page speed test, they recommend changing the images to different formats / compressing the images, but doing so on the images makes the images display poorly. We have a few questions about this issue:
1) Have you encountered a similar issue to this with this theme and the images before, and if so, what would you recommend we do to increase the site’s page speed for mobile devices?
2) Is there a way to load a different version of the site for mobile devices? For example, instead of the site’s home page loading 30 stories with images, can the theme detect that it’s a mobile device and only load 5 stories?
3) Another small issue that we’ve found with this theme, the print button is not working when clicked. On any article page in the social sharing section after the article content, the Print button just moves to the top of the page instead of printing the page.
Here’s the page speed results:
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ignatianspirituality.com%2F
Thanks for your help!
Removing all the theme structured data can be done only manually, from the code itself. But this will have to be done again after a theme update, when the theme files are replaced.
Currently there is no setting to remove it all at once, but I will add this as a request on our list. An option for enable/disable the theme structured data will be considered.
Regarding the lazy load, the one the theme provides works only on pages at the moment. I tested the live theme demo, seems to say that it passes – http://prntscr.com/ocmmrk
The speed booster will help with render blocking, by moving the resources in the footer. This can be checked in the source of a page from the website. As a note, the booster will not be active if it detects active plugins that are not part of this list
– http://prntscr.com/ocmok4
So for example – http://prntscr.com/ocmp3a
This check could be disabled if needed, like mentioned in this topic
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tinymce-advanced-and-other-various-disabling-speed-boster/
We have managed to recreate the disqus problem when the comments are closed, on our end. We will try to identify why this happens and what can be done about it. Sorry for this inconvenience.
Salut, nu, ma interesa sa scot cu totul, toata categoria de structured data : Article, Website, Breadcrumblist, hentry, nu doar componente din ele.
Daca elimin Article, imi apare altceva cu website. Ma intereseasa sa le scot complet. In momentul de fata nu sunt definite bine, nu sunt ok pentru rich snippets, iar cand pun alt plugin cu structured data mai complet, apar tipuri diferite, de mai multe ori, ceea ce nu e ok.
Tot legat de Google, se pare ca in testul PageSpeed Insights, sistemul vostru de lazyload pentru imagini nu e recunoscut ca fiind eficient, Google inca spune ca imaginile nu au lazyload. Alte plugin-uri rezolva problema, dar as prefera sa nu am ceva separat daca tema are deja implementata functia.
In aceeasi idee, speed booster-ul muta css/js in footer, dar PageSpeed Insights spune ca tot blocheaza incarcarea paginii. O functie de defer, sau async, nu exista pentru el ?
In final, legat de problema cu Disqus, despre care ziceam la inceputul thread-ului. Daca sunt dezactivate comentariile la un articol, pagina se incarca goala la accesare, fara vreo eroare in consola, fara vreo eroare in server, fara nimic. Am testat pe doua setup-uri separate, e fix aceeasi problema.
Hi,
I have checked your website on mobile and I saw the strange theme behavior, sorry! In major cases, that behavior appears when you are using such an optimization tool or such a plugin which has this functionality. I saw that you are using the Speed Booster which seems to be more problematic in the last period and thatțs why I recommend you to disable it, clear all the caches, purge CDN files and check the results. Another reason, in this case, might be your CDN configuration. If the problem persists, please send us an email at contact@tagdiv.com with your log-in information (wp-admin) so we can further investigate it closer your setup page. Also, you can provide your CPanel access so we can make some deeper investigations. Provide the link of this topic so we can quickly identify you.
Thank you!
Hi,
Please note that the speed of your website depends on how well your site is optimized. First of all, you will need to check the image size and try to optimize them if you want to bring good theme results. Also, note 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://tagdiv.com/how-to-increase-page-loading-speed/
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://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/
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/
Hope this helps!
Thank you for your understanding!
How to correctly implement @font-face{font-display:swap} ?
It was advised to me (by a website speed expert) to add “font-display:swap” where it says @font-face
So that text can be displayed until the font loads.
After implementing this in the font-newspaper.css file see: https://tinyurl.com/y3j2gjge, it is however not working (after saving and clearing cache it won’t show in the front-end inspection code, also adding it in the custom CSS area of the theme did not do the trick).
Google Lighthouse test still says: “Ensure text remains visible during webfont load”
pointing to the file/loading at …icons/newspaper.woff?16
Please advise how to implement “font-dispaly: swap” correctly.
Thank you
Hi,
Yes, all that layout out can be make with Newspaper theme, also I’ve checked the beebom.com and this website that is build with our theme have made a lot of custom work/made.
tagDiv Composer -> https://tagdiv.com/tagdiv-composer-page-builder-basics/
tagDiv Cloud Library -> https://tagdiv.com/what-is-the-cloud-library/
Header manager -> https://tagdiv.com/newspaper-theme-customize-the-header-manager/
If you want to optimize the speed of your website please check this topic -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/website-load-speed/
Thank you!
Hi,
Sometimes if the website resources like the stylesheet are slow to load, the result may be negative. If the style is not loaded in time when running the test the mobile version will look like this – http://prntscr.com/o3vv4q so it will mention that the menu item links are too close together. But actually when checking with a phone there is no problem.
There is a discussion in this topic – https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/i-have-two-problems-in-mobile-friendly-test/
A solution to improve the mobile speed of the website is to use the mobile theme plugin. This is a simplified version of the website, it is much faster
– https://tagdiv.com/mobile-theme-automatic-optimization-for-mobile-newspaper-theme/
Thanks
