- 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
Thank you for the reply Catalin.
I checked our plugins and I did have to delete two that were no longer supported in our current WordPress version. All of our other plugins were in use with Newspaper 6, but just to be sure I turned off all plugins except for tagDiv Composer, tagDiv Social Counter, tagDiv Speed Booster, and WPBakery Visual Composer. When I tried to Edit a page after turning off plugins we still have no button for Visual Composer.
After I read your reply above I also deactivated, deleted and uploaded and activated these plugins, td-speed-booster.zip, td-social-counter.zip, js_composer.zip and td-composer.zip and then activated them. Then, with the plugins still off (except tagDiv Composer, tagDiv Social Counter, tagDiv Speed Booster, and WPBakery Visual Composer) I checked again and still do not have a Visual Composer button.
Here’s our Edit screen with no VC button: https://ibb.co/ecYcKv
Here are the plugins activated and deactivated while testing: https://ibb.co/bFpnma
Here’s our System Status: https://ibb.co/bG04XF
I updated http://sullivansislandmagazine.com/s/ and http://isleofpalmsmagazine.com/ from Newspaper 6 to Newspaper 8 usng these steps:
- LIVE SITE: Use WP All in One Migration plugin Export the site
- TEST SITE: On an empty domain I installed WordPress 4.8.1
- TEST SITE: All plugins were deleted and I installed WP All in One Migration
- TEST SITE: WP All in One Migration was used to Import the website to be updated
- I downloaded the Newspaper 8 update from ThemeForest
- TEST SITE: Newspaper 8 was uploaded via FTP, plugins were installed and activated
- TEST SITE: All desired updates were made (new home page build, sidebar recreated, if necessary etc)
- TEST SITE: site was checked to make sure it looked good
- TEST SITE: Used WP All in One Migration plugin Export the site
- LIVE SITE: Used WP All in One Migration plugin Import the site
- LIVE SITE: WordPress was updated to 4.8.1
- LIVE SITE: site was checked to make sure it looked good, this was when I noticed Visual Composer was not working.
I can work without Visual Composer and use TD Composer but I’d prefer to be able to use Visual Composer, especially if its supported by the theme. Any ideas?
Hi,
I was just wondering what the recommendations are for the theme to make sure it is loading as fast as possible. According to Google’s PageSpeed Insights my website scores pretty low. Mobile averages around 50-55 and desktop is around 60-65. I’ve tried testing no preloading, optimized preloading and preload all on the mega menu preloader but it hasn’t done much with the scores.
Is there another way to optimize the blocks that I am currently using?
Website link: https://fan-insider.com/
Best,
Justin
Hi, I tried disable all untested plugins and only Tested Plugins Contact form 7, Font Awesome 4 Menus, WordPress (Yoast) SEO, Visual Composer, tagDiv Composer, tagDiv Social Counter, tagDiv Speed Booster it running stop loading page and jam or only used Visual Composer it still same every I tried disable all plugins it running stop loading page and website jam. Just add element “slide” on page. I will leave it foe you can inspect website agin. http://www.knockfoto.com
Thanks for your understanding!
Hello Ginfox,
Regarding on page speed, please notice that thing 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 are 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.
There are multiple guides and tutorials here on the forum regarding speed optimization, that you can search for and read
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cache-plugin-install-and-configure/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cloudflare-cdn/
Thanks for your understanding!
I also cannot use Visual Composer – trying to Add and element does nothing, and Choose Layout Option just gives me a spinning ajax loading graphic which I’ve waited for over 2 minutes. On our Newspaper system status page everything is okay (green or gray) except Caching (which we don’t want) and Speed Booster (which disabled itself v4.1 – Disabled – incompatible plugin detected: all-in-one-event-calendar-extended-views/all-in-one-event-calendar-extended-views.php).
We are using Newspaper on 2 websites now and I’m on a 3rd website with WordPress 4.8 installed just today, I’ve uploaded the Newspaper 8 theme by FTP and all plugins are active except for WP User Avatar which I turned off and deleted – after I was alredy having problems.
Any assistance getting me back up and running would be appreciated.
Hi,
The theme will create it’s own thumbnails from the featured images you set for your posts
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/theme-thumbs/
These will be used on the blocks that you place on pages and used in various other locations on the website.
The thumbnail sizes can be enabled or disabled in the theme panel. For each thumbnail it is specified where it is being used
– https://www.screencast.com/t/2SE8PCjQGIR
There are multiple guides and tutorials here on the forum regarding speed optimization, that you can search for and read
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cache-plugin-install-and-configure/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cloudflare-cdn/
Thanks
Hi,
If you could provide a link to a page like the one you mention, we will inspect it. You can use caching to speed up your website
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cache-plugin-install-and-configure/
There will be a big improvement in terms of loading speed.
Thanks
Hello wpmu,
Regarding on page speed, please notice that thing 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 are 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,
I am trying to speed up the delivery of my website. I have super cache installed and have applied the custom code to make it work with the mobile version of the theme. However when I enable cloud flare it starts sending cache’d mobile versions of the website to the desktop and vice-versa.
Can you please advise the configuration to get cloudflare working with the mobile version.
Many thanks,
Hello Plexus7,
I have inspected your website and I saw that your icons work as expetected. Try to clear all the caches, purge all CDN files if you are using the CDN system and check the results.
Regarding on page speed, please notice that thing 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 are 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 gcamara,
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 are 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!
I use WP Orion on all client websites. This is a great plugin and I have no issues except with Newsmag. I’ve spoken with the plugin developer this error stems from a them incompatible issue.
It shows up in the theme system status log.
Speed Booster v4.7 – Disabled – incompatible plugin detected: worker/init.php
Hello Newstrack,
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 are 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!
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://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 are 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 dear supporters,
i would like to ask your for one more favour. 🙂
I followed tutorials about speeding website and it really takes it from F(24%), E(56%) to B(85%, B(85%).
I must say i followed a topic here for speeding up website whitch i unfortunately can not find again…:/
I also did code to functions.php and then you see there are plugins that are on site or something similar…Then you saved them in txt and delete code from functions…
Hope somebody knows about tutorial i am talking about.. 😛
Well the problem is that when i was following it i do that but later i did not find same codes and i skip this step.
Now my only problem is this and i dont really know how to fix it. Problems that GTmetrix show is not the same as in the code i saved before in txt with that tutorial.
Defer parsing of JavaScript
E (58)
JS HIGH
What’s this mean?
504.0KiB of JavaScript is parsed during initial page load. Defer parsing JavaScript to reduce blocking of page rendering.
…/wp-content/plugins/ultimate-member/assets/js/um.min.js (190.6KiB)
…/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/Newspaper/js/tagdiv_theme.min.js (167.5KiB)
…/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js (87.0KiB)
…/wp-includes/js/masonry.min.js (25.7KiB)
…/ (11.9KiB of inline JavaScript)
…/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery-migrate.min.js (7.7KiB)
…/wp-includes/js/imagesloaded.min.js (7.3KiB)
…/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.masonry.min.js (1.5KiB)
…/plugins/lazy-load/js/jquery.sonar.min.js (1.3KiB)
…/js/comment-reply.min.js (918B)
…/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/js/editor.js (753B)
…/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/js/lazy-load.js (427B)
…wp-content/plugins/ultimate-member/assets/js/pickadate/translations/sl_SI.js (273B)
So what shouald i do with that do improve that scoore ? 🙂
Thank you very much for helping.
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://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 are 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!
Hi,
I have inspected your website, and it seems to be loading very quickly at the moment. On the page you mention there is a gallery, and I have no problem using it
– https://www.screencast.com/t/qCH7RhXx49
The tagDiv composer is activated by default the moment you update the theme. Here you can find more information about making the transition from Visual composer to tagDiv composer
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/visual-composer-tagdiv-composer-transition/
The new front-end composer is lighter then Visual composer, and it will not have such a negative impact on website page speed
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-composer-tutorial/
When both editors are active, some Visual composer elements may not be displayed properly.
Thanks
Hi,
There are multiple topics her on the forum where you can find useful information regarding page speed optimization
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cache-plugin-install-and-configure/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cloudflare-cdn/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/score-100100-pagespeed-with-newspaper-wordpress-theme/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/newspaper-theme-speedify-your-website/
If you follow the suggestions and recommendations from these topics (or search for more) you will most likely improve the website loading speed. These optimizations will have to be made by you, just take it one step at a time. Results will soon follow most likely.
Thanks
thanks for the reply simion
can i ask whether the screenshots are taken from an emulator or an actual tablet, and if a tablet what os was it using?
i have tried it on two different android versions, and an older ios, from 10″ to 7″, all showing the mobile theme.
i actually turned all caching off. removed every plug in that was doing any ‘speed’ or ‘optimisation job on my website. not just for this, but in several areas of development there was a nagging doubt caching could be the problem. i even followed steps to check for cache left overs (and actually found w3 traces from ages ago before i moved to super on theme advice). having removed all of that, and being 100% cache free, i turned off cloudflare and purged everything.
so one thing i can be pretty sure of is cache is not behind the issue.
i have started turning one or two optimisation bits on again. cautiously, checking everything each time an option is flicked.
it has been a useful exercise. a few upgrade issues have resolved themselves, though that may be more to do with your recommendation of switching to php 5.6. than the absence of caching – but having caching out of the way for a development month still seems to make sense.
there are just two issues that remain, and have remained throughout, this tablet displaying mobile theme, and corruption caused by full width blocks (that one i can live with for now)
what is the methodology of the mobile theme in what it serves itself to? is it screen size, resolution, some trigger in the device that says ‘i am a tablet or i am a phone’? might help narrow it down if i can get some more examples.
is there in any settings to redirect my domain from domain.com to http://www.domain.com
this is what i get when testing the speed of my website
Remove the following redirect chain if possible:
After activating the plugin speedbooster, when my website is loading, it first shows a previously image of a old design and then it show up the correct website. Why is that, that happend?
My website: http://www.somosung.com/
Thanks in advance
It looks like some js is effecting the page speed of the website. I’ve gone through the Google Pagespeed testing and since using the theme and these are top things effecting it below (if they are not relative to the theme then disregard, otherwise I’d like to see what we can do to fix it).
/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.12.4
/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery-migrate.min.js?ver=1.4.1
/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/js/tagdiv_theme.min.js?ver=8.0
/wp-includes/js/comment-reply.min.js?ver=4.8 (I dont have the comments enabled)
/wp-content/plugins/td-composer/css-live/assets/css/td_live_css_frontend.css?ver=4.8
/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/style.css?ver=8.0
Any suggestions?
Hi,
I did the above and the website receives a speed score of 51 (previously 24) on Google PageSpeed but on gtmetrix.com the PageSpeed score has gone from 53 to 49.
Screenshots:
This is what Google found to be slow: http://prntscr.com/fvuo8j
So I have taken the names in there and found them in the CPanel and adjusted them as the TagDiv instructions say.
To this: http://prntscr.com/fvuomj (I added lines 184 to 187).
When it came to the JS what the Google PageSpeed page showed did not match the code that displayed at the top of my page so I haven’t adjusted any JS – as in I haven’t moved any to the footer.
This is what displayed at the top of my website in the first step:
registered scripts
admin-bar | /wp-includes/js/admin-bar.min.js
wordfenceAJAXjs | http://www.agentinsider.com.au/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/js/admin.ajaxWatcher.js
js_files_for_ace | http://www.agentinsider.com.au/wp-content/plugins/td-composer/css-live/assets/external/ace/ace.js
js_files_for_ace_ext_language_tools | http://www.agentinsider.com.au/wp-content/plugins/td-composer/css-live/assets/external/ace/ext-language_tools.js
js_files_for_live_css | http://www.agentinsider.com.au/wp-content/plugins/td-composer/assets/js/js_files_for_live_css.min.js
js_files_for_plugin_live_css | http://www.agentinsider.com.au/wp-content/plugins/td-composer/assets/js/js_files_for_plugin_live_css.min.js
td-site-min | http://www.agentinsider.com.au/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/js/tagdiv_theme.min.js
comment-reply | /wp-includes/js/comment-reply.min.js
registered styles
admin-bar | /wp-includes/css/admin-bar.min.css
wordfenceAJAXcss | http://www.agentinsider.com.au/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/css/wordfenceBox.css
td_live_css_frontend | http://www.agentinsider.com.au/wp-content/plugins/td-composer/css-live/assets/css/td_live_css_frontend.css
google-fonts-style | http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Work+Sans:400,600|Open+Sans:300italic,400,400italic,600,600italic,700|Roboto:300,400,400italic,500,500italic,700,900,600
td-theme | http://www.agentinsider.com.au/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/style.css
td-theme-demo-style | http://www.agentinsider.com.au/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/includes/demos/lifestyle/demo_style.css
So I have done all of the speed steps the TagDiv page says to do but it is still super slow. Do you know why?
I’m currently having problems on my new WordPress-website to upload new media with automatic image compression. These images are never larger dan 200 kilobytes, but still can take up to a minute (per image!) to upload.
I’ve contacted the developer of the TinyPNG-WordPress plugin (although I also got the same result with Smush It) and said the following:
In the attachment of this mail you can find a basic image (bixby.jpg) which is compressed to around 60-70% using Gimp, a screencapture (Capture.png) of the grey box with the blue bar, and finally of the file compression page you referred to in your mail. It seems around 20 different versions get created. The whole process per images takes well over a minute, so uploading 5-10 images for a basic article is nearly impossible.
They gave me the the following reply:
“There is nothing strange with the image itself. Just compressing that image using the web interface is almost instant for me. I also tried compressing the image using the WordPress plugin using 5 different sizes and that took about 15 seconds. If you have about 20 different sizes then it’s not too strange that it can take a minute or more. There are of course other factors as well that may cause it too take longer but the biggest culprit in this case is the amount of sizes per images that have to be compressed.
My advice would be to check which of these sizes you really need for your site. We see very often that users have themes that have 15+ image sizes for each image but they sometime only use as little as 3 of those sizes. If you can deselect some of those sizes you will immediately gain a huge speedup.”
Could you tell me what the best course of action is?
Hello,
I’ve seen many people here stating they are using the rocket-loader feature from Cloudflare to boost their speed. I’d like to ask how come this works for them?
Is anything needed on the server side to be active? Any tweaks before activating it?
Every time I try activating it, the entire website crashes. By crash, I mean the entire styling and responsiveness. Even the search function becomes un-usable.
Same thing happens when Cloudflare activated their non-free AMP plugin. The entire website just crashes and becomes un-usable.
For what it’s worth, here’s the website: https://esportsmedia.ro/
