Due to the large number of posts related to the AMP issues in 9.6, I think that a recap would be useful:
Turning ON the “SHOW ON AMP” option give us:
– TONS of error alerts from the Google Search Console (a drop in the search rankings is probable)
– We are unable to use critical plugins like DISQUS and others (Disqus is AMP enabled and is a MUST in any news site with solid traffic)
– Mobile Google Analytics issues. Guideduchien wrote: “Before i had a bounce rate average on mobile 86 % and page views per session 1,28. But now with tagdiv mobile theme and amp plugin, bounce rate is 1,96 % and page view per session 2,32, it’s not possible.”
– Reported problems with the speed of the site
– Post views not counted on mobile
– AMP links are invalid
Turning OFF the “SHOW ON AMP” option give us:
– No ads on AMP, we can’t monetize AMP!!
Downgrade on version 9.5 seems to be the only option at the moment, but is not a long-term solution, because Simion C. wrote “soon the AMP plugin would have stopped working once the official AMP plugin implementation we used became deprecated.”
Also, Bogdan B. wrote: “unfortunately if you do not like the mobile theme implementation you will need to use an external amp plugin…”
Does it sounds like it is time to search for another theme?. I was a happy Tagdiv user for years, but that response makes me think that a proper mobile implementation is not critical for Tagdiv.
Hi,
Please make sure that you activate the amp from mobile theme -> https://www.screencast.com/t/6m5bxthx8ec and you check the box from general Amp -> https://www.screencast.com/t/WEyXhNzY
For this error https://prnt.sc/mupdgl here is the fix.
You’ll need to go in wp-content/plugins/td-mobile-plugin/td-mobile-plugin.php
and at the bottom of file set this code
$theme_options = get_option( 'td_011' );
https://prnt.sc/mv165e
https://www.screencast.com/t/NclX3sIf
Relented topic -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/errors-after-update-2/
Thank you!
Hi Calin, thank you for your follow up, let me answer.
SHOW ON AMP is active
DISABLE ADMIN BAR ON AMP is active
That give us:
– TONS of error alerts from the Google Search Console (a drop in the search rankings is probable)
– We are unable to use critical plugins like DISQUS
– Mobile Google Analytics issues. Guideduchien wrote: “Before i had a bounce rate average on mobile 86 % and page views per session 1,28. But now with tagdiv mobile theme and amp plugin, bounce rate is 1,96 % and page view per session 2,32, it’s not possible.”
– Reported problems with the speed of the site
– Post views not counted on mobile
– Invalid AMP links
Your fix does solve the Internal WP error messages, but nothing else.
Regards.
Hi,
Our developer team is working continue to make our theme better and to add new improves and fix the existential problems from our theme; the mobile theme with amp is one of them that are on the list to fix and make it better.
Thank you for your understanding
When can we expect an update?
Hi,
Unfortunately I do not know the date when will be release the next update, sorry!
Thank you for your understanding!
Calin, TAGDIV made a great work with this theme so far, but It is time to really move to a mobile-first world, 60% of our visits are mobile (and this number is growing).
Check Theme Forest, there are several news themes already promoting themselves as mobile-first.
Hi,
We know that, that’s way our developers team try to make a better version of mobile theme.
Thank you for your message!
Dear Support team,
Accept the bug that your theme has messed up the AMP feature. Instead of telling the same story to follow the documentation, better accept and fix the issues. People follow documentation and still facing AMP issue. Don’t promote this theme as AMP compatible in theme Forest as your theme is not compatible with AMP at all.
Sorry for the harsh words but that’s a fact.
Indeed:
I believe we can use AMP for WP for the time being till the team fix this AMP issue. AMP for WP plugin works fine with Newspaper theme.
Hi,
I made a request to our developer team to check the AMP issues, just make sure that your pages/post are clean ( you do not have any shortcodes from untested plugins or custom code ).
Thank you for your understanding!
The default official AMP plugin from Automattic works great with the theme and has since day one; so that is obviously a good fallback for mission critical sites to work with AMP.
Of course no AMP plugin will fix issues within content that are pre-existing and not AMP-compatible (like inline HTML in some cases, inject javascript or other code where not supposed to be; rogue plugins, et al.).
Some sites moving away from AMP, as Google now trying to make it a “publishing platform” to monetize for showing content as an application, vs traditional web formats. For many folks, simply having mobile friendly optimized responsive site may be better choice unless very high traffic with ads non-blocked via AMP when cached on Google cloud.
For “most” bogs, AMP has no benefit for the user or site owner.
My two cents anyway; having been using it since it was in BETA and following Google’s latest zig zags with trying to get people to adopt this format for their entire sites, which is impractical and perhaps stupid to buy into a Google concept that might be abandoned at some point while traditional responsive pages will work forever.
