Hello there,
Regarding – https://knockknock.in/
On last Friday, I bought Newspaper theme. I was very excited as I heard too much positive about this theme. This time I though I should buy this and use on my blogs.
But it was completely opposite what I heard. I wasted my whole Saturday to setup this theme. How complicated it is, because you have fully depended on Tagdiv composer. I don’t know what is use of Theme Panel.
After giving more 12 hours to setup the theme, the worst thing happened with me is, Google page speed result. My blog became too heavy now. Google Page speed is showing worst result (https://prnt.sc/20y59m4).
Earlier I used get 52+ score for mobile and 90+ for Desktop but with Newspaper theme I am getting 13 for mobile and around 60 for desktop. I have changed nothing. Same server, same settings (like cheche plugin etc) but only changed theme).
I am myself too feeling it has become heavy once I installed Newspaper theme. One of my other blog also hosted on same server which is showing same result with my old theme as this used to show. Mobile – https://prnt.sc/20y5bwk Desktop – https://prnt.sc/20y5c1v
I have installed this newpaper theme on https://knockknock.in/
Could you please refund me my money? It does not meet my expectation. It degraded the performance of my blog.
Thank you
Pawan
Hello Pawan!
The settings from Theme panel are useful for the default templates. If you have the latest update of the theme and your settings from the theme panel are missing and you use default templates, then please make sure you have Standard pack plugin installed and active (Newspaper -> Plugins).
However, page loading speed can depend on many factors, and each website is unique from this point of view. Let me explain some of these factors and maybe they give you some starting points for optimizing your website.
External factors: server speed, if you are using CDN or not, the external resources loaded by your website like ads, fonts, tracking scripts like Facebook Pixel, Google Analytics, Twitter analytics, Hotjar and so on.
Internal factors: the number of elements on the page, image size, image formats, if you are using mobile optimized layouts, console errors, if you are using the Standard Pack plugin on not, if you are using PRO demo or a standard one.
For the page speed, I can recommend you some solutions in order to increase the score.
Our developers are working a lot to improve the page speed in every update.
Also, to increase the page speed you can check these similar topics for more solutions:
– https://www.infophilic.com/get-almost-100-pagespeed-newspaper-theme/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/score-100100-pagespeed-with-newspaper-wordpress-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/
Let me explain you which options of mobile versions are:
1. Responsive version: A responsive version of your website is looking similar like on desktop, 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 you can edit the elements there.
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 Newspaper main theme and it loads only for mobile devices. It comes with its own templates for page, post, category, etc so your current templates from the desktop theme will get converted to the mobile theme layout. For more details, please take a look here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-mobile-theme/ and https://forum.tagdiv.com/mobile-theme-introduction/
If you use Mobile theme plugin, then you can not edit the pages with TagDiv Composer.
You have only some settings for this layout, which you can find in Theme panel -> Mobile Theme.
A full explanation you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpGkOnJeNZY
You can request a refund here: https://themeforest.net/refund_requests/new It will be reviewed as soon as possible.
Thank you!
Thank you Bettina, I have submitted the refund request. Could you please approve it?
