I have installed Newspaper theme very recently on my website tomatoheart.com and hence I have all the updated version of all themes and plugins. My Mobile plugin is active and I can see it’s settings under “Plugin settings”- “Mobile Theme”
I do have made some changes here like Search button colors or menu background colors but when I visit it on mobile – I only see the mobile responsive version of the desktop version, not the mobile plugin version.
A few days back, I did notice the mobile plugin versions ( with three featured and then latest articles) but it never remains permanent and now I can’t even see it.
Are there any things which I should enable or disable after installing and activating “Mobile Plugin” ? Since I am editing/modifying various things, hence I have disabled super cache and CloudFlare integration options, hence there should be no issues because of cache or cookies.
Also, please tell me what is the right way to use default default mobile responsive version of this theme rather than using mobile plugin version? Should I deactivate the plugin ? How much speed difference is there between mobile plugin version and mobile responsive version? If it’s very little or negligible , I would love to use the mobile responsive version with all visual composer elements.
3. Is there any way to design two different homepage design using Visual composer , one for mobile and other for desktop as we have options to do the same with other pages like Contact pages, about us page etc ( Mobile editor and desktop editor) ?
4. If the mobile plugin is disabled, still I have re-write – pages like ( about us, contact us etc) in mobile editor section of pages or it’s valid only in case , I have enabled mobile plugin?
Please help me to understand and correctly setup the mobile theme for my website. Thank you.
Hi
I’ve checked your site and noticed that you have a very strong cache which may affect page’s content. The cache may come from from your server so try to contact you host provider and ask him if there is an cache on the server. The cache it’s very tricky, even if you deactivated the cache plugin some pages may still be delivered from cache. Try to enable WP Super Cache again and delete the cache a few times then test the site again. Note that WP Super cache is not fully compatible with V 4.6 of wordpress but you can use the fix from this topic as a temporary solution: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/mobile-theme-does-not-work-properly/
There is a big difference between mobile theme and the responsive theme. Basically the mobile theme load a simpler version of the page, fewer resources are requested and the page load faster. There is no support for shortcodes in mobile theme and when the server prepare the html it’s skipped a lot of php code from Visual Composer, the queries made to the database are fewer and the response time is smaller. Also page size is smaller on mobile when mobile theme plugin is active.
However the difference may be negligible if the site is not properly optimized. Our theme was developed to be fast but to hit a good score may be needed additional customization.
Check this topic for more details in page speed regard: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/website-memory-problem/ The thread is from Newsmag theme but the same applies for Newspaper.
For more details about mobile theme and how it work check this link: https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-mobile-theme/ Basically the mobile theme works like this:
– on homepage displays three posts from featured category fallowed by latest article list.
– on other pages displays only the content from mobile editor.
When mobile theme is deactivated you will have the same content displayed on any device, there is no need and additional setup for the page.
I hope this helps.
Thanks!
Andrei L tagDiv!
Hi Andrel,
Thank you for the detailed and valuable reply.
My website is hosted on a Google Cloud based Managed WordPress Hosting site and yes, they do have caching functionalities on their server. But isn’t it for good reasons rather than breaking some of the functionalities of my site? I mean caching are done for speed and optimizations of the site but it shouldn’t interfere with the UI of the site. Right?
With my understanding , caching serves few pre-saved static files and hence there can be delay in getting the fresh live version of the site. but in this case, I can easily see that even the latest published posts are immediately available on mobiles too. It doesn’t play with minifications, async/deferring JS files etc.
What I want to know is what should I ask my hosting providers to do. Should I tell them to remove caching or to moderate some specific caching functionalities?
As you know I have currently disabled the WP Super cache as well as cloudflare to get the immediate versions of my changes on my website. but do you think that by activating it again and deleting the cache few times can delete the caching done on server side too? I mean should I give it a try?
Please excuse if I am sounding foolish to these questions. I am just an experienced WordPress user but not developer or expert.
If at any point of time, you want to check the backend. I have already sent my login credentials on contact@tagdiv.com , please do look at things as I really want this mobile plugin version to work properly.
Thank you.
Hi
Yes you should contact your host provider and ask him to remove any cache from server side. We’re not aware how and especially what files are cached by the server and for a good functionality is best to remove that cache.
Before making any optimization you have to make the site work properly an any devices. That means a clean install from the theme, no cache of any type, no cdn, no additional plugins except for those recommended. From this point you can start sites’s optimization, but you have to act carefully and test every step.
Thanks!
