Good afternoon.
I purchased a newspaper theme and I have a number of questions about using the product, I ask you to give me technical advice.
I’m currently using the theme INTERIOR DESIGNER and have a number of questions.
1. I imported header school pro. Is it possible to place menu text near the logo? There is a fairly large empty area, can this area be removed or made smaller? Is it possible to remove empty column at all, or change their size, or is this a preset value that cannot be changed?
Screenshot 1.
2. In the browser of a personal computer, the mobile version opens correctly, I can fully customize it. However, when I log in from a mobile phone, I see a completely different newspaper template and different content. I don’t understand what this is connected with, please provide information on how to enable the display of the same site on a mobile phone, the template for which I have installed. Screenshot 2.1 Screenshot 2.2
3. I use the INTERIOR DESIGNER theme. How can I install my video in animation in the header of the site not from YouTube, but from my server? Please indicate the format of the video clip, what is the optimal duration, what are the technical parameters of the video clip for best performance, how to encode this video? And accordingly, how can I place it on hosting (directory) and how can I connect it to the site? Where are the video dimming settings?
4. I made two buttons in order to direct them to separate language versions of the site. Give instructions on how to connect language versions, for example, mysite.com/pl
Screenshot 3.
5. How to make pictures responsive to clicks so that they open in full size?
6. List everything that can lead to improving site loading speed. I want to have a green area when loading. Specify plugins and optimization methods.
7.Which backup plugin is best to use to roll back to a previous version of a website if an error is made?
8. I want to change the color in the menu SKOOL PRO, how do I change the background color of the menu from light to dark? I didn’t find any settings.
Hello,
1. Yes, you can add the logo more near to the menu, but you need to set the row layout like this -> https://i.imgur.com/DMqn02Y.jpeg and stretch row https://i.imgur.com/29Aet0y.jpeg You can not delete the empty column, only the row that contains empty columns.
If you want to delete a row, you can delete a row with the empty column using the right click on the row icon -> https://i.imgur.com/JodWvlW.png -> https://i.imgur.com/e6bb8U5.png or using the drag and drop or you can simply click on the row and press the delete button from your keyboard -> https://www.screencast.com/t/Mai7iyEG The same steps are to delete the elements.
2. Please disable the mobile theme and amp plugins.
Using our theme, you can choose from 3 mobile versions
-> mobile responsive => https://www.screencast.com/t/oJ2ShOp47
-> mobile theme plugin => https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-mobile-theme/
-> mobile page => https://tagdiv.com/newspaper-10-3-7-update-brings-customizable-and-fast-mobile-pages/ The option that you need to use.
Suppose you created the mobile pages with tagDiv Composer. In that case, when you install the Mobile Theme plugin, your pages will be overwritten by the plugin (the mobile theme comes with its templates for page, post, category, etc, so your current templates from the desktop theme will get converted to the mobile theme layout, the page content is made without builders in mobile editor => https://www.screencast.com/t/xbgZG8kH also, the options that are provided to edit the mobile theme version are limited (this keeps the things simple)).
This is a video about Responsive Newspaper Theme, AMP & Mobile Theme, Mobile Pages & Templates -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpGkOnJeNZY.
So, the mobile responsive is what you see when that you select the viewport on phone => https://www.screencast.com/t/matV17hH, so some settings may apply for each viewport(where is the border blue), and others are not(where the border is black).
The mobile page has the mobile templates from Cloud Library => https://www.screencast.com/t/YCcZ8rL8
The Mobile responsive version of the theme and the mobile page editor can be edit with tagDiv Composer, the mobile theme plugin cannot.
For example, you can have the mobile theme plugin activated and use the mobile page/mobile responsive version for the homepage/pages, but for the categories pages/404 page, you can’t use the mobile page/mobile responsive version if you have the mobile theme plugin activated.
So, if you want to design the pages with tagDiv Composer, you can use the mobile page or mobile responsive version.
3. Format need to be MP4, File size for embedded video should ideally be 500KB, as the ideal page size from Google’s standpoint is <1MB. File size of 1-2MB is acceptable.
Video duration should be no longer than 25 seconds.
4. You need to use a plugin that provides this option. Please check our guide -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/using-theme-translations-together-wpml/
5. The images are responsive; please let me know what you mean.
6. I recommend using the WP ROCKET plugin.
Also, we don’t recommend to using amp, because it is deprecated -> https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/storefront/wordpress/platform-integration/enabling-amp
There are many optimization guides provided by our users here in the forum, some made by us; you could check some of them
– https://www.infophilic.com/get-almost-100-pagespeed-newspaper-theme/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cache-plugin-install-and-configure/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/high-number-of-ajax-request/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/score-100100-pagespeed-with-newspaper-wordpress-theme/
– https://www.andraware.com/wp-rocket-for-newspaper-theme/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/page-speed-guide-for-2023-beginners-and-advanced/
– 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/
7. I recommend using Duplicator plugin, but you can try other plugins from this list -> https://www.bluehost.com/blog/best-wordpress-backup-plugins/
8. Usually, the color and image are set on the row, so please edit with tagDiv Composer and select the row and go in the tab CSS, and there you can set it https://i.imgur.com/IkbGWUS.png -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/background-color-of-the-main-menu-be-changed/
Thank you!
