WP 5.7 brings us much improved site building capabilities. I see that some developers are choosing not to use site builders like Bakery and Elementor for example. How does TagDiv see the future with Composer? Is there still a role for TagDiv Composer in the years to come?
Hello !
Yes, that is why composer was built. Composer is the future for Newspaper Theme. As you can see more and more functions and options are all transferred from theme panel to Composer in order to have a platform where you can find everything in 1 place and also have all the customizations open for you.
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With various articles and YouTube videos it sounds like google prefers “simple” sites built worh Gutenberg. Will newspaper sites built with composer be comparable with those?
I’m not sure I phrased that correctly.
Hello !
I understood what you meant. Honestly from what I have personally seen and recent Google policy I don’t think it is relevant. From what I have seen Google firstly lists your website in their search result based on perfomance / technical stuff, but if your content brings more visitors and is something that is very searched, any site, no matter how bad it is performance wise will be in first page of google. Indeed having a good performance is a great thing and there are plenty of websites that use our products and have exceptional content.
My point is that people tend to focus too much on performance and not on the actual content and marketing which is the core of a News / Magazine website. You can test https://www.nytimes.com/ or https://news.yahoo.com/ to see how they are in top and their performance is bad compared to what can be done in these days.
I think that there is no difference between using Gutenberg or Composer or any other page builder. Everything is up to how that website is designed, how “clean” it is, you can have a tone of elements on your pages but still keep it light and fresh.
I hope this answer helped !
Thank you !
Good response. Yes, I did a speed test of the new city demo. Blazing!!
What ad plugin do you recommend?
Thanks for your reply Vlad. I can see the difference in the case of Newspaper and Composer compared to the generic page builders which have to work with all themes. As you say,
“you can find everything in 1 place and also have all the customizations open for you.”
and that’s a big difference. I’ll stick with Composer 🙂
Hello @Chris Baird !
This depends on how many ads you look to run. If you’re looking to have many Ad option, with Ad rotation you will have to test some plugins. Ad Inserter pro used to work pretty well, I would start with that. Unfortunately please note that this are not tested plugins, therefore the support we can give on them is not too much.
What you can do. There are plenty of Ad Options in composer too, you can use Ad Boxes and desing your whole website around ads, or post inline ads. That is something we can help with and offer support for.
I hope this was helfpul !
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