If you search there are about 50 different threads and many more individual posts about the many many different ways we (the customers) have been advised to manually tweak/change the newsmag theme and coding for better performance.
Some of the posts/threads are months and months old. Are these adjustments still needed to be done?
If yes, Is there ONE SET LIST of recommended adjustments? ALL in one place and EASY to follow for people who are not full time professional coders.
Thanks in advance.
You mean my one sticky thread at top of the forum?
Good place to start perhaps.
+1, that was the thread I started of and it helped a lot, no async plugin, no above the fold plugin, no minify plugin anymore.
I still have some nasty report from google for mobile speed but Desktop for all major speed test pages are now 94-98.
thx Chris for that !
Hi,
Please check our documentation – https://forum.tagdiv.com/page-speed-guide/ for more info on how to customize your site’s page speed and other matters and also you can follow and use all instructions provided in these treads:
* https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/
* https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/pagespeed/
Thanks!
Alin – thanks
Chris – thanks
Question – why are these adjustments not part of the core code or can be sent out in an update?
What if we are not qualified coders or people who feel comfortable adjusting the core code of the custom theme we purchased here?
We have purchased multiple custom themes before and never had to make this volume of changes to the code simply to make the theme “work right” or “run faster”.
Shouldn’t this be provided by the theme creators initially or in an update?
Chris – please let the theme creators respond. We know you are the resident expert and we have seen your great helpful responses in many many threads. But in this case we would like to hear from the people we purchased the theme from with the answer.
We ask with all respect as we love this theme. Just curious. Please advise. Thanks.
Cool.
Going back to hide under rock.
Chris out!
LOL – you never need to hide my friend. You are the best resource this forum has!
We just would like to hear from the theme creators and how this can be an easier process (hopefully)
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I sometimes answer sardonically ahead of the official answer, which might be the same but worded differently (as was this case!).
Sadly there is no ‘one way’ to optimize anything with WordPress — as the theme itself needs a little tweaking as with ALL themes (seriously, want to hear about my fun with Canvas or MyThemeShop, ThemeFuse, etc.?).
Most of MY particular tweaks have to do with “baseline” things needed for ANY website/wordpress install -regardless of theme (I am working on an ebook on this topic in my hahahahahah spare time… no really…. someday….).
Theme tweaks are really just setting up site how you want it; and then more recently the pesky Visual Composer stuff (hence the shim of doom, er … solution).
Technically theme doesn’t need any special optimization vs any other site of comparable complexity, but your mileage may vary as I am wont to say.
I will post the cheat sheet on how to load Google Fonts more better good too one of these blue moons. The old method for Newspaper 2 I posted a bazillion years ago sure won’t work now !
Peace and happy trails.
I run this theme on a site with much traffic. I run CloudFlare + Varnish in front of it. It performs very well.
We use opcache on server along with mod_pagespeed for our server and works very well.
Hello,
Sorry for the delay, we are working with limited staff.
I do the pagespeed work on all of our themes and the number one reason that we don’t include all the optimizations in the theme is due to plugins. It is a bit hard to write a plugin or code in general that performs at the best speed possible. So some of the plugins cannot be made to run because performance was not an issue when the plugins was wrote.
Also the theme cannot do almost nothing for bad server configurations.
