What's going to NewsMag? NewsMag is really bad for sites with high traffic?

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What’s going to NewsMag? NewsMag is really bad for sites with high traffic? Users ask clearly about this.

I recently bought SmartMag, I’m building is a news site, I just read the post of ChrisS “NewsMag 1.7.1 killed our server again!” is now very worried, SmartMag is done mainly to news sites, and news sites is normal to high traffic, ask clarity to developers because many users are very worried, how you intend to solve? you just want to put a temporary patch or you want to solve the problem at all? there will be only a temporary fix or want to make your own vc? we will have these problems again in the future?
Developers tagdiv seem very professional and SmartMag is really nice, but now serves clarity, explain to us what is the real problem, how you intend to solve, whether it will be a temporary solution or instead will be a permanent solution?

Many are already looking elsewhere, this is not good for tagdiv.

Issue is not with theme — all themes using Visual Composer as a “drag and drop page builder” are having this issue. And this only impacts some servers. We’re using NewsMag on two high traffic sites right now; one which gets a lot of traffic every day, the other gets large hits “depending on the content.”

Not sure what “SmartMag” is as this is the “NewsMag” forum, but if you read my thread then you don’t need to worry …

a) use the theme with current Visual Composer; might not impact your site/CPU depending on how your server is setup.

b) if you have a large CPU hit you will know immediately, and you can switch to using the SHIM plugin.

c) if you have a VERY high volume traffic website (e.g., millions of page views per day) you should be building a “lean framework” which doesn’t have all the pre-built options baked in, as this is not as efficient as a lean framework where you have as little as possible — e.g., TIME magazine is running on a version of twenty-fifteen theme with some custom plugins to manage editorial matters. No page builder, but lots of stuff running via cloud for fast “edge loading” via the Automattic premium platform. In that situation you would be custom building a theme to fit your needs not buying a $50 off the shelf product.

d) in our case we chose the TagDiv folk to redo our news network sites because 16 months ago when looking around they were one of the VERY few who had some clue about pagespeed optimization beyond so-called “SEO READY” … meaning, some thought given to page speed and not just “feature bloat” with some meta tags built in. We had built our own lean framework which was a pain pre-bootstrap, in 2011; went to Woo Canvas in 2012; went to TagDiv end of 2013 (has it been that long?).

But like all CMS platforms where you have a platform running on top of php, then theme(s) running on top of that, then plugins and hooks going into that, there is always a dev/test process on your end to see what works, what needs to be massaged, and what won’t work at all in your particular environment.

If you’re starting a NEW news site, I don’t think you need to worry about high traffic at this stage, as it takes awhile to build that unless you’re using bots or entirely click-bait with paid adwords per story to drive that.

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so, if you reads my thread you know
a) they have a fix NOW that works for those with high CPU issues
b) not all users of Visual Composer have an issue
c) the folks who make VC (not TagDiv) may optimize or fix memory issues in future version; TagDiv has NO control over that beyond working with the WP Bakery developers on the issue.
d) they may “roll their own” sideways version of a page builder which is more ‘lean’ at some point, but obviously that takes a bit of time to develop.

So, have fun and build your site 🙂

@Chris S,

Not sure what “SmartMag” is as this is the “NewsMag” forum, but if you read my thread then you don’t need to worry …

it is clear that it is a normal error of writing, however, you write that is not a problem for new low traffic sites, I think that this is wrong, because a problem is always a problem, those who want to build a site knowing that just increases traffic begin serious problems?

@Emil G, I do not understand something, you say that using “Shim plugin” and use the normal elements of the theme, there are no problems, but if you use elements vc then it becomes a problem.

Example: If I create a new area with vc, this would create problems?
New area this example: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-insert-ads-in-custom-areas-of-the-website/

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We are trying the Shim plugin on a website testing and seems to work well, but it is clear that it can only serve to build the home page and does not have all the things (many unnecessary) of VC.
In this thread you can find the link to download the Shim plugin

@davidewebcenter

and again — this issue only impacts *some* websites. Tens of thousands of websites are running themes using the Visual Composer framework. A small percentage have CPU overload issues, as we did.

If your server setup doesn’t have this issue – it’s a non-issue for you. If your server has this issue it will happen with *any* WordPress theme running Visual Composer and you’ll know right away, not months later.

The “shim” plugin provides “some” of the main elements commonly used for homepage for modules; it does not provide for ALL the VC hooks/blocks/elements. So, it’s basically a solution for those few having the CPU issue — it’s not intended to replace Visual Composer.

If you’re running VC now and not getting warnings from your web host already, then you will likely not have to even deal with this issue at all.

Hey, this shim thing really helps performance. Only one one shortcode on our site needs fixing if it’s possible and I think this shortcode is fixed elsewhere but doesn’t work in this instance.

[vc_column_text] doesn’t seem to work when you have the menu set to load a page in the menu directly, e.g.a menu item using “Load a page in the menu (enter the page ID)”

Thank you.