With your Speed Booster Pack settings:

1.Loads javascript files from Google Libraries

2.Defers parsing of javascript files.

3.Removes query strings from static resources

4.Load CSS asynchronously

5.Minify all CSS styles

6.Insert all CSS styles inline to the footer

Remove junk header tags

Is there a way to stop the Google Adsense Ads loading first? When you access a page, it’s all white for a second, then the ads popup in the wrong places then the css kicks in and the whole page looks correct again.

Thank you 🙂

I’ll download the ‘speedbooster pack plugin’ now. Does it use much resources on the server?

Thanks 🙂

@Steven I see what you mean. I’ve currently deactivated it and i’ll see how I ‘cope’ with manually sharing the links on my social networks sites instead of automatically for a few days. Maybe i’m just lazy… But if it improves my sites performance and I keep the Newspaper themes, i guess it’s a positive.

I’ll provide my plugin results shortly.

Just having a problem with this code you sent me:

function remove_cssjs_ver( $src ) {
if( strpos( $src, ‘?ver=’ ) )
$src = remove_query_arg( ‘ver’, $src );
return $src;
}
add_filter( ‘style_loader_src’, ‘remove_cssjs_ver’, 10, 2 );
add_filter( ‘script_loader_src’, ‘remove_cssjs_ver’, 10, 2 );

When i add it to my function.php it causes my whole website to have a white screen and no code is found in the page source. What’s the fix for this? :s

Thanks 🙂

Thanks for the tips.

I will see if I can deactivate ‘JM Twitter Cards’ and use the SEO plugin for Twitter cards. There must of been a reason why i wanted another plugin, but can’t remember. I’m sure i’ll find out soon 🙂

I’m now going to try ‘All In One WP Security & Firewall’ and see if that helps.

Which functions.php do i edit? The WP core or the themes?

EDIT: I can’t unfortunately use CloudFlare as i’m using a different CDN service.

New report (looking better, thanks!):

WordPress Plugin Profile Report
===========================================
Report date: Oct 1, 2014
Theme name: Newspaper
Pages browsed: 31
Avg. load time: 2.2055 sec
Number of plugins: 25
Plugin impact: 69.68% of load time
Avg. plugin time: 1.5368 sec
Avg. core time: 0.3922 sec
Avg. theme time: 0.2436 sec
Avg. mem usage: 90.45 MB
Avg. ticks: 40,758
Avg. db queries : 143.68
Margin of error : 0.0329 sec

Plugin list:
===========================================
P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) – 0.0029 sec – 0.19%
Adminimize – 0.0479 sec – 3.11%
Akismet – 0.0115 sec – 0.75%
Append Link On Copy – 0.0028 sec – 0.18%
Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress – 0.0929 sec – 6.05%
EWWW Image Optimizer – 0.0638 sec – 4.15%
Jetpack by WordPress.com – 0.1521 sec – 9.89%
JM Twitter Cards – 0.0111 sec – 0.72%
WPBakery Visual Composer – 0.1214 sec – 7.90%
myCRED – 0.0923 sec – 6.00%
Nextcellent Gallery Nextgen Legacy – 0.0423 sec – 2.75%
Query Strings Remover – 0.0049 sec – 0.32%
Recent Posts Widget Extended – 0.0202 sec – 1.32%
Revolution Slider – 0.0685 sec – 4.46%
Social Networks Auto Poster Facebook Twitter G – 0.1419 sec – 9.24%
tagDiv speed booster – 0.0021 sec – 0.14%
TinyMCE Advanced – 0.0013 sec – 0.09%
W3 Total Cache – 0.0278 sec – 1.81%
WooCommerce – 0.1576 sec – 10.26%
Wordfence Security – 0.0583 sec – 3.79%
Wordpress Seo – 0.3268 sec – 21.26%
WP-Optimize – 0.0126 sec – 0.82%
WP-Polls – 0.0030 sec – 0.20%
WP User Avatar – 0.0383 sec – 2.49%
Xml Sitemap Feed – 0.0325 sec – 2.11%

@TheMediumUTM Thanks for the tips.

Jetpack: I’m now using only 4 features within this plugin. I’m now viewing my stats on Google and WordPress.com

Hide My WP: Since looking at your advice i’ve removed this plugin from my website. It’s true, i guess. If someone wanted to hack my website they could tell i’m using WordPress straight away. I’m using this plugin: ‘Wordfence Security’, so hopefully it will prevent hackers.

Wordpress SEO: I need some sort of SEO plugin to help with my news website. I believe this is one of the best?

Social Networks Auto Poster: This plugin saves time, really. I have it post to my social networks because it gives me more time to create new articles than trying to promote/share my content on social media, which takes up more time. Are there any better plugins than this one?

Easy Social Share Buttons: I removed the TagDiv share buttons because they weren’t loading fast enough. I found this plugin and it seems to have more features and allows me to customise it more.

Adminimize: Allows me to simplify the backend for my editors, and lets me hide specific plugins which i don’t want my team to see. But i suppose deactivating it creates more risk? Such as myCRED, most of the settings pop up for non-admin users, which i don’t want. See my problem? :/

Thanks 🙂

• This reply was modified 11 years by Gee95.

Hello Christopher,

For my images i have a SSL CDN for all my content including pictures, so size should’t matter too much but i still optimise my images, just in case.

I have WordPress register turned off, and have no forums on my website. The only accounts on my WordPress website are for editors only.

Your sitemap example is very interesting, so i’ll have to look into this and see if i have multiple plugins doing the same thing.

Thanks for the tips, i will check out the compatibility of my plugins and deactivate the ones that have large load times (listed above in previous post on this topic).

That’s what i thought, because i couldn’t find any topics relating to this.

This is my full plugin report and speeds:

WordPress Plugin Profile Report
===========================================
Report date: Sep 30, 2014
Theme name: Newspaper
Pages browsed: 47
Avg. load time: 3.1552 sec
Number of plugins: 28
Plugin impact: 85.63% of load time
Avg. plugin time: 2.7019 sec
Avg. core time: 0.2760 sec
Avg. theme time: 0.1465 sec
Avg. mem usage: 95.55 MB
Avg. ticks: 41,654
Avg. db queries : 137.30
Margin of error : 0.0308 sec

Plugin list:
===========================================
P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) – 0.0022 sec – 0.08%
Adminimize – 0.0481 sec – 1.78%
Akismet – 0.0095 sec – 0.35%
Append Link On Copy – 0.0012 sec – 0.04%
Compress Png For Wp – 0.0007 sec – 0.03%
Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress – 0.0592 sec – 2.19%
EWWW Image Optimizer – 0.0816 sec – 3.02%
Hide My Wp – 0.4908 sec – 18.17%
Jetpack by WordPress.com – 1.2664 sec – 46.87%
JM Twitter Cards – 0.0134 sec – 0.49%
WPBakery Visual Composer – 0.0815 sec – 3.02%
myCRED – 0.0708 sec – 2.62%
Nextcellent Gallery Nextgen Legacy – 0.0293 sec – 1.08%
Query Strings Remover – 0.0005 sec – 0.02%
Recent Posts Widget Extended – 0.0074 sec – 0.27%
Revolution Slider – 0.0537 sec – 1.99%
Social Networks Auto Poster Facebook Twitter G – 0.0945 sec – 3.50%
tagDiv speed booster – 0.0018 sec – 0.07%
TinyMCE Advanced – 0.0033 sec – 0.12%
User Switching – 0.0073 sec – 0.27%
W3 Total Cache – 0.0433 sec – 1.60%
WooCommerce – 0.1074 sec – 3.97%
Wordfence Security – 0.0455 sec – 1.68%
Wordpress Seo – 0.1308 sec – 4.84%
WP-Optimize – 0.0107 sec – 0.40%
WP-Polls – 0.0014 sec – 0.05%
WP User Avatar – 0.0216 sec – 0.80%
Xml Sitemap Feed – 0.0181 sec – 0.67%

I removed CloudFlare and brought a CDN for WordPress 🙂

I got this error as well!

@Thakksy Thanks for posting your website, looks amazing 🙂 Hoping to take some tips about your ‘About’ pages and your ‘Contact’ page to help get myself into Google News as well 🙂

@Christopher Thanks, but i don’t think it’s my technical requirements that are denying my application to Google News because that’s perfect (url structures and content etc) but my ‘About Pages’ and listing biographies about each editors.

These requirements i’m struggling with as i don’t want to put too much details about my editors down, but i don’t know how much is enough?

Hope that makes sense 🙂

@Thakksy Thanks for the tip! Could you email me your website address so i can check it out? I may have got the Google News site requirements incorrect for this theme? 🙂

@Thakksy Congratulations! I still haven’t got in yet, don’t think Google likes me very much! haha, haven’t done anything to upset them though.. :/

@neotrope Many thanks Christopher, Would you recommend changing my format from PNG to JPEG?

Also. thanks for the ‘Compress PNG for WP’ plugin, will check that out 🙂

I’m not sure?

Currently I’ve deleted ‘td_less_editor-style.php’ and it works again, the style is back to normal. Do I need that file? or am I okay to use the theme without it?

Thanks 🙂

I’ve been messing around and it is using the LESS_CSS styling.

If i delete td_less_editor-style.php the font changes, but if i edit the file Radu said here: http://screencast.com/t/e8vUszQi the font doesn’t change?

Is there a way i can disable the backend using the LESS_CSS styling and use the default WordPress styling with Newspaper V 4.1 (released 29th July)?

Thanks 🙂

Any help peeps? 🙂

I’ve tired disabling all my plugins, but the issue is still there.
Any other solutions? 🙂

Thanks.

Since i updated the theme, the post font (when writing posts [wp-admin/post-new.php]) is very large and is different than before. It’s making it really hard to write or format the text (in all web browsers) for all roles.

Any fixes?

Post Template: Style 4
Picture doesn’t fit correctly on mobile devices. Not sure if it’s a bug or not?

It looks like it only happens when i activate the plugin.

I’m currently using the plugin ‘WP Fastest Cache’ until we can fix the W3 Cache plugin, because that’s the only plugin that seems to work at the moment.

I have sent you an email with WP access and FTP access, ignore what it says in the email. To test you will need to deactivate the ‘WP Fastest Cache’ and enable W3 Cache.

Thanks 🙂

@neotrope Thanks, i’ve selected the option ‘Compress all content’ in my cPanel, this should do the trick. Thanks for all the tips guys 🙂 Will report back soon.

It’s asking me to change my nameservers, is this correct for WordPress? 🙂

Oh, i’ve never heard of ‘Cloudflare’ before. Is it simple to install on WordPress?

Thanks again 🙂