Server is a dedicated 8GB VPS Centos 7 running only this one website. PHP 7.4 redis caching, your recommended wp super cache settings, SSDs, http 2, brotli along with other tweaks implemented here: https://www.infophilic.com/get-almost-100-pagespeed-newspaper-theme/#fix-admin-ajax-slow-problem

Thanks for your time though. We should have read the lower star reviews prior to purchase over on Envato. Most all of them mention page speed or coding issues. I’m seeing if I can’t defer some of the scripts from loading and minify some css and js to improve the page speed some. If not will have to switch to a lighter theme. Thanks again for your time though.

Thanks for looking into this Vlad. I have spoken with client about image upload optimization (resizing and saving for web via PS) moving forward and have implemented the tweaks and suggestions including the addition of add_filter( 'jpeg_quality', create_function('', 'return 50;' ) ); to the child theme php. Hope this helps some but the theme is in fact HEAVY and code needs better optimization. I am a developer myself so to say the theme is not an issue is not correct considering how it compares with many other popular wordpress themes when it comes to speed. I’ll be doing some benchmarks on this theme vs. a few others and will be happy to share those results here. Theme needs work and optimization efforts from your dev team. Thanks for your time!

• This reply was modified 5 years by itgnext.

I understand this

If you are using mobile theme plugin you will need to recreate your pages in the mobile editor in order for them to be shown. The mobile editor will not render shortcodes !

I have turned off the mobile theme and amp. So at least visitors can read the content. Pages were created with the supplied theme’s tag div composer. Why is it that the home page displayed perfectly with mobile theme and amp and it is a page created with tag div and yet any other page would not display? Speed/poor performance is an issue with this theme (documented elsewhere)and even while employing the recommended wp-cache and settings, and other tweaks page load issues can be attributed to the coding of this theme. Server is a newer VPS running php 7.4 and redis and yet page loads are horrendously slow on desktop (and now mobile).