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Be sure to turn on the comments from the WordPress discussion panel, and also in the theme panel where comments can be on/off site wide.

If you don’t know how to edit files manually for the theme you should not attempt any minification. There is no plugin to do it properly, aside from some things which mod_pagespeed running on your server might help with.

If you’re new to HTML and webdev.

The way you “minify” a file is removing extra spaces and line breaks.

For example, open the style.css file in text editor/programmer tool (I use TextPad on Windows, and BBedit on Mac), copy all the text, paste into the CSS minifier (link provided in my prior post); hit minify button, then paste back into the style.css file.

That is what minification is. Plenty of tutorials on the topic online.

In WP config, comments looks like

/** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */

I cover most of this in the pagespeed sticky topic from the past year using the theme. Might be worthwhile to read through that; perhaps going back to front for my later posts.

But basically, you need to manually edit the files you want to minify, then use a tool to “minify” them; then replace the files on server in theme folder, etc., with the optimized versions.

Minifying the style.css file is the simplest thing to start with.

Well, if it “suddenly” stopped working, then something updated or changed to cause that. The theme cannot “magically” change unless you change it. Or, if your host updated something; or if you updated a bad plugin that broke something (or if you have auto updates “on” which is NOT recommended).

So, a “clean” install is best way to go. Save/export your theme settings, then do clean install with current files.

For minification I only recommend the following, and DONE MANUALLY:
I use http://cssminifier.com/

1) remove all the comments in wp-config.php manually
2) minify the style.css file
3) minify the functions.php file
4) if not running mod_pagespeed which does it for you, then you might also consider, manually opening your main post template and remove all double spaces and comments.

these are probably the 3 most loaded files on a WordPress site, and minifying them can really help.

Also putting in your direct URLs for base URL and home URL in the wp-config.php file really helps by saving queries. Similarly direct link to your theme folder also saves queries. But that is a bit advanced. See the WordPress Codex for more info on this topic of optimizing the wp-config.php file for hard-coded PATHS on your domain.

You can *try* minification of the main java file (.js), but this doesn’t always work very well.

Try:
http://javascript-minifier.com/
http://refresh-sf.com/

Or, open the two “main” .js files and just remove all the commenting, if you want a quick and dirty optimization.

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

If it was working before the move, it’s not a theme problem.

Best bet is to remove all caching plugins, or disable them after clearing them.

Perhaps reinstall clean version of WordPress, Visual Composer, and the theme ?

Did you resave your settings? Often moving to new system, you have to go back into a theme panel and “touch” the settings to again save to the dbase (stupid I know…).

That’s about my only suggestion. We moved all our sites to new server a year ago, and had some similar issues because some sites we used the server migration tool (best way to do it), and some we did by hand.

Link?

Note if using YouTube video embeds, YT is often now turning off audio by default, which I’ve run into a couple of times lately, where the audio button on left side bottom of player has “X” on it.

You have to make the option visible on the page you’re creating, from the visibility options top right (built in function of WordPress); open the slider, check boxes for stuff you want to see, then they will be visible on the page) … I had same question couple weeks back, and wen’t “doh!” once I saw that 🙂

Note the theme license code is not for the Visual Composer plugin, if that’s what you’re referring to. The theme license is added at top of admin page when it’s “asked” for.

If that wasn’t the question, pardon my reply 🙂

try this
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/how-to-guide-to-moving-from-newspaper-to-newsmag/

Try this:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/how-to-guide-to-moving-from-newspaper-to-newsmag/

Yes, you upload the single file for the theme, not the whole files zip as that includes docs and psd files, etc.

You need to install Visual Composer from the /plugins/ folder into your /wp-content/plugins/ folder

You need to activate (turn on) the VC plugin first, before the theme will work.

For minification I only recommend the following, and DONE MANUALLY:
I use http://cssminifier.com/

1) remove all the comments in wp-config.php manually
2) minify the style.css file
3) minify the functions.php file
4) if not running mod_pagespeed which does it for you, then you might also consider, manually opening your main post template and remove all double spaces and comments.

these are probably the 3 most loaded files on a WordPress site, and minifying them can really help.

Also putting in your direct URLs for base URL and home URL in the wp-config.php file really helps by saving queries. Similarly direct link to your theme folder also saves queries. But that is a bit advanced. See the WordPress Codex for more info on this topic of optimizing the wp-config.php file for hard-coded PATHS on your domain.

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

There are plugins to manage ad rotation and randomization, but it’s not built-in to the theme. Normally Google randomizes the ads on page load, based on the visitor.

You cannot make ads into a slide show with AdSense, as it violates Google ad policies.

Lucian,
I think you need to include a help document in the downloads for the theme EXPLAINING how the Visual Composer update process works, as this has become the most asked, almost daily question on both forums. And add the doc to the right side under documentation. Seriously. 🙂

Again, test a typical post page… Not your home page.

This random page with newsmag, no caching plugin, no cdn, 3 google ads, google fonts, and youtube video gets a 95 rating…
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/ga-ga.com/zQXF31Wz

It will be faster once i fix the font loading.
Also, youtube links now need to be long version and not the yout.be version, since its a redirect.

Every little thing adds up somewhere.

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Well, server response is not how long the page takes to load, but how long it takes to first respond.

welcome to wordpress… Optimization is a lot of trial and error. I spent entire month of jan 2014 wasted on how to optimize our business site, with minification, cdn yes then no, sub domain to limit number of loads from one domain, mod pagespeed plugin, image optimization, sprites for some things, use fewer plugins, optimize wpconfig file, optimize fuctions.php file, optimize font loading, etc.

Caching issue. If the page is cached it doesn’t read as updated.
I think you need to set the ajax caching option with some cache setups.

See – https://forum.tagdiv.com/ajax-post-view-counter/

I went through this with a previous theme, and was kind of confusing at first.

I’m using the phrase ‘clearly noted in the theme docs’ a little loosely there, but glad that helped somebody 🙂

The license for Newsmag has nothing to do with Visual Composer.

The visual composer does NOT need a license key.

The license key from Themeforest for the Newsmag theme is ONLY to authorize the THEME if/when it asks you to do that.

As clearly noted in the theme docs, you cannot update the bundled version of the plugin yourself. You don’t have a license for Visual Composer. You have a license for the THEME, which includes a ‘bundled’ version of Visual Composer TIED TO THE THEME. The bundled version is ONLY updated when tested compatible with the CUSTOM modules and functions of the theme. So, the bundled version of the VC plugin is updated when the theme is updated, NOT separately.

As noted in the theme docs (links right side of this page), you can simply ignore any message in the WP admin panel about “update available” for Visual Composer. You cannot update it separately from the theme … PERIOD.

Hope that helps clarify!

You need to talk to your hosting company about optimizing the speed of the “server response time.” There is nothing you can do externally to change that, if you have a slow connection outbound to the web. A CDN is supposed to help with that, ironically. Likely talk to a consultant from your hosting provider about what you can do since they claim to offer WordPress optimized hosting. 🙂

Looks like they changed some shortcodes, probably for compatibility with Visual Composer, etc. So, if you were using those shortcodes throughout a site in posts or something that would be the code to rename the shortcodes.

I personally never use shortcodes in posts/pages from a theme, since I’m then locked into that theme forever. Nope. Not going to do it. 🙂

Shortcodes are good for pages, and sidebars, and such, but I’d never recommend using them in posts, personally.

2 seconds response time is your main issue.

Ours is .31 seconds.

Google ideally wants a response time under 3 msec.

They might have fixed that with theme update today.