Just for reference, the code I posted in the PageSpeed sticky topic – which can be added to bottom of functions.php file. Your mileage may vary 🙂
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 );
What a plugin named for the purpose it’s designed for ? Whoa! 🙂
What some folks do for optimization is turn OFF all the standard RSS feeds, then create a custom page to use as a single customized RSS feed, along with a photo or thumbnail from the prebuilt sizes, then direct all feed requests to that single RSS feed. Kinda complex, but another way to go.
Yes. Sort of. Technically there is a hack for the WordPress core code for the thumbnail generator — not part of the theme.
However great news for all! The hack widely used (done back in 2011!!!!!), is being rolled into WordPress 3.9 ( $crop parameter in the add_image_size function ).
So, wait just a little bit for WP 3.9 which will solve a wide variety of the “duh” things folks have been asking for since WP 3 launched.
I’m sure once 3.9 is live, Radu/co will put the option in there someplace, since crop from top vs middle-out is more useful for most.
There is a plugin I recommended to somebody else this past week here on the forum, which allows you to specify crop position on upload of image, in a 9 box grid (should be built in to WP, but isn’t).
E.g., in WP 3.9
the functions can be set as so with a crop direction
add_image_size( 'screenshot', 300, 300, array( 'left', 'top' ) );
WP 3.9 also adds HTML5 image galleries (won’t need to use JetPack!); and also audio/video PLAYLISTS!!
Page template filters will really help those who need more “different blah on page blah” stuff.
I would stick with ONLY enabling Page Cache.
And now … my morning soapbox: brought to you by clean living and cute kittens ….
Remember that if you’re using the TagDiv Speed Booster plugin, it is MOVING things around on the page for better performance when the page is loaded. You do not want the dynamic stuff cached or it won’t show updates to things on pages. Your home page would not show new items, categories wouldn’t show new items, sidebars wouldn’t show new, recent, related, etc.
So, you only want to enable the page cache which will basically serve up a snapshot of the page and not the dynamic stuff which is still called via php.
Newspaper type sites are way more complex than say, a blog about raising rabbits on a farm, or a bicycling blog updated once a month. If you have content updated daily, or even hourly, caching can help with speed and limit load on server, but it can be TRICKY to optimize for YOUR particular website, due to how elements are loaded on pages, where they are, what other optimizations are running, etc.
There truly is no “one click” caching option for any busy, complex website. Blogs sure. Complex websites need to be tweaked for advanced tools like caching, just like all the other tweaks not built-in to WordPress, or the theme.
So, for most advanced users, there is trial and error – nothing to do with the theme, and not covered by support team for your particular use.
The theme devs have “recommended” you only use Page Cache, as that is how they achieve their own high speed rating/score.
So, you may wish to
1) fully optimize your site, outside of caching!
2) enable tagdiv speed booster and make sure nothing breaks if you’re using some kind of external plugin which might conflict with the optimizations (on our site the < > arrows disappear in 3.6, with WP 3.8.1; with 3.5 the slide out “you might like” broke) — you have to decide if this is a benefit for you or not; YOU need to test, decide, then either use or not for YOUR particular solution
3) make trusted backups of your site before doing any caching!!
4) enable W3C and use page cache only; test your site — either determine if it works for you or not, and some trade offs, and if there are workarounds for some things like page counters, random or recent dynamic elements, etc. — and there are forum posts on issues other have faced with using specific plugins, or with certain features in use (e.g., JetPack, forms, membership, bbpress, etc.)
5) adjust, test, adjust, test.
If you have no idea how to do any of that you likely would need to hire a developer at an hourly rate. Or, do what most of us do which is trial, error, forums, Google search, test, retest, learn, fail, learn.
The reason there is no simple “how to” for caching, is that there are a hundred things which might be impacted by that if you turn on every option in the theme and load up a dozen external plugins.
In a perfect world, for caching, the average joe might try this:
1) setup the theme with only the basic functions; no special menu, no JetPack, no “counters” for social media reads, one ad management system or AdSense.
2) enable tagDiv Speed Booster BETA plugin to optimize the placement of the CSS, JS components, Google fonts, et al.
3) put in the basic optimizations: a) gzip/deflate at server level, b) htaccess, c) image optimization tweaks (plugin, and/or functions.php mod from my speed posts)
4) W3C or other caching with minimal page caching settings.
5) test site.
6) turn on the “fun” features like megamenu, jetpack, forms, social reads/likes; choose what works; what doesn’t — either find workaround or don’t use.
There is ALWAYS a tradeoff between speed and features. You can’t have 100 add-ons and have the speed of a site with 15 add-ons. So, YOU need to decide if speed vs features matters, or other way around.
Hope that helps somebody!
Copr. © 2014 Christopher Simmons.
gzip/deflate is managed at the web server level – it needs to be running for your hosting account. This allows the web server to automatically compress everything sent by the web server from your site to the web browser. This alone is good for 20+ points. This is the #1 thing which should be addressed. Ideally your web host should have this on for your account. If they won’t enable it, move to another host who will!
If you look at my posts there is an example of the .htaccess settings that I used for
the “expiration headers”
For images:
1) you need to use a compression plugin, like smush.it or similar (see comments from others in the thread); this will optimize all the thumbs created by WP and the theme
2) upload well compressed images (e.g., 25-40kb max, not 150kb or 700kb — unless you’re doing some kind of photo/portfolio site where quality is first concern)
3) consider changing the compression level by default in WP, which is done in the functions.php file at bottom using the code I’ve suggested in my posts — setting it to something like “60” vs the default “90” (I think), will cut the size of the thumbs by a huge amount.
For my particular brand of magic, try putting this at the end of your .htaccess file:
AddType text/javascript .js
# BEGIN Expire headers
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 5 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 700000 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 700000 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 700000 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 700000 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 600 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/xhtml+xml "access plus 600 seconds"
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header unset ETag
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_alias.c>
RedirectMatch 403 /xmlrpc.php
</IfModule>NOTE: if you use pingback or post by email, don’t put in that last 3 lines, as I do this to keep spammers from posting comments via pingback even when comments are off (!).
The above assumes your web host is running Apache, and not IIS, or nginx or other. If so, you might have to tweak those for your particular host. Apache is the most common, however.
Also: make backup, via FTP, or your hosting panel fileManager of your .htaccess file first; then if your site doesn’t load with the new elements, put back your original version.
Hope that helped.
1) Select the author you want to use when creating post? You can select this in WP, as a built-in function at bottom of post screen from drop-down menu – not a theme function. (Both pages and posts!)
2) login to post as author account vs logging in as admin. Any posts you do when logged in as author are assigned to that author.
3) if using a syndication system, set posts to post “as author” not admin.
If you would like to change the author for more than one post then go to the edit posts in wordpress admin area; select the post and select bulk edit from drop down and change the author (the “user” level must be set at “author” not contributor for this to work).
You can also change the “display name” of the admin, by editing that user and putting in a name, then use drop down on author (“admin”) info page, to display that “name” in place of the word “admin.”
Aside: for security in WP, you should *always* delete the “admin” account after you create something else as the admin, with superuser privileges.
Hope that helped. Might not be specific to your issue, however.
Hmmm. On my iPad the menu fits just fine (ga-ga.com test site, under construction). If you add too many elements (more than 7 or 8 menu items, it will break). I think somebody on here removed the search icon, and moved that to sidebar, which provided a bit more room.
Probably an option to have a slide out menu in place of the main menu as a toggle option for the breakpoint would be good.
I’m sure Marius will have a solution to change the breakpoint for the menu for your particular site.
I’m very happy the theme even has a “regular” menu bar for iPad portrait as just about everybody is going with “no menu” and the mobile drop or slide out.
