I think my links to recommended minify resources are in the sticky topic on pagespeed, but I generally use one of these:

for CSS (used this yesterday): http://cssminifier.com/

for JS/CSS (sometimes site is down) – used this on newspaper 2x for one of my two test sites (‘ga-ga’ site methinks):
http://refresh-sf.com/yui/
JavaScript Options = Minify only, no symbol obfuscation.

I’ve also used this once or twice, but one of my web browsers didn’t like it
http://www.csscompressor.com/

Probably wouldn’t hurt to add an item for that to the documentation
https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-documentation/

Not sure where you get the “1170px is a little bit outdated” … as that is one of the core breakpoints for Bootstrap – the most used framework in the world right now – and the very common 1170 grid.

Bootstrap containers are 750px 970px 1170px

e.g.
http://getbootstrap.com/css/

Extra small devices Phones (<768px)

Small devices Tablets (≥768px)

Medium devices Desktops (≥992px)

Large devices Desktops (≥1200px)

Grid behavior
Horizontal at all times Collapsed to start, horizontal above breakpoints

Container width
None (auto) 750px 970px 1170px

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

I did so on 2x and have not done so on 3x. Did speed things up.

This may not be specific to your issue, but FOUT is a common issue with the trade off between fancy fonts and page load/speed.

This is called “flash of unstyled text” (FOUT) and is a common issue with using Google Fonts (etc.), as they are loaded from someplace other than your own site/server. SO, often the page starts to load, uses browser fonts, then the fonts load from external source (e.g., Google CDN). This is somewhat unavoidable if you’re going for maximum “pagespeed” as not everything can load at same time even when async or using the speed booster beta plugin; many times the loader for such fonts is deferred and moved to bottom of page to allow “above the fold” content to load quickly for a better pagspeed rating — such as with Google PageSpeed Insights).

Often something is slowing page down like a plugin, too large image, or similar, and this “holds up” getting to the font loading.

Solutions typically
1) change order of font loading
2) switch to web-safe fonts only
3) if using CSS over-rides on style sheet embedded in page AFTER main style loads, better to edit style sheet if there is measurable delay between the default style loading and the over-ride (meaning if main style is at 48 and your over-ride is 40; then the 48px still loads first, and then gets over-ride – by not doing over ride and editing core file, it starts at 40px to begin with).

FOUT isn’t too terrible, but it can be annoying.

Some of the above may be only informational to your issue, but I’ve been learning to live with this on some of our sites for better speed.

Works fine for me on our site, online. Have not tried on localhost/xampp on Mac or Windows.

Hello #nowsathkwt

be sure you do this
1) https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
page cache, speed booster plugin beta
2) add the elements to htaccess file for expires headers, caching, etc.
3) make sure your server had gzip/deflate compression
4) install image optimize plugin, or change default compression in functions.php, re-render your images for compression
5) run speed test at GTmetrix (etc.); fix suggestions

Your site
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/connectkuwait.com/j8vmwWPR

note issues
* you don’t have expires headers on your site content; you need to add those to your htaccess file per my recommendations in this topic thread
* need to optimize images further
* you won’t be able to fix the stuff you’re loading off other sites like the .me.uk domain which is responsible for many of your “rating errors” — you’re loading images, CSS, JS and such from many other sites, and these all slow down your site and don’t meet the current optimization standards.

Hm. I don’t see an update as of Feb 18 on themeforest (last update Feb 11), and haven’t seen an email saying new version posted. The changelog from Feb 11 is on themeforest (on theme page). I think the new 3.2 update is pending Radu’s final testing “any day now” but not yet live. Correct me if wrong on that. I’ve been checking in every day this week on that, hence this comment. Haven’t seen 3.2 yet.

Wow. grow up or you won’t get much support from others here.

Gotcha – makes sense to me 🙂

Probably explains why the custom functions didn’t work for me one our two test sites.

I switched one from using child theme to only use parent (since Google doesn’t like the CSS redirect, for their own peculiar reasons) and simply edited the parent functions.php to put my custom functions at end (like changing compression rate for images, removing excess css publication, etc.).

Hopefully this will be addressed soon for those using child theme for mods.

All folks pulling in content from twitter may find this page useful, which is current twitter status for all APIs:
https://dev.twitter.com/status

See the ‘sticky’ discussion at top of the forum. It’s worth reading through all of that to get a better sense of options, and what others have done.
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/pagespeed/

Some of that is also found in the docs
https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-documentation/

🙂

@nihar105479
wow. Really amazing.

Would you mind sharing how you achieved the score, specifically? Overall the pages load very slow from here in Calif., USA, but once loaded, everything is quick.

I notice today the PageSpeed Insights is down, but of course that is their pesky suggestions on stuff with your site being 76/mobile and 89/desktop and their own content causing issues, along with the normal social media bugs.

Great score on GTMetrix! 🙂

The “normal” way to do this is to add the call to your child theme folder functions.php to pull the js from your child theme directory vs the parent directory.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-add-js-files-to-child-theme

It’s becoming a common user interface element to have a “tap to search” function, where when the magnifier icon (aka “search” icon) is tapped, a viewport specific box will appear either in place with wide screen, or as a modal type element for ease of use on mobile.

Many examples online, but for example you could see this with Google’s YouTube site when on, say, an iPad in portrait mode. The icon is there, box is not. Click icon, new box appears larger and to fit viewport/device for ease of use.

Similarly, a bold new site design by NBC News, http://www.nbcnews.com/
also uses this same approach.

“most” people don’t go to a news portal and “search” for content unless they’re doing a particular research task.

So, “new think” — more “above the fold” space for people “browsing” content or who have clicked in from external link (email, social, etc.) to read specific item. Then, for researchers, tap/click to search with either in place or modal type search box.

For those in the web design field by profession, you can also see this on UX/design sites like “.net magazine” http://www.creativebloq.com/net-magazine

Hundreds of other examples, but just examples.

Radu and co. have followed this concept for the Newspaper theme, where more horizontal space is given for the actual navigation topics and drop downs, with search a tap to click which doesn’t interfere with the main nav element (in theory).

Your needs may vary, but this is why/how Radu and co did it the way it’s now done. It’s not an isolated idea, but a trend which is proven useful for solving above the fold visibility issues on varied mobile devices for content and main navigation over an “always on” search box.

And, again, for those who need an “always on” high visibility search box, you can add the built-in search from WP to any widget area, unless I’m mistaken.

WP admin > appearance > widgets > search

Hope that made sense. 🙂

Just my thoughts on this topic, and it’s not intended to invalidate or argue against your particular needs. Just a comment as to my preference for having Radu work on the fixes to the core elements post migration to v3 framework, versus “changing” too many of the established design elements which are clearly shown in the demo.

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

Since it’s unique to this site where you’re having the issue; have you tried switching back to the default theme (e.g., twenty-twelve, etc). There isn’t anything in the Newspaper theme that would “time delay” your posts being seen on your website. If you publish a new post, the only reason you wouldn’t be able to see an updated index would be caching, either your plugin settings, web browser, etc.

I had this happen once. Check the wp admin > user – and then check the “username” to make sure there are not any bad characters, or a space in the name. Also, resave your permalinks.

I had one user account where a blank space after the username messed things up, as I think it was trying to put a %20 in there and that so did not work.

e.g., /site/author/bunny%20/ …

Might not help but check those two things first
1) username/nickname, which is used for the author URL (e.g., “bunny” would be /site/author/bunny )
2) resave permalinks — for some reason this sometimes fixes things after WP update or any major change.

Update via FTP is best way to go, as with ALL wordpress themes. Or from a filemanager in your hosting panel.

You will need to make these changes after upgrade also:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-newspaper-from-v2-to-v3/

I’ll be doing this also. I “think” that the main changes may end up being to the advertising elements, and some additional module options for home page. I haven’t yet updated my site as I’m waiting for 3.2 to do the upgrade.

I suppose Radu may have a doc someplace on “upgrading from v2 to v3 – changes” … ? I will go look. OH … well, here’s why I love these guys:

https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-newspaper-from-v2-to-v3/

That does appear to be less painful than I was “imagining” for the upgrade/update. So, once 3.2 is live, I’ll be updating mine. Looks pretty straightforward.

I think for most of the usability (UX) design elements happening right now, this theme is properly designed. “on site” search is used only a tiny fraction for most folks who surf in from social media or other link. Visitors to home page would explore on page elements before search. In our case we happen to prefer the search only be visible when tapped as this has become very much the norm (e.g., YouTube, Google, et al), as it puts a box where no box is needed unless asked for. And, a LOT of people forget if they are desperate to have a big visible search box, simply put it in the sidebar using the built-in wordpress widget. For the navbar, I prefer how it’s done now, as “search” isn’t technically part of “navigation” but a separate function, so from a UX standpoint, Radu got it right the first time.

That takes nothing away from those who need it, however, I — and many others here — would prefer the CORE features get updated and solified further before additional “alt” functions are added, as this takes time away from the evolution of the product as originally created — meaning, the demo shows how search works, so asking to change it now isn’t necessarily a bad thing for your purposes, but not how the theme was developed based around “current think” on UX dev.

Just my four cents. 🙂

Just check the “send me updates” option in your list of purchased items on Theme Forest. Every time the new version is uploaded and approved by the system, you get an email saying “Newspaper has been updated” and with link to your account, download, and the theme page. Works 🙂

Hi !!!

You may want to peruse all the online support for WordPress, as it’s a fairly popular publishing platform.

e.g., how to embed a twitter post into a WP post
http://en.support.wordpress.com/twitter/twitter-embeds/

http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

FYI
Google is a great resource for doing this kind of search

add captcha to buddypress registration

http://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-control-spam-registration/

the summary from above seems to be:

Rename (not remove) wp-signup.php

Use custom bp-register slug

Removed “powered by” type text in the footer and other obviously WP / BP phrases

Installed NoSpamNX

Installed WP-BAN

Installed SI Captcha

Employed the .htaccess rules explained here: http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/spam-blogs-and-buddypress/

Nothing’s perfect against spam, but certainly for me, these things have helped.

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

Normally when you install the plugin it will attach itself to the built-in ‘hooks’ for registration forms such as comment box, registration, etc.

See the help for the specific plugin you choose.

Typically you’d use the recaptcha plugin or similar which hooks into Google’s recaptcha API -or- an alternative. This one has gotten some good reviews, but I’ve not yet tried it. http://wordpress.org/plugins/botdetect-wp-captcha/

we’ve used this one for years, but it looks like the person managing it is moving on to other things; note that since Google has started doing plugins for WP, they make take it on: http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-recaptcha/

the developer of that has recommended looking at this as an alternative
http://wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-recaptcha/