Make sure you’re not in “compatibility mode” in IE10/11 for your website. That mucks with all sorts of things, I found. May not be the issue, but it broke all sorts of things for me. And, if your host uses mod_pagespeed or if you’re using caching be sure to “disallow” your wp-admin and themes folder from being “optimized” or “modified” as that can also break stuff. Mine still works, so usually good idea to backtrack on any new plugin installed which inserts any hooks into the page posts/admin (like a form manager, etc.). Some plugins don’t create unique IDs for their “hooks” and then this breaks other plugins.

I’ve been using WP since end of 2005 on daily basis and not run into that issue before except when I had changed my permalink structure and another time when I had used Yoast to change my permalinks by removing stop words … well, then I had old versions and new versions with inbound links. Hope you figure that one out. Main thing is to make sure NEW duplicate URLs are not being made 🙂 Old ones, you can always do 301s on to fix.

Well, Google will give you a code when you go to verify, and then when you put the code in, they ask you to click to confirm your site once the code is on your site, so if you did it properly you obviously got it. If you look at your site source code now, it should show the verification code. This is why a lot of people just upload the file via FTP and then leave it in the http root of your site (I did this for some sites, put the code in Yoast for others) … either way works — arguably if it’s in the file in your root docs it may save some space in your pages — meaning, not sure it’s “necessary” to have the verification code actually “printed” in the head of every page of your site once you’re verified… you need only do it once …. sooo…. if you figured it out, awesome!!! Glad I could contribute a little bit. I have been helping out a little to give Radu and Marius more time to get next version done which I need to finish a site launch for Feb. and then move on to other stuff. 🙂

This is common with all wordpress themes (and most websites really)… it’s not an issue with this theme.

If you’re interested in “some” of the tricks we’ve been using to try to get around this check out the pagespeed sticky topic.

Using the tagdiv speed booster plugin can help, as can things like caching, mod_pagespeed with hosting provider, etc. It basically “enqueues” several things to load better on pageload.

https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/pagespeed/

It’s a process, I can tell you. I also wouldn’t stress over it tooooo much. Worry about everything ELSE first, and leave THAT for last. Note some of the blocking errors will come from Google’s own products like AdSense.

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

“radu-riffic” 🙂

Looks like you had some change to your permalinks and haven’t done the redirects when you changed the permalink structure.

The theme doesn’t create duplicates or revisions. You might check your database and make sure you delete all revisions. You can also ensure you don’t have some kind of plugin running which connects to your social media when you do a “preview” when posting (meaning the plugin “runs” when the page loads, even if in preview — I had one of those once upon a time which was a pain as it would ping the social media stuff even for a “preview” …)

None of that may apply to you — but from my experience with theme there isn’t anything in the core code which creates additional versions of content– it’s just a theme, and doesn’t create POSTS or revisions.

If you have a module or plugin which puts some kind of tracking ID on the end, that might cause the issue too, where some kind of redirect was supposed to work, but doesn’t.

Not sure if that helps or not.

While debugging you may want to simply turn off all the plugins and temporarily revert to the twenty-twelve theme and then WATCH what your site is doing. Then turn on plugins one by one and see if something weird is happening — may be a rouge/hacked/bad plugin. This isn’t really a forum for general WP debug, but more theme specific help.

Using a plugin like WP-Optimize may help to “clean up” all the junk in your dbase, if you’re not already doing that, too.

Sorry no better answer.

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

When you add a link in your post, simply add target=”_blank” to any link you create in your posting. Basic HTML.

Or, you could make a new CSS class and apply the class to any links you want — this is commonly done with a class “external” then when you make a link in your post do class=”external” … see:
SEE: CSS3 target tag:` http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_target-new.asp
`
This is not a function of the theme. You may want to look at a plugin to do this, or research if there is an “auto link” plugin which makes external links open in new tab/window.

If you want to make all links both no-follow along with open in new window, this plugin is helpful for that – we use this on some of our sites:
http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-external-links/

There is also this plugin I’ve not tried and have no further info on:
http://wordpress.org/plugins/open-external-links-in-a-new-window/

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.
• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

Don’t paste in from MS Word unless you use the MS post filter option in WP. When you copy/paste from MS Word into a post directly it may copy all the HTML code that MS Word uses; this also can happen if you copy/paste from another website in some cases. “Mso” code is from Microsoft Office if memory serves.

If you look at your post in “code view” (showing markup/html) you would see all the carryover html. I often find it useful to “save as” from MS Word to a UTF8 plain text file then paste that text file into WP for cleaner posts.

See this info from WP support pages, which should help
http://en.support.wordpress.com/microsoft-word/

Hmm. Just for fun I took a peek at your source code…

The image being called in your source code is as so:
<img alt='' src='http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/abf051490d0c32a77ab8a253ddd26a0f?s=106&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D106&r=G' class='avatar avatar-106 photo' height='106' width='106' />

Laoding that image in a web browser works fine simply as

http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/abf051490d0c32a77ab8a253ddd26a0f?s=106&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D106&r=G

So, the image not showing may be a restriction that Gravatar is having on your domain/location, or something is breaking that in the browser, possibly another plugin or code which is causing that element to not render. The theme does appear to be inserting the correct code there. So, not sure what is up with that.

It *does* work, as with my page here: http://ga-ga.com/author/csimmons/

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

Hi, I think you have it correct on all points.
Also, when you enter the verification code, you have to from the other open window/tab hit “verify” with Google when doing that — so they will tell you if they didn’t verify your site or not.

YES!!! You should verify your site with Google and Bing and submit sitemaps. In the old days it actually hurt SEO to have Google ping your site in this way vs the classic robot crawl (seriously, the old robot crawl used to give better results in the old times). NOW, it’s imperative to use Google Webmaster Tools as it will tell you of “crawl errors” and “404 pages” (like you delete a story, then do new one, but forget to do redirect from old to new; or fire an author but don’t redirect the author page to the “about us” page), and also warnings about duplicate content, etc. All super valuable in seeing what Google is actually indexing, what they can’t index, or what they won’t index for errors of some kind.

Bing now has a similar thing, but still kind of wonky. I have seen couple of our sites get messages ‘you can submit a sitemap!’ — when the sitemap is already indexed and showing on another tab as indexed (sigh, Microsoft… can’t you ever get it together?). Bing is important as it also feeds Yahoo. So, kind of important for both.

Alexa … well, if you want to get some “guess metrics” about your site, which may not be remotely accurate; by “claiming” your site via an Alexa account you can get some additional metrics in your Alexa account. Alexa is kind of an attempt to guage the audience for websites, but it’s not actually loading stuff from your server stats, and so it’s really all estimated. So, taken with a grain of salt. Unless you’re trying to sell advertising, or working with investors, of just want to see if you’re more popular than your neighbors’ cat blogs, then… really a bit useless when you could simply make great content to grow audience and measure your data from the server site logs (which are more accurate than Google analytics, too, btw). Server logs … well… that’s a whole different story. 🙂

Hi,
I think a VPS would be overkill unless you are making a living from your blog or intend to host multiple blogs and want “total control” of your environment. Nice to have “room” to try different themes, sites, domains, etc., without having to sign up for a “domain based” account someplace. If you do choose a host, look for one that supports mod_pagespeed and also knows what wordpress is 😉

For a CDN, likely not needed unless the host is terribly slow (for example, a slow $5/month hosting plan plus $1/month CDN can be cheaper than $10/month plan, in theory).

For us, a CDN is useful as folks in NY or Canada can get stuff loaded faster when we’re in Calif., and servers are in Texas. It does seem to help as the CSS/JS/images all load from closest “edge” location. Again, usually more necessary for a business case than a blog case (my magazine sites don’t make any money really; they’re a bit of a hobby side thing from our main company business which does rely on high “availability” hence the fun I am personally having right now optimizing shtml/ssi pages in one place and WordPress everywhere else … each need different tweaks… ).

Obviously a host with “point of presence” in Norway is best choice. You don’t want to be loading pages from Texas when your audience is in Norway. I have not used BlueHost. We use SoftLayer to have a full server here in U.S., but that’s totally different from what you need.

Hey!
I chose to use Amazon’s CloudFront since I already have Amazon account and they bill my card on file (I think December was $0.98). CloudFront works well, aside from this pesky issue with Font Awesome 4, which I’m getting same issue from boostrapCDN (free) — sometimes the icons won’t load in IE10/11 or Firefox (both on Windows) for no good reason.

Anywayyyyyy….. in my case I’m using S3+CloudFront since my brother’s company (in the educational software business) uses it, a lot of folks have been testing running WP sites virtually entirely in their cloud (!), and I’ve got a nice app called Cloudberry S3 Explorer which works as both bulk FTP, header settings for expirations, ACL/Public settings, and CloudFront invalidations. So, it was just kind of the best choice. Right now only loading CSS, JS, fonts, static images (logos, little things like BBB bug, etc.). Not yet using for WP.

Upshot … I think folks would likely spend the 30-cents vs free to “test” both for speed.

In my case I did test couple of things against CloudFlare and where I’m at there was couple of msec saved, so seemed worth it to just use Amazon since I know they’re not going to disappear, or get bought by Google and squashed or anything else with other cloud stuff might throw out there. I’m also inherently suspicious of anything “free” as that is no business model, and I need reliable here today, here tomorrow setup for our main business site. So, $1 a month to count on it, vs “free” and might be gone without warning. Was easy choice for me.

Haven’t yet done anything with the WP stuff as waiting for Newspaper “3” if it will have classic WP ‘header.php’ file where I can just point a bunch of the CSS/JS stuff at the CDN without hacking something that will then need re-hacking in 2 weeks.

I also did some research on some articles around and since I don’t need SSL off the cloud (after all I have my own damn server!), this was food for thought:
http://robin.userapp.io/post/66094840975/finding-the-right-cdn-for-our-startup-maxcdn

Oh sorry.
I got confused …. for the Google Publisher code which you have in your first query on this topic, you would put that in YOAST, under

admin > SEO > social > [tab:Google]

You may want to explore the different tabs, options, and such in the Yoast plugin, as all the info is there – just click around on each section to see what is there. Nothing will blow up, and nothing will change unless you set ‘save.’

For getting a Google Webmaster “site verification” which is totally different from the G+ publisher code, you would already have the code if you have Google Anayltics.

The Google Webmaster Verification Code (NOT the G+ publisher code, which is a URL), is just the numeric unique ID they give you. When you request the code in the Webmaster Tools panel, they give you a file, or a link .. all you need to put in Yoast for the Webmaster Verification is the code string which might look something like “asfjahafaaiyIYFigiyg” or similar.

AGAIN – FOR ANY READING THIS POST: Two different things:
1) Google Webmaster Site Verification: used to verify it’s your site with Google for things like submitting/managing sitemap(s), and Analytics.

2) Google+ Publisher Code is to connect the site to your G+ page and vice versa.

Both of these can be dropped into your pages via Yoast SEO plugin for WP (or other such plugins).

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

Here’s the link to the specifics of the speed achieved by Radu and Co. for theme (keep in mind this is with no AdSense or certain funky Facebook boxes which lower scores due to issues with the code being injected, and not issue with the theme):

(OFFICIAL)
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/

Once you do that, then you may want to look at all the shared posts in the pagespeed topic, specifically my shared elements to put in your .htaccess file, if not there already.

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

You can select in the composer when building your home page:
http://import.tagdiv.com/newspaper/doc/#homepage

I believe the theme will ask you to install plugins when you first launch the theme admin panel, if you don’t already have the revolution plugin installed.

If you skipped the “please install plugins” message, I think you can still manually install the plugin from:
/Magazin/includes/plugins/revslider.zip

Hope that helped. 🙂

@creactivate

from admin panel, SEO > dashboard

“Webmaster Tools
You can use the boxes below to verify with the different Webmaster Tools, if your site is already verified, you can just forget about these. Enter the verify meta values for:”
Google _________
Bing __________
Alexa __________

simply put in your code(s).

Simple way to use Gravatars in current version is to turn off the WP User Avatar plugin, and then for each user/author, ( WP admin > settings > user > username ) simply put in their email address for each user – the theme will then grab the image from gravatar without having to do anything else.

I believe there will be an option somewhere down the road, based on Radu’s feedback, to upload a local image for a user in place of pulling the gravatar. You may also need to have gravatars “on” from the discussion option page, but not sure about that one.

Hope that helped.

It’s actually easier to do if you use an SEO plugin like YOAST which has a feature to put both the Google and Bing verification in the code for you, along with managing elements for social media (OG tags), and related. We used to roll our own in house solution from 2005-2013, but now have standardized on Yoast for the SEO header stuff. Works well.

FOR FIRST TIMERS SEEKING TO SPEED UP SITE.
you may find this useful, if you’re going to test using W3 Cache as part of your page speed strategy:

http://gtmetrix.com/wordpress-optimization-guide.html

@Octavian
nice!!

I’ve been sidetracked the past week trying to sort out the random issues with Amazon’s CDN where randomly the font awesome CSS won’t load in IE11 or Firefox on Windows, leaving unstyled elements on our business site; and now the background for one sub-head divider won’t load the background image when using either ../assets/img/filename.gif or the full explicit URL in style sheet. Makes no sense. Went back to loading the FA2 fonts from our own server. Sigh. (This applies to our business site, not the magazine sites; the business site doesn’t use WP for main content, so a bit more flexible; pages are static to begin with so full page caching not needed, obviously.)

As to the WordPress stuff… we’re not using a true “page cache” yet, just the mod_pagespeed caching of page “elements” and not yet using a CDN for the CSS/JS. But this page is not bad; testing a typical article page sans a YouTube video or the AdSense elements but with AddThis in place to see how at least one “pagespeed stumbler” impacts ratings.
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/ga-ga.com/IyjAjIea

GPS: 97 (“A”) / YSLOW 90 (“A”)
Page load time: 1.29s
Total page size: 425KB
Total number of requests: 41

So, 1.29 seconds without page cache or CDN is pretty much not bad as starting point for us, which I could live with before the “next level.”

I’m not yet doing anything further until the new version of the theme drops from Radu’s magic labs.

Apparently for our WP sites, we’ll likely end up using “Varnish” on the server, to manage static pages locally, in front of mod_pagespeed, which peeps tell me is “how it’s done.” That is what is going to get the pages loading in the sub-second range. I may retry the caching plugins for WP to save local copies as I think mod_pagespeed can rewrite the pre-cache or post-cache copy, but still unclear on that. Not sure what Varnish will do to our ecom system or other stuff, so having enough fun with one thing before suffering another.

Great job on the speed!!! 🙂 YOWZZA!

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

Photoshop or GIMP for the image, if you’re using an image slide.

In Photoshop you would typically do something like this
1) save for web
2) jpeg – quality 40 (start with)
3) progressive on
4) blur amount “2”
5) copyright/meta data = none
6) adjust quality down to 20 as needed; avoid images with a lot of red which don’t compress well.

OR: if using PNG for non images, start with PNG-8 and 64 shades dithered.

For GIMP or other editing tools, consult the user docs.

My thinking on the image size would be a “timeout” loading the images into the slides array (too much info) — say, if you had a 1MB image file, it would choke on that.

This is likely NOT the cause, but it’s just something to check as I have seen sites “time out” due to the featured large image being so large that PHP gives up and then rest of page won’t load.

Again, probably NOT the cause — just thinking out loud on that. 🙂

It couldn’t hurt. Point I was making is that Google is going to filter search results for the best match for a specific topic. On most sites these days there is little unique on the home page relative to a page such as “services” or “pricing” or “our staff” where Google would focus on the page related to that topic. Meaning, you don’t want Google to show your home page for your services, you want them to show your services pages when somebody searches for “Anna’s 1986 Whacky Widgets.” 🙂

Additionally, if you’re not building a newspaper layout, you can build any type of page and the title of the page is an H1, or if using a custom taxonomy simply use H1 tags for your header text which you type into the page itself.

That is a clever use of the H1 tag on Joost’s home page:
<h1 class="site-title" itemprop="name"><meta itemprop="logo" content="http://cdn.yoast.com/wp-content/themes/yoast-theme/images/header/logo_x2.png"/><a itemprop="url" href="http://yoast.com/" title="Yoast">Yoast</a></h1>

I’m still surprised they’re (Joost and co.) are not using white space removal and comment removal to optimize the HTML delivery of their pages, which would enhance page load and caching.

Still, an “option” to put an h1 element on the logo div only for home page as a clickable option, might not be a bad idea!

Hm. Might be mis-configured slides like a missing closing bracket on something, missing image, or the image is too large (each image should not be larger than 35kb max realistically)… dunno. Usually it’s something simple like that.

A good thought for improving landing page visibility for non magazine portals using this theme. Note that on “most” magazine sites there is no semantic need for an H1 tag on the “cover page” as there is no unique content, as it’s often dofollow links to the story which has H1 tags and you want THAT page to be indexed under the title of the story as the canonical link and not the same content on home page (I’ve been doing SEO since 1996, fyi, professionally). Often with the “home page” the H1 tag is actually used on a slider to focus on the ‘featured’ information; so for example if you have a slider loading slides via ajax, the “visible slide” would have H1 tags for the “featured” element, or headline, and that would become the H1 tag for the front page as primary element.

On a service portal like Yoast, which is not a news magazine, there is no “featured” element, and so the logo is an appropriate place to use the H1 as he is optimizing for YOAST as well as ‘website optimization.’

So, you may want to check usage of the “slider” options first, which are commonly used for this particular theme and which may have the H1 tag you’re looking for.

Adding a conditional logo tag for only the home page might add bloat to the theme for that purpose.

Also, for “alt tags” — remember you need to actually add the alt tags to your images on upload with the media manager. My sites have proper alt tags on the home page, and have since day one, so not sure where you’re seeing those “missing.”

Hope that contributed to the discussion a little bit 🙂

Chris

(pardon the mix of ” and “” here …. in one of those moods today where lazy to hit the shift key 🙂 )

Hi!
you need to actually create those ‘pages’ under admin > pages, and then edit the footer menu under admin > appearance > menus to point to the pages you’ve created.

ALSO:
You may also find the documentation for this theme useful:

http://import.tagdiv.com/newspaper/doc/#menuu

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.