Current Website/Wordpress Bugs Q&A

ArchivedUser

Mobile adjustments would also bump up the website in search engines, crawlers likes that.

Not a bug per say, but forum subcription emails get flagged as spam mail. Taking a look at that might be of interest.

ArchivedUser

Limits for videos in forums....

https://www.ashesofcreation.com/forums/topic/epic-dungeon-design/

ArchivedUser

A suggestion for web & blog, a button for subscription to follow all blog developers...

Regards!!!

ArchivedUser

When yo go to insert a link in your profile, background and text are in white....

https://gyazo.com/92879529bb31c4e73030dcfd16333ca3

ArchivedUser

Well as i can see you are using theme version 3.2.1 and there is 3.2.5

Version 3.2.5

fixed variable product “select options“ button on shop page (prevent add to cart, follow to product page)

Version 3.2.4

added support for fifth and sixth footer social buttons
improved Query options in Recent Posts and Posts Carousel shortcodes
fixed alt attribute on logos, carousel images
fixed notification count show in some cases when user is no logged in
fixed recent posts widget save state for checkboxes (in admin side)
fixed banner image visibility when banner image opacity is set to 100%
fixed BuddyPress user nickname show when disabled Activity Streams component

Version 3.2.3

fixed BuddyPress error in navigation when disabled notifications component
fixed cart and checkout coupons and totals update

Version 3.2.2

updated theme dashboard
fixed updater retrieve download link after activation

tip: Always keep wordpress, theme and plugins updated.

ArchivedUser

Im having a issue with the referral statistics page, its only showing 4 campaigns instead of all the ones ive created (i more or less create one for each time i give out the link)
<a href="http://imgur.com/leo57ik"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/leo57ik.png" /></a>

ArchivedUser

Icons are messed up http://imgur.com/a/GDrhx

ArchivedUser

When linking a url in a forums post with out using the <strong>link tag</strong> it shows a preview of the link that takes up a fair chunk of screen-space and ventures into other posts.

ArchivedUser

Optimize site asap!

Problems:
optimize images
inline small css
defer parsing of javascript
remove query strings from static resources

I see that you dont use any plugins which would help to load site faster.

I recommend WP Rocket, its paid but its worth it!
For image optimization i recommend Imagify, its free for 25mb image optimization per month, but you can always pay for more mb, even 25mb its more then enough for site like this. Both WP Rocket and Imagify are coming from same developer. If you want save little money, install Imagify and you will see banner in his options where you can see discount for 20% which you can use for WP Rocket. WP Rocket is 39$ - 20% discount, i think you can afford it because stats are disaster, and this is with unlimited speed, imagine visitor with 1mb/s download speed, it would take even longer. http://imgur.com/a/za8cO

ArchivedUser

Little tutorial how to get your wordpress faster:

1. Cache plugin - Most popular is W3 Total Cache (but before you install it, check youtube videos from 2017 not older)

2. Compress image - You can use WP Smush or Imagify (it will resize, optimize and compress image). Your visitors will load site much faster.

3. Gzip compression - It can reduce size of page up to 70%! If you use apache, (make backup of your .htaccess first!) you can paste this in your .htaccess (it is located in your root, other words where your wordpress is installed):

<pre><code><IfModule mod_deflate.c>
# Compress HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Text, XML and fonts
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-opentype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-otf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-truetype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml

# Remove browser bugs (only needed for really old browsers)
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
Header append Vary User-Agent
</IfModule></code></pre>




4. Leverage browser caching - If your visitors are visiting your site every day or several times a day, with leverage browser caching they wont spend loading time on downloading files again and again instead they will use saved files in their browser. This is for Apache! To add this (make backup of your .htaccess first!), again go to .htaccess and add:

<pre><code>## EXPIRES CACHING ##
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 days"
</IfModule>
## EXPIRES CACHING ##</code></pre>




You can compare stats before and after on this site: https://gtmetrix.com/

For even faster loading i suggest CDN Cloudflare. They have free plan https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/ What CDN means? It means if im from Croatia and i visit site XYX.COM which is hosted in United States, it will take longer time for me to load site then visitor who lives in United States. Cloudflare have lots of server all over the world so site with CDN, i will save 0.X or X sec on loading site, so instead connecting Croatia - United States, i will connect to Germany or Italy depends which CDN server is closest to mine location.

As i said above, before you do ANY changes to 1 file or whole site, backup that 1 file or whole site (including mysql base ofc).

Hosting:
Ofc you will first use lowest shared hosting because there is no need paying for higher shared hosting, vps or dedi server. Once you get vps server response time will be lower which is better. Switching to vps is only nessesery when your higher package of shared hosting is mess, i mean slower site, crashes, errors etc. If you ask me where to buy hosting? I cant tell you that, you need to search it for yourself because i dont want to be called if hosting is really bad for you.

Domain:
Namecheap.com or Godaddy.com for first year you can find some coupons, just go to namecheap or godaddy, search for domain you like and install on Mozilla/Chrome Honey addon, when your domain is in cart and you see coupon code field, simply click Honey icon it will find cheapest price for your domain. Remember, if you buy 1 or 2 year domain for 8/15$, before domain expire price will be higher because there is almost none good renew domain coupon.