AMP basically strips out the theme from the mobile version

  • I just upgraded to 4.8 today, but this problem persists. I know that part of this post is going to be spent educating me, and part of it actual trouble shooting.

    Since AMP is part of Jetpack and WP now – it seems there’s no way to turn it off so that I could try that to test my layouts. (Confused?)

    I thought that AMP was about being so specific about how things load, things would still load unless they were truly non-compliant. I don’t understand why it has so removed ALL STYLE so the site is as basic and ugly as if it didn’t have a theme at all. Shouldn’t it default only to the AMP version when that’s what the situation calls for? No more pretty mobile sites?

    There is no Hemingway theme header or menus. It’s just the blue drop-down menu bar. It makes me so sad. Don’t tell me: Hemingway is not compliant? Or this is what I’m stuck with? (I will x-post this to the Hemingway forum when I find it.)

    I had set my colours in AMP to green. They display as turquoise blue. The visualizer in the Customizer tool is so inadequate (sorry, but that’s what I experience) that I cannot see anything except a single post on a page.

    And it also seems to have stripped out all sort of other layout customization. I thought AMP didn’t apply to Pages, only Posts, but it _is_ applying itself to my About Page (not post) on mobile. It has allowed me to have Google Fonts, but certain Widgets, such as the Meta widget are there that should not be anywhere — even on certain pages where I had turned widgets off (or rather, did not turn them on for that page, such as Archives that I only want visible on the Home page, not on About or on Posts).

    The site I’m working with: https://bigcitylittlehomestead.ca
    If you make your browser window small, it’ll show you what I wish it showed you on Mobile. On mobile – all is turquoise, and plain.

    Anyone who can explain what I need to know would be paid in good karma from Montreal. That might mean a decent parking spot during the season of construction. I don’t know.

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  • Hi Janerette,

    The thing with AMP is that it makes the pages really fast. I watched a lot of videos last year when I first heard about the AMP Project.

    I participated in a study group with Google, about AMP pages. I was able to see how different an AMP page looked if I centered my illustrations, rather than having them right or left.

    I personally like to indent things so that there’s a sort of outline on pages, so that information is clearer, but in AMP doing that squeezes things too much to the right, so I’ve had to go through my pages and take that kind of styling out.

    If you choose a theme that is Responsive, then your mobile pages will show a lot more of the style you like, but your pages will not be as fast as AMP.

    AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Project. To accelerate pages they have to be stripped down.

    You can choose the color for the navigation bar… ??

    Karen

    Do you use the test me thing? I like the way your website looks in AMP.

    https://mobiletest.me/iphone_5_emulator/?u=https://bigcitylittlehomestead.ca/?amp

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