thehalogod

So it’s content related then? I just need to go into blog posts and search for Image by etc. etc. and then update it?

ermmm… it’s not for me. In either case, it’s sort of a non issue. If you simply take this URL:

https://www.photographytips.net/feed/

Put it in the validator:

https://validator.w3.org/feed/

You’ll see the error right?

Well, if you enter it via a feed validator like this one it should still show up:

https://validator.w3.org/feed/

(I’ve disabled the plugin that auto forwards to feedburner though)

No, as I mentioned earlier I have a dedicated server and have root access etc.

I could change the permissions before, but after upgrade or somehow sometime along the line (because I didn’t notice the plugin wasn’t working) it stopped working and didn’t allow me to change permission files or even delete the files.

I can’t even delete the plugin from my server…

I understand file permissions. It’s very simple to use CHMOD to change the settings.

Can you please advise or no?

I have root access to my server. I connected via FTP and used CHMOD to try and change permissions to 777 (I normally have no issues changing permissions or on this server)

There isn’t a plugin that can do it? I just would prefer to avoid editing the theme files etc.

Boo… Alright, I’ll just keep on searching ??

No shopping cart plugin authors frequent this forum eh?

Just sent a ticket

So until I upgrade to PHP 5 I will not have any HTML, JS or CSS minifying? (makes sense).

I basically just run WordPress blogs. I’ll talk to my server management team about upgrading to PHP 5.

To your last point: is that something that your premium service helps out with? The Yellow issues I’m not as concerned about. It’s mainly the Red ones. I do need to increase the speed at which my site loads though as I worry about the influence page load has on search engine rankings and it’s affect on me.

Update: Ok so the plugin is installed, but I don’t have PHP 5 installed (Doh! didn’t know it was a requirement…)

In any case I have the following settings used:

Page Caching: Enable
Page Caching Method: Disk (enhanced)
HTTP Compression: gzip and deflate (best)

Minifiy: Not enabled (requires PHP 5)

Database Caching: Enable
Database Caching Method: Disk

CDN: Not enabled (don’t have one… yet)

The rest of the settings are all the default ones.

I don’t see a huge improvement though; however, I don’t have PHP 5 I know. (I can work on getting this installed… is there a downside to installing it?)

In fact, I’m still showing about a 12 second load time in Firefox when I hit the refresh button and use the Firebug “net” tab (Could it be because of no PHP 5 though?)

I also tried running the Page Speed Google plugin and it still lists out several things I could improve:

Red:
Leverage Browser Caching
Combine External JavaScript
MinifiyCSS
Optimize the order of styles and scripts

Yellow:
Enable gzip compression
Minimize DNS lookups
Combine External CSS
Specify image dimensions
Minimize redirects
Remove unused CSS
Serve static content from a cookieless domain
Minimize cookie size
Use efficient CSS selectors

Suggestions / ideas beyond getting PHP 5 installed? (Can’t it break some stuff if PHP 4 is what I’m using now and everything works?)

Hey Senator,

I didn’t want to activate the plugin while I had everything else running for fear of some sort of problem. I’m deactivating my old plugins now and moving onto this one then ??

If this works as great as everyone says it does (which I suggest it does) you may be getting a nice gift from me.

Hey Frederick,

Ok I see my mistake (noob move I looked in the wrong file folder). My question though is do I still need to use Gzippy or WP-minify as well? Or is that functionality already built into the site?

Chris

Here is the website I’m testing it out on:

https://www.netbookreviews.com

Any suggestions / can you tell if it’s working? I have WP Super Cache, WP Minify and Gzippy installed but when I run the Page Speed plugin for Firefox I still get errors saying things could be greatly improved.

I already reduced the number of posts that display on the home page from 8 to 5 and I’ve gone through my theme and replaced the php calls with direct URLs to the files. I’ve even gone through and made sure the width and height parameters were set for every image used in the style as well.