Fat Tony

Hi George, did you get an opportunity to look at this?

@anyone; I’m troubleshooting a “minimize redirects” problem with GTMetrix scores! Grateful for any tips from experienced developers.

Well I think this says a lot;

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.staging2.fullcombo.net/V5thIXWE

Staging site URL – https://www.staging2.fullcombo.net/

It’s scored significantly higher and 100 against minimize redirects. I also note that the only things disabled here are CDN and adsense. Therefore, I think that I can eliminate plugins and theme defects from the troubleshooting.

Cloudflare or Adsense are causing this poor minimize redirect score. What do you think?

• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by Fat Tony.

Hi George many thanks. I can do this. It is a live site, so I thought i would take advantage of siteground’s “staging” feature to run these tests. Do you think that would be suitable? It is just creating a copy of my site and i can report back soon.

Once it is online I will; disable CDN, disable all plugins, revert to twenty twenty and remove instances of adsense code (it shouldn’t work on the copied site, if i understand correctly?)

Invaluable guidance bcworkz. Thank you very much. I will be investing time following this closely and I will report back. It’s a new one and it’ll be an experience which I am anticipating will require a great deal of patience.

I am used to working in MS Excel and making data do all kinds of backflips using custom functions. I do not think there is a problem I couldn’t resolve in Excel – (barring the most advanced vb script/external connectivity stuff)… if I could get 1/10th the grasp on SQL and php I believe I’ll be able to achieve my goals and from there – onward upward.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by Fat Tony.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by Fat Tony.

Hi bcworkz.

I am very grateful for your response.

I have tried several plugins, but it is rather trial and error and I’m unsure if long term, it’s the way I ought to approach the problem.

I have little experience with MySQL but I have a high aptitude to learn once I am pointed in the right direction.

I’ve never written MySQL queries but I understand the concept behind how they work and how relational databases are used. I’ve also never wrote an executable or understand what is meant by “global $wpdb object methods”… although I can interpret from context this is a standard WP command for interacting with the DB from a wordpress page.

For a quick up-to-speed: is there a tutorial that you could recommend that will have me add a line of code to an empty WordPress page that calls data from the DB?
…from that very primitive position; I think I’ll be on my journey to victory.

same, is this a known bug?

Two quick queries since there have been no responses;

1) Is it worth posting this in either another forum section for feedback?
2) Are there at least any resources or tutorial content on the internet you can point out that I could consider reviewing?

that is nice to know. I have registered at the weaver forums which I can use if I have questions that are really specific to weaver. I have another query that is quite generic:

If I wanted to edit my footer.php file to remove “powered by wordpress” would I need a child theme? From what I understand modifying any parent theme files is unstable and will cause problems when the parent is updated (as well as changes being irreversible). I’m not sure how I’d go about creating a child theme for use with weaver II because the way the parent is related to modifications/script inserts made via the admin panel.

Q. Would a child theme still be manipulated via edits made in the weaver II admin panel?

I have a feeling this is the case. If this is true I can just make a child theme for weaver ii the usual way

yes I have firebug but I was confused identifying different classes and such. I will get used to it.

Yes it did update after restarting my browser. I took the .block-content code from another post where someone was asking the same question. It is apparently a fixed width for all body content (header etc will still scale I guess)

I have just discovered the intuitive looking “weaver ii admin” menu. Maybe this is what I’ve been looking for… did over 4 hours of intensive searches trying to fix the width. Weaver ii admin has a check-box for it.

Getting this set up is a grind. Designing html/css/php from scratch even with no previous experience was infinitely more intuitive but the comments/user registration and plugins for wordpress are too good to ignore. I like to think of this as a good long term investment haha

I may have identified something which is messing with me. Like you noticed earlier, sometimes “updating” my style.css just doesn’t work. It isn’t updating on my pages for whatever reason. So to complicate things, I am not able to see changes and I probably assume I did something wrong.

Trying this in the child style.css:

#site-generator {
    background-color:#333;
    color:#f0f0f0;

}

.block-content{
  width: 960px; /* <- for IE6 */
  max-width: 960px;
}

It’s not updating!

here is a screenshot with “file updated successfully” lies I tells ya!

stylesheet here…

edit: I closed my browser and tried again and finally it updated. My code has not worked though. Is this a case of finding another theme which does not use a scaling/resizing width? if I use a layout without sidebar the website is terribly broken, bad on mobile devices too!

I noticed my main navigation menu items “squash” when I make the window smaller, my header logo scales down in size too! These are two things I definitely need to resolve (want a fixed page width)

What can I change in the style sheet to have fixed width instead of fluid (I think it will be a question of changing “%” to “px” somewhere.

It is frustrating having to ask questions at literally every hurdle. I promise I am spending hours looking through the documentation and google searches before asking questions but I rarely get anywhere. Thanks for being patient with me

that is confusing maybe it didn’t update? I can confirm now that it has the following:

#site-generator {
    background-color:#333;
    color:#0000000;

}

https://www.wildpluckings.com/wp-content/themes/wildtheme/style.css

It isn’t affecting the footer text color though (wrong code?)

screen capture ?? div id “site-generator”

1280×720

Still a beginner with Firebug I hope I am using it correctly

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firebug is mega handy for getting id’s thanks!

I’m experimenting on my footer background/text color. After using firebug I think “site-generator” is the footer id. Here is my code:

#site-generator {
    background-color:#333;
    color:#ccc;

}

I hardly know any code for different colors. Doing it without dreamweaver holding my hand through the process will take time to get used to ?? Not sure how to set the font colour to “#ccc” (light grey). On my old webpage I could just put the above code for a dark grey background and light grey text, but it is not affecting the text on my wordpress site.

Any idea why? Thanks ??