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I've seen more than a few WordPress sites (and even sites done in years before WordPress was even heard of) where the designers or developers minified HTML, CSS and/or JS, and ended up with broken web sites....I even had it happen on a site that was pure HTML...so this isn't any kind of problem with WP-Rocket.
I also agree with WP-Rocket's advice that minifying that stuff doesn't really make a big difference in page speed...regardless of what Google has to say about it. Many people have been led far astray by following Google's advice and dictates.
Minify at your own risk.
*MoodyRiviera*
Just the other day I was watching a video while setting up WP-Rocket (caching plugin) on one of my web sites, and in the video they suggested caution when minifying CSS and JS.
You're probably planning to do this in some other way than using WP-Rocket, but the advice they gave might apply anyway.
What they basically said was, even though it's easy to set WP-Rocket options to minify HTML, CSS, Google Fonts, and JS, they warned about possible problems when minifying...especially when minifying the CSS and JS...and their basic advice was to be careful.
They also indicated that minifying these things has minimal effect on your site speed.
*MoodyRiviera*
Welcome to the Genesis world, Stuart.
Everyone who answers your post will probably have a different way of answering your question. My response is:
You have the Genesis framework. Not sure if you have any Genesis child themes, but if you don't have one of those, get one...either on StudioPress or somewhere else.
Then, using what you may have learned already, before you start trying to *create* a theme...I recommend that you start with just creating a web site using the Genesis framework and one of the child themes.
And then try another child theme. Check to see what the Genesis framework can actually do.
This shouldn't take too long, and might help you get a feel for how Genesis actually works before you start trying to build a theme yourself.
*MoodyRiviera*
Yes, what Victor said...and I can add that in the (probably three or four years) that I've been using Genesis, I've never had a problem associated with a Genesis update...so in case you're worried about that aspect, I don't think it's an issue. Genesis updates have always been rock solid...at least for me.
*MoodyRiviera*
Just throwing this out there...maybe it's the proxy cache server on your ISP...can't remember the exact name of it...but sometimes those things take awhile to refresh the cache, and no matter what changes you might make and no matter how much you've cleaned out your browser cache, that proxy server will sometimes hang on to its cache for an annoyingly long time...and doesn't seem to be much you can do about it except wait.
I had this happen to me just three nights ago and I finally gave up and waited until the next day, and then (miraculously) I could finally see the changes I had made.
*MoodyRiviera*
Even though I like WordPress and I like Genesis and I like StudioPress, and lots of other software-related things, my biggest complaint is, and has always been, the lack of worthwhile documentation. It's as if we were supposed to have been born knowing all this stuff...it's outrageous...and incredibly annoying...and it really would *not* be that hard for these outfits to create some good documentation...but they just don't do it. And I don't see any signs that it's ever going to change.
*MoodyRiviera*
Always great to hear positive comments about Genesis...lots of us here would agree that Genesis is great...thanks.
*MoodyRiviera*
Sorry I can't think of any of those posts right this minute, but I know there were a few people asking about the perceived lack of new themes.
Bottom line for me is that I don't see anything on the horizon that indicates that StudioPress is going to give up and/or collapse, and don't see anything coming that's likely to topple StudioPress and Genesis from their lofty perch.
Of course nothing lasts forever. Not sure if you know much about print production, but in the 1990s and into the early 2000s, QuarkXPress (page layout program) was the mainstay of the print-publishing business. Just about every professional designer and production person used QuarkXPress for everything...brochures, books, ads, catalogs...you name it.
QuarkXPress was at the top of the heap.
But, something else did come along...something produced by a large company with lots of resources...something that addressed many of the shortcoming of QuarkXPress, and addressed many of the bad feelings people had about the company that created QuarkXPress...and in a matter of a few quick years, Adobe InDesign had replaced QuarkXPress almost everywhere.
That was something almost no one could have seen coming...but it did happen.
My bottom line is do the best you can to investigate what you think is going to happen...and then realize that you can't build your business on worrying about a problem you think might happen when there's no real solution to look forward to.
There's no such thing as a sure thing.
*MoodyRiviera*
Interestingly enough, I also am running Chrome on a Macintosh, and for me, the links in your text areas are white and stay white on hover.
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Excellent question...and it's something I think lots of people have been wondering about. In fact, I've seen other posts on this forum asking pretty much the same question.
It does seem that the StudioPress developers are devoting more and more time and talent to their other projects and not paying as much attention to theme development.
It reminds me of Apple...who made their name and their fortune based on the Mac OS and their excellent Macintosh hardware...but now they seem to have become mostly a phone company...and obviously all their attention is now on further development of iOS and the iPhone...because that's where the real money is now...and OS X seems to be almost ignored...seems that the "second-string" developers are the only ones still working on OS X.
Not saying that StudioPress is leaving the theme business in the hands of less-talented developers, but things are definitely not the same as they once were here in StudioPressLand.
Having said all that, I still think that Genesis and StudioPress themes are the way to go. I say that because of how well they work, and because it's seems very unlikely that StudioPress is just going to give up on this whole thing and only pay attention to Rainmaker or whatever it is that seems to have all their attention.
I also say this because themes I see coming from other developers, even though they may be slick and cool and all that, just don't seem to have the same infrastructure behind them. StudioPress has a long history...and seems solid...but can we really say that about a theme developer who hasn't been around very long?
I'll keep using Genesis and StudioPress for my customers' web sites, because they work, and (equally important) I trust them for support...I because I think they'll still be here when I really need something.
*MoodyRiviera*
Congratulations...it looks like you did a great job of optimizing. Your images are *way* smaller now...right about the right size, I would say...and they still look good.
Of course there can always disagreement about optimizing...just keep in mind that the smaller you make the images the less "good" they might look...so it's always a compromise...but I'd say you did a great job there.
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I think you'll get some answers if you submit your problem to the "General Discussion" forum.
Not many people look in the forum you're in now...but everyone looks at the "General Discussion" forum.
Good luck.
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Nice work, @saltire
Very colorful and looks great.
In case you might ever want to try some other color combinations, did you know that there's a *very* cool web site that (if you take the time to learn how to use the site) helps you come up with some amazing color combinations that really work great.
*MoodyRiviera*
Very cool, @Victor Font It's amazing to me when I see things like this...see what experts can do with these themes. Wow.
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Hello @achola
Sorry I don't have an answer for you, but when someone else who knows more than I do eventually comes along, they'll probably want to see your site so they can look at the code...so, if possible, you might want to put up a link to your site.
*MoodyRiviera*
I see that you haven't gotten any responses yet...so...even though I'm not any kind of expert, I'l give it a shot.
When I played with your code using "Inspect Element" I found that if I turned off the "width: 100%;" line, the logo moved to a much better location. Not sure this will help...but maybe will give you a clue where to start.
*MoodyRiviera*
From what I can see, all your images there have a "natural size" of 500 x 300 pixels (the ones I checked)...EXCEPT for the one you're having trouble with...and the "natural size" of that particular image is 400 x 300 pixels.
It seems to me that it would be smart to make all those images the same size. Why don't you re-create that "10 Seascape" image to the same size as the others (500 x 300 pixels) and see what happens. If I were doing that, I'd probably give the new image a different name to prevent caching issues when trying to see if it helped the problem.
*MoodyRiviera*
I'm using the Epik theme on a web site...still working on it (very slowly)...and even though you can get good answers here on this forum, you might get better results at the Appfinite forum...because Wes (the guy who designed and developed the Epik theme) runs the forum there.
If you bought the Epik theme here on StudioPress you'll have to get your purchase information from StudioPress before Wes will give you membership to his forum, but he really knows the Epik theme backward and forward.
*MoodyRiviera*
Hi again,
From what I know (not much really), it's not easy and not always a good idea to "defer parsing of JavaScript"...but I could be wrong.
And for the "Minify CSS" part...that's something you can do with a plugin...just do a google search to find out more information.
Keep in mind that these reports that purport to analyze web sites for speed problems, etc. aren't always accurate and don't always give great advice.
You would make *huge* improvements in your page speed if you just optimized your images.
*MoodyRiviera*
