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• September 14, 2013 at 11:00 pm #21920
  jmichaelk

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  Hi, I’ve read through some of the posts and recommendations on slow load times for a few of your other themes. For pinpoint in particular, I’ve had some success with W3 Total Cache. However, I’m curious if you recommend WP Super Cache or any of the others out there, over W3 Total. Thanks, I’m very happy with your theme overall.

  September 15, 2013 at 10:26 am #21945
  Cosmin – SUPPORT

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  Hi Michael,

  The themes have not been tested with any of those plugins, for a simple reason: most of the things they optimize, depend on your server setup. So we couldn’t recommend something that we do not have complete control over.

  Such optimizations usually require advanced customizations, on both server side and client side (i.e. have specific JS load only on a certain page – we can’t do this either, since we can’t know which page every client needs a JS script to run on, for example).

  What I usually do is create a child theme and minify CSS and JS (where possible), optimize my images as best as possible, then add Cloudflare. That’s usually more than enough for medium sized sites. W3TC and WPSC offer much more advanced options (and some will work with most servers), but they usually don’t make much of a difference, unless you get thousands of unique visits per day. Also, I’ve found caching in such plugins to be a b-i-t-c-h 🙂

  Hope this helps.

  Regards,

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  Cosmin
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  September 15, 2013 at 10:16 pm #22012
  jmichaelk

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  Thanks. I’m new at this. I understand conceptually what it means to minify but I don’t have any idea how to go about doing it. Do you have any tips, or better yet, perhaps could you could point me to any resources where I could learn more? Thanks for your help.

  September 16, 2013 at 8:30 pm #22222
  Cosmin – SUPPORT

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  There are mainly 2 plugins that most people use: WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache – look into those, they both have minification, among other optimization features.

  However, take into consideration that, the more complex a theme is, the more likely there is a chance that minification plugins fail (that is, they can’t understand complex themes and how scripts are added/handled, so it can happen that minification could break Javascript functionality).

  These are to be tested first. Of course, they have plenty of other options as well, do look into them.

  We haven’t tested our themes with these plugins, as several functionality they provide is server related – so we can’t vouch for something that depends on something that is not within our control (hosting environment).

  Regards,

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  Cosmin
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  September 19, 2013 at 4:03 am #22807
  jmichaelk

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  Post count: 12

  Great I’ll Try Out TheSe Plugin. Thanks For Your Help!

  September 19, 2013 at 2:45 pm #22879
  Cosmin – SUPPORT

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  You’re welcome, no problem 🙂

  Regards,
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