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I am using a child theme ?? I’m familiar with CSS and am comfortable editing it myself, I’m just not sure what I need to be targeting.

And Mark I’m glad I could lift your spirits a bit, thank you!

Ah I got it! I installed that plugin and got a message it might mess up SEO by Yoast and it took me to the page where I can change the settings. Thank you!

I think I may know what the problem was. It seems I can’t upload the certificate file via FTP or through my site’s file manager. When I try via FTP it gives me an error that it could not start the transfer. When I go to upload it directly the file is greyed out. I ignored it but when I went to my dashboard it’s full of RSS errors about the CAfile. Now I’m super lost!

Looks like I’ll have to try manual updating :/

Yes I deactivated every single one. I’ll try switching the theme and see what I get.

Do you think my theme could be the problem with the plugins not working?

I tried that earlier but to no avail. Google still tells me to optimize my images. I tried it again just now and the same result. I’m currently going through and using Compressor.io to losslessly compress all my images. It’ll take awhile but if it helps speed up the load time it’ll be worth it.

Both Pingdom and Google PageSpeed tell me I need to optimize my images, leverage browser caching, minify CSS and Javascript, and reduce server response time. I’ve tried so many plugins but they don’t have any effect, like I never installed them in the first place. I have W3 Total Cache running, which does help the speed.

I’m currently compressing all my images using an application since I can’t get any of the image optimization plugins to work.

I reactivated my excerpt plugin and it’s down to 1.2 MB and 2.12 seconds loading time. That helped so much, Innuvo, thank you.

I am still wondering how to address the other issues, however, just so my page loads the fastest it can and rates better on Page Speed Insight and Pingdom.

WOW. Reducing the number of posts reduced the page size to half down to 3.9 MB!

Thanks Innuvo, I’ll check that!

I’ve looked with Google Page insight, as well, forgot to mention that! It’s a great tool. It suggested I optimize my images, minify Javascript and CSS, and eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content. I have no idea what the last one is.

What do I do to check my server configuration? Google also recommended I reduce my server response time, but I don’t know if that’s something I can do. I’m hosted on iPage right now, and I like it because it’s easy to use, the support is great, and it’s incredibly affordable for me (I’m waiting to switch to something else once I know I’ll keep my site up and going).

What I had to do was add the custom link to the menu and then drag it under the parent category. All fixed this time ?? Thanks for your help!

Ok new problem…I don’t have the option to add my subcategories to the menu. They’re definitely created on the categories page but it’s like they don’t register.

Oh I was looking at my categories page, not the menu. I followed your advice and fixed it. Thank you!