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    • Cleantalk Plugins Added to the AMP Websites Catalog for WordPress

      Cleantalk Plugins Added to the AMP Websites Catalog for WordPress

      Since our Anti-Spam and Security plugins are fully AMP-compatible, they are now available from the plugin catalog on the amp-wp.org website, where all the most popular AMP-compatible plugins and themes for WordPress are collected.

      How this benefits you from using AMP

      Using AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) for a WordPress website can offer several advantages, including:

      Faster loading times
      AMP pages are designed to load quickly on mobile devices, which can improve user experience and reduce bounce rates.      		Improved mobile performance
      AMP pages are optimized for mobile devices, ensuring a smooth and responsive experience for users.
      Higher search engine rankings
      Google prioritizes AMP pages in search results, which can lead to better visibility and higher rankings for your WordPress website.      		Better user engagement
      Faster loading times and a smoother browsing experience can lead to increased user engagement and higher conversion rates.
      Reduced bounce rates
      With faster loading times and improved performance, AMP pages are less likely to experience high bounce rates, keeping visitors on your website longer.      		Cost-effective solution
      Implementing AMP on your WordPress website is a cost-effective way to improve mobile performance and user experience without investing in expensive development solutions.
    • How to make your CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin 100% AMP-compatible

      How to make your CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin 100% AMP-compatible

      AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) is a free technology, that makes your website pages optimized for mobile web browsing and helps webpages load faster.

      There is a way to make your WordPress website AMP-compatible while keeping it protected with CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin. And there is how you do it:

      1. In your WordPress dashboard go to Plugins → Add New and type “AMP” in the search form.


      2. After that, press the Install Now button near the plugin and the Activate button once the plugin is installed.
      3. After that go to AMP → Settings and click on the Open Wizard button.


      4. The final step is just to follow the instruction on the page and scan the website. After the scan there is nothing else that should be done – the plugin works automatically and if you open your website page, you will see, that all the AMP-incompatible code is already gone.

      Congratulations! Now your WordPress website is 100% AMP-compatible.

    • What is AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages)? How to setup CleanTalk for AMP

      What is AMP?

      Accelerated Mobile Pages — it’s the tool for static content web-page creation with almost instant load for mobile devices. It consists of three parts:

      1. AMP HTML — it’s HTML with limitations for reliable performance and some extensions for building rich content.
      2. AMP JS — is library which ensures the fast rendering of pages. Third-party JavaScripts are forbidden.
      3. Google AMP Cache — is a proxy-based content delivery network for delivering all valid AMP documents.  It fetches AMP HTML pages, caches and improves page performance automatically.

      Advantages

      • Lightweight version of standard web-pages with high speed load.
      • Instant multimedia content load: videos, animations, graphics.
      • Identical encoding — the same fast rendered website content on different devices.
      • AMP project is open source, it enables free information sharing and ideas contribution.
      • Possible advantage in SEO as page load speed is one of the ranking factors.
      • There are plugins for popular CMS to make AMP usage easier in your website.

      How to use it in WordPress

      When you choose what AMP plugin to use keep in mind the following:

      — Integration with SEO plugin for attaching corresponding metadata.

      — Analytics gathering with traffic tracking of your AMP page.

      — Displaying ads if you are a publisher.

      Available plugins in the WordPress catalog:

      1. AMP by Automattic
      2. Facebook Instant Articles & Google AMP Pages by PageFrog
      3. AMP – Accelerated Mobile Pages
      4. AMP Supremacy
      5. Custom AMP (requires installed AMP by Automattic)

      As example let’s install and activate AMP by Automattic and create a new post with multimedia content. Please, take note that not page but post. Pages and archives are not currently supported.

      AMP by Automattic plugin converts your post into accelerated version of the post automatically and you don’t have to duplicate by yourself. Just add /amp/ (or ?amp=1) to the end of your link and that would be enough.

      How to setup CleanTalk for AMP

      Please, make sure that the option “Use AJAX for JavaScript check” is disabled as it will prevent regular JavaScript execution.

      The option is here:

      WordPress Admin Page —> Settings —> CleanTalk and uncheck SpamFireWall.  

      Then, click on Advanced settings —> disable “Use AJAX for JavaScript check” —> Save Changes.

      Other options will not interrupt AMP post functioning. The CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin will protect all data sending fields that were rendered after the conversion.

      For now, most AMP plugins remove the possibility to comments and send contact form data on accelerated pages.

      Google validation

      Now you need to validate your website structured data using the tool “Google Validator”:

      https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/

      If you don’t do this a search bot will not simply pay its attention to your post and no one will see it in the search results.

      Copy and paste the link to your AMP post and see the result. Fix the problems you will be pointed at.

      After that your AMP version of the post will be ready to use.

      Links

      AMP project:
      https://www.ampproject.org/

      AMP blog:
      https://amphtml.wordpress.com/

      AMP plugins in the WordPress catalog:
      https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=AMP

      Google Search recommendations of how to create accelerated mobile pages:
      https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6340290?hl=en