Curious if SimplePress is planning on adding AMP support? WordPress posts are covered by automattic’s amp plugin. Pages are said to be next to be included in the amp plugin conversion routine.
Regards, Ed
AMP??? sorry, never heard of it… looking at the page you linked to doesnt really give much info… looking at the amp project page, its for static html pages… a forum is hardly static… it would ‘work’ for blog pages because they dont change… a forum is dynamic and constantly changing…
seems like caching by another name…
have made note and can try deeper look when I have more time…
It’s a new Google thing to speed up mobile site loading, but not fully rolled out in the USA. Amp will cache posts on google servers with specific amp post search results, making mobile loading a snap. Basically an amp specific html language. It strips out most JavaScript and script commands are not allowed. Your right about forums probably wouldn’t work under amp specs. WordPress adds /amp/ to post urls.
But it’s really fast!
It strips out most JavaScript and script commands are not allowed
Surely that would cripple an awful lot of sites and just make them unusable…
Not really at least not in WordPress. All the WordPress amp plugin does is strip out everything but text images and videos. The default page always exists. The post extension /amp/ at the end signals the googlebot that an amp page exists and to cache that page into search for instant page loads. The canonical url for the amp page points to the default post and the reverse.
In reality its kind of like FireFox screen reader abortion. Amp is intended only to speed up mobile page loads. Though I’m not seeing any amp posts indexed into search yet, but they should show up soon with a little green amp icon distinguishing them from regular mobile pages.