AMP & WordPress
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I’m discovering (the hard way) the importance of AMP. We have a strong WP site (https://hornsillustrated.com) and want to deploy AMP, however I have 300 million questions.
1.) With a WP site, is AMP all or nothing? Meaning either the entire site must be conversted to AMP or not at all?
For the desktop users the site is fine, for the mobile users not so much.
Does WP/AMP route moble traffic to the AMP rendered pages? How does that work?
We spent a lot of time/money developing the response theme, so I’m trying to understand if we have to scrap all that and move entirely to AMP.
Thanks,
Terry
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Hi Terry,
AMP is enabled by default for WordPress.com posts.
As an example, here’s the AMP version of one of your recent posts:
https://hornsillustrated.com/around-the-big-12/amp/
Only users who find your site by using Google’s mobile search will be directed to the AMP version.
Regular visits to your site from mobile will still show the regular non-AMP responsive theme; the AMP view is shown only from a mobile visit that originates from the Google search results.
If you’d still prefer to show the non-AMP version of your site to Google (and potential visitors to your site), you can disable it using the AMP controller. Clicking on My Sites, and then choose Settings → Traffic.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/amp-accelerated-mobile-pages/
I hope this helps :)
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Gary,
Thank you for your insight.
So if a visitor comes to our WP site from FB they will still get the same responsive page versus the AMP rendered page.
In order to give mobile users the best possible experience, I could send them to an to the /amp/ page but if they click to another link it would revert to the normal themed page.
Is there a way to route all mobile traffic to AMP pages? Doesn’t seem possible or practical.
One last thought, based on all them I”m gathering, it seems the best course of action is to redo site in all AMP? 57% of our uses comes from mobile.
The theme we have works great, but not so much for the mobile users.
Again, I appreciate your insights.
Terry
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So if a visitor comes to our WP site from FB they will still get the same responsive page versus the AMP rendered page.
Yes, if the normal non-AMP URL is being posted.
If you’d prefer visitors to see the AMP version, you can add /amp/ to the end of the URL when posting it on social media.
Example:
Is there a way to route all mobile traffic to AMP pages? Doesn’t seem possible or practical.
There isn’t really a practical way that I’m aware of. There is an is_mobile() function in WordPress that can detect if a visitor is on mobile specifically, but it’s not reliable, particularly if caching is being used.
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