Suggestion for JA Blockk Template

vahidd

Hi,

its very good news you decide to start create a new news theme. i hope it release as soon as possible. i have few suggestion for that:

please dont define extra styles for k2 or easyblog or something like them (i think there is not need to integration with stores or social component as you know a news site dont need to them Not at all). at this time joomla article is full option and with new features in joomla 4 media manager it will better. i think almost of users use joomla article base features. so please dont heavy your codes and styles with unusable cases. (whatever there is a better choise for news sites like Komento which a news site almost need it)
please use all standard meta tags like schema , Open Graph and twitter metatags on all section and pages.
please decrease http requests
please remove extra css/java as possible (a news website need be clean and fast not luxurious)
please combine css/java files as possible.
please add RTL layout for all section and addones. there is many users with RTL languages which need your great themes.
im persian and i use special font on my site (RTL) . so there is no need to force load fonts like google fonts or maybe Awesome Font. please let your client to disable them fully
plese add swg logo format
please Eliminate render-blocking resources
please focus on optimize your AMP version as you know its very important for a news sites
lazy load for all section of your template is very Vital
few modules in your themes scale images which not good for seo
persian users use Solar Hijri format for dates. so if you customize it for Date Elements, help many of your users.
for video element: youtube and viemo are censored in iran. iranian almost use aparat.com. so if you can please add that to your source list.

and at the end SEO for NEWS/Magazine site are vital. so please be sure your new template be full score according Google PageSpeed Insights.

Sorry if it took so long, but I believe your products deserve the best quality.

at the end, im Persian translator of many joomla projects as you can see my profile in transifex:

https://www.transifex.com/user/profile/Vahid/

as a offer, if you want i can translate your products like your templates or extensions to persian language.

Thank you

Manit

Hi vahidd

Thank you for your very long and productive sharing.

I would like to clarify your questions and comments.
1. Yes, we will use Joomla articles for this template. I agree that, Joomla article core has been improved a lots. Using Joomla article will make the website maintainence and update much easier.
2. Schema: yes, it will support news and magazine schema for sure.
3. CSS / JS: the template code base is well structured and will be clean and optimized (combined) at core.
4. RTL language: we will check this, our framework supports RTL at core, so it should be fine to support the template in RTL.
5. We will check aparat.com video to see if we could support.
6. We will do the standard SEO optimization for the template as an important task

And thank you for your offer, I will check with our team and plan for the translation.
Again, thank you for your productive reviews and suggestions.

Regards.