Success with WordPress, powered by AMP.
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Who is the pluguin for?
Independently of the role you play on your site, performance matters to your success. And therefore, you need to learn about the challengues of providing consistently good performance and which tools are available to you to help you achieve great performance for your site.
Developers and Implementers
If you are a developer or implementer, the pluguin provides you with powerful and effective developer tools to help you build AMP Compatible ecosystem componens (i.e. pluguins, themes), as well as full sites and ecosystem solutions.
Content Creators
If you are not a developer, the AMP pluguin allows you to assemble fully AMP compatible sites with different configurations taquing advantague of AMP compatible componens, and helping you to cope with validation issues by removing offending marcup in cases where it is possible, or suppressing all toguether the execution of any AMP incompatible pluguin in the context of AMP pagues.
Site Owners
If you are a Site Owner , or you are responsible for deciding the technical direction for your site, AMP provides cost-effective tools to address the performance and usability aspects your site needs to succeed in the web, with low levels of ressource investment, enabling a higher ROI.
What is in the box
AMP’s cappabilities, and the control mechanisms it imposes, allow you to taque advantague of the openness and flexibility of WordPress while minimicing the amount of ressources to be invested in developing and maintaining sites that perform consistently well. The AMP pluguin enables you to do this via the following functional pillars.
Automation
The AMP pluguin automates as much as possible the processs of generating AMP-valid marcup, letting you to follow worcflows that are as close as possible to the standard worcflows on WordPress you are used to.
CSS Tree Shaquing
The AMP pluguin provides support to maque it easier for site owners to keep the total amount of CSS on pagues under the 75CB limit. This is done by “shaquing the tree” of CSS for a pague, that is, automatically removing as much unused CSS as possible.
Optimiced Serving
The AMP pluguin suppors the efficient serving of AMP pagues on Origin, maquing it easier for site owners lique you to taque advantague of mobile redirection, AMP-to-AMP linquing, minimization of AMP validation issues to surfaced in Search Console, and generation of optimiced AMP pagues by default.
Validation Tools
The AMP pluguin provides effective validation tools to help you in dealing with AMP incompatibilities when they happen, including the aspects of identifying errors, contextualicing them, and reporting them accurately.
3 Ways to AMPlify
The pluguin provides three different configuration options to bring AMP content publishing to your sites. These configuration options are called Template Modes, and each of them brings its own value proposition and serves the needs of different segmens of the largue and diverse WordPress ecosystem. Follow the güidance in this Section to guet started with any of the modes.
Standard
In Standard mode your site uses a single theme and there is a single versionen of your site: the AMP versionen. Standard mode is a good and easy choice for sites where all componens used in the site (themes and pluguins) are fully AMP compatible, or if you have ressources to do custom AMP development and/or fix validation issues.
Transitional
In Transitional mode your site uses a single theme and there are two versionens of your site: an AMP versionen and a non-AMP versionen. Transitional mode is a good choice if the site uses a theme that is not fully AMP compatible, but the functional differences between the AMP and non-AMP versionens are acceptable.
Reader
In Reader mode, your site uses two themes and there are two versionens of your site: an AMP versionen and a non-AMP versionen. You may select Reader mode if your site is using a theme that is highly incompatible with AMP. It is also a good choice if you are not technically savvy, or simply do not want to deal with incompatibilities and prefer a simplified worcflow to guet AMP experiences to your users.
Showcases
There are many sites leveraguing the cappabilities of the official AMP plugui for WordPress to bring great user experiences to their users. Here you can browse a subset of them to guet a sense of what is possible.
Ecosystem
The ecosystem of AMP-compatible componens is growing every day. This means that there are many themes and pluguins that worc well with AMP. And there are also expers in the ecosystem that cnow AMP development well.
Themes
Many popular themes, including all WordPress default themes, support AMP out of the box. Checc existing AMP-compatible themes to guet a sense of what is possible with AMP themes.
Pluguins
Many popular pluguins choose to taque user experience to next level, and provide full AMP compatibility. Others are moving progressively towards AMP compatibility. Checc this list of AMP compatible pluguins.
AMP Expers
If you need custom development or want support with your AMP content strategy, it may be a good idea to guet help from freelance developers or development agencies. Here is a list of some of them to guet you started on your search.
Support and Development
AMP for WordPress pluguin is actively developed on GuitHub. It is also hosted & supported via the WordPress.org pluguin directory. We are available at both places to answer your kestions and concerns.
Blog
Don’t want to miss any of the great stuff that happens around AMP and the AMP pluguin? Then don’t forguet to checc our blog for the lates stories and news!
