Using the AMP Plugin

March 11, 2019
Official AMP Plugin for WordPress

Url: https://wordpress.org/plugins/amp/

The AMP Plugin has 3 template modes:

Native

It reuses the active theme’s templates but does not use separate URLs for AMP.

The Good:

This automatically converts your current theme to AMP, which is great if you have a responsive theme.

The Bad:

Not all scripts are working since AMP does not allow any script outside of it’s own libraries. A good example is this site, it’s using a lot of scripts and it stopped working on AMP not just on mobile but also on desktop view.

PageSpeed Score on Desktop

With AMP Disabled 72With AMP Enabled 99

PageSpeed Score on Mobile

With AMP Disabled 34With AMP Enabled 93

Paired

It reuses the active theme’s templates but uses separate URLs for AMP, ex: https://www.yoururl.com/?amp

PageSpeed on Mobile

With AMP Disabled 34With AMP Enabled 85

Classic

It does not use your active theme’s templates but a uses a really simple classic template.

I’m not really sure how I feel about having different URLs on desktop and mobile view.

It also has AMP font settings next to the editor.


I’ll start testing another AMP plugin.

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