AMP Implementation: Step-by-Step Guide for WordPress [Video]

The Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) framework allows you to create a much faster mobile browsing experience right away without a complete mobile web overhaul and without losing your ad revenue. This is my step by step guide to implementing AMP on a WordPress site.

AMP basics

AMP pages are stripped down versions of the originals that omit a lot of fancier features in favor of speed and functionality. This is designed to provide a better mobile user experience since typical web pages often behave slowly and erratically on mobile devices. Typically this has to do with either third party interference in the form of ad trackers and content blockers or responsive design features that look great on a desktop or laptop, but overwhelm a mobile device (or both).

Watch a Video on AMP

AMP consists of AMP HTML, AMP JavaScript (AMP JS), and the AMP content …