Amp Native AMP First Standard Mode On WordPress 2020 Validated

Please select your language and press the continue button, as this is an English language blog I am selecting English. Always go through the documentation of plugin before installing it for language supports; otherwise, it will give up a PHP error.

Add everything it requires, and please make sure you remember what you fill here.

I will give a name AMP Native as this is a tutorial for Amp Native Standard Mode On WordPress,

As I am doing this on localhost, so I am using a weak password. It would be best if you use a strong password every time on the web for your safety that must contain special characters, numbers, and a combination of small and capital letters,


So coming back to the main topic, click install WordPress.
I have also selected the indexing option to turn it off as I am on the localhost it should be always on for your SEO and search engine discovery if you are ready to publish your content.


After you do that, it would show a success message and ask you to log in, press login, and get started with your user name and password.


Click on Login with your credentials. A page will open that would be your WordPress Admin page that is not visible publicly and is securely working with all the functions and content you may add to it.

You will see plugins by default that are with the WordPress stack we downloaded in our previous post on a related topic and themes pre-installed on the WordPress new install.

I deleted all of them and just kept the default twenty 20 WordPress theme.

As twenty 20 theme supports AMP Standard Mode, many other WordPress themes do so that we will discuss in a separate post.

So for now, head over to Plugins > Add New as in the picture above.

Click on Settings as in the picture above



The first mode is the Standard Mode, which serves AMP Native or AMP-First.

In short, the Desktop and the Mobile website pages all of them are AMP, Responsive, and work the same on all the devices, with less use of resources like scripts and CSS.

Though, as per your use, you may select other options as well, I am just sticking over to the topic here and shall discuss the 3 Modes in detail in a separate post.

After selecting the Standard Mode, Scroll the page down, and you would see supported templates. These are templates like Posts, Pages, etc. As we have the AMP-First or AMP- Native Mode selected, we will choose the option as Serve All, as in the picture below.


Save Changes

Visit your AMP-First Site. As in the picture above, or just type your Home Url in your browser.


Here you will notice a Validator that’s helpful in all the development you make to your AMP-First project. CSS usage is just 38% though we don’t have any content yet.

But if it goes to target 70%, it is still excellent, and page size should be less than 50Kb as a good SEO point.

So Everything looks good till now. For Amp Native AMP First Standard Mode On WordPress in 2020, scroll below, and you will also find a Comments Section, previously it was not a plugin feature, but now AMP Original plugin supports comments.



Its Complete Basic Tutorial for setting up Amp Native AMP First Standard Mode On WordPress in August 2020 just for setting up an AMP-First website.

The plugin version is 1.5, Beta 2.0 is to be launched as per the Github and is under testing.