I have several configuration questions.
1. Hover Slide Animations: Is it possible to disable the slider image animation. What I mean by this is, for example, if I hover over one of the sliders with my mouse the image zooms in and then goes back to its previous size. I have looked for a setting that disables such animation, but have not been able to find a way to turn it off. Is there code that can disable it?
2. Site Width: Can the width of 1164 be reduced without impacting functionality? My primary goal is to get rid of all the extra white space padding on either side of the site. Before looking at it with firebug I thought it was a margins or padding config issue, but when I used firebug it appears the width of the site is 1164 without padding. I’d like to reduce it down so that there is only a small amount of white on either side of the site with a width of say 1096. Can this be done without compromising the theme? If so is would you have code I could just paste in to make the tweak?
3. Wallpaper Ad Functionality: Question 2 directly relates to this question. I run an entertainment blog and from time to time we get campaigns that will take over the site with wallpaper ads on either side and above the header. Do you plan on adding such an ad spot to the Newspaper theme? I’ve seen other developers (such as MVP themes) whose themes contain a wrapper ad feature? I also noticed that in your Newspaper Showcase Fitness First Mag has 90×160 skyscraper ads in a similar manner, but I’m not sure if they did a custom tweak for it. This would be great added functionality for news sites.
4. Disqus: I saw in your hot fix info that there had been a fix for Disqus comments. I didn’t see anywhere on the actual theme feature info that the theme is in fact Disqus compatible. I already use Disqus on my existing site and plan to use it on the new site I’m launching using the Newspaper theme. I just want to confirm it is compatible and that the comment count shown on the main, category and tag page story lists will update based on Disqus comments.
5. Header Menu Issue: I noticed that when using Style 8 – Hibryd Menu 2 and a background color that the white menu is one or two pixels higher than the site layout itself so bleeds into the background color. I’ve included a screencap. It’s not a big deal when I use a white background, but when I have a background color or when I have wrapper ads it would be a problem. 
6. Do you recommend specific freelancers who are familiar with Newspaper that can be hired to make customizations? I want to have some sub themes for specific categories created and before I started looking at freelance sites I figured I’d see if you had any recommendations.
Thank you in advance for your reply!
Hello,
1) The animation can be disabled from here: http://screencast.com/t/42czzDE8X
2) This can be achieved without compromising the theme. You can use this css to reduce the outer container:
.td-boxed-layout #td-outer-wrap{
width:1110px!important
}
3) Unfortunately there is no such ad spot at the moment in our theme. I’m not sure what ads you are referring to in the health and fitness demo: http://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper_health/ Please provide an example.
4) The disqus plugin is not listed as officialy tested to work 100% with our theme. We just added some fixes for it due to user requests for this. I cannot provide an official answer but our users have been utilizing disqus successfully with our theme.
5)Header style 8 has a few problems we are aware of, and this seems to be one of them. We suggest using a different header style until we can fix the issues with header 8. (Sorry for the inconvenience)
6) We always recommend the freelancers from envato itself. (studio.envato.com)
I hope this helps.
Thank you!
Thank you for your reply!
1. Doh! I had lazy load turned off because I thought off by default prevented the animation.
2. Thanks for the code! It worked to reduce the width of the site. The only thing it didn’t impact was the sticky menu. Is there similar code for reducing it’s width? Right now it bleeds over when you scroll down.
3. Below is an image with arrows to what they’ve done with regular ads, but not actually a wallpaper/skin wrap.
4. Can you confirm if Disqus comments update the comment count on post lists such as the main and category pages? If not this is something I would have to have a freelancer get working. Comment count is a big deal for me on my sites.
I’ll look at Envato. Thanks again.
Hi,
2. If you are using header style 8 , the sticky menu problem will be fixed in a future update, until then please use another header style. if you do not use headers style 8 and you need a css code for the sticky menu, then please provide a link to your website so i can create the code by inspecting your site.
3. Unfortunately the theme has no option for ads outside it’s main container. You will need to either hard-code it or find a plugin that has such an option.
4. I cannot confirm anything about the disqus plugin other then the fact that our users seem to be satisfied with it. The plugin is not tested. I cannot provide answers for plugins we have not officially tested. You will need to try it out as it is a free plugin and see if the comment counter will work with the plugin.
Thank you for your understanding.
Regarding the floating tower ads outside theme border, would this work?
In header.php after </head>
<div id=”float-left”>
Your Ad Code Here
</div>
<div id=”float-right”>
Your Ad Code Here
</div>
Replace ‘Your Ad Code Here’ with your ad code.
AND Custom CSS
/* Begin Floating Ads Style */
#float-left {
position:fixed;
top: 5px;
left: 10px;
bottom: 5px;
width: 120px;
height: 600px;
margin-bottom:15px;
border-bottom: solid #000000;
padding: 5px 0 5px 0;
}
#float-right {
position:fixed;
top: 5px;
right:10px;
bottom: 5px;
float:right;
width: 120px;
height: 600px;
margin-bottom:15px;
border-bottom: solid #000000;
padding: 5px 0 5px 0;
}
/* End Floating Ads Style */
If so would this work on desktop only? How would I turn off for mobile?
Is this something you could ad on next version of theme, same as this Newspaper site http://www.fitnessfirst.com.au/mag/
thanks,
Hi,
It would work as you can use css to make a fixed position for the ad, but then you will have to use the advanced css box to specify the css for every viewport. You will probably have to hide these ads on tablet portrait and mobile.
You can simply put this css in the 2 boxes for the ads to be hidden on mobile and tablet:
#float-left, #float-right{
display:none!important!
}
The site you showed uses a relative position on it’s ads and check out what happens when you have a narrower screen: http://screencast.com/t/f5c7l5irmXkI
When making this type of modifications, you must consider every screen size there is.
We already have floating ads on our suggestion list but it’s the developer’s choice if it will get done or not, so we cannot promise anything yet.
Thank you!
