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Hello there,
I hadn’t updated my version of Newspaper since v3 – eeeek! So there’s been a lot of frantic editing of my site tonight. A few queries are still hanging over me though.
1. The Big Slider on my homepage: http://citysavvyluxembourg.com/
a. How can I turn the hover option off?
b. How can I get the authors off on the big slider big pic
c. how can I get the big slider to stretch the dimensions of the main pic into one of the three side pics?
2. In version 3, a ‘featured image’ needed to be 745 x 484, but it would then be cropped to 700 x 357 in the article. This would cause me issues as some important parts of the picture would be lopped off. To get round this, I would use the ‘gallery’ format which would take away the ‘featured’ image for that post; and add in another image so the dimensions were corrects. The trouble is, the ‘gallery’ format doesn’t take away the featured image in the new version so I have lots of posts with two images!! Can you help?
3. The pagination on the modules used to be in the top right corner (see ‘galleries’ on the home page’). Now it is at the bottom left and easily missable.
4. How do I change the colour of the aticle titles within each block? So ‘Farewell Madame Ambassador’ should be in blue on the home page for example?
Sorry for all the questions. What a nightmare! Will teach me to look after the IT myself – I had no idea it hadn’t been updated until a 5pm panic!
I’ve been side tracked on optimizing the AMP plugin for our sites, so have had to put this on backburner for my sites. Will get back to it eventually!
I just meant that as an example. I only just need to add a Next Page on .home so that it will go to /page/2/
Cheers
Luke
Hey guys,
I have a problem with the smartlists. When a link is clicked in the smartlist post, it opens a new window as it should, but the original window also follows the link. So now I have two windows open that followed the link and no window with my own website.
When I change the post to a regular one, so no smartlist, it acts as it should, it just opens a new window and leaves the original one as it is.
I also have turned of all plugings, but this doesn’t help.
If you want to check it out: http://tinyurl.com/jaeugf5
You can see the problem in today’s test post and the post of February 25th. The other post I made today, the first one, also had the same problem until I disabled the smartlist, now the links work as you can see.
Please advice.
Hello srampia,
The problem with block 1 happens due you do not use a correct image in for this kind of thumb, as you can see in this screenshot -> http://screencast.com/t/2hj5uR1b In order to achieve best results, please consult the guide below ->
Our theme uses a lot of predefined thumbnails in blocks and modules. If you check the Theme panel->Block settings area you can see the list with all dimensions of the thumbs wich is used in the theme and which elements -> blocks/modules uses -> http://screencast.com/t/tQuimSer9 If you want to exclude the cropping system wich you have to use the right dimension for your images.
Our theme uses the system of cropping from center to top. The theme uses thumbs to reduce the page size and speed up page loading time. From each image uploaded are generated thumbs for each thumb size used by the theme. Basically, when a post it’s displayed on the page in a block, the featured image displayed is not the one which you uploaded in the media file, it’s a thumb cropped from the original image at the precise dimension. To change the picture orientation most likely you will need a different cropping system. We use a WordPress function – add_image_size() – you can read about it here – https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_image_size – and here – http://www.davidtan.org/wordpress-hard-crop-vs-soft-crop-difference-comparison-example/
Our theme crop (cut) thumbnails in some cases to avoid creating a lot of thumbnails in order to reduce to load more spaces on the server.
If you don’t have the possibility to upload large images you could use a combination of plugins to upscale the thumbs – Thumbnail Upscale and Force Regenerate.
Also, please try to disable all the active plugins, leave just Visual Composer, clear all cache and install only the plugins that come bundled with our theme and rule out the conflicting plugins.
Hope this helps and let us know how it goes!
Thank you for the message!
Thanks for your response.I think the problem is with the php.ini settings.
My host provider 123 Reg have confirmed that I cannot increase the max_execution_time over 30 seconds as this is the default value set for the whole shared hosting platform. Does this mean i can never use the demo’s properly.
I can upload images under 2mb as this is what the max is set to.
I also cannot see any images on my website that have been uploaded. I made a intro demo post and also uploaded a lgo but the images dont show. Could this have anything to do with the above? I looked in the forum and it may be to do with plugins, but the only active plugins I have are BBpress, Revolution Slider & WPBakery Visual Composer.
website – http://www.dailyfan.co.uk
Many Thanks!
Hi, in some cases there is a Read more button, that has the original color, it does not inherit the theme accent color from theme panel.
For example: 404 pages when using M15 style.
thanks
Tibor
Hello,
1)Fort the first issue, we know about this bug and it will be fixed in the next version.
2)For the update from version 3, unfortunately the post views function was changed along with all the code so it this is likely to happen. It is like switching to a whole different theme.
3)The featured video option will not work on any parallax image post styles (3,4,6,7 and 8). It will work only on post styles 1, 2 and the video formats 9, 10 and 11. There is a notice about this here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/featured-image-or-video/
4) You can use the wordpress custom fields if you want an extra field: https://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields
5) There is a solutioon to add the updated time https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/how-to-add-last-updated-time/ We already have this on our suggestion list
6) We do not have AMP support for our themes yet (we have not tested it) but one of our veteran users (Chris) made a tutorial on it here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-getting-started-with-accelerated-mobile-pages-amp/
I have added your suggestions to our list (the ones we did not yet have) and passed them on to the developer team.
Thank you for your message and suggestions!
Hello AlexaB,
Our theme uses a lot of predefined thumbnails in blocks and modules. If you check the Theme panel->Block settings area you can see the list with all dimensions of the thumbs wich is used in the theme and which elements -> blocks/modules uses -> http://screencast.com/t/tQuimSer9 If you want to exclude the cropping system wich you have to use the right dimension for your images.
Our theme uses the system of cropping from center to top. The theme uses thumbs to reduce the page size and speed up page loading time. From each image uploaded are generated thumbs for each thumb size used by the theme. Basically, when a post it’s displayed on the page in a block, the featured image displayed is not the one which you uploaded in the media file, it’s a thumb cropped from the original image at the precise dimension. To change the picture orientation most likely you will need a different cropping system. We use a WordPress function – add_image_size() – you can read about it here – https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_image_size – and here – http://www.davidtan.org/wordpress-hard-crop-vs-soft-crop-difference-comparison-example/
Our theme crop (cut) thumbnails in some cases to avoid creating a lot of thumbnails in order to reduce to load more spaces on the server.
If you don’t have the possibility to upload large images you could use a combination of plugins to upscale the thumbs – Thumbnail Upscale and Force Regenerate.
Hope this helps!
Thank you for the message!
Hi
First thanks for your response…I’m a bit fast with my changes on the site so you probably sometimes dont even see exactly what I need 🙂
1. I need this blue space on the bottom of my media gallery removed…how?
2. This b&w picture on the top…it still wont resize, I cant remove that white space…help 🙂
3. one more thing…in the MainMenu…submenu…I need to change the colour of words when hover…it is white like the background…
Hier is the sample.
http://www.mcbskongregation.de/
Hi Bogdan,
There are some simple things like post titles not appearing on our site http://goo.gl/bmGaV2 in IE 8 & 9 which the theme is supposed to work well on (please see attached). Please help us fix these errors are IE 8 & 9 have a share of 13% in the desktop market.
IE 8 screenshot of our site: http://i.imgur.com/caOFFaQ.jpg
IE 9 screenshot of our site: http://i.imgur.com/R50TT5q.png
Regards,
Gaurav
Hello,
I have checked your website and it seems to display fine in internet explorer 10 and 11. Unfortunately 8 and 9 are way to old for some complex elements and animations. They only support very basic elements. (it’s over 5 years since these versions. That is a lot in internet time as technology advances so fast.)
Please provide an example as i could not see any problems with your website in IE 10 and 11
Thanks.
BUG (Tested in Chrome latest, 1366×768, Example page: http://inserbia.info/today/2016/01/serbian-police-vs-arab-refugee-children/):
– Header Style 8 (Hybrid menu 2) – When sticky menu is turned on, when user scrolls down and sticky menu appears, the mega menu is floated left instead center. Also, default logo space size (i think it was 250px) goes over first menu item and prohibits hovering/opening of associated submenu.
– After upgrading (Newspaper 3 to Newspaper 6) and turning on Ajax for page view counter, all page views reset to 0 views (30K+ posts). It is not big deal for me, but still … Example page had 50K+ views.
IMPROVEMENT:
– There should be a notice (maybe there is a one but I didn’t saw it) that users cannot start video in video post if default post template (site wide) is set to Style 7. Currently, only featured image (video grab) is present but there is no video file to watch (upgrade from Newspaper 3 to latest). Check example page.
– Changing default post template for all posts and single post is great, but how about changing default post template category based? I.e. I really like Style 7, but it is not good for my Video category, so I want to change ONLY in category “Video” to be default post Style 1.
– There should be 1 more field added for posts (where source, via, … is) and that is Photo credits.
– It would be nice to have (on frontend) for each post: Date and time published, date and time updated, click to get shortlink (if shortlinks are enabled).
– Add AMP support for mobile resolutions.
PERVERSION:
– Add HTML5-based Text-To-Speech library so we can have “Read me!” button on front.
Hello unzak,
Please notice that the Jetpack are the complex plugins and not all modules are works fine with our theme. For example, the jetpack photon feature can cause some issues and while the theme works based on the same system – creates and serves/uses thumbnails for each uploaded image. We have some reports that the jetpack photon feature caused some issues and we recommend to disable it. If you want to develop this plugin for better result with our theme, you have to hire a freelancer/developer to do this for you because we cannot provide custom services at the moment, sorry!
Thank you for your understanding!
Hello,
Please check your youtube channel and make your subscriptions public as there are none shown so the social counter cannot pick them up: http://screencast.com/t/gG1ESaINZZmf example: http://screencast.com/t/c1KO3tk3
Thank you!
Hello srampia,
Unfortunately, I cannot recreate your problem with those white spaces. If you want a more accurate response, please provide your website URL so I can further inspect the issue.
Thank you for your understanding!
Is it possible to filter posts in blocks by “post-format”. For example by “video”?
Hey!
Good news.
I was able to get a great freelancer to develop (adjust) this plugin for me.
Here is an example: http://www.tootsiepost.com/freaky-cool-celebrity-face-mashups
It works when you add page breaks on the post page; it scrolls to the pagination of the same post not the next post. I assume you can change that with the parameters inside.
#1. Install this https://wordpress.org/plugins/yith-infinite-scrolling/
#2 Put this in the setting.
Navigation Selector: .page-nav-post
Next Selector: .page-nav-post a:nth-child(2)
Item Selector: article.post .td-post-content
Content Selector: .td-ss-main-content
Then go make a post and add page breaks.
Hopefully it will work for you.
Hi,
I posted in Envato support before and replied Alin V. (http://themeforest.net/item/newspaper/5489609/comments?page=367&filter=all#comment_12517324)
For Ads ok. I understand. Is very easy to modify.
For custom menu for category, I forgot to say you that I have only one category to be set with a custom menu. I saw the screenshots and I think that’s enough put some code from what I understand (yes, but which one?. I saw also Wp codex…). Please, if you can give it to me I’d be very grateful. I tried to call is_category function but does not work on line 12 of the header-menu.php file. I have just one category That I want to show a different menu.
Many thank
Eddy
Hi
thanks for very kind words … gingerbread cookies accepted in my tip jar!
I have *not* had time to mess with the FB plugin as I’ve been embroiled mentally in working with something for our main business site using a custom theme setup, and integrating the YOURLS plugin with our system, the XT breadcrumbs plugin (which works better for us since the install is inside of a directory), and helping to debug some issues with the new AMP plugin from Automattic (one of my bug reports will likely be in the next update, which is the bug of not working when the wp-content directory is renamed). SO, been having to deal with all of *that* and this particular project doesn’t use any comments at all and never will, so….
I will circle back around to that eventually, but the AMP support has been far more important than comments right now on our main news sites, since Google rolled that out on Feb. 24. (See my other ‘thread of doom’ on that!)
Hello,
1) Unfortunately the theme doesn not have option to contrlo the site width as our theme was built on a fixed grid layout and if the width is modified, the theme elements will not display properly.
2) We have no example of a website that has background ads, but you can maybe search through the sites from the showcase: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/showcase-your-website-call-for-entries/
thanks.
Hi AndreiL,
Thank you very much for helping with this.
If you want to redirect users to a custom page after they log in on your site then you can use a similar implementation with this one presented in WordPress docs in functions.php file: https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/login_redirect
Yes, that is the behavior I was expecting. I’m using (from the example on that page):
add_filter( ‘login_redirect’, create_function( ‘$url,$query,$user’, ‘return home_url(“/?cachen”);’ ), 10, 3 );
and that works IF a user logs in to the admin, like through wp-admin.php They get redirected to the home page with the /?cachen
But if they log in through the front end using the newsmag login, that function doesn’t seem to kick in, the page they are on just refreshes as is,
Chris
thanks, obviously with the site blocking the centre of the advert/background the advertiser will need to put his sales message into the only visible parts – the narrow far left and far right columns…so my remaining questions are:
1) is there a way of customising the size of the actual website page (e.g. making our webste page slightly narrower? not sure how much coding/customisation this would take? ) to give the advertiser a bit more space?
2) do you know of any other website using the newspaper theme that has got background advertising in place? perhaps i could contact them to see what specs they used, or at least view it to see how it can work?
we just need to present to the advertiser a professional spec or example, so they can simply provide us with the right artwork/image to work…
any further assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
thanks!
Hello poporil,
If you want to change the icon for Comments with the word Comments, you have to alter the code where this icon is called, like this -> http://screencast.com/t/WL593sA7lj7 and the result you should see here -> http://screencast.com/t/Rmvt4xr2
For your second request, I suppose that you want to add other block under the related articles. If you want to do that, you have to alter the code from this type of template and use do_shortcode method to add the block. Please follow the next steps in order to achieve as you wish. In continuation, I will give you an example for inserting block_1 in post template style 1. First of all, you have to add the code from Visual Composer like this -> http://screencast.com/t/AxKsYI5m and the code will be this -> and you have to implement it inside this core file, like this -> http://screencast.com/t/KJSfXWdeDpIU and the result you should see here -> http://screencast.com/t/i1x6gGi58bL3
Hope this helps!
Thank you for the message!
