- NewsmagUsing the theme translations together with WPML
- NewsmagHow to update a plugin
- NewsmagCustom Post Type Support
- NewsmagAbove footer ads
- NewsmagWeather Widget
- NewsmagHow to update the theme
- NewsmagIntroduction
- NewsmagLogo & Favicon
- NewsmagFooter templates
- NewsmagUsing other ads
- NewsmagCustom ad spots
- NewsmagArticle ads
- NewsmagSidebar ads
- NewsmagHeader ads
- NewsmagLoading image effects
- NewsmagCategory top post styles
- NewsmagSmart Lists
- NewsmagGeneral settings
- NewsmagTheme thumbs
- NewsmagtagDiv slider gallery
Hi,
There isn’t an ideal image size so it can look good on all thumbs, the image size for a basic post we use this dimensions: 1021 x 580px. You can find here all thumbs dimensions which are created and used by the theme on module/blocks thumbs and sliders http://screencast.com/t/ZZntCVQJW
Also depends the blocks/modules that you use for aspect ratio and you have to do some tests and see what aspect ratio to use.
Like you can see also in you example on module 6 your image looks fine almost not cropped – http://screencast.com/t/hmGDctpa , but if you take a look also at this image it not looks the same – http://screencast.com/t/mNdgsPr281Wp So like you can see this depends what image size you use, you have to test this like I said above and see what image size to use depending of blocks/modules that you are using more.
If you want to change the height for module 1please change height here – http://screencast.com/t/gDCZYhPO and then please regenerate your thumbnails using this plugin: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-fix-strange-thumbnails/
I also tested this with your image – http://screencast.com/t/onwq87FzHQ – http://screencast.com/t/TqeitYnsh
Result: http://screencast.com/t/GjINxM9dcx
Hope this helps!
Hi,
You can use media queries and hide them via custom css or you can change font-size on mobile screens.
For example hide Big Grid(if you want to do this only for homepage use .home .td_block_big_grid ):
@media (max-width: 767px){
.td_block_big_grid {
display: none;
}
}
Big Grid – font size: http://screencast.com/t/f4JusFAe5e
@media (max-width: 767px){
.td-big-grid-post .entry-title a {
font-size: 10px;
}
}
Hope this helps!
I don’t know answer but would love to see more info/examples on how you’re using theme without the visual composer add-on. Very curious about this. 🙂
Lucian, did i get you right that if i need to show the ad after each post i have to duplicate part of the code and change adcounter? Like this
if (is_category() && ($adcounter == 1)) {
echo do_shortcode(‘[td_ad_box spot_id=”custom_ad_1″]’);
}
if (is_category() && ($adcounter == 2)) {
echo do_shortcode(‘[td_ad_box spot_id=”custom_ad_1″]’);
}
if (is_category() && ($adcounter == 3)) {
echo do_shortcode(‘[td_ad_box spot_id=”custom_ad_1″]’);
}
UPD. It doesn’t work like this so how can i show it after each post?
Hi,
A test on our demo shows that its mobile friendly and doesn’t have any issues: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdemo.tagdiv.com%2Fnewspaper%2F
According to google your site appears not mobile friendly due to multiple reasons: http://screencast.com/t/082WVTNfz
I suggest you test this first without using any plugins, leave just theme’s Visual Composer plugin and also make sure that you disable all html/js compression and test again.
Also make sure that you follow their instructions on how to unblock resources and let google bot view your page correctly, all this guides/tutorials are provided by google in your test page:
– https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/common-mistakes/blocked-resources?hl=en-US&utm_source=MFT&utm_campaign=MFT&utm_medium=incoming-link
– https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/references/faq?hl=en-US&utm_source=MFT&utm_campaign=MFT&utm_medium=incoming-link#whats-the-difference-between-the-pagespeed-insights-ux-score-and-the-mobile-friendly-test-results
Please also note that the mobile friendly test is a new feature from google, the mobile friendly algorithm being released by Google on April 21st so we haven’t dealed enough with it to fully understand it. You can do it yourself though and go trough their guides/documentation to learn more about it: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/get-started/?hl=en-US&utm_source=MFT&utm_medium=incoming-link&utm_campaign=MFT
We will release the new version 5 of newspaper theme which will be a major update with new design and lots of new features and we will make sure that we’ll test it with this new tool from google.
Thanks
Hi,
Unfortunately theme doesn’t have an option to have a different header for categories. You would need custom modification for this, you can find an example here(a different header on homepage) – https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/different-headers-on-pages/
You can try something like this using is_category function: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_category
Thanks!
Hi,
I have just switched from an old wordpress template to the Newsmag template.
Previously my Home page is non-static and the front page displayed the latest posts.
Because of that, the front page can be accessed by using the paging parameter.
For example if XXX.com is my website and the front page shows 5 posts.
An URL of http://xxx.com/page/2/ will goes to page 2 and showed post no. 6 to post no.10.
Currently, I have been using static pages using the Home as Front page.
In the Home page, I am using Block 12 to display the latest posts. There are no option for non-ajax paging.
What can I do to allow paging to be used again for this template?
Hi,
The VC shot-codes aren’t appearing in the search result’s by default. I’ve tested this using the latest theme version: http://screencast.com/t/1WQIaSQg – http://screencast.com/t/Q8mu3bD8k – all this are homepages so if the short-codes would appear on search result they should also appear here.
You can also test this on our demo: http://screencast.com/t/ZqoQIDpmYEGn
Let me know of your issues details and provide an example if you’re still experiencing this.
Thanks
Hi there
i want add advertising box on the above of the block 15 in the photo below
http://ims.sportsontheweb.net/ims/pic.php?u=1OTXwM&i=45
where shoud i put the code ? in the homepage above block 15 ? or Specific theme file ?
thanks
Hi,
2. Please update you theme to the latest version 1.7.1 using this guide(FTP method): https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-theme/ as in the 1.7 version it was an issue with ads (eliminate the codes). This issue was fixed in the latest version.
10. The image appear like this because of it aspect ratio. The image is catted for different sizes for modules – http://screencast.com/t/bmsl1KdRws4 so the image is cropped center top at that height. You can change the height size so the aspect ratio of the image to be closer to the aspect ratio of the picture(default image).
You can find out more about this here – http://www.davidtan.org/wordpress-hard-crop-vs-soft-crop-difference-comparison-example/
13. You can set your sidebar for categories from Theme Panel > Categories section – http://screencast.com/t/GMB0Cxpe1knq add widgets into the sidebar from Widgets – http://screencast.com/t/j3z3jsgnt
Also if you want to use the same sidebar on your pages please use Widgetised sidebar block in your page and set the sidebar to display: http://screencast.com/t/6wlYuuZ43
Thanks!
After updating the theme newspaper to the last version, 4.6.3, and the plugins too, visual composer doesn’t work properly. When I see the tutorial, it shows that if you go to Grid elements and click on add new, you should see a “Preview” button at the top right corner of the grid element builder which I cannot see, so I cannot preview de grid before publishing it.
Moreover, when editing or creating a page, the tutorial shows that a button called “Frontend” should be placed at the top right corner of the Visual Composer, but I cannot see that button. So, when I try to add new elements, some of them are not available, for example post grid, media grid, and more…
These problems were supposed to be fixed with the theme update, but they aren’t.
Hello,
I’m having an issue with ?=action URLs, I discovered it when trying to log out after updating my theme to the latest version.
When i click ‘logout’ the Url changes to this: [website url]/wp-login.php?action=logout&_wpnonce=[logoutcode]
And comes up with a blank page.
When going back to my site to see if i’m logged out, i’m still logged in – it hasn’t worked.
Any fixes for this?
Thanks!
Hi Lucian,
I activated TagDiv Speed Buster but nothing changed and no active caching plugin is enabled:
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tunandroid.com%2F&tab=mobile
Any suggestions?
Best.
Hi Chris, I have already added changed the Footer type and successfully add own content. But now the thing is that, How to put the middle section of post list like the below image
You can check my website’s current footer section, so you can get idea, what I want.
Thanks & regards
Debarup
hy, in order to remove some metabox in the wp editor for not-administrator users, i’m using this function:
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if (is_admin()) :
function my_remove_meta_boxes() {
if( !current_user_can(‘manage_options’) ) {
remove_meta_box(‘postcustom’, ‘post’, ‘normal’);
}
}
add_action( ‘admin_menu’, ‘my_remove_meta_boxes’ );
endif;
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it works but if i want also to hide some of your theme boxes, the function doesn’t work. for example i add this:
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remove_meta_box(‘td_post_video_metabox’, ‘post’, ‘normal’);
remove_meta_box(‘td_post_theme_settings_metabox’, ‘post’, ‘normal’);
remove_meta_box(‘td_review_metabox’, ‘post’, ‘normal’);
remove_meta_box(‘rs_post_editor’, ‘post’, ‘normal’);
remove_meta_box(‘rs_post_contributor’, ‘post’, ‘normal’);
remove_meta_box(‘rs_private_post_reader’, ‘post’, ‘normal’);
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why? where i am wrong?
thnak you
Just to clarify, it’s not really a ‘theme’ issue – for those curious. It’s an issue with Google’s bot having issues with scraping pages to verify actual content vs spammers who try to trick google with content in META data that doesn’t match what is actually on the page.
So, this is why it “seems” like Google’s bot is just ignoring the “description” tags; they use that as “hint” then read the page and look for stuff in certain common “blocks” of content, like “first full paragraph of text on page” …
I am trying to sort out why this happens on some templates, layouts and not on others, across various top websites and small ones, too.
For example I tested page from WIRED mag the other day, and it grabbed the first paragraph; where I tested a page from our main news service portal — which does not use WordPress or any popular CMS [in house system we built in 2005 and I built the templates myself from scratch using customized bootstrap 2.3x code] — and these “should” work but also don’t get the first paragraph captured by G+.
(e.g. this page “should” work — I built it myself 🙂 but does not:
https://www.send2press.com/newswire/tickets-on-sale-for-music-festival-drawing-big-name-acts-to-ohio-aiding-cancer-charities-2015-0416-03.shtml )
this page on wired.com does NOT work (odd they have no G+ buttons; bad SEO!)
http://www.wired.com/2015/04/porsches-new-boxster-made-just-driving-enthusiasts/
So far does NOT appear to be these specific elements, with NewsMag
a) “wide screen” headline — across top, 2 columns
b) category buttons/links above headline, after breadcrumbs (on/off no diff)
c) not issue with using mod_pagespeed for comment and whitespace removal, or rewriting images
d) not issue with https vs non https
*anecodatal: have run into couple of issues with Google News, when scraping page couple of times they grabbed the category buttons in place of the story headline or appended them in front of headline — contrary to news XML sitemap — stupid, stupid, stupid! Possibly need more “separation” from those and headline — not yet sure on that.
So, I’m playing with it in the midst of doing major security audit of WordPress plugins, and code across 15 websites (ugh). Only time we had a WP website “hacked” was way back (something like v 1.6 or 2.6 or something? — Al Gore’s website hacked same day ours was …Nov 2007 for those who know their beans). So, we stay on top of security stuff pretty strictly but these new vulnerabilities are a nest of vipers waiting to get milked for their toothy sting juice (have fun with that sentence English translators!). 😉
Thanks for this, almost the problem solve but i am not able to add the “Even More News” style on that middle section, all tagdiv block showing big thub images.
Can you please help on this?
Thanks & Regards
Debarup
Hi,
After theme update to 1.7.1 the author section links are not working
like if I click to “More From Author” or click to the side arrow next and previous its taking me up with a # after the post url.
blog: http://www.topfivebuzz.com
Please help
Thanks & Regards
Debarup
Hi,
I have just update the theme to 1.7.1.
disable the lazy loading.
I have seen except the home page the smart sidebar is not working for single posts and pages.
Please help.
13. How can I choose a page layout for my categories pages?
As you can see, my home page hxxp://concursospublicos.ninja have a diferent sidebar of the categories pages, for example hxxp://concursospublicos.ninja/preparacao. In that case I erase in my homepage that block used in the category page.
Actually … that is separate function for a different kind of content sharing.
Here is example of what I’m talking about …
if you go to your G+ account and post an update, and paste in this link from one of our sites — one of the last ones running Woo Canvas vs Newsmag:
http://newyorknetwire.com/2015/04/20/newswire_NYNW150338-9452.php/new-easeus-partition-master-10-5-able-convert-mbr-disk-gpt-disk-convert-gpt-disk-mbr/
this will populate the photo, headline and first paragraph in the content box.
If I do that on CaliforniaNewswire.com with a story, running Newsmag 1.6, it no longer does that; although it did it a week ago prior to the switch to Newsmag from our old Woo custom template.
This leads me to believe all things being equal that there is some element of the rendered page structure which causes Google’s scraper to not pull the full text in quite the same way.
——–so———–
I did try removing the “categories” from above headline/title on CaliforniaNewswire.com and this had no effect. I am going to try some other things like “simple sidebar” and removing related content, social media buttons, etc., to see if it’s “relational” content confusing it (e.g., meta data or mark-up related to the other images/titles on page), or what. Super annoying.
It may be that having the bulk of other headlines/titles/images inside the “woo sidebar” separates the onpage content enough to make the Google scraper less confused.
They really should be pulling the damn meta/og description tag, and no good reason for them to still be “scraping” the page.
Could be something as simple as they don’t like the “full width headline” which is in separate “block” from the body text; meaning not in the same “column” …. (sigh)
I’m playing with it, as time permits.
Upshot — the Woo Canvas template we’ve had for several years DOES WORK for G+ capture, while the Newsmag layout I’ve setup does NOT … so, I’m always frustrated by these micro-management issues with Google …
And don’t get me started on the right format for sitelinks for CSE hinting. Lack of documentation on that is ridiculous from them. 🙂
Hi,
How to disable the big home page feature 5 content blocks in mobile view.
Note: I want to disable it only in Mobile not in Tablets.
Thanks & Regards
Debarup
Hi,
Is it essential to update the theme all the time when update release?
And if yes, is there any quick, hassle free way to update it, like plugins?
Thanks & Regards
Debarup
Hi,
1. I guess that you use default footer template – http://screencast.com/t/pVyQ3bgDmSa so the block added there is by default and you can change the number of articles in footer 2 section you have to make this change in the code: http://screencast.com/t/0FvHJri9VYpp
If you want to add your own widgets there please use another footer template for example – http://screencast.com/t/tUhzIrRZKQ and add widgets in footer area: http://screencast.com/t/TTSSJlKmqC
2. Please provide more details about the design of main menu. You have this option for color in Theme Panel – http://screencast.com/t/Enm3lrQuV0jt and also for fonts – http://screencast.com/t/5VeQ1J7y
3. If you want to use the same sidebar on your post please create(if you want a custom sidebar) or set it from here – http://screencast.com/t/86AZ6kYcQe and add widgets to it from Appearance > Widgets section.
Also if you want to use a custom sidebar for a specific post you can add it from post backend: http://screencast.com/t/9SvRcMUJ
Hope this helps!
Hey guys, I would like to know if it is possible to change the pagination from number to next. I have included a screenshot of the example i have in mind. Please note, having the page 1 of 4 is highly important for me 🙂
screenshot #1: http://postimg.org/image/k5kezcntn/
screenshot #2: http://postimg.org/image/5nn7rcwij/
