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Hi,
I totally understand how frustrating this is a 20–30 sec load time is definitely not normal, and we’ll get it faster.
Just to clarify: the Newspaper theme itself isn’t the main problem. A website’s speed depends on more factors working together:
Hosting: If the hosting plan is small or shared, it can limit performance. Upgrading to a stronger plan (for example, VPS or managed WordPress hosting) can make a huge difference.
Examples: SiteGround GrowBig / Cloudways / Hostinger Business.
Optimization & Cache: Make sure you’re using a good caching setup (like WP Rocket pro plugin or LiteSpeed Cache free/pro) and have images optimized (via EWWW Image Optimizer or Imagify).
CDN: Adding a CDN like Cloudflare or BunnyCDN helps load content faster worldwide.
Even the Newspaper can run under 3 seconds when these parts are properly configured.
Thank you!
Hi Calin,
First of all, thank you for your support.
Yes, we insert Adsense blocks using the element, but Teads is implemented via a JavaScript tag through the Header script code in the theme settings, which allows the advertising block to be implemented between paragraphs of each post. It’s very likely that the theme’s CSS is somehow interfering with the Teads block’s CSS, causing layout disruption in the parallax effect of campaigns.
If you have any ideas on how to work around this, it would be very helpful.
Thank you.
Email Body:
Hello TagDiv Support Team,
I’m currently using the Newsmag 5 theme for my website MahakalTimes.com
, and I’d like to display a Google Web Stories section just below the Hero Area on the homepage.
I’ve installed and configured the Web Stories plugin by Google, which provides the [web_stories] shortcode. However, I don’t see any built-in option in TagDiv Composer or the homepage template to insert this shortcode directly below the Hero section.
Could you please guide me on the following points:
How can I manually insert the [web_stories] shortcode below the Hero Area using code (PHP or a custom module)?
Which template or PHP file (for example, template-homepage.php, loop.php, or any Hero module file) should I edit to safely add this shortcode below the Hero layout?
Do you have any recommended method or sample code to integrate plugin shortcodes like [web_stories] inside the homepage structure without affecting theme updates?
My goal is to feature a Web Stories showcase (horizontal scroll or grid style) immediately under the Hero section, maintaining full visual alignment with the theme’s layout.
Thank you for your time and support.
Best regards,
Umesh Sharma
Editor – MahakalTimes.com
Hello, Thanks for your reply. i am not using the acf plugin, but i am using a plugin that automatically generates a video post.
All-in-One Video Gallery
By Team Plugins360.
Currently I have another concern. the primary concern is display all the categories in an automated manner on a given page.
For example a new page
all the post categories to be displayed and not the posts in a given categories…
I am trying to change the page below
https://newspatron.com/categories/
Can this be achieved by one of the flex blocks or any other elements using the tagdiv composer?
For example adding post_category or post_categories in the Post type in the flex block or the big flex.
Please suggest a betterway as i have imported the page template, but not able to correctly configure the categories only the categories and not the post(S) per category, so that all the categories can be populated..
Thanks
Hi,
For each block that is not a loop you can use tagDiv Composer and edit it, select the block and check the filter tab, there you can set the taxonomy to filter the articles by that taxonomy https://i.imgur.com/WKH62Zz.png https://i.imgur.com/UVt0aVn.png https://forum.tagdiv.com/flex-block-settings-guide/
If you are using a category/taxonomy template, then you can use the loop element this will filter automatically the articles after the current category/taxonomy, or in case you are using a flex block use the special filters and choose the one according to the template, for exampl,e if it’s a categor,y select current category, if is a taxonomy, current taxonomy https://i.imgur.com/YJmtNZR.png
Thank you!
Hi,
Most of the elements have a responsive version made, but it may be necessary to adjust the layout a bit, for example, each element has options that can be applied on the responsive version only and those options will have a border in front, like this (those without will change the layout for all devices) https://i.imgur.com/ECpngla.png
Thank you!
Hello tagDiv Support Community,
I’m using Newspaper Theme v12.7.1 for my site https://www.diplopolis.com.
I’ve created a custom taxonomy called “Location” using the Custom Post Type UI (CPT UI) plugin. Based on all that I have read, the taxonomy is attached to standard Posts and set to be public, queryable, and has archives enabled.
My goal is to display articles grouped by their Location — for example, all posts tagged “Europe”, “Ukraine”, “Russia”, etc.
What I’ve tried so far:
Confirmed that the taxonomy appears in the WordPress admin and that posts are assigned to their respective Location terms.
Flushed permalinks by going to Settings>Permalinks and Saving Changes.
Enabled the taxonomy in Theme Panel → CPT & Taxonomy. I see Location listed there.
Attempted to use tagDiv Composer → Flex Loop / Loop Grid/Custom Field and couple of other elements, but I cannot find a clear way to filter posts to be displayed by my Location taxonomy.
I also created a Cloud Library → Custom Taxonomy template and assigned it to “Location”, and made it Global but the archive pages still do not display the posts as expected.
I’ve read the documentation on CPT, but I’m still unable to get posts to display per Location on either the archive pages or custom pages.
Could you please guide me step-by-step. It would be very helpful if you could provide me all the steps just in case I have missed something:
Which Element/Module to use for display and the correct way to configure the element/module to show posts filtered by the Location taxonomy.
Any additional theme settings or steps I might have missed to make the taxonomy available to Composer filters.
Whether there are any known compatibility issues with CPT UI in v12.7.1.
Any screenshots or references to the right documentation/video would be much appreciated.
Thank you for your help!
Best regards
Hi all
I am trying to show multiple/all categories that a post has assigned to it, in things like a Big Grid Flex, Post Loop, etc. within the TagDiv template editor.
It currently only shows one and defaults to the first alphabetically, so for example if a post has “Climate”, “Politics”, and “Animals” as categories, it will only display with “Animals” showing.
How can I show all the categories?
Many thanks.
Hi,
I see that there is an image that is trying to be loaded on the website, but this no longer exists https://i.imgur.com/xp9ya43.png, so resolving this situation will improve the speed a bit. Here is what you need to do, edit he homepage with tagDiv Composer, go to the footer zone and select the row, then select the css tab and click on remove text that is after the background image option – https://i.imgur.com/Ptl7VNu.png. After that, save the settings.
Also, to have a very fast website, you’ll need an excellent cache plugin and most of the time those are not free, for example WP Rocket – https://forum.tagdiv.com/wp-rocket-and-newspaper-theme-optimization-guide/ and use a CDN so your website is protected and the bots will no longer get on the website to consume extra resources.
Thank you!
Hello!
Whenever I try to edit the start page of my site with tagdiv composer I get this error:
This site can’t be reached
The webpage at https://fontan.nu/wp-admin/post.php?post_id=1123&td_action=tdc&tdbTemplateType=page might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR
This happens both when I try to do it from the WordPress interface and if I go to the site and press the bar at the top.
What am I doing wrong?
Thank you inadvance
Best regards
Amanda at Lunds Fontänhus
Hello,
It is possible to add to my website header a counter that will count my added news for today?
For example see here : https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/video/44914103?key=01fa0e75675a8c8158c56428705c3068
In this video you will see on this example website that they have a widget with todays added news counter and yesterdays added news counter.
Hello,
I have added Flex Block an my website left and right side and make them vertical.
Is there an easy way to make it vertical scrolling with the mouse.
I want to show for example 10 news, but the visual part must be 5 and when someone go with the mouse there and scroll more news must be showed (up to 10 or more).
I try to set up the limit or the articles to be 10 but the list is very long. Please see here : https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/image/56760662?key=cb225e3a67c132c71142b898946f5200
So i want to be like here : https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/video/44914022?key=46f8c96d8c907134a1d0c26b351f4ee6
Hello. We recently found out that we have a huge wp_options table (over 70 GB!!!) and over 12 000 000 rows are filled with td transients. I am attaching you a screenshot here: https://prnt.sc/E806MILYD0T0
We started to delete them batch by batch because, even if we have a cutting edge webserver, it is impossible to run a query to delete 12 M rows.
Can you help us in preventing this situation since, in the past few days, we had few server dropdown because of this?
We are using TagDiv Newspaper 12.7.1, which is the latest version, with tagDiv Composer, tagDiv Cloud Library, tagDiv Mobile Theme, Official AMP for WP and tagDiv Standard Pack plugins activated and updated to the latest build.
Also, we using WordPress LiteSpeed Cache plugin with Litespeed Webserver.
Hi,
I don’t use tagdiv mobile or amp.
I have a post set as video format and a youtube link in featured video.
The video’s cover appear both on desktop an mobile, but play is available only on desktop.
On mobile, the play button appears over the video, but no play.
Please help,
Thank you
I just installed Newspaper and this is my first experience with the theme.
I want to update Header and I noticed it is using a Cloud template.
When using Cloud templates, I go to Header templates, try to Edit with TD Composer the template “Header Template – Gourmet PRO” and I get page that says:
“Sorry, this page doesn’t exist.
Please check the URL or go back a page.
404 Error. Page Not Found.”
Then I close that and go back to Cloud templates, and click the “+” symbol to see if it will let me add a new template, and it show blank page with “Invalid reply from server endpoint.”
I basically can’t do anything with header. I want to use the Header of the sample website, but add my logo to it. That is all I wanted to do.
What is going on with this theme?
Hi,
That’s a setting for the row https://prnt.sc/-TcHBuUCzGoK for mobile. So for example if you set a background video for the row on desktop, and on mobile you want a different video, or an image instead of the video, then that option can be used.
The section you have in the homepage now at the top is a row with a background image, containing a block which displays 1 post. Which is fine if that is what you want. Let me know if you need help customizing it.
Thanks.
How can I add a caption under a featured photo in your template? Here’s an example of one of the entries.
https://babskiporadnik.pl/tinder-po-trzydziestce-jak-randkowac-z-klasa-i-bez-stresu/
Hi,
That is pretty unusual. I know it can happen sometimes, usually due to code in the htaccess https://www.siteground.com/kb/website-downloading-index/ and other causes https://theguidex.com/wordpress-download-file-instead-of-opening-in-browser/ But not due to using the AMP plugin. I don’t think I’ve seen a case where the AMP plugin would cause such an issue.
If I check your website now, the homepage loads correctly on mobile https://prnt.sc/hrqZdSQr_uW- No AMP. But as you said, it may not for visitors that accessed the website when the issue was happening.
You could try this code in the functions file or load it with a code snippet plugin https://pastebin.com/8CAVb8BH It sets a few meta tags for the homepage which should instruct the browser to not use a stored version of the page. Leave the code there for a day or two, then remove it. And please be sure to clear all the caches, from the website and from the hosting if there is any.
Thanks.
Hello,
I have been developing a new version of my website after purchasing the Newspaper Pro theme. While working on localhost (XAMPP) everything was fine — the login/register section worked correctly, as you can see on the left side of the image.
However, after migrating the site from localhost to HostGator hosting, and after adding the Cloudflare and Complianz plugins (I don’t think these plugins affect this part), the Register option disappeared. On the right side of the image you can see how it looks now. (https://imgur.com/a/2NQGNN1)
I checked the forum and saw that the option “Anyone can register” should be enabled. I did activate it, but it still didn’t work.
Interestingly, on localhost the Register button appeared even when this option was disabled, which makes me think the theme handled it differently.
Could you please help me understand what I might be missing, or if there is a specific setting inside the theme panel/header builder to enable the “Register” link again?
Thank you in advance!
Hi,
I’m using the Momentum PRO template.
I have several pages under the “Services” section – for example “Marketing”, “Administration”, etc., which describe the areas we specialize in.
I added a pricing table to one of these pages, but it appeared on all the “Services” pages.
Is it possible for each “Services” page to have its own unique pricing table?
How can I achieve that?
Thx
Hi,
The category pages of certain catergories doesn’t show the posts:
For example, below catergories doesn’t show any post:
https://www.reisbranche.nl/spanje/
https://www.reisbranche.nl/hotelbranche/
But I have posted in this catergories :
https://www.reisbranche.nl/spanje/unieke-belevingen-costa-brava/
https://www.reisbranche.nl/hotelbranche/conscious-hotel-utrecht/
Can anyone advise me?
Kind regards,
Dionne Huizer
Hello, in our site https://trikalatroll.gr we had a problem for mobile users. Suddenly the home page started to prompt users to download a file instead of loading the page. Only in home page!
I found that the issue was the AMP plugin we use for the mobile version of your theme. When I disable it the problem disappeared. I am waiting for a update to enable it again. Is it something you came across the last days?
Now we have another issue though, some users are complaining that the problem still exists, it has to do with mobile browser cache. When they erase it everything is OK. Is there a way we can force the home page to refresh and ask for new version? At least for a while until we finally solve the issue with AMP.
Thanks
Giorgos
Hi,
That might not work. The subtitle is kept in the wp_postmeta table under the meta key td_post_theme_settings, and the data is serialized. And it’s not just the subtitle, everything from the theme that is related to a post is kept there, for example https://prnt.sc/dGC2FVO-28bK Doing it through sql is risky, and I don’t think there’s a plugin that could do something like this. Maybe its possible through a php script but I can’t say for sure. Unfortunately even if its possible somehow, it may not be so easy. Doing it wrong may damage the rest of the theme post meta.
I would actually suggest something different. You could just import the subtitles in a custom field and display that instead of the theme subtitle. A custom field can be created with the ACF plugin and attached to posts https://www.wpallimport.com/import-advanced-custom-fields-acf-csv/ Then you can display it in the post page with the theme, the composer has a custom field element https://prnt.sc/sVivXW1izpSr This method would be easier and it should work fine.
Thanks.
Hi,
Not working in what way exactly? And what are the other issues. Please mention more details. If you want you can send us an email at contact@tagdiv.com and provide a link to the website and admin login, and examples of the issues. This way I can check directly on the website.
Thanks.
