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Oasontu
tagDiv Member

For creating your sidebar, either [tagDiv] block 9 or [tagDiv] block 10 can show posts without thumbnails.

You can also use the “More Article” theme option to display additional posts without thumbnails. Use either the M8 or M9 modules.

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elpaulli
Participant
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I am having some trouble with the category posts in a theme. I am using Block 9 and would like to sort the posts based off the different interests.
The first problem I am having is that if I tag a post with mulitple interests it only shows up in one of the category blocks. I would need them to show up in muliptles.

Also the other problem is that sometimes even when only one is tagged, it does not show up either.

I have attached screen shots on the page, and the set up in the back-end. The site is still password protected.

Thanks.

Block on home page
http://riachannel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-22-at-11.08.07-AM.png
Category posts
http://riachannel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-22-at-11.07.05-AM.png
Block Settings
http://riachannel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-22-at-11.09.37-AM.png

fajriearadea
Participant
#0

Hello .. any body know what kind of widget block that place related article without thumbnail ?

Bogdan B.
tagDiv Staff

Hello,
There is a way to manually add posts to a block from the block settings -> post ID filter: http://screencast.com/t/tLKgVXKix
You can get the post id’s like so: http://screencast.com/t/HctPB9mtj4tc
Thank you!

Ar_farazon
tagDiv Member

Hello! And can you please also write me code how to change the color of links on hover in this block? Thanks.

Andrei L.
tagDiv Member

Hi

The sort will display posts immediately after the block was added on the page. Make sure you have enabled post view counter from theme panel > post settings, otherwise the sort won’t work: http://screencast.com/t/kUD7q5M6

Thanks!

jackfischlum
tagDiv Member

Hi,
Thank you for your response
I tried to modify “td_block_authors” and use both parameters from the codex “last_name” and “user_lastname” but none of them work.. I don’t understand why..

Bogdan B.
tagDiv Staff

Hi,
In my reply above you will see a link to our page speed guide. There is a plugin for it named visual composer. Please follow the guide carefully and speedbooster will take cvare of render blocking. Please also follow this topic to learn about speedbooster’s plugin protection: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/incompatible-plugin-detected/
Thank you!

Bogdan B.
tagDiv Staff

Hi,
Maybe you can try to edit the author block in the them files as I see that the function used accepts different parameters including first and last name: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_author_meta
The parameter used by us is display_name. Try to change it here: http://screencast.com/t/t0KRpftM with one of the parameters from the codex.
Thank you!

henrib
Participant
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I’m building a local newssite with Newspaper 6 and i am using big-grid-block 3 at the top of the frontpage. Is there a way to fill that block manually instead of filling it automaticly by category or tag? I’d like to decide where to put an article and how long it will stay at the same position.

cstyn
tagDiv Member

Myself have issue with render-blocking JavaScript and CSS… and and no plugin can fix it, how to?

I see demo theme that has 90/100 😐

Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content

Your page has 2 blocking script resources and 6 blocking CSS resources. This causes a delay in rendering your page.
None of the above-the-fold content on your page could be rendered without waiting for the following resources to load. Try to defer or asynchronously load blocking resources, or inline the critical portions of those resources directly in the HTML.
Remove render-blocking JavaScript:
http://demo.tagdiv.com/…-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.11.3
http://demo.tagdiv.com/…s/jquery/jquery-migrate.min.js?ver=1.2.1
Optimize CSS Delivery of the following:
http://demo.tagdiv.com/…r=2.5.7-5693.pagespeed.cf.UDybPq-xWG.css
http://demo.tagdiv.com/…css,qver=4.2.pagespeed.cf.Io6Fs5icoS.css
http://fonts.googleapis.com/…%2C600italic%2C400%2C600%2C700&ver=4.4.1
http://fonts.googleapis.com/…%2C700%2C500italic%2C400%2C300&ver=4.4.1
http://demo.tagdiv.com/…s,qver=4.6.2.pagespeed.cf.JyfuAoEqVC.css
http://demo.tagdiv.com/…s,qver=6.6.4.pagespeed.cf.33YDcclKNz.css

thoseconspiracyguys
tagDiv Member

Hi Bogdan,

It never did that before! I have even removed a lot of plugins that I had installed to speed up the site performance and now it loads quite quickly. But it does still have that ugly blue bar at the top. It has only been in the last few weeks, maybe since the theme update, but I never had this before and, as I said, I have had a lot more elements to load. Can you have a look at the site and try to understand what the problem is because it looks bad. What does move the render blocks to footer mean? I have not made big changes to the theme really. Added some small images as sidebar elements, a few pictures, and changed the colour. Its nothing major and shouldnt cause the site to look like this when it worked fine before. Here are some examples http://imgur.com/a/Cy9F9 and this stays like this for 1 second as the page loads up.

Please let me know how I should proceed,
Thanks,
Gordon
http://www.thoseconspiracyguys.com

Catalin
tagDiv Staff

Hello blogwire,

Please take a look over the below explanation and try to understand a bit how it work the thumbs in the theme. Please check here ->>
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. For more information about these kinds of plugins, please consult their documentation here -> https://wordpress.org/plugins/thumbnail-upscale/ -> https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/ Also, please ensure that the functionalities of these plugins are not affected by the other untested plugins that could create interference through the theme. Please notice that these types of plugins are not tested with our theme and we cannot provide support for the theme. We recommend them because a lot of our customer uses and they were satisfied to their functionality.

For your second request, please ensure that you have correctly followe the steps for Facebook sharing. For more information about these, please check our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/facebook-share/

Thank you for your understanding!

Catalin
tagDiv Staff

Hello almostserious,

Unfortunately, this error could come from a big number of problems. I believe it happens due to a server configuration which is not responding, it could be due to a delay or it could also be a temporary issue so you can try this a few times and if you still get this error please contact your host provider and let him know about this, ask them to unblock our demo in order to retrieve the theme data. It could also happen due to your wp install or other plugins might also cause this. Also, make sure that your permission for the upload folder is set correct. You can check this by trying to upload an image in the media library. If the process succeeds then the permission is okay. If not you can use the c-panel to change permissions (set them to 777) or if you do not have access to the Cpanel, please contact your hosting provider.
Also, make sure you meet the requirements for newspaper: https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/

If you still cannot install the demo, please send an email at contact@tagdiv.com and provide wp-admin so we can take a look. Please also provide a link to this topic.

Thank you!

zeni
tagDiv Member

Hi Andrei and thank you for your reply.

I know about the images but my issue is the one I have mentioned abouve. Please check again because there is “Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content” issue.

Above I have reproduced your tutorial and asked to help me to solve this issue as we are not pros, if we were like you, you wouldn’t be here, right?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Bogdan B.
tagDiv Staff

Hi,
Unfortunately when you add too many elements to your site, it could take some time for it to load andf for css to apply all the code.This is the way css works, it applies the code in cascades so if the loading times are not so good, you can see this effect. Also if you move css render blocks to footer, this is also a result of that action as the style will wait for other elements to load first. The easiest way to improve this rewrite is to make css changes directly in style.css. You can try to move the code from the theme panel-> custom css box into the style.css file directly.
Thank you!

Andrei L.
tagDiv Member

Hi

i’ve checked your site with google’s page speed tool and noticed that you don’t have any render blocking resources. If you check it for mobiles there appear some resources but google is very restrictive when it comes from page-speed on mobile devices and may interpret some thing in a different way.
Google penalize your site because images are not optimized: http://screencast.com/t/m4m0Vi3Hj9j Check our documentation for more details about image optimization: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ and also have a look at google’s docs: https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/OptimizeImages

Thanks!

Catalin
tagDiv Staff

Hello agent314,

Please notice that the CSS working in cascade (Cascading Style Sheet) and the first time take the code from style.css and then take the color that you have changed from Theme panel or through custom CSS area and because of this will appear that delay in loading. Unfortunately, it is not really a valid solution in this case because is the system’s behavior.
You need to optimize your site by following this guide: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
The guide shows exactly the steps needed to remove render block js and CSS. There is no easier way to explain it. Please follow every step closely and keep in mind that speed booster has a compatibility list for plugins: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/incompatible-plugin-detected/

We can’t offer speed customization services at the moment so if you still need guidance on this or you’re not aware of the steps you need to take in this regard please consider hiring a developer or a freelancer to do this for you. Also, as you can see in our tutorial, these kinds of information are addressed only for ADVANCED USERS.

Thank you for your understanding!

Bogdan B.
tagDiv Staff

Hi,
I’m not sure why the block moves to the right as we have not encountered this issue yet. Sorry.
As for the thumb, please make su re you have the proper thumbnail selected here: http://screencast.com/t/BbAPNHQBeQ and after you change these settings use the force regenerate plugin to regenerate your thumbnails.
Hope this helps.
Thank you!

aktifje
tagDiv Member

By the way I already did step 5. Remove render blocking css/js – using the TagDiv SpeedBooster plugin (advanced users)

But after check again the problem still exists.

Catalin
tagDiv Staff

Hello snaxzer,

Unfortunately, page speed is something you will have to adjust yourself. There is no ‘promised speed’ as this depends on lots of things starting with your server. You need to optimize your site by following this guide: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
The guide shows exactly the steps needed to remove render block js and CSS. There is no easier way to explain it. Please follow every step closely and keep in mind that speed booster has a compatibility list for plugins: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/incompatible-plugin-detected/

We can’t offer speed customization services at the moment so if you still need guidance on this or you’re not aware of the steps you need to take in this regard please consider hiring a developer or a freelancer to do this for you. Also, as you can see in our tutorial, these kinds of information are addressed only for ADVANCED USERS.

Thank you for your understanding!

Andrei L.
tagDiv Member

Hi

Try this css: http://screencast.com/t/uiBYsOLT

.td_block_big_grid .td-module-meta-info{
display: none;
}

Thanks!

Catalin
tagDiv Staff

Hello daniel.baron,

This error -> http://screencast.com/t/XW2ZouO2hQe comes up in the search/block 21/module 16 when a post has no featured image set to it. This is the case because the search uses the default WP thumbnail. We are working on a fix for this and until we can implement it, you can use this workaround:

You need to edit td_config.php and add this code:

td_api_thumb::add('thumbnail',
array(
'name' => 'thumbnail',
'width' => 150,
'height' => 150,
'crop' => array('center', 'top'),
'post_format_icon_size' => 'normal',
'used_on' => array(
'Big grid 1, 3, 7 - small image'
)
)
);

It should look like so: http://screencast.com/t/RTkWKH6me
Basically, you are just adding another thumbnail to the list in between the existing ones. Then the error will not display anymore.

I recommend you to change the module for Search from Theme panel, like this -> http://screencast.com/t/I0AmPRbybZZN

Hope this helps and let us know how it goes!

Thank you for the message!

aktifje
tagDiv Member

Hi Catalin,

Thanks for the reply. I do understand how variable speed of website works.

But as I concern js_composer is come bundled with the installation files and for us to make “major” changes/modification to the script itself is just a tedious “another work” for us the theme purchaser.

Just my opinion you guys should handled the page render blocking problem and automated in the speed booster plugin itself rather than us manually tackled the issue by our-self.

Andrei L.
tagDiv Member

Hi

Sorry for the delay but we had to make some additional investigations on this.
Current implementation of unique article feature can’t avoid a specified module because it works like this:
– for each block displayed on page the theme make a specific query and display posts depending by filters set. When unique article is enabled the query had an additional parameter which avoid posts already displayed on that page. Basically it tells to the query: for second block from this page do not display posts which were displayed in first block.
Let take ans example where we have two blocks on the page and unique article it’s enabled. You can’t remove the first block from unique article feature because the theme won’t know what posts will be displayed in next block.
You can only avoid the second block from unique article by “telling” the query: display in second block and posts which were displayed in first block.

So if you want to remove a specific block from unique article basically you need to add the modules which generate previous block in indicated function: http://screencast.com/t/IchzFKGnZ

I hope this helps.
Thanks!

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