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Hello,
Unfortunately this update from such an old version will be like switching to a whole different theme. Lots of things have changed in the meantime.
1)
a. You can turn off the slider animation from the lazyload setting: http://screencast.com/t/1e7GmiXoK3r
b. You can use this custom css to remove it only from the big mkodule:
.td_module_mx9 .td-post-author-name{
display:none!important;
}
c. The images are to blame here, not the grid itself. You need to regenerate your thumbnails using the “force regenerate’ plugin
2) Unfortunately the gallery format was removed so if you have double images n your posts, you will either have to remove the doubles by hand or use post style 5 which does not display the featured image.
3) This is the position of the pagination in the current theme. Please check how it should display on our live demo here: http://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/
4) Unfortunately the article titles in modules and blocks can only be changed with css as the theme has no option to change their color. (you can change the active hover color from visual composer block settings as seen on our demo homepage.)
You can use this code to change the titles:
.td_module_wrap .entry-title a{
color:blue!important
}
I hope this helps.
Thank you!
Hello emrahkaranlik,
If you want to have another type of sorting for your posts, you have to change it from Block settings, like this -> http://screencast.com/t/bhnE56iQcdGH The sorting default is by latest. For more information about block settings, please consult our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-block-settings-tutorial/
Hope this helps!
Thank you for the message!
Hello Sylvester77,
1) If you want to change the header for category section, you have to use a bit of CSS code to do that. Try the code below and add it in Theme panel->Custom CSS area.
The code is ->
.category .td-banner-wrap-full {
background-color:red;
}
The result -> http://screencast.com/t/NHLfAxP5NR
2)If you want to change the color of the Widgets, please try the code below and add it in Theme panel.
The code is ->
.td_block_widget .block-title span {
color:red!important;
background-color:green!important;
}
The result -> http://screencast.com/t/L2dFV8oirM
If is not what you mean, please provide more details about your desired changes so I will be able to provide a more details.
Thank you for the message!
hi,
I managed to set up the front page with an ad-block (1054px wide) under the main menu. that’s perfect.
now, I would like to make it appear, in the same position (I mean before article title, before widgets), in the article as well.
is it possible?
thank you
Hi, an error happening on my site. The homepage, categories and sidebar(contain blocks I added) don’t show new posts
Please help, what I should do now?
Thank so much.
Hello,
If the read more button comes from our theme (included in modules and blocks) then it will get the theme accent color: http://screencast.com/t/ePfRroOi
There is however one exception to this rule on module 15 and the ‘more’ tag from WordPress. This tag will not work anywhere except module 15.
In this case the button comes from wordpress and is not affected by the theme settings. You can use this css to change the text and background color to it:
.td-read-more a, .more-link-wrap a{
background-color: pink!important;
color:red!important;
}
Thanks.
Hello,
If the read more button comes from our theme (included in modules and blocks) then it will get the theme accent color: http://screencast.com/t/ePfRroOi
There is however one exception to this rule on module 15 and the ‘more’ tag from WordPress. This tag will not work anywhere except module 15.
In this case the button commes from wordpress and is not affected by the theme settings. You can use this css to change teh text and background color to it:
.td-read-more a, .more-link-wrap a{
background-color: pink!important;
color:red!important;
}
Thanks.
Hello guys, just bought you Theme and really like it.
But like always for beginners I need some support.
I have some minor issues in the homepage http://www.urban.dog/urbandog/
1. Ad is showing not in the same height as block next to it
How can I optimize the height. Ad should be shown at same height as content and the Tag “Advertisment above”
http://www.screencast.com/t/fmefOPnXTBvh
2. I´ve set a block content and try to set a border, but the border is not shown. How can i set the border?
Is like that: http://www.screencast.com/t/SubMELexY
And should be like that: http://www.screencast.com/t/wekMFMJx
3. Space between Title Block and Big Grid Block
I´ve set a extra Title Block as you can not set Title with big grid blocks but now the space is bigger than on normal blocks with Title. How can i change a smaller space, so it should look the same as other blocks?
See here: http://www.screencast.com/t/S2ZCdj1g
4. DARK Theme works but need customs CSS for sidebar black fonts
I´ve changed some css so have a dark theme but on post pages I want to keep the template white, the issue is the sidebar copy is also white. How can i change it to black for the post pages?
See here: http://www.screencast.com/t/aVJeaKuzZq
The CCS I´ve added with help of the forum here:
.td-footer-wrapper, .td-banner-wrap-full, .td-main-content-wrap,
.td-main-page-wrap, .td-category-grid, .td-category-header {
background-color: #141414;
}
.entry-title a,
textarea
{
color: white !important;
}
Thank you
Hello Luke,
In order to have pagination on the homepage, you need to use a block and add pagination to it. You cannot add pagination between blocks. You can set it up from here: http://screencast.com/t/9SSdbvizcdPz or you can use the latest articles module like so: http://screencast.com/t/x3f3Xbsc
I hope this helps.
Hi
The theme code was tested and optimized for best performance, we have a lot of clients and the theme works well on a large variety of hosts.
First please make sure that you use the recommended server configuration for Newspaper theme, you can check our documentation for more details: https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-requirements-for-newsmag/
There are lots of factors that influence the site’s page-sped. I suggest you first try this without any other plugins active, leave just VC plugin active the check again. To improve the loading speed look the mysql query cache: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/query-cache.html we also use it on our demo.
Also you can use the speed booster to move the js and css at the bottom of the page, eliminate render-blocking, but not for all plugins. Check the System Status if the speed booster is active if you use other plugins than the tested ones. You can find some useful information regrading speed booster usage in this topic: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/speed-booster-questions/
Also you can read this guide, it may help – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
Hope this help.
Thanks!
Hi
Why is custom query not available in Visual Composer for blocks? It is available in post grid.
Hi,
The issue is only with the Block 15, other blocks do not have any problem.
Thanks!
I tried and it works for posts on blocks but not with any of the big grids, is that how is suppouse to work ?
I tried all the above solutions. They did not help to solve the problem. What shall be theideal size of Image for these Blocks? At present I have changed the design.
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!
1. works 🙂
2. it kinda messes up my blocks, sticks them together…the default look is better
3. works 🙂
Good afternoon Bogdan,
1- In the inner page of an article, it is possible to add the category with link to the respective page?
2- Is it possible to get the items (some items) the letter “drop caps” … And the excerpt too? In the excerpt would only be on the homepage in the “Priority” (first block of the site) … It will be possible? or recommend some good plugin?
This fixed it
Header.php
<div class=”td-container”>
<?php wp_nav_menu( array( ‘theme_location’ => ‘sub-menu’, ‘container_class’ => ‘nav_sub’ ) ); ?>
</div>
Functions.php
// Add Sub Menu
function register_my_menu() {
register_nav_menu(‘sub-menu’,__( ‘Sub Menu’ ));
}
add_action( ‘init’, ‘register_my_menu’ );
Custom CSS
.td-container .nav_sub ul {
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
background-color: #fff;
}
.td-container .nav_sub li {
float: left;
margin-left: 0;
}
.td-container .nav_sub li a {
display: inline-block;
color: #666;
text-align: center;
padding: 13px 13px;
text-decoration: none;
}
.td-container .nav_sub li a:hover {
background-color: #d9d9d9;
}
Hi,
You can use this css to center it:
@media (max-width: 767px){
.td-header-style-8 .td-header-top-menu {
display: block!important;
width: 116px!important;
margin-left: auto!important;
margin-right: auto!important;
}
}
Thank you!
Hello dwcp,
Please notice that the Whatsup icons are showed only for mobile devices. I suppose that you want to display it for other devices, you have to use a bit of CSS.
The code is ->
@media (min-width: 787px){
.td-social-whatsapp {
display: inline-block !important;
}
The result -> http://screencast.com/t/aNJhnBHOSB
If is not what you mean, please provide more details about your problem so I will be able to provide a more accurate response.
Thank you!
Hi,
There’s no ideal image size, the modules have thumbs with different aspect ratios and a part of the image may get lost on the cropping process. Anyway the featured image must be at least thumb size used on modules/blocks. You can read more about the featured image size here (it’s from Newsmag documentation but the principles are the same) – https://forum.tagdiv.com/image-size/ You have to do some tests and see what aspect ratio to use, depending what blocks/modules you use most.
Thanks!
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!
Hi i have this problem.
In home i have add block slider.
I chose to show 5 post.
When I open the site, the first image you see. then turn white.
Subsequent 4 slide are white, once the images are seen all around.
I changed 2 hosting providers, both because site was slow (url: visoko.co.ba). But, now i am on third hosting on this package:
https://www.menkisys.de/cloudserver/homepage-shop-ssl-website
and again have problems. I dont have any more sites on this server, only this Visoko.co.ba. Owner of server said to me that site uses too much RAM at some times, and server blocks and site becomes not responsive.
can this be because of theme or wordpress? I found this on post about page speed:
“If you have a dedicated server / VPS:
make sure that you have APC installed or another ‘op cache’ for php. This will reduce your server response time.We have receive some reports that the accelerator has some problems in some specific configurations with our theme and Nginx.”
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!