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Hello
Your theme is really great and more since the v6.
It is really cool for sites for lot of articles and works fine with Google ads for example.
However adblockers are used more and more.
I know some very big french sites where more than 40% of the people have one! 🙁
It means it is more and more difficult to earn money with advertising.
So we have to find other ways to make money.
Premium site options is an option.
Shop with some exclusive stuffs (PDF, video, goodies…) is another.
Like most of the site, we use WooCommerce for this part.
Even the theme is compatible, it is really the minimum.
I notice that other themes work hard to propose cool functions on the shop part.
Example on Sahifa (another magazine theme like Newsmag):
http://themes.tielabs.com/sahifa/shop/
It would be very cool if you add a lot of those features on the next updates.
For my point of view, here a list of importants things to add, in order of interest:
1/ Have an interactive basket shop icon meaning when I add elements in it, on top of the site the icon change and indicate the exact number of products I added.
2/ When I put the mouse on this basket icon, it would be cool that a block appear with the details products I add
3/ Heve a dynamic filter by price in AJAX (without reload the page)
4/ Have a sort option (price, name, newest, popular…)
5/ Maybe in the article detail have a more cool presentation of the images meaning using scroll ?
Here an example on a page (with a lot of photos taking to many places).
http://www.virtualmagie.org/produit/livre-vm-des-10-ans/
In the right column I notice on the categories, after the number the sign ) never show up.
I don’t know if it coming from the theme or WooCommerce. 🙂
Hope you consider my suggestions to improve the theme options.
Regards
You mean sites like this and these, right?
To be frank, I laughed when I read this post. It would be more than a waste of money, it would be very hard to adapt this theme to a single-page website. It’s designed for displaying blocks of articles, columns, sidebars, category headers, attractive search, various menus and footers, ads, etc. etc., all of which is useless for a single-page website. I’m not even sure you can easily adapt this theme to go full-width as most single-page website are. The one feature you could potentially make good use of is Visual Composer.
I don’t envy you. Dealing with a client who has no idea what his needs are is hell. I’m not staff, but my advice would be to try to convince the client to go with something sane. You’ll lose your mind trying to turn this theme into something unrecognizable.
Hi,
Please check the theme documentation (we work to improve it, add more tutorials/video tutorials) – https://forum.tagdiv.com/block-settings-tutorial/ also you can follow our youtube channel – https://www.youtube.com/user/tagdiv/videos
I guess that you refer to the ajax filter categories – http://screencast.com/t/wDwJKfRJFvT2 just set ajax filter type by categories and paste the categories IDs that you want to display there – http://screencast.com/t/jInXuOH0TUz you can take the ID like this – http://screencast.com/t/7IGPRmU8i
Result: http://screencast.com/t/DcnaU01fD
Hope this helps!
Hi
When you insert a block into post content the theme add that underline decoration on title and category links, if you want to remove it you can use this css in theme panel > custom css:
.td-post-content .td_block_wrap a:hover{
text-decoration: none!important;
}
Thanks!
Hi,
Add this code:
global $post;
if (is_singular()){
$args['post__not_in'] = array( $post->ID );
}
..to the td_data_source.php file, like this: http://screencast.com/t/K8DVFT2LCb
This should exclude the current post from block queries on post pages and on pages you can use the unique articles feature: http://screencast.com/t/tfK8gAnhxQ
Thanks
Hi,
2. Yes, it is not a big change. Unfortunately this is how the menu system was designed so it is not so easy to remove all the effects. We will try to implement another navigation system in future.
10. Please try this custom css – http://screencast.com/t/seTuiHtRDG
.home .td-crumb-container {
min-height: inherit;
padding-top: 10px;
}
Yes, it is good for Seo to have h1 to the page, but it is not necessarily to be the page title. You can add a h1 title and some content in a text block for example anywhere on the page.
Thanks!
Hi i would like to know if i have a block only showing post of one category, i know the themes support pagination but what if i want to include a button to GO to the category i’m showing in the block and view all the post in that category like when you click this category in the menu, it open the category with all the post. i want to do that but in a block.
Thanks!
Hi,
The page fonts will not be applied if the pagebuilder is used to create your page. If you use Visual Composer pagebuilder you have some options in Theme Panel > Theme Fonts for tagdiv block and modules – http://screencast.com/t/daHSTaz1q0 and for text content you can use Text block – http://screencast.com/t/f4qmS8Tq9
Please provide more details if this is not what you mean and also a link where you have an issue.
Thanks!
Hi,
I have checked your link and did not found any slider like you said, please make sure that you set it properly, just set your category in slider settings – http://screencast.com/t/fObKO3cwi and make sure that you have more then 1 post to that specific category. Also if you want to use multiple categories filter you can take the category id like this – http://screencast.com/t/QFp6g6yT3rT
Where it should be located in the page, before Editorials block? – http://screencast.com/t/haRY5yTpp
Thanks!
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. You could 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.
Also if you want to change the crop mode or add a different thumb size, you need to alter the code – http://screencast.com/t/7nlYBLgcfb also the thumb is used in the modules – http://screencast.com/t/U34sGuJ2gfX If you make any changes you will have to regenerate thumbnails – https://forum.tagdiv.com/using-the-theme-with-existing-content/
Thanks!
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Alin [tagDiv].
Thumbnails on the homepage grid doesnt resize.
My site – ireadopedia.com
i have tried installing thumbnails scale, Thumbnails regen, custom css.
I have read the forums for solutions but still unable to fix it.
Needs help.
Thanks,
Kaarthi
Hi Alin,
Thank you for your reply! So, there is no subscribe widget or something? For example a block where visitors can give his/her name and email.
Hi Andy,
You will have to use an Event plugin, unfortunately I can’t make any suggestions as we haven’t tested any plugins of this type with the theme so I can’t recommend one and guarantee it will also work.
The sign in widget is available only if you use top-menu(we will try to find a better implementation for it), it is not available like a widget or block so if you want to make some modifications or display it in another section here you can find the code – http://screencast.com/t/Ehuxgy8eT
Thanks!
Hi,
1. Please check widget settings, for tagdiv blocks you have the same filter settings like using pagebuilder(Filter Tab) – https://forum.tagdiv.com/block-settings-tutorial/ – http://screencast.com/t/VlXg3EJZgMI7
2. Not sure why you have this issue, please check this without any plugins active, leave only Visual Composer active, clear cache and see if it works. Also you can check browser console for errors when you expand the widget. It may be a server error, also you have to check the error.log to see if you can find something related to this issue. Let me know how it goes!
Thanks!
Something I cannot seem to figure out.. Now whenever I create a new block for some odd reason the block and post title, and category tag gets underline whenever hover over. This behavior recently started. Help would be great, Thanks!
see image
http://www.goproace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/hover_underline_vc.jpg
and here is the post with the in body of article block
http://www.goproace.com/2015/08/q2-2015-results-international-sales-totaled-more-than-50-of-quarterly-revenue/
Custom CSS to hide category/date on slider worked perfectly, thanks so much!
Still having issues with the Featured Photos not displaying at full size. We ran the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin, deleted cache on page and no difference. Viewing on screen not too large (15″ laptop) and images still smaller than column, although they look for a moment when loading as if they will be correct size, then quickly resize themselves to a little too small. Is there a minimum size or any other way to control the issue?
Screenshot here.
Also, we have set the slide to only rotate through 5 posts but it currently is rotating 10 posts. Other content block on page is set to offset 5 posts (start at 6th post) and “Unique Articles” is enabled, in case that matters. Screen here. Any idea why that would be happening and what to do to fix?
Thanks!
I also have a problem with blockquotes http://www.screencast.com/t/PBnjr8kpZ only when the plugin Popup Maker is enabled
Hi,
on the Newspaper theme header ad block, I wish to know how to implement 2 scripts for Google adsense ads and then a second one from an other ad system. I wish to have a kind of capping with adsense beijng displayed the first time they land on the site and when they visit a second page, then display the second source.
How could I do that ?
Thanks for your help.
Our website : http://www.iphonologie.fr.
Hi
Thanks for reporting this, it’s already on our list and will be fixed in the next theme update.
Meanwhile please check this topic, Alin posted a solution here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/widget-block-21/
Thanks for the message!
Is there a way to have a block where it generates content based on a media category filter? For example, I have editorial cartoons and I would like to have a gallery that is automatically populated if I categorize those media files under the media category Editorial Cartoons. I have it set up now and the media category is #82. But when I set the filter on the Slider element block nothing appears.
mycommunity.news/mahopac/opinion
Hi,
Images used on modules are cropped to fit the thumb size and depending by image aspect ratio the result can be different. The theme use center-top cropping system, but if you want you can modify it if you want, here you can find more details about cropping – http://www.davidtan.org/wordpress-hard-crop-vs-soft-crop-difference-comparison-example/ You have to do some tests and see what aspect ratio to use, depending what blocks/modules you use most as like I said there isn’t an ideal image size so it can look good on all thumbs.
Thanks!
Hi,
You must have post views enabled from Theme Panel > Post Settings – http://screencast.com/t/MIVDUmqK then you can test it by editing a post and take a look at custom fields: http://screencast.com/t/mSiJvu61tGj then refresh the post a few times and check if it increments. If those values are changed when the post is viewed then 7 day sort should work properly and the post should appear to your block.
Please check this without any plugins active except of Visual Composer, clear cache and see if you still have this issue. Let me know how it goes!
Unfortunately I cannot recommend any plugins as we did not tested any plugin like this with the theme, sorry!
Thanks!
Hi,
1. That white space comes from the sidebar which is set on the same row as the main content and extends more than the content in the left: http://screencast.com/t/SkeNaRuH You can reduce number of the post from the block you have in the sidebar to avoid this or add content to the left or alter the posts number to the blocks you use there.
2. We provide instructions in that guide to fix all google notifications in relations to your site’s page speed test so checking your site I found this notifications: http://screencast.com/t/PHCTKXxPUOS4 for which you can use the speedbooster plugin as instructed to move those notified css resources to the footer and for optimizing image you can sue a plugin or try this he following code in functions.php:
add_filter( 'jpeg_quality', create_function('', 'return 50;' ) );
This will compress all images to 50%, you can change that value, after you add the code you have to regenerate all thumbs – https://forum.tagdiv.com/using-the-theme-with-existing-content/
We don’t recommend using auto compression tools for js/html/css but you can try one and exclude the sections that cause issues if minified.
Thanks for the message!
Hi,
The theme allows shortcode (in post html editor or in the code) but you will have to create your warning message box using Visual Composer elements (for example in a text block), take the shortcode – http://screencast.com/t/FiPcJiIOjPSL and use do_shortcode function to add in the the template file(s) if you want to appear on all of your articles(as reference how this function is used) – https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/move-the-bottom-article-ad-spot-below-the-share-bar/ or past only the shortcode in the post content – http://screencast.com/t/TzjVXW1Q4Ul
Thanks!
Hi,
I believe you refer to custom taxonomies. Theme’s new custom post types and taxonomies system hasn’t been extended for blocks yet. This is still in development mode at the moment, sorry!
Right now you can just set the custom post type to be used on block without sort or filter options, thsoe are available just for post post types.
Thanks