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Thanks Marius
I have resolved the issues of blocking Google Fonts but still having a hard time configuring blocking script (Wp Ad System) and 2 blocking CSS resources (Js_Composer & Style.css).

Kindly advise if the two CSS resources can be optimized with affecting styling of the site.

Kindly help regarding blocking Javascript.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/50uqstwun1u74n6/Screenshot%202015-06-30%2008.57.16.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8bsycipt3souyo0/Screenshot%202015-06-30%2008.59.41.png?dl=0

Time to add mine into the mix here. I just updated so I’m using Newspaper v6.1 and the child theme.

Inside The Star

I opted to go for sleek design attributes and dug apart the default styles. Features include:

• Transparency on all container backgrounds
• Full size fixed background image representing my site’s primary subject (Dallas Cowboys NFL Team)
• Custom widget title blocks
• Custom link colors on post templates with darker headers
• Custom sharing buttons; removed default Pinterest button and replaced with a Reddit button
• Using Open Sans and Roboto in a few places like menus and widgets, and using Merriweather for content and some titles, but Oswald for all headings and most titles.

I’m pretty pleased with how it came out and, of course, thanks go to tagDiv for revamping the theme in such a way that this was so easy to do. Seriously loving the speed of the theme, even with ads and outside javascript like an audio player loaded.

Comments and feedback welcome.

Alright, got it figured out.

For the first part, the database was storing old options from the last theme I used that also used VC. I wiped those out to remove any mentions of the old theme and inserted the values from my dev site. That wiped my theme settings out so I imported those again (thankfully I had them saved), and then I went to VC settings and selected all shortcodes for administrator and saved. Viola! I have all the Newspaper blocks available in VC now.

But for the second part, I’m still getting the screwed up styles in the page builder. It’s because I still have VC v.4.3.5 installed and not the latest version.

I’m hesitant to install the latest version just because of recent conversations on here regarding NewsMag (which I also have) and the Shim plugin because of how new versions of VC are slowing sites down to a crawl since NewsMag v1.7.

So, if I upgrade VC to v4.5.3 as distributed with Newspaper v6.1, will the site run slower than it does with VC v.4.3.5 as distributed with Newspaper v4.6.1?

Whatever option is faster is what I’ll stick with. Would really like to hear @NeoTrope weigh in on this as well.

Go to: newspaper/includes/modules/td-module-single.php

Delete ONLY the highlighted portion of text shown inside of the green box, not all of the code in the green box:

Delete from the <a> to the </a> for the last two links to remove the two networks in question.

*** Note that my buttons show differently than the default buttons. I’ve already updated my buttons to remove Pinterest and include Reddit instead. In either case, the final two links in that block of code are the two you need to delete. Those last two in your code should be for Google Plus and then for Pinterest. My updated links are formated identical to the default links, hence showing you them instead of default code.

***** Also note that there are two parts of this and only one is shown. In that same file, this code is basically repeated. One for the top above the code shown in the screenshot, and one block for the bottom sharing buttons, as shown in the screenshot.

Good luck.

Well, you’re not “Fixing” anything, you’re customizing things.

Here’s what you can do. Mind you, these are only steps and locations; you need to know how to use CSS and HTML to actually perform the changes:

Adding WhatsApp & Removing Pinterest: The code for the default sharing blocks are in newspaper/includes/modules/td-module-single.php and there are two sections, one for above and one for below the post. They’re just links added to a variable so remove what you don’t need or change it as needed.

I wanted to add Reddit and remove Pinterest so I deleted the Pinterest blocks from both, created a td-social-reddit class for the background color, and changed the icon in the <i> element to td-icon-reddit and added the styles to the Custom CSS panel in the theme settings (to avoid overwriting on updates).

If the WhatsApp button uses a share URL and not a javascript function, it’s simple enough to copy the Google Plus button code in each location and adjust the URL in it and even add variables to it like I did with Reddit (See example on my site: Single post on my site showing the sharing buttons with Reddit and no Pinterest)

Please note that the default sharing buttons in that file all include some javascript inside of <script></script> tags within the chunk of code. This is primarily for handling the popup behavior of each link. Removing it or using your own JS without such a function will make clicking the share link open in the current full browser window, taking users away from your site.

Adding Pinterest to Images: There are several free and premium plugins that handle this. I suggest you implement one of them after removing the default Pinterest share button as described above.

These aren’t difficult changes to make, though. If you’re familiar with coding then it should be self-explanatory how to complete the steps above. Good luck!

Thank you, Marius. I’m very pleased with how it came out. Even more so because the theme is faster than ever. You guys did a great job with the v6 update. Bravo.

But I haven’t fixed it, just found a temporary fix that doesn’t seem as obviously broken while we work on it. Here are the problems:

1. Categories Filter
Category filtering in blocks on the home page I’ve built is set as default, to show all categories, but it’s only showing the first category, alphabetically, from the site (Cowboys Blog). I’ve tried updating it several times and checking the other categories but no luck. All categories work fine when I select them individually, but not when selecting “All Categories” from the filter. This occurs with and without unique articles enabled, and after all caches have been cleared. ** This was my bad. Didn’t correct the offset properly for the block after the ad while building the page.

2. Newspaper Block Shortcodes in VC
Visual Composer is really not reading the themes blocks. See the screenshot for what I see:

That has remained constant on InsideTheStar.com (Main Site) while it was not a problem on Dev.InsideTheStar.com (Development Site, also live). It remains constant whether I use v6.1 parent or child theme, and whether I use VC v4.3.5 or v.4.5.3. I’ve checked upload type (binary vs. ascii) and uploaded fresh copies from the theme directory of the whole theme multiple times. I’ve also removed VC via both methods and reinstalled but no fix, yet.

I was able to create the homepage I’m using now by taking the page on my dev site, reverting to the classic editor so it would show me the VC shortcodes, and copied those shortcodes into the classic editor on the homepage for the main site. I couldn’t use the blocks any other way. With VC v.4.5.3 (as distributed with Newspaper v6.1) I couldn’t even edit those blocks at all on the main site, just move them around (couldn’t edit, duplicate, or delete them from the VC editor).

3. VC Editor Styles
I’m also seeing this issue while using Newspaper v6.1 with VC v4.3.5 (the only version I can access this following screen from):

I can still use the box with that broken style for the tabs up top, but it hints at the main problem, I’d think.

I would have liked to get it figured out already, but all I was able to do was get the site limping well enough that most visitors won’t notice (it’s a production site).

Any ideas? The only thing worth noting from the system info tab of the theme is that I’m running at 40mb instead of 64mb. It’s not the problem, though. Both the main site and dev site are running on the same host with the same setups, and the dev site is not experiencing any troubles with VC v.4.3.5.

• This reply was modified 11 years by Bryson T. Reason: Removed item 1 from the list, as it was user error

It works,
but the action will apply to all blocks on the page?

I’m not having any issues with my VC plus i only use it to build my front page with the blocks,i don’t use it for any thing else because it just going put more stress on my server,all the nice features that comes with V6 is nice to have but if you don’t have a good host are server all you going do is make headaches for your self…

I’ve notice that any thing running ajax make your site go heywire that’s why i turn every thing off my site that use ajax also i’ve notice that loading animation of images was slowing my site down as well and i stop using,since i make things simple on my site it run fast and i also have good scores from pagespeed etc..

I don’t use any RELATED ARTICLEs,MORE ARTICLES FLY OUT,SHOW POST VIEWS,SHOW COMMENT COUNT,LOAD MORE,LOADING ANIMATION OF IMAGES,INFINITE LOAD…ALL THESE THINGS USE A LOT OF RESOURCES AND MAKE YOUR SITE RUN VERY SLOW ALSO PUT A LOT OF STRESS ON YOUR SERVER..

But is it possible somehow to automatically fix all previously inserted shortcodes in posts? After update to version 6.1 my older posts with “quotes” look like this:

[pull_quote_center]Ära kahetse elus tehtud lollusi, tee uusi ja hullemaid, et vanaduses oleks, mida meenutada.”[/pull_quote_center]

Or do I really have to change them manually one by one? :/

Link: http://www.hingepeegel.ee/vaimne/afirmatsioonid-mida-endale-kunagi-oelda-ei-tohi/

Thanks!

• This reply was modified 11 years by Jan.