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Hi,
You can use media queries and hide them via custom css or you can change font-size on mobile screens.
For example hide Big Grid(if you want to do this only for homepage use .home .td_block_big_grid ):
@media (max-width: 767px){
.td_block_big_grid {
display: none;
}
}
Big Grid – font size: http://screencast.com/t/f4JusFAe5e
@media (max-width: 767px){
.td-big-grid-post .entry-title a {
font-size: 10px;
}
}
Hope this helps!
Normally you would not have page 2.3,4 from home page anymore unless doing “blog post” style listings (e.g., doing a blog vs doing a magazine), since normally you would want people to go to the category indexes for more content where those pages are optimized for SEO and lead people to the news by topic and not just by date, which duplicates the date indexes. Just my thought anyway.
Ideally, at bottom of each module should be option to “read more” to go to a “category” index by I.D. (can be done with text block also, which is what we’ll be doing).
Sorry if that was random to the solution you were seeking 🙂
It’s not in all categories; it’s only in the categories you chose.
You need to customize the blocks on home page to only show posts from specific categories like “sports” or whatever.
You might want to
a) look at how categories work in WordPress
– managing your categories
https://codex.wordpress.org/Manage_Categories_SubPanel
– creating posts
https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Posts
b) look at how to customize the home page from the theme docs (link right side of page)
Hello Emil,
change something on the Custom Typography section and then make another change on the custom fonts?
Yes.
I changed font url, but it wasn’t affected. Then I check options in database and see that problem, td_fonts_css_buffer value didn’t update when changes save.
Thanks Alin.. I was able to fix over the weekend. but wasnt sure if it would throw something else off with the fix I employed.
I was able to fix it by changing this style in style.css from 339px to 338px
.td-block-span6 {
width: 338px;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 19px;
but is this going to cause an issue somewhere else?
hi,
i’m using block 3 for my homepage and want to know how to remove the author name here: http://tinypic.com/r/2mr7att/8
Thanks
Funnily enough Google’s own G+ buttons on their Google Alert emails for news, clearly showing the headline, photo and first paragraph, won’t even grab first paragraph consistently.
I’m almost wondering if it’s placement of an “article” tag, not using an article tag at all, or applying an “ID” of “entry” to the entire post block similar to ID=”header” to the head area.
Playing with it more … we’ll be kings if we solve this ! But not going to stay up nights worrying about it.
I already updated the theme, but the size of the ads continues responsive instead 336x280px for the posts (article top). So, I´m sending to your email my login and password to you see the problem of your theme.
Your answer for the 10. is incomplete, please click again in the urls and see my problem. You told me to “change the height size” but didnt especificate what size in what block, I tried to change the 300x160px block, I tried to change the another block too, I edited the media settings unchecking the box and didnt work. So, whats the SOLUTION and what is the best wide, tall and rate to the images of this theme?
Hi,
The image are enlarged due to this custom css: http://screencast.com/t/A3BO1hLk
I suggest your remove it and use images at least 700×405 dimensions to have them fit the slider container: http://screencast.com/t/2n6VyeRrv
I’m not sure how this page: http://beta.copperberg.com/events/ – which I believe you’re referring to is built as it hasn’t been designed using theme’s blocks or modules so I’m not aware of the available settings for this.
Thanks
Hi,
A test on our demo shows that its mobile friendly and doesn’t have any issues: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdemo.tagdiv.com%2Fnewspaper%2F
According to google your site appears not mobile friendly due to multiple reasons: http://screencast.com/t/082WVTNfz
I suggest you test this first without using any plugins, leave just theme’s Visual Composer plugin and also make sure that you disable all html/js compression and test again.
Also make sure that you follow their instructions on how to unblock resources and let google bot view your page correctly, all this guides/tutorials are provided by google in your test page:
– https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/common-mistakes/blocked-resources?hl=en-US&utm_source=MFT&utm_campaign=MFT&utm_medium=incoming-link
– https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/references/faq?hl=en-US&utm_source=MFT&utm_campaign=MFT&utm_medium=incoming-link#whats-the-difference-between-the-pagespeed-insights-ux-score-and-the-mobile-friendly-test-results
Please also note that the mobile friendly test is a new feature from google, the mobile friendly algorithm being released by Google on April 21st so we haven’t dealed enough with it to fully understand it. You can do it yourself though and go trough their guides/documentation to learn more about it: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/get-started/?hl=en-US&utm_source=MFT&utm_medium=incoming-link&utm_campaign=MFT
We will release the new version 5 of newspaper theme which will be a major update with new design and lots of new features and we will make sure that we’ll test it with this new tool from google.
Thanks
Hi,
I see that constant request is made for the admin-ajax file: http://screencast.com/t/aB3cZWc3EE5 I believe this is made by the Heartbeat Control plugin which I suggest you disable and also disable the rest of them, leave just the theme’s Visual Composer and test again.
To reduce the number of request made to the admin ajax file you can also disable the ajax view counter feature if you’re using it as this is actually calling ajax file for each post view to update the counter: http://screencast.com/t/MC4wUfU8
You can also try to reduce the number of blocks/queries on your homepage. The admin ajax file is also called allot when customizing the theme and making change in the theme panel. Not sure how you could avoid that however if you still experience problems with this you could also consider changing hosts as access tot his file resources is requested by the WordPress and by the theme.
Thanks
Hi,
I have just switched from an old wordpress template to the Newsmag template.
Previously my Home page is non-static and the front page displayed the latest posts.
Because of that, the front page can be accessed by using the paging parameter.
For example if XXX.com is my website and the front page shows 5 posts.
An URL of http://xxx.com/page/2/ will goes to page 2 and showed post no. 6 to post no.10.
Currently, I have been using static pages using the Home as Front page.
In the Home page, I am using Block 12 to display the latest posts. There are no option for non-ajax paging.
What can I do to allow paging to be used again for this template?
Hi,
Do you refer to the blockquote? the blockquotes are styled with css – http://screencast.com/t/EbVKSL2cLmD
To change the way they appear you have to modify the css.
If you want to add quotes in the text use the keyboard double quotes ” , don’t use the blockquote.
Thank you, Emil G.
Hi there
i want add advertising box on the above of the block 15 in the photo below
http://ims.sportsontheweb.net/ims/pic.php?u=1OTXwM&i=45
where shoud i put the code ? in the homepage above block 15 ? or Specific theme file ?
thanks
Hi,
The top menu was not designed for mobile screens that’s why is hidden so displaying it you may need some other modification.
Please use this custom css in Theme Panel > Custom Css to display top menu and hide the wp bar: http://screencast.com/t/yiAFzcsSWtD
@media (max-width: 767px){
.td-header-top-menu {
display: block;
}
#wpadminbar {
display: none;
}
}
Thanks!
Hi,
2. Please update you theme to the latest version 1.7.1 using this guide(FTP method): https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-theme/ as in the 1.7 version it was an issue with ads (eliminate the codes). This issue was fixed in the latest version.
10. The image appear like this because of it aspect ratio. The image is catted for different sizes for modules – http://screencast.com/t/bmsl1KdRws4 so the image is cropped center top at that height. You can change the height size so the aspect ratio of the image to be closer to the aspect ratio of the picture(default image).
You can find out more about this here – http://www.davidtan.org/wordpress-hard-crop-vs-soft-crop-difference-comparison-example/
13. You can set your sidebar for categories from Theme Panel > Categories section – http://screencast.com/t/GMB0Cxpe1knq add widgets into the sidebar from Widgets – http://screencast.com/t/j3z3jsgnt
Also if you want to use the same sidebar on your pages please use Widgetised sidebar block in your page and set the sidebar to display: http://screencast.com/t/6wlYuuZ43
Thanks!
Hi,
You can use media queries to hide it mobile view:
@media (max-width: 767px) {
.td_block_big_grid {
display: none;
}
}
Just paste the code in Theme Panel > Custom Css and also if you want to hide the Big Grid only on home page please add .home class – .home .td_block_big_grid
Thanks!
Google recently changed their mobile algorithm for checking, and so it has started throwing an error on just about everything from image sizes, to anything not plain text having some kind of render blocking. If you can get your mobile score to 88 or above, you’re good. Below 85 is not as good, below 80 is “bad.”
Update: I was able to fix it by changing this style in style.css from 339px to 338px
.td-block-span6 {
width: 338px;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 19px;
but is this going to cause an issue somewhere else?
Thanks,
I want to use vimeo playlist block
but it’s impossible because the playlist not support Korean language.
When I add vimeo video number(Korean titled) the block goes away.
Can I fix the problem?
Thank you!
Yes, you don’t seem to be able to read my help … as noted in my first reply.
YOU NEED TO RECREATE THAT USING ONE OF THE WIDGET CONTENT BLOCKS INCLUDED WITH THE THEME.
See the theme docs on the different blocks:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/blocks/
Maybe block 7?
Good luck !
Well, you need to deactivate the default element created by the theme — the popular category item …
so if you *do* actually switch the footer template; then both your second and third columns should now be EMPTY!
Then in the appearance > widgets, you will add a module/block for the popular category, then add a text widget below that in “Footer COL 3” just like normal sidebar.
Basically you should be TURNING OFF the automatic stuff in the second/third column — they should be blank… then you need to put in the stuff you want in both second and third column manually.
Just to clarify, it’s not really a ‘theme’ issue – for those curious. It’s an issue with Google’s bot having issues with scraping pages to verify actual content vs spammers who try to trick google with content in META data that doesn’t match what is actually on the page.
So, this is why it “seems” like Google’s bot is just ignoring the “description” tags; they use that as “hint” then read the page and look for stuff in certain common “blocks” of content, like “first full paragraph of text on page” …
I am trying to sort out why this happens on some templates, layouts and not on others, across various top websites and small ones, too.
For example I tested page from WIRED mag the other day, and it grabbed the first paragraph; where I tested a page from our main news service portal — which does not use WordPress or any popular CMS [in house system we built in 2005 and I built the templates myself from scratch using customized bootstrap 2.3x code] — and these “should” work but also don’t get the first paragraph captured by G+.
(e.g. this page “should” work — I built it myself 🙂 but does not:
https://www.send2press.com/newswire/tickets-on-sale-for-music-festival-drawing-big-name-acts-to-ohio-aiding-cancer-charities-2015-0416-03.shtml )
this page on wired.com does NOT work (odd they have no G+ buttons; bad SEO!)
http://www.wired.com/2015/04/porsches-new-boxster-made-just-driving-enthusiasts/
So far does NOT appear to be these specific elements, with NewsMag
a) “wide screen” headline — across top, 2 columns
b) category buttons/links above headline, after breadcrumbs (on/off no diff)
c) not issue with using mod_pagespeed for comment and whitespace removal, or rewriting images
d) not issue with https vs non https
*anecodatal: have run into couple of issues with Google News, when scraping page couple of times they grabbed the category buttons in place of the story headline or appended them in front of headline — contrary to news XML sitemap — stupid, stupid, stupid! Possibly need more “separation” from those and headline — not yet sure on that.
So, I’m playing with it in the midst of doing major security audit of WordPress plugins, and code across 15 websites (ugh). Only time we had a WP website “hacked” was way back (something like v 1.6 or 2.6 or something? — Al Gore’s website hacked same day ours was …Nov 2007 for those who know their beans). So, we stay on top of security stuff pretty strictly but these new vulnerabilities are a nest of vipers waiting to get milked for their toothy sting juice (have fun with that sentence English translators!). 😉
Hi, There are problems with the Smartlist and TagDiv Gallery modules. Will you kindly look into it. I have just purchased the Newsmag latest version and installed. Please find below the links to the
I think you submitted your post prematurely
Hello,
Thank you for updates.
But I have a little trouble with the editions. When I put the quote , typography changes : Big and blue
Why?
thank you
