- NewspaperFlex Block Builder and Flex Loop Builder
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- NewspaperHow to insert a block inside the content of a post
- NewspaperFlex Block Settings Guide
- NewspaperMeta Info on Modules and Blocks
- NewspaperTheme modules and blocks
- TutorialsDefault Block Settings Guide
- NewsmagBlock settings tutorial
- NewsmagCategory tag on modules/blocks
- NewspaperThumbnails – Fix strange looking images on blocks
- NewspaperBlock settings tutorial
- NewspaperCategory Tag on Modules/blocks
- ApiPractical example – How to add a new Block and Module
- Apitd_api_block::delete
- Apitd_api_block::update_key
- Apitd_api_block::update
- Apitd_api_block::add
- ApiAPI – Blocks – Introduction
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Stupid thing about it, is the og tags are expressly there for Facebook to be able to grab the image.
Worth mentioning you need to ensure your robots.txt file isn’t blocking the /uploads/ folder or other folder if you renamed yours (I renamed mine as I hate “uploads”).
Thanks Lucian. I may be doing something wrong. What should the widget code look like?
Loo.php attached. At the moment something odd happens at the bottom of the competitions section where it’s loading another section.
You can see what I mean here – Under the comps it’s loaded some random posts from i’ve no idea where! : http://www.heyuguys.com/competitions/
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Try this link from Facebook, enter your post page URL in box,
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
if you get “502” error, it may be the firewall blocking issue, and you’d likely want to contact your web hosting co. about that.
We have to unblock our CSF temp files manually about once a month for stupid FB port scans!
Additional FB tools
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/
Facebook just works that way as their bot gets overloaded; or your server is blocking them, or any of a number of things. I deal with this issue every day; in fact today, to post two news items to our page, I had to manually copy the headline, first paragraph, and manually upload the photo from my PC to get a proper post on Facebook for a new item. Stupid. And all the og tags are in place, right down to advanced tags like image format, height, width and optional https link to image. Still, hit or miss. And this happens with our custom site, Woo Canvas, Newspaper, and another theme. All somewhat randomly.
Suggestion: try to submit item later. Or, if in panic, do the post manually as I did.
Downside to a ‘free’ service like Facebook, there is nobody to complain to our get support from on their end. It’s basically haphazard.
Right now, one page is causing 502 error according to their debug tool… but every other social media site works, even LinkedIn and Stumbleupon, Pinterest, Twitter card with large image support, etc.
Just let your client know it’s nothing to do with the site. Both Google + and Facebook both have intermittent issues of “grabbing” the content due to how busy their servers are (basically the “fetch” is timing out in some way); or in some cases your hosting provider’s CSF/firewall has blocked Facebook for “port scanning” (FB scans your server port for Geolocation on every post to try to locate where your server is; if you do a lot of posts, eventually, your server blocks them for doing this with 30 different IP addresses; and you have to clear the CSF temp block rules to get the stupid FB bot to again be able to read your site!). Stuff like that!
Hi,
This may also happen when you have a CDN and the cache is not cleared, it delivers old files which conflict with the newer ones. Purge the files on CDN, clear all caches and check again.
Please let me know if this helps!
Thanks
I have found something here but im not sure how this would work, and its for elements in the visual composer layout.
http://www.screencast.com/t/k6WHfTw4VDw
I get these options by clicking the “edit” pen under an element/block in the VC. Not sure what to do with it and how it would work. Feels like i have found gold in Klondike though.
Hi,
Please send a link to your site so I can check this, the one you have send isn’t under maintenance, a screenshot would be also helpful. Also please make sure you have featured images set for those posts which appear on page or that you don’t use block 10 which is not displaying the feature images.
Please let me know if this only happens when using the 3 columns layout and also try to deactivate all plugins and check for this again. I have tested this and works fine using latest theme version 4.3: http://screencast.com/t/1KaIBgcMXStR
Thanks
Hi,
@Steven
Have you managed to solve this issue? I have checked your site and noticed that the space you pointed in the screenshot aren’t there anymore: http://screencast.com/t/sU8Mlefm
@sergenial
We haven’t made any changes to that space within lats update, send me your site’s URL and note me what space you need to remove and I will provide you a css to fix that.
Thanks
Hi,
Please use http://pastebin.com/ to send me the code from loop.php file so I can check it, should work fine, I have tested this, you just need to add this condition in loop.php file and also add your widget short-code into the function and the category ID on which you want the widget to be shown.
Thanks
Hi,
We had to make some additional tests with this and we will include it in next update.
Thanks for the message!
Theme Panel -> Custom CSS
@steven Yeah, I was kinda excited to use the block 10 for revamping my homepage after seeing it on the changelog.
lol @mrsky28 it’s already there,but for some reason some of us like my self don’t see it either and i’ve update my VC the same way as always but still nothing…
Oh wait, block 10 isn’t even available yet. How come the update says it already out?
Thanks Lucian.
Where do I insert this code? I want to double check as I’m a bit of a coding novice.
Hi,
You can use this css fro the space from the sidebar: http://screencast.com/t/rOizg0ZOS
.span4 .block-title {
margin-bottom: 5px;
}If this dose not help, please paste me your site’s URL and point me at what do you want to change.
You can use this button to edit your post: http://screencast.com/t/gYUo7hF1mA0
You can try to use another module if you want bigger thumbnails, the thumb gets pixelated because it’s small size, the image it’s cropped to be used at that size on module 4.
Thanks
Hi @tcdraper, I have already tried doing that but it does not works. Thanks for looking into the issue.
As far as I have seen, changing the line height of .block-title to 29px does it. But when I change the line height from theme panel > custo typography, I can not see the change.
Want to say anything about it? :/
Hi,
Sorry for the delay!
@Steven/ @Ljubisa B. Please make sure you delete and re-upload the VC plugin from plugins folder like this: https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/ should get the new shortcodes/block/ also the new Youtube/Vimeo playlists
Regarding the new block as widget, we had to make some additional tests and we will include it in next update.
Thanks
Hi Thanks for the update! Suggestion: Please add block 10 on the visual composer content blocks! Thank you!
hi,
Sorry for the delay! Have you managed to fix this? I have checked your site and looks fine now. Also noticed that you have added this “Google +” link at the top left of the page, is that the way you want it? http://screencast.com/t/VOEY0PgB
Also noticed that you are using the large social icons, note that you you have other icons style and size, which you can use: http://screencast.com/t/mRvh3Iw3JMlJ
Please let me know.
Thanks for the message!
Hi,
Please use this custom css and change the margin value as you like it to look for you:
.wpb_row {
margin-bottom: 0px !important;
}Should work, I have tested this on your site: http://screencast.com/t/1FDlPLqBx
Thanks
The last one that came out…but those images i posted yesterday i need a fix for them..
What theme version are you currently running?
I still need another fix for mine…
Thansk Lucian. I’ve tried placing that code in an advanced widget but i get some errors appear. Do i need to place that code in a certain file to get it to appear in the Newspaper Default widget? Sorry for the no doubt very basic question! PHP isn’t my strong point!
Thanks.
Dave
