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- ApiAPI – Blocks – Introduction
- Apitd_api_thumb::update_key
- Apitd_api_thumb::update
- Apitd_api_thumb::add
- ApiAPI – Thumbnail – Introduction
- Apitd_api_category_top_posts_style::update_key
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- ApiAPI – Category top section style – Introduction
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- ApiAPI – Modules – Introduction
- ApiUsing the Theme API in plugins
- ApiThe Theme API
Hello,
I would like to show new products on the frontpage along with normal posts. But adding the post-type “product” in the flex block 1 does not show products. How can I do this?
Greetings
Hi,
the documentation on excerpts makes no mention of the wordpress <!-more-> tag and it doesn’t seem to work as an alternative to using the excerpt field in the flex blocks. Can it be added as a functionality?
Many thanks!
Hi,
The options from the flex block to flex loop are a little different, flex block has more options, but the 2 major options that can not be done with flex block 1 are numbered pagination and you need to set the filter manually for the cloud templates (on current category if is a category, current tag if is a cloud tag template …).
Thank you!
Hi Viju,
Please try this custom css:
.ai-viewport-1 .code-block.code-block-2 {
margin-top: 0!important;
margin-bottom: -5px!important;
}
.ai-viewport-1 .code-block.code-block-1 {
margin-bottom: -5px!important;
}
The results should be like this -> https://i.imgur.com/GnRD0Gq.png
Thank you!
Hi,
That error is complaining for the header style form the block, I believe is this section -> https://i.imgur.com/4BaFzgI.png
I think the errors are from block 77, if you want we can take a look at it.
Thank you!
Hello,
1. I will have to circle back on this – the site is restricted by IP while I work on testing. I can probably figure out the CSS myself, but I would suggest that it get added as an option (as there’s several review options in the Flex Loop already, just not star color).
2. I’m trying to use the Flex Loop because of its ability to provide dynamic filtering based on taxonomy. Let’s see if I can re-explain ->
My site has 2 main “categories” of content, Reviews and News. The Reviews have multiple taxonomies to describe them (it’s computer hardware, so things like manufacturer, GPU type, etc.). I’m attempting to make a Category Template using the new Flex Loop and related Filters.
The issue that I’m running into is that when I use the Flex Loop, by default on a Category Page (for Reviews), it will load ALL posts into the loop and provide filtering options for ALL posts on the site.
Example: CPU (Review Category) -> Displays All Reviews, All News, all Taxonomy items
Desired default state for that page -> CPU Reviews, No News, Taxonomy Items related to CPU. I do not want News or other review types to show up here, but there does not seem to be a way to limit the Flex Loop in this way (much like is possible on a Flex Block to only show a specific category).
I am using Cloud templates and would like to center the feature image that is displayed on our category page. This is currently using Post Loop Block. Please advise.
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Screenshot frontend: https://www.screencast.com/t/deSNpg6Y3Wc
Screenshot backend: https://www.screencast.com/t/V6npViDkQ8
I tested posting a new post with a new image after I activated the 80×60 thumb block as the theme required. Still the new image does not appear, the image does not display.
Is there a possibility that you take over the options that are in Flex block under colors module in the post loops?
we wanted to make the post loops look the same as they are in the flex box, i.e. with the color gradient.
the reason is that we want to display an advertisement in every 3 or 4 postal ads, but still want the functionality of browsing.
Hi @Anamaria
Thank you for your feedback.
It is great that you want to help your customers to generate revenue but it would be more helpful if this would happen with products that make actually sense.
The paywall feature is a pain when it got released. You were providing something that was needed in your area but maybe not for all your customers. When we wanted to get rid of the invoicing part or certain fields it was mentioned that this sort of customization would be not possible. The feature did not create any backend users or gave us the option to add them to newsletters etc. The management of users was just difficult.
This is one of the features that got released half-baked but got advertised with a lot of noise.
The same happened to CPT in 11.5 Lot’s of noise about the awesome update but since day one of that update, your customers were asking for Demos and instructions. Instead, we were asked to wait for the next update which took 4 months. So I kind of felt it be wrongly advertised.
If you go by popular requests, I think I saw more requests from your customers to enhance the author review feature than user reviews. With great reviews, your customers are generating revenue, yet it is just a block.
Also, how do you figure out what is popular? Is there any roadmap or anything your customers can vote on?
You really should stick to what you are, providing a newspaper theme and making that the best, easiest and leanest available. 100s of features will bloat it up and you can’t meet all requests. Your theme is called the newspaper and not any multipurpose theme. Trying to compete with premium plugins can only make it worse – for example directory plugin.
I was already really hesitant when I was forced to use your own composer instead of one of the three major ones. Why? Because if you keep loading up the theme with features that are not needed without the chance to deactivate them, I might have to switch the theme but that’s the problem. Since everything is built with TD composer, I have to start from scratch. Sure that is one way to retain your customer base.
How do you plan on moving forward?
As you mentioned you want to help your customers avoid paying for premium plugins by creating your own features in a theme. And I think that is the problem we see. You try to implement so many features from plugins but as you said, you are a small team. This results in half-baked features which are creating frustrations. And people are stuck with unnecessary code on their page just because of a couple of requests. I don’t want user reviews, how do I get rid of it?
See, I’m not trying to bash you guys, but trying to understand and of course, part of me is frustrated as well.
So what I would like to get some answers specifically are the following:
1. Author review – My number one feature request. Is that on your list? Are you guys working on the multiple requests to make author reviews much nicer and easier? This is a content piece that generates revenue for your customers. It has been brought up and we were asked to wait for the next update.
2. Feature turn-off. Since you are integrating more and more stuff, can we please make options in the theme panel that either disable certain features or you branch them out as your own plugins? In that way, the customer can decide what feature they need and load it as required.
3. More and fast bug fixing. There were lots of things going on with the review schema and not everyone was aware of the solution to delete something and reactivate again. Instead of providing a bug-fixing update, we have been asked to wait for the next update. As you mentioned, customers are generating revenue, we can’t wait for SEO impacting fixes for months.
4. Small feature updates. You don’t have to make huge update jumps, no Theme developer does that. Add a feature here and there but you don’t need to make everyone wait just to release an update with X new features which some of them might be buggy.
Thank you.
Hello, the thumbnails on mobile live search do not appear after I activated the block required 60×80. I installed the Regenerate thumbnails plugin, regenerated all images and still they do not appear. What should I do?
Hi the team,
I have a problem that I hope you can fix.
My main menu is made of 7 differents parts which are categories.
When I click on a part of this menu, it open a “page” with content on it and mainly a flexblock 1 with articles.
All the pages are made on the same model: Title, flexblock 1 and sidebar.
If I select a “category filter” on the flexblock 1 of a page, all the pages are affected by the same category filter.
My problem is that I want to have a different category filter on each different page, like this:
Main menu > part 1 > Category filter 1
Main menu > part 2 > Category filter 2
Main menu > part 3 > Category filter 3
and so on.
How can I do that?
Thanks a lot.
Fred
Hi @Gono,
Thank you for your kind and honest feedback. I’m sorry that you feel this way about the latest update. I understand your point of view as we know that there are no two websites alike and with the same needs.
I truly appreciate you taking the time to provide such clear feedback.
In the last months, our team focused on helping our customers create websites that generate revenue for them. This is why we’ve implemented WooCommerce functionality, membership, subscription, and now directory capabilities. However, none of these capabilities can be implemented in a single stage without affecting the customers’ websites. For this reason, we’ve implemented them in stages, releasing some basic capabilities first and then building upon them in the next updates.
Yes, we know the features are not perfect and we are working on improving them with each update. Of course, you can get the same or even more complex functionalities using dedicated, premium plugins. However, many of our customers are not willing to pay or can not afford expensive plugins and they are counting on us to help them.
If you can provide feedback regarding the functionality you need for a feature, we’ll be happy to send it to the development team. We usually decide on the new implementation based on the popularity of a request and the complexity of the implementation. They analyze the requests and decide what to implement.
We are focused on content. We are working on giving our customers the capability to create new types of content and design it in the most engaging way for their audience. And a subscription system is essential for content websites and we are now working on making the payment recurring for subscribers. Depending on the issues our team will face in the implementation, probably this is going to be the next update.
Yes, we know that our customers are waiting for the updates. We are a small team and we test extensively before releasing an update. Unfortunately, this means there are some delays between updates. I hope we’ll be ready to release a new update very soon.
Thank you again for taking the time to write us. We really appreciate your constructive feedback.
We are keeping this topic open and we are collecting all your feedback.
Each thumb that you have enabled will create a copy for that image, so you can disable the thumbs that are not used
So, our theme makes thumbs which are enabled in Theme Panel -> Block Settings => https://www.screencast.com/t/ZvDvpiBFKY3 -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/theme-thumbs/.
Also, WordPress creates thumbs => https://www.screencast.com/t/AMVBOZWto
Our suggestion is to take a look at what blocks you use and make sure that the thumbs are active only for that=> https://forum.tagdiv.com/theme-thumbs/
Also, to show the last 3-5 articles to a certain tag/category, you can use Flex Block 1 -> https://i.imgur.com/Or6JKRK.png
Also, for ads, you can set the code in Theme Panel, for each device -> https://i.imgur.com/NPDHgjN.png -> https://i.imgur.com/pf4PilR.png
Thank you all for your feedback, and we will consider it.
Hi,
1. Indeed there are some difference between flex block and flex look. The flex block are more customized then a flex loop, but the flex loop can be used on categories, tags … because has a special filter that filter the results after the current category, tag … this option is by default and it can not be changed.
If you want to keep using the flex loop, then please provide a link to your website and I will provide a custom css for the reviews.
2. I’m nut quite sure that I understand whet you need to achieved. If is to display the posts from a specific category or taxonomy, the flex loop should do it by default. For flex block you need to set some extra options, we provide more details about them in this guide – https://forum.tagdiv.com/flex-block-settings-guide/
Thank you!
So, I am using the pre-built website Blockchain Pro as a template. The changes made on the front end in terms of content are not saved. When I hit save, there are two messages on the top right,
1) Footer successfully saved.
2) Header successfully saved.
The third message of content successfully saved which I saw in some videos is not seen. I could change the menu from the backend, but anything that I change from the frontend is not saved. Written content, deleting block, deleting an image, nothing is getting saved.
Please help with a solution. TIA
Hi GanaAdhikar,
Can you please check the browser console? I believe that there is an error displayed when you set the block 77.
Also, was this working the first time?
Thank you!
Hello,
Please provide more details about you issue with the Hero and white stripes.
The theme has filter and sort option, for example the latest will be display the articles from newest to oldest. Please check the documentation -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/flex-block-settings-guide/
-> https://forum.tagdiv.com/big-grid-flex-settings/
Thank you!
Hello,
The theme has this option https://i.imgur.com/nORYxdY.png also, plase make sure you have added the Single Post View element in Single Post Template to work the popular option. Please check the documentation https://forum.tagdiv.com/flex-block-settings-guide/
Thank you!
Dear support
I plan to display custom taxonomy term in flex block1.
Please check the image.
https://serene.wpx.jp/images/displayctt.png
And Please tell me how to fix it.
Regards
Hi,
I added a new block copying block 1 in td api plugin. Named it td_block_17 in php file.
Changed name of block in td-api-plugin.php.
The name is displayed in td composer. But, when I try to add it to a column. it shows just a spinner. it keeps loading and loading.
please check image below:
Kindly, tell me what is going on.
FYI, same thing happens, when I try to add the custom flex block that comes in td api plugin without any modification.
I am using td api plugin which comes with newsmag 5.
thanks
This is a great first step, but since the update 2 days ago when editing the main content areas, a page, single post with cloud templates, I get a error about blocks are a problem, try ctrl z to no avail.
I tries this with headers, no problem, only main content areas, both existing and new.
Hello,
I’m attempting to build category pages for reviews using the new Flex Loop and related filtering features. I’ve run into a couple of roadblocks with it ->
1. There does not seem to be the ability to set a star color for the reviews like there is in all other blocks (which.. makes them invisible on my dark theme). Perhaps custom CSS is needed until this is an option?
2. With the flex loop on category pages, I want the user to go to a specific category (or, even taxonomy) of product reviews (for example, CPUs) and be presented with the default list of all CPU reviews, and be able to further filter based upon the taxonomy filters offered with the Flex Block Filtering. I do not see a way to set any sort of “default” filter for the Flex Block, thus, my readers going to a particular category/topic page will always be presented with all of the newest articles (which includes news and other content they may not specifically be looking for). It does appear that I can set this type of default filter by post type, however, that would mean I’d need to create a couple dozen sets of custom post types and then change the type of hundreds of reviews, which does not seem very appealing. Any thoughts on how to achieve this?
Hallo Bettina
no problem.
if I delete the overlay with Edit in Composer, only half of the image is displayed. It would be great if only 10 percent of the image was black and then the gradient started. So that more of the image is visible.
If I take another block, the block suddenly becomes huge and everything on the page shifts. I haven’t figured out how to get it to the previous size like the original.
I realize that Newspaper Theme creates a lot of thumbnails. Unfortunately they are the burdens on storage.
Every module only allows a limited list of thumbnails, so you cannot optimize at all.
Here’s the Tagdiv current rules:
If the thumbnail image is not enabled for a specific module that you use, the module will show a default placeholder with the size of the image and instructions about how to enable the thumb for that module.
Can I use Original image instead as a default thumbnail?
Or, can I make every module have all thumbnail options?
Hello,
Unfortunately, no, the posts loop is a special block, you can find more details here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/posts-loop/
Thank you!
