- NewsmagRequirements for Newsmag
- NewsmagHow to update the theme
- NewsmagtagDiv Social Counter tutorial
- NewsmagTop bar templates
- NewsmagAjax view count
Wp-postsviews plugin substitutes native count, but it displays count on posts’s pages only. All posts on homepage have same views count – which is probably the homepage views count, not posts’ (view it here – single post with views: http://art-post.me/108 and the views count of this post on homepage (it’s on top now) http://art-post.me/ ).
And another thing – if I use block to display popular posts, it takes native count, which in this case is completely irrelevant, since the other plugin collects data.
What cache plugin do you recommend, so that the views count worked properly?
Thank you.
REF: changes since 3.2
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V 3.5 – 21 March – The list of modified files
◾added 4 predefined style: SPORT, CAFE, FASHION, TECH – screenshot
◾added option to uppercase the font for the Header Menu – screenshot
◾added Alphabetical A -> Z sorting option
◾added option to change the typography of the default Blockquote in Theme panel – screenshot
◾added COLOR option for default Blockquote – screenshot
◾added old sharing back – screenshot
◾fixed Ad overlapping on Header Style 4
◾fixed translation for Home breadcrumb
◾fixed issue with video thumb downloader (sometimes it did not download the thumb)
◾better megamenu handling on touch devices
◾added comments on pages ( with option in theme panel – default it’s disabled )
◾post views counter alternative for W3 Total Cache (with WP-PostViewer and Ajax_the_view plugins) – https://forum.tagdiv.com/wp-postviews-post-view-counter-alternative-for-w3-total-cache/
V 3.4 – 07 March
◾major improvements to the mega menu. Works with hover on sub-categories
◾major improvements to the ajax system. It’s really fast now 🙂
◾added more source and via
◾added transparent header option in Theme Panel – screenshot
◾added option to switch icons color for Header Menu from Black to White – screenshot
◾added option to switch off the uppercase font on Big Slider/Sliders screenshot
◾fixed sharing style
◾fixed sharing post to open in new window
◾fixed Mega Menu font
◾fixed wp-admin upload file issue on small screens
V 3.3 – 03 March – List of modified files
◾New sharing icons
◾better design for tags at the end of posts
◾better one click import script. Now our demo that is installed locally is more compleate
◾Fixed translation ‘Home’ in the breadcrumbs
◾Added Sub-menu font in Theme Panel -> Custom Typography
◾Fixed MegaMenu color issue
◾Added new pages and categories to demo install
◾fixed some random appearing issue with the menu and category selection on posts
◾we switched the h3 tags to h4 in the mega menu
Hello
why my website can be slow. Please help me
i used plugin
w3 total cache
my website: ddekor.com
gtmetrix Latest Performance: Page Speed Grade: A (91%) YSlow Grade: C (74%)
PageSpeed Insights : mobile: 72/100 desktop: 84/100
What is problem? Thank you
Actually … I think this might be due to a caching issue with mod_pagespeed, but still testing. With mod_pagespeed “on” at all, I have issues with the “suggested” flyout, and the styles for the social sharing with tags box breaks.
Will update as I test this for plugin conflict, or cleaning the mod_pagespeed cache, even though it’s NOT supposed to cache anything in the wp-content/theme folder, like a stylesheet.
For those using mod_pagespeed – this is relevant, for everybody else just ignore these minor updates 🙂
Hi
I’m updating this thread for consistency.
I just upgrade to Newspaper 3.5 and attempting to replicate this, with
Newspaper/includes/modules/td_module_1.php
if I remove the // for author name, it’s NOT printing on the posts although uncommenting on other modules does add the author byline to things like the sidebar modules or the indexes.
<div class="meta-info">
<?php echo $this->get_category(); ?>
<?php echo $this->get_author(); ?>
<?php echo $this->get_date(false); ?>
<?php echo $this->get_commentsAndViews(); ?>
</div>
e.g.,
http://ga-ga.com/1204/beginning-adventure-space-time-reveals-roots-doctor/
I have tried with tagdiv speedbooster on/off; I have mod_pagespeed off to ensure nothing is being cached; not using Jetpack.
This is CLEAN install of Newspaper 3.5; meaning the theme folder was uploaded as fresh folder and prior 2x folder was not over-written, so no mish-mash of old/new theme elements. No child theme being used.
Any idea why that might not be printing on page? Do I need to enable something else to cause the author byline to print on posts?
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To repeat past posts as an opinion here:
“Byline” is one of the most critical things to all newspaper/magazine sites and should always appear below the title of article, or below the featured image; but typically the author and date are shown together in magazines and newspapers, so slightly annoying we still have to manually enable this EVERY update — look at TIME, or NY Times, or LA Times, or CNN, you will see the BYLINE and date top of every article. SO my big REQUEST would be to enable this by default “ON” and then let people comment it OFF which would be the exception vs the rule.
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This reply was modified 12 years by
simchris.
AFAIK the theme only scales images on responsive resize, but I don’t have the latest version running yet. Meaning, the sizes when viewed on desktop at 100% match the thumbnails created. Maybe post a GTMetrix score page or something for folks to peek at?
You should have higher speed rating than 70 if you have proper expire headers, browser caching, W3 Cache cleared fully before launching new theme and then after launching new theme, and images uploaded are optimized to begin with and/or using something like smushit, or modified the functions.php to increase compression level for thumbs.
With my earlier theme, I had Google pagespeed of over 90. Now with Newspaper it is belwo 70, with W3 Cache in place.
The major problem seems to be the CSS/HTML image scaling. AFAIK, each uploaded image has multiple size versions automatically available, so why not use them rather than HTML scaling?
Hey there, now I have the option ‘Random Posts’ on a lot of modules. I just realized a lot of pages cache the site in WP when the user first comes to the site. Won’t that be the only thing they see once it is cached, the same image? For me personally it randomizes the posts but not sure about the other users out there…
@jbenbitez
not sure if you use a dbase optimizer for your site, but one thing I do after any major updates every time is
1) resave permalinks (just because)
2) run wp-optimize plugin to clean up dbase
We’ve been able to lessen the load on all our sites by as much as 20% (we have a LOT of pages) by using wp-optimize regularly, and also editing the wp-config to limit number of draft saves, and longer time to save each.
In our case the “BIG” memory leak was from YOAST. Going backward on one site fixed it, and on another getting latest version.
One client site was crashing until we stopped using AddThis “layers” plugin and cleared the cache about five times (not running Newspaper). GoDaddy hosting on that one.
Anyway – this is just some feedback on our issues- again, perhaps not related in any way to your issue. Often you can look at your site “error logs” to see what is generating an error, as best place to start with this kind of thing.
Thank you.. I solved the issue.. after disabling the minifying I need to clear the purge cache from cloudflare settings. Now its working perfectly. But still I findings error Uncaught ReferenceError: jQuery is not defined error in console..
Thank you Again 😀
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This reply was modified 12 years by
ishak.live.
We have here a tip how to make the views to work with cache: https://forum.tagdiv.com/wp-postviews-post-view-counter-alternative-for-w3-total-cache/
The view counter(7 day) keep the count on each day and make a total for 7 days.
Ok , i will remove the page from my bookmarks and then clear cookies and cache and see if i get this popup on safari/iphone asking me to add site to home page
Hi,
Do you use W3 total cache plugin? Please disable the minify and use it only with Page cache enable. You have some JavaScript conflicts in console. http://screencast.com/t/jIZVwvw6z9
Hiya:
Trying to make some modifications to get the view counts (and sorting) to work with a cache…
My question: How (and when) is [post_views_count_7_day_total] calculated? I have a post_count plugin properly updating the “post_views_count” field… i’m just not sure how the total is created.
Thanks.
I deleted all the files from server and then re upload the 3.5 update but no luck. I cleared all the cache.
Link to website : TuteCentral.com
Do I need to update td-social-counter and td-speed-booster plugins.
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This reply was modified 12 years by
ishak.live.
Hi,
Please make sure you have replaced all files via FTP when you have done the update. Also clear all cache, browser cache, your site cache if you use a cache plugin.
Thanks!
Hi,
You can use More stories box to bring new content visitors, and you can set it appear faster http://screencast.com/t/GO0b0MbuQ
To set this go to Theme panel -> Post settings http://screencast.com/t/Eo7vtRa0CQAt
For post counter follow this steps if you use a caching plugin: https://forum.tagdiv.com/wp-postviews-post-view-counter-alternative-for-w3-total-cache/
Hi.
I have WP-PostViews + W3 Total Cache. If i disable WP-PostViews, i lost all statistics.
Maybe you did not understand me, when i upgrade to 3.5 problem occurs with only one block 2 on the main page. For example, if you upgrade to the counter in the block shown for each of the three records 100, 75, 90, then after the update immediately see 4500, 4500, 4500. I disabled W3 Total cache, deleted a сache folder, the problem remained.
hi,
do you have the plugin Wp-postview installed?
please disable this plugin. here the documentation page on this plugin: https://forum.tagdiv.com/wp-postviews-post-view-counter-alternative-for-w3-total-cache/
Thanks for you message.
Radu A.
Hello again,
I tried to disable CloudFlare and W3 Total Cache and the problem persists. The problem is not here, what can I do?
Regards.
Hi,
I use Block 2 in the sidebar and on the homepage below the slider just like the demo. They are both set to “latest posts” but both blocks keep showing old posts! I use a caching plugin but that could never be the problem. Though i tried deleting my cache, but the problem still persists!! I already tried removing the blocks and adding them again, but nothing seems to fix the problem. The block 2 latest post widget in the sidebare shows posts from 24 february, but my site is updated daily with new posts….
Please help!
Hi Marius,
your suggestion:
@jhoaness do you want that box to appear on the homepage? Make this: http://screencast.com/t/D9ukkkgz9
doesn’t work for me. More Article Box still shows up on posts and even categories of the posts, but not home.
Even after clearing cache.
Cheers
Well, that was interesting. Disabling w3 cache caused the entire site to crash 🙂
Nevertheless, w3 cache has been entirely removed from the system, site is back up – but we still have the same issue as listed in the original post.
thanks for any insights you can provide,
René