Hi,
first you can’t do anything about the cache validation or anything with fonts loading off of google’s website, or anything loading from jetpack (or adsense, or addthis, or disqus, etc.) — as those elements live on somebody else’s server. Only solution is to remove them or workaround them (e.g., load google fonts on your site or CDN, or load the CSS from your own style sheet — you can google how to do this, as it’s a trick which has been used for couple of years — simply grab the CSS you’re loading from google for the fonts, then put it into your own CSS, then remove the “call” to that CSS from your style.css and/or functions.php).
For the remove query strings I would suggest this:
1) turn off all your plugins
2) make sure you put the remove query code at bottom of your functions.php file and have uploaded to server properly, replacing original file
3) test a post page and see if it’s working – it should work, unless you have conflicting element re-writing your code. Or, you didn’t put the code in right place with something else you’ve added to the functions.php file, or you have a missing or extra closing bracket (bad syntax). There are couple of ways to do this, but again – double check your code/syntax, which is #1 reason something doesn’t work – be careful what you copy/paste FROM … always use a proper plain text editor so it won’t introduce garbage characters.
4) start turning on plugins: pay close attention to any SEO plugin which may try to rewrite the css and js “positions” in the file
5) avoid using plugins which do the same thing – seo plugin with sitemap, and other sitemap plugin; seo plugin which rewrites location of your js and css and the tagdiv speed booster
6) once you find the conflicting plugin, you can sort out what to do for the version removal to work (and don’t have that in functions *and* use a version removal plugin at same time, AND an SEO plugin that rewrites your code AND the tagdiv speedbooster).
This is normal process to “debug” why something doesn’t work.
Did you clear your CDN and refresh the updated functions.php file after making changes? Remember if you’re using a CDN, you have to tell it when to grab updated content unless you have it set to do that automatically.
For web safe fonts, google “web safe fonts” to learn what those are.
Hi,
Please send me an URL to your site so I can check, also like I said try to deactivate the plugins and enable only those theme requires and check then if this still happens.
In case this is plugin related activate the plugins one by one to see which one is generating the issue.
Also, please clear purge CDN cache and clear your browser cache. This may cause this issue as your CDN delivers the old versions of the files.
Thnaks
Hi,
Please clear purge CDN cache and clear your browser cache. This may cause this issue as your CDN delivers the old versions of the files.
This feature should work fine, I have tested this using the latest theme version(4.1)
Make sure you have set the featured image to be displayed from theme panel, like these: http://screencast.com/t/oREB8Jm2y4k
Also please disable all plugins one by one except those recommended and check to see if this still happens.
Hope this helps!
Thanks
Hi,
Also please clear purge CDN cache and clear your browser cache. This may cause this issue as your CDN delivers the old versions of the files.
This feature should work fine, I have tested this.
Hope this helps!
Thanks
On this note, I’m curious if anyone is running this theme with 20,000+ unique visitors a day and any changes that were needed to the theme to get it there other than the standard wordpress cache and use a CDN.
Thanks, I went into MAX CDN and did a full cache purge. It solved the issue, Version 4 running fine.
Hi,
I have inspected your site and seems like you have some errors in the console http://screencast.com/t/7Ak0zqB8 these means that the fonts aren’t loaded because they are not found.
Please disable CDN, clear cache and also disable the plugins and see if works.
Hope this helps!
Thanks
Hello Emil,
Thanks for your reply, please check again, CDN issue is sorted, the site is working properly with W3 Total Cashe and new WP and Newspaper 4.1, except its Theme Panel.
If I delete the theme from wp-content\themes and re-upload the old version, is it going to affect WP settings, menus, Templates created in Pages, categories and everything other changes made on the theme and WP?
What else safer can we do to leave the WP and Theme content intact?
I am lost mate, please advise on that.
Kind regards,
Mr Hossain
You shouldn’t need to minify the css file again, if you’ve cleared the cache on your CDN so that people are loading the new minified version vs the old non-minified version. Easy to test, point your browser at the file and download to see if it’s the right one being served.
One of the items in your GTMetrix report (click the little arrows to expand each item), shows this:
•http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=PT+Sans:400,700,400italic|Ubuntu:400,400italic|Open+Sans:400italic,400|Oswald:400,700|Roboto+Condensed:400italic,700italic,400,700?ver=4.1
Basically if you download that file and add it to the end of your style.css file, then remove the above code from your pages, you remove that issue reported in GTMetrix.
Also, I’m assuming you’ve not updated everything since the ?= versioning was still showing.
•http://cherrykoks.de/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/css/styles.css?ver=4.1
•http://cherrykoks.de/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/includes/wp_booster/external/bootstrap/td-bootstrap.css?ver=4.1
•http://cherrykoks.de/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/style.css?ver=4.1
ALSO: I don’t know why your posts have weird td-slug stuff vs the filenames based on pretty permalinks. That is so NOT normal, btw. Be sure to check your htaccess file to see that the block for your pretty permalinks is in there (or just resave your permalinks in wordpress general settings – and it will tell if you if the file is writable).
Remember to clear cache on your CDN each time you upload something like a new version of the functions.php file or the minified style.css file … otherwise it may keep serving the old versions.
Also note my setting in the functions.php for optimizing the jpeg thumbnails from 90 to 60, is a good addition (no plugin needed!).
For the Google fonts item …
there is one trick I did, which is download that style sheet from Google being loaded for your pages, copy/paste the CSS from that file and put at bottom of your style sheet, and delete loading the Google fonts (I think you can comment that out in the functions.php file); this way the CSS is loaded as part of YOUR style sheet and NOT being loaded from Google. This saved me couple of points as one less download, and no worries about expirations or minification for the Google CSS for the fonts.
Hi,
Thanks @Christopher
@maqabyah
Your issue comes from CDN which delivers the old versions of the files. You have to clear purge CDN cache and clear your browser cache (Ctrl +F5).
Thanks
I’ve check ur source code and cloudflare is not active as yet on ur host..check those settings i posted above…
After you set up the DNS settings in cloudflare then you need to go in cloudflare settings and set those as well..
1. Performance settings:: (CDN + FULL Optimization),
Hi Radu,
with 4.1 update I have the same problem with Big Slide in homepage (with pc desktop).
I try to:
– deactivate the w3 cache plugin
– delete cdn
– delete browser cache
– delete all cache
But I have always the same problem, I see only the first big image.
POSSIBLE ERROR: in the code of big slider I found many div with ID that start with “iosSlider_…..” (in the previous version the div class start with “iosSlider…”)
Hi,
For the big slider, you have to have more than 4 posts in order for the slider to start.
our speed booster plugin is loading the compact version of google fonts via a single call to google cdn.
For the articles that are doubled, please disable the unique articles feature and use the offests.
hope this helps,
Radu O.
Hi,
Please re-upload the theme, you have a missing style CSS theme file.
The big slide issue appears if you have CDN/cache and you didn’t reset it.
Thanks
I clear cache from WP Super Cache on a daily basis. I do not have CDN enabled. I have contacted you via my response elsewhere.
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Hi,
Please disable CDN, clear cache and also disable the speed booster plugin and see if works.
Thanks
Hi,
Do you have any CDN and cache on your site, please try to clear them. About the infinite scroll issue, can you give us a link to see this issue?
Thanks
This may or may not work for you with this theme; but general settings from a blog called online media masters, and I’ve seen the same settings elsewhere would be as so:
(THIS MAY BE INCORRECT FOR THIS THEME: BE SURE TO TRY SETTINGS FOR YOUR SETUP: KEEP BACKUPS, AND KNOW HOW TO GO BACKWARDS BEFORE USING ANY CACHE!)
—————-
(to quote …)
General Settings
◾Leave unchecked
Page Cache
◾Page cache: enable
◾Page cache method: disk enhanced
Minify Settings
◾Minify: enable
◾Minify mode: auto
◾Minify cache method: disk
◾HTML minifier: default
◾JS minifier: JSMin (default)
◾CSS minifier: default
Database Cache
◾Database cache: enable
◾Database cache method: disk
Object Cache
◾Object cache: enable
◾Object cache method: disk
Browser Cache
◾Browser cache: enable
CDN
◾CDN: enable
◾CDN Type: MaxCDN
Reverse Proxy
◾Leave unchecked
Network Performance & Security powered by CloudFlare
◾If you have a CDN: leave unchecked
◾If you don’t have a CDN: sign up for CloudFlare and use the settings shown in the picture
Note: W3 Total Cache and CloudFare have integrated their products.
Monitoring
You’ll see an option here to sign up for New Relic. This is a tool for monitoring your web and mobile apps performance. It’s more for developers but if you are one, you probably already know about this service. Otherwise, leave it blank.
Licensing
◾Leave blank
Miscellaneous Settings
If you want to see your Google Page Speed score in your WordPress dashboard, there’s instructions in this menu. Otherwise, here are the settings I use:
◾Enable Google Page Speed dashboard widget: enable
◾Verify rewrite rules: checked
◾Enable file locking: unchecked
◾Optimize disk enhanced page and minify disk caching for NFS: unchecked
Debug
◾Leave everything unchecked
Import / Export Settings
If you want to use the same W3 total cache settings across multiple websites, export your settings and import them into the new WordPress sites.
Hi!
I want to change the size of comment ribbon. The code was provided by someone from tagDiv before. Here is the code:
.comments_p_single {
position: absolute;
right: 0px;
bottom: 2.5px;
z-index: 1;
color: white;
font-size: 25px;
font-family: 'Roboto Condensed', sans-serif;
width: 60px;
height: 37px;
line-height: 5px;
text-align: center;
background-color: rgba(77,178,236,0.9);
}
.comments_p_single p{
padding: 3.5px 7px 10px 7px;
margin: 0px;
}
.comments_p_single:after {
position: absolute;
bottom: -8px;
right: 0;
left: auto;
content: "";
width: 7px;
height: 8px;
background-color: transparent;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: -8px -87px;
background-image: url(http://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/images/verge/sprites/ribbongles.v51a515f.png);
}
I want to change the ribbon size. This is the ribbon:

I would like to make increase the height of it and change the colour to orange. You can see it live here.
Please help.
Thanks!
mm yes but when I do that, it desappears from “latest posts” ( but it’s still in the slide 😉 ) .

Hi !
I have a pinterest button that I can’t remove. Impossible to find where it comes from. I checked the theme settings, my plugins, tried to disable most of them, it’s stille there.
Here is the code when I inspect the element :
<span style=”height: 20px; width: 40px; min-height: 20px; min-width: 40px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: block; cursor: pointer; top: 282px; left: 185px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,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);”></span>
and here is a screenshot

Thank you for your help 🙂