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Newspaper 6 contains full of bugs.

1. How long does it takes to release the next version to support like newspaper 4 child theme?

2. I did remember that i have requested you to provide the option to disable google fonts here https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/newspaper-theme-some-issues/ nearly 10 months before. But nothing happens till date.

3. I am completely unaware of WordPress API method to disable google fonts. Will you please explain me step by step how to disable google fonts via WordPress API?

• This reply was modified 11 years by wpdiv.

Ok, I just installed child theme and did following.

Copied style.css from Newspaper to Newspaper-child
Made necessary changes to style.css under Newspaper-child

Hope it’s ok ?

Make sure you completely clear the history/cache in IE 9 and try again; from the screenshot looks like the CSS is not loading. Also try NOT using a “child theme.”

And, stop using IE9 and start using IE10; if you’re still running Windows XP, not everything may work properly — but it “might” 😉

If running Windows 7, you should be using IE10 which came out 4 years ago. IE9 was very buggy.

1. I am very keen to update your latest version theme to replace existing 4.6.3 version. Your old version child theme customization supports https://forum.tagdiv.com/child-theme-documentation/ hierarchy. How long does it takes to apply for newspaper 6.3 version?

You can remove the default google fonts from the config file here: http://screencast.com/t/wmxKL4rF which can’t be edited using the child theme. Sorry!

Then give an option to disable google fonts via theme options panel. That does make sense. Every time when i update the theme i have do replace the file manually which is very painful.

Hi Alin,

I tried it via a child theme first and it didn’t work – that’s why I asked as I wondered if I had done something wrong. I should have mentioned that in my post above.

James

I think I usually take the sissy way out and just avoid the mods that put me in a position of changing things twice. Is that sad or what? haha

Need to get familiar with the new API. Although it’ll be a while before it touches on the areas I tend to modify, like the default sharing buttons. Between the API as a plugin and the Custom CSS settings, the child theme is becoming more irrelevant.

Speaking of jaded, color me jade regarding WordPress in general. I’ve been branching toward so-called lightweight CMS solutions like Bolt CMS and as it turns out, it puts WP to shame on performance, function, and customizability for a news site not dissimilar to those you run. But that’s for another topic.

Just going along to get along for now. Gonna get that parent theme going again. It’ll fix my block 18 thumbnail issue too.

I’m a bit biased as I’ve had likely 25 themes change over time and need to go in and modify the child theme which totally defeated the purpose of just using the parent thing to modify in first place. Why have all the shenanigans of having two sets of code. I understand the concept, and certainly child themes are helpful for Canvas, and other frameworks for simpler theme development, buuuuuuut …. I prefer to have stuff in one place and keep track of the mods so I know they will or will not work due to my foobar and not a child theme issue. Did I say biased? Maybe I meant jaded? 🙂

Updating Child Theme did the Trick!! Thanks Again

Child themes are a nice way to do things without the fear of being overwritten on update. For those who use the UI to update, can’t beat it. I typically try to not use @import or includes if at all possible, to reduce http requests, so I like to copy the parent style.css into the child style.css and remove the imports. Keeps things smoother and accomplishes the same thing.

Not too sure how that would work for the functions file, but my assumption is that it would break it based on the same reasoning you gave. Maybe not with the new theme.

Of course, given that the child theme is having other issues, and since I’m never opposed to more speed (GT Metrix score of 91 without a caching plugin so far – W3TC encrypts my pages for some reason and displays the code), I’m thinking about switching back to the parent theme. My custom CSS is all in the theme panel anyway, and my edits to header.php and td-module-single.php are pretty basic.

If I could just find a way to speed up the loading of ads from AdSense through AdZerk then I’d be blazing along. Your tips certainly help in the meantime.

Funnily enough it occurred to me last night to update that just as you did, but then I forgot (was watching “MIST” on Amazon Prime…. ). Good job, kind sir! 🙂

As to CHILD themes… well… you are correct it likely doesn’t matter anymore with TagDiv themes, although I do seem to recall it did at some point based on feedback.

I personally don’t use child themes and am against such practice, but that is my own preference due to the CSS redirect aspect. Some themes don’t do well with putting functions that change “core” behavior when put in the child theme; and this is based on my “full stack” for changes/suggested code. Your mileage may vary, depending on theme/version. Since everything in the child theme can be a redirect, I simply don’t trust it — but if it works for you, then have at it. When folks websites stop working, I usually suggest going with “lowest common denominator” and one of those debug aspects is NOT using child theme — but it’s not a “law” or anything — again, just my OPINION. 🙂

Put another way; I’d rather have ALL the optimizations working in main theme vs having to cut some back just to use child theme. Again, your experience may vary. If you can run mods in child theme, why are you bothering to use the “slim” version exactly?

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

This is what you should have:

.vc_row {
  margin-left: -24px;
  margin-right: -24px;
}

But you actually have yours loading on the page as -15px for each. It’s shrinking the overall width of the container, which forces the parts of the grid to stack like that.

You can enter the above CSS rule in the Custom CSS editor or you can have whoever fix that in their custom code, as that’s how it got changed to begin with. If you’re trying to change the width of the page container, you need to resize the grid elements to work with the narrower width as well. Highly unlikely to have any other cause. You might try reuploading the child theme from the latest version of Newspaper to make sure it’s up to date.

I would check the child themes style.css for the source of modification, since it’s best to remove the mod than to add another mod to counter it.

Good luck.

It’s not the same problem then as mine only happens when the child theme is enabled, but yes, those two rules will work with the child and parent themes.

Looking at your site, I’m not seeing the issue appear on Chrome and desktop. I do see that you need to regenerate your thumbnails though. It’ll fix the skewed images. Regenerating your thumbnails may just fix the problem you’re having, so you should try that before adding any custom CSS rules.

Use this plugin to regenerate your thumbs: Regenerate Thumbnails

I know the plugin isn’t updated much and says it’s not compatible with newer versions of WordPress, but it works just fine with 4.2.2. I used this plugin to regenerate all my thumbs earlier this week. It took a long time because there were almost 3,000 images to regenerate, but it worked great.