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Thanks Chris.
It turns out it was the Visual Composer plugin. I deactivated and then reactivated it and then things started working again. Very strange, but I’m glad I’m back.

Thanks!
Tom

Hi
setup a custom sidebar for your home page if you don’t have one; add a text box widget from the appearance > widgets section in WP admin panel.

If you’re using visual composer for custom home page, see the how-to in building home page; create new horizontal “row” at bottom of all the other content. If you can’t do that, simpler to use a text widget in sidebar.

See the docs for how to create a new home page sidebar; you can then set that sidebar to be used in your home page layout.

But those are the broad strokes — worth playing with a bit to experiment.

Note you can make a new home page layout and mess with it, preview, etc. without actually making it live.

TagDiv support can likely help with more step-by-step; this was just an overview of one way to do it 🙂

Try resaving permalinks, turning off any new plugins — if something “suddenly” stops working, it usually comes from a plugin update that no longer “plays nice” — a caching issue, or issue with CDN/similar.

Try
a) resave permalinks
b) clear any/all caching
c) turn off all plugins except Visual Composer.

See what happens.

Might or might not help. I’ve also found naming the static home page something other than “home” works better, like “homepager” since the static page isn’t supposed to be seen by anyone — it’s just for building the page which gets loaded by the theme as the default home; so nobody should be going to yoursite.zz/nameofhomepage

• This reply was modified 10 years by simchris.

Any theme framework using Visual Composer will have that file – it’s not technically part of theme; so hundreds of themes using VC will have that payload, but it’s the plus and minus to this kind of fancy site.

You can minify the main css file per my suggestions in my sticky post on optimization, which helps quite a bit.

Also, luckily this stuff actually gets zipped/compressed when sent to browser and cached so not being loaded over and over.

There is also code in my optimization sticky on topic of disabling VC loading on post pages where it’s not used (at least in my case).

Sadly, for highly complex and “lots of features” sites, there *is* a big payload, but not so bad — some themes make it seem smaller by loading 10 diff CSS files, where here it’s all combined.

Standard size CSS for most complex themes is actually about 550KB — not 75KB. It’s not apples to apples, it’s apples to watermelons — footprint is quite different.

But you can optimize stuff quite a bit for speed and Google pagespeed rating, which should be the main target for using large complex “feature-packed” themes like this one.

That might not have helped, but some feedback (I’ve been doing webdev 20 years and using WP 10 years, so not totally nuts over here… at least most of the time) 😉

Average size for a complex theme is actually about 550KB these days as it combines multiple sizes, shapes, options, layouts, mobile/responsive, etc.

Visual composer is also a bit big.

However the actual footprint is much smaller for web browser via gzip and also with caching in the cloud (e.g., Chrome will cache your data if enough hits come from Chrome users, etc.).

You can also manually “minify” the main CSS file using the tips/tricks from my sticky post on site optimization.

But yes, it’s a bit big for all those features people have asked for (demanded?) — so, there is a lot going on, but it’s better than loading 10 diff. CSS files as it’s actually more efficient for one “packet” …

and some data is actually inlined automatically to help with pagespeed/rating.

There was a post exchange a while back for v4 where I’d asked about what we could “take out” if not using bbpress, woocommerce, multisite, or other things to “trim it” and that would be a good tutorial for Radu or somebody to tackle in a
“what can I take out of the main CSS file”
“what can I take out of the main includes-functions file”

as those are the two big payloads other than visual composer.

Chris

As per you suggestion, I disabled all plugins except visual composer. However, the reported problem STILL exists.

Please help asap … thank you.

Thanks Bogdan but it’s not what I was asking, I am using Visual composer fine.
What I’m trying to do is to insert a specific widget (tweets list for instance) in visual composer.
If you check my dummy page – http://www.plamotte.fr/mondafrique –, you will see that there is a blank in visual composer’s sidebar and then the tweets list which is a widget from the home_sidebar
What I would like is to put this widget in visual composer right column
I hope it’s clear even if my english may not refer to my french way of questioning
Thanks
Patrick

Just a quick update – I checked with the Visual Composer team and they indicated that when VC is bundled with the theme, the support comes from the theme for VC issues, so I’m back to the Newspaper theme for support on this matter. Thanks,

Hi alin

Did you confirm that, WP Jump Menu WordPress Plugin works with Newspaper theme just installed with Visual Composer?

Hi

I’ve tested you site on iPhone and works fine. Please make sure you deactivate all plugins again, except Visual Composer, clear all caches, and test this again. Make sure you empty the phone’s cache memory, and also you can test this on our demo: http://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper_tech/shop/ and see how it works.

Let us know know ho it goes.

Thanks!

Ok, did the one by one deactivation of every plugin I have and isolated the issue to Visual Composer. When I deactivate Visual Composer, Facebook reads my Yoast SEO open graph tags perfectly. When Visual Composer is activated, Facebook totally ignores the Yoast SEO open graph tags and does not pick up post titles or post images which is really unacceptable. This would also explain why I only starting seeing this issue on Facebook after installing the Newspaper theme. Is Visual Composer conflicting with the Yoast SEO open graph tags, and if so, is there a way to remove the conflict?

Not sure how integrated visual composer is with the Newspaper them, so I will also see if there is a separate support page for Visual Composer.