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Hi,
I am happy with overall theme and how easy it is to setup.
Few issues on the website I am working on:
1. Font with Vietnamese diacritics on mobile does not show in right font. Here’s the screen cap.
Text should be all serif, but letters with Vietnamese diacritics are san-serif.
Here’s the site URL: http://d8r.282.myftpupload.com
Page with Vietnamese diacritics URL: http://d8r.282.myftpupload.com/2016/06/su-gian-du-trong-tieu-thuyet-cua-nguoi-my-goc-a-cuoc-phong-van-voi-tac-gia-nguyen-thanh-viet/
I use single post content (tdb_single_content) element.
It seems like diacritics does not show in right font when the font is italics or bold. Post paragraph in regular style shows up fine.
2. Flex Block 1 on mobile displays funky.
Here’s the screen cap.

Notice how the excerpt text is flowing over the feature image.
3. I would like to insert category name above the first post’s title on the homepage
Is it possible to disply the category name above the title “Freedom in Unrest: A Girl in a Book // Khairani Barokka”? I would like the category text to be crimson text, upper case, not with a black background. Please provide CSS if possible.
3. I would like to insert category name above the first post’s title on the homepage
Is it possible to disply the category name above the title “Freedom in Unrest: A Girl in a Book // Khairani Barokka”? I would like the category text to be crimson text, upper case, not with a black background. Please provide CSS if possible.
4. On Category page, I have setup infinite scroll + load more for the pagination style. It seems like the load more button shows up after the 3rd loading of the post loop which is confusing. Could I set the load more button to show up after I scrolled to the bottom of the screen for the first time? Also, I need more padding below the load more button. Here’s the screen cap.

Thanks for your help.
Please check this documentation
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/theme-thumbs/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/featured-image/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/thumbnails-vs-featured-image-size/
So the thumbnails are predefined, each module will use it’s predefined thumbnail size.
You could experiment with flex blocks, these can be configured to display in many ways. For example all these blocks are created with flex block 1 and it’s settings
– https://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/flex-block/
I installed the demo and found the problem. Seems to happen specifically with the flex blocks. I will add this on our issue list and it will be fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Some of the demos were built when there were no flex blocks and now there could be minor design issues.
Hi, I’m testing Newspaper 9 on my localhost using MAMP before upgrading my site’s theme but I found some problems.
Even if I set “off” the button in Newspaper>Theme panel>Block settings>Category tag on Modules/Blocks>”MODULE FLEX 1>td_flex_bloock_1″, the flex blocks 1 in my home page keep on showing the category tags.
I tried to hide the category tags manually using the TDComposer plugin, but after I set “Hide” to 10/15 flex block 1 on my homepage, the TDComposer doesn’t save changes any more.
I click on the “Save the page content” icon on top of the TDComposer panel and it appears the rotating circle of the saving process but it never stops and there is no green band that tells me the modifications have been saved.
The previous versions of Newspaper, the one that is running on my website, doesn’t have this problem.
I hope you can help me
Hello,
If you need separate styles for desktop and mobiles, I recommend using the flex block element which allows you to implement separate layouts based on the device: https://www.screencast.com/t/czGSM0OxvSR
Thanks
Hello.
I finally managed in getting an extra custom field in the meta data of blocks.
I also recently updated to the most recent version of tagdiv and theme in general.
Suddenly there is a bit of code added everywhere to the end of my authors in the metadata.
Right after the author the websites injects this: <span>-</span>, resulting in a dash everywhere added at the end of the author. Also a margin is added to this which I really did not add myself.
Any thoughts where I can find this extra bit of code and how to remove it ?
It seems to happen only in the flex block 1.
Also, since we are mainly a reviewers site we would like to display nicknames on some occasions instead of the real names.
For instance, author “Jan van den Bulck” takes up a lot of space, pusing other meta data onto another rule, we would like to use the nickname (jvdb) instead.
Again this is not needed everywhere but on some occasions, both issues can be seen in the example link below.
http://v2.enola.be/category/muziek/muziek-nieuws/
1. dash issue: ENOLA.PLAY MAARTEN LANGHENDRIES – x 21 JULI 2018
2. the first two articles (play and concert&festivalnoise) should display the full name, whereas the four columns below that we’d like to have the nicknames. How would we proceed in changing this ?
thanks for the suggestions
Nick
Hi There,
I was trying to change the lay out style using the pre made style in Flex block1. But it defaults to default layout and does not change the layout. Have a look at the screenshot here.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/102KpLH3zepHiu2UByXiiz23C-AsRQHRm/view?usp=sharing
I am using single row with 3 column
Sorry, but I have the very same question.
Even though I have looked at the screenshots above, I simply cannot find a way to change the font size in Flex Block 1.
I hope somebody can help. Thanks in advance.
That is a flex block, what exactly are you doing with it? Placing that block in a tag template will not cause it to display only posts with a specific tag. It will display posts according to the filtering you set for it.
So configure the block to display posts with a certain tag, if you want to use a flex block in a tag template.
Usually the post loop element is used in tag pages for example, this will automatically display posts according to where it is placed
– https://www.screencast.com/t/yP6E0HQUMxp
A block will only display according to it’s filtering, regardless of where you place it.
Hi
The images will be cropped, a center top cropping to be more exact. That would be the best method overall. Each module will use a cropped thumbnail of a predefined size. Some images look better, it all depends on original image
– https://www.screencast.com/t/730fARYXU0
That particular module has a narrower thumbnail as it can be seen, so best you try other blocks in this case. You can see them all here
– https://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/block-1/
You could also use a flex block, that has multiple settings. Try to experiment with it as well.
Thanks
hello,
indeed it gets a css value to remove the pointer events. Please replace the code with this one:
@media (max-width: 767px){
.td-wpml .menu-top-container {
width: 100%!important;
}
.top-header-menu{
display:flex!important;
}
.td-wpml .menu-top-container .wpml-ls-item.menu-item-has-children .sub-menu{
right: auto!important;
left: 0!important;
}
.td-wpml .menu-top-container .wpml-ls-item.menu-item-has-children > a{
pointer-events: all;
}
}
Thanks
Hi,
Flex blocks have such a setting, they have many settings
– https://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/flex-block/
Example – https://www.screencast.com/t/7bqe4wgE
Or it could be done with CSS if flex blocks are not an option for you. In this case I would require a link to the page where you want to do this, and a mention of which elements should be affected.
Thanks
Hello,
You cna try adding this custom css to your theme panel under custom code:
@media (max-width: 767px){
.td-wpml .menu-top-container {
width: 100%!important;
}
.top-header-menu{
display:flex!important;
}
.td-wpml .menu-top-container .wpml-ls-item.menu-item-has-children .sub-menu{
right: auto!important;
left: 0!important;
}
}
Thank you!
Hello
I just used Flex block 1 on my homepage and it works erfect. I am using 3 column but on mobile I want to show 1 column. Currently it shows 3 columns on mobile as well which is really small for mobile. How can I make it show 1 colum?
Thanks
Hi!
I would like the default post width to be narrower, about 650px. So it’s easier for users to read.
Currently the post does not have side bar, and it looks like this:
http://d8r.282.myftpupload.com/2018/04/30184/
You have said that this is only achievable by text padding in the edit post screen, but this may change in the coming updates to have more flexible to modify post width. I have Newspaper 8.8. In the updated Newspaper 9.0, could I modify the default post width to narrower width?
Dear Simion,
On https://www.coupdepoker.com I removed date and author and used some CSS to have the rankings (stars) below the title on the HP. It worked well on “CULTURE POKER” for “SĂ©lection de livres techniques sur le poker”.
The CSS I used is:
.td_module_6 .item-details {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
flex-flow: wrap;
}
I installed a new category on the HP, called “POKER EN LIGNE” and, I don’t understand why the stars of the 1st line in module 6 (POKERSTARS) are not below like the other ones.
Here’s a screenshop: https://ibb.co/cS4Ti9
Could you kindly help?
Thanks
Hi,
– Flex blocks are available only with the tagDiv composer. Through this composer and cloud library plugin, post templates can be created from scratch or predefined templates can be imported (these can be modified as well).
– Without the tagDiv composer and cloud library plugin, only the default predefined post templates can be used.
– Standard HTML tables should display properly in the post or page content. I believe there are also plugins which can be used to create tables, maybe test a few plugins as well.
– Maps can be embedded, here is a guide (there are more online)
– https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-google-maps-in-wordpress/
– For the moment there are no table or map elements provided by the theme. Who knows, maybe at some point there will be.
Thanks
Hi, how can i add the flex module within a post ?
And have a way to customise like you do using tagdiv composer.
Also what would you recommend for adding tables in post ?
And how about for adding maps ?
Would be lovely if future updates includes maps and table.
Thanks
And thanks to the team for introducing the post loop to the homepage. Just what I had been waiting for. But if I may ask, is there a way where some page elements can appear on page one but be hidden on page 2 onwards? Or such a thing does not even exist? I put a flex bloc 5 and a post loop below it. But the flex block shows on the other pages of the loop.
Fixed! Thank you 🙂
Which thumbs do you recommend for the Flex Block?
Greets,
Yannick
Hello Yannickthepostie,
I saw that you have some blocks which have blurry images inside the thumbs. You should try using the Flex Block or Full-Width Grids if you want a larger layout, clear all the caches and check the results.
Thanks for your understanding!
Hi,
Thumbnails will be cropped, not scaled. The theme uses a center top cropping
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/featured-image/
Each module (modules form blocks and grids) has a required thumbnail size
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/theme-thumbs/
Depending on the image you use, the module you use, the results will be different
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/thumbnails-vs-featured-image-size/
If no module displays the images you use currently properly, maybe try and use different aspect ratio original images and make tests.
Flex blocks allow a degree of thumbnail modification, experiment with them as well
– https://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/flex-block/
1. I see. I did not think of that.
2. I saw the normal pagination feature has been requested for a long time. Hope we get to see it in some of the coming flex blocks.
3. Another question. Is there a way the related posts element for cloud library can be edited to have an option to do away with images? I saw that block adds nearly 300kb of code, with caching installed. Changing image height or width to zero does not help either. I was trying to make it show like say, block 9 (but as a downward list of related posts).
Hi,
1. That is correct, the search keywords will be bold
– https://www.screencast.com/t/iSdSrPbOd
If accessed like that the link will not work. Copying it and opening it in a browser tab will work. As far as I know this has always happened, I believe this is how it should be despite being somewhat inconvenient.
2. The loop element currently appears only on category templates, tag, author, search and archive. It is a special loop element different than the latest articles loop in pages. It uses the flex module settings.
So in default pages a loop is only possible with the latest articles page template.
Maybe this will change as the plugin gets more developed, I really can’t say what will happen.
Thanks
So you want that page “ALBUMRECENSIES” to show up in the mega-menu, instead of the sub-category page. The mega-menu only works with categories, displays posts from categories. It is not supposed to display pages, that is what the page menu would be for.
But what would be the purpose of including the page instead of the sub-category exactly? Category templates can now be built just like pages, with the tagDiv composer so the design of the category page is not a problem.
Maybe leave it as a category maybe, and design a category template as you want with the tagDiv composer. You can make the category template exactly as the page you created with the flex block
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-cloud-library-plugin/
Please try and make use of the available theme options instead of code modifications if possible, these might not work with future theme modifications by update or even be lost after an update.
We try to add more features with each update, more multi-purpose options for both news publishing and other areas. But these take time and lots of testing.