- NewsmagSocial counter styles on Newsmag
- NewsmagNewsmag documentation
- NewsmagtagDiv Social Counter tutorial
- NewsmagIntroduction
- NewsmagCategory grid styles
- NewsmagTheme colors introduction
- NewsmagPage templates
Hello Bodgan,
Thanks for your prompt response.
I inserted the code below to css custom code, and it worked, except for Template 11. I am still testing the theme, and can live with the minor alignment issue for now.
.td-module-meta-info {
display:inline-flex;
}
.the-modified-date {
padding-left:5px;
padding-right:10px;
padding-top:2px;
}
Cheers,
Nik
Hi Bogdan,
I know and have used the blocks, I want some flexibility with my block and grid designs, there are some designs in some websites I will like for my website, I just want to have control over the block and grid designs. In your documentary there is a mention of tagDiv composer plugin I added it to my site but it won’t work on its own or with my activated visual composer, if the plugin will work as described in the documentation it will solve my problem and I want to buy it. Please keep me posted on updates on the tagDiv composer plugin, it will be better if it can work with visual composer
Regards,
Stanley
Hi,
The characters you see are the text next and prev that visual composer adds. If you make them even smaller the text should be readable. You can try to choose another font icon using the font awesome 4 menus plugin and choosing different icons from their repository: https://astronautweb.co/snippet/font-awesome/
Then you can change the “content” code for the buttons by using this css:
.flex-direction-nav .flex-prev:before{
font-family:fontawesome!important;
content: '\f001'!important;
}
.flex-direction-nav .flex-next:before{
font-family:fontawesome!important;
content: '\f001'!important;
}
Thank you!
Hello,
Unfortuantly since that is a font icon, you cannot make it thinner but you can change it;s size. please use this code:
.flex-direction-nav a:before{
font-size:30px!important;
}
Thank you!
Hello,
I am using the posts slider on my homepage from the visual composer plugin.
For the slider type, I am using the flex slider slide.
I would like to customize the arrows for this slider, and make them thiner.
Could you please let me know how I can do that?
Thank you.
Best regards,
Yousra
Hello,
You can use the code below if you want to display inline the date and the author name for your module. Try the code below and place it in Theme panel->Custom CSS area.
The code is ->
.td-what .td_module_6 .td-module-meta-info {
display: inline-flex;
}
Thanks.
The logic behind having it flexible:
It is very much dependent on what the site is. If you have a news website that has 50-100 news daily and people are used to read the latest, a news piece that is stuck on a prime location and is 7 days old is out of place.
Plus, a piece of news that is very popular in last couple of times will not get the exposure it deserves because it has to “compete” with views for last 6-7 days from less popular ones.
Hello,
Is it possible to use your theme with a simple design, like what the themes Bimber and FlexMag, without the visual composer plugin ?
This theme offer a lot of good designs, but has a lot of flaws, like lack of speed, sometimes duplicating the home page of the website.
For example, Bimber and FlexMag theme offer a good design, and their themes only uses the WordPress tool to customize the theme, and, of course, without the framework, it offers a tremendous speed thanks to their theme.
If there is no solution to change your NewsPaper theme (or theme NewsMag)
Hope you soon launch a new theme for news, which can have a good design without visual or compose framework.
Thank you
I’m trying to add a custom ad zone for content ads like Taboola above the post title but below the header. So, on the following page it would be above the title of “Kid After. . .” and below the header with the logo. It would span the whole width of the page.
http://vidtd.com/2016/06/18/kid-after-getting-drugged-up-at-dentist/
Is there any way to do that through the theme options to make it easy on me, or do I need to go into the code? If I need to go into the code, how exactly do I do that? I already have a child theme enabled and moved the single post template into it if needed, but wanted to see if there was a way to do it through the theme.
The homepage allows a lot of flexibility through the visual composer, but I can’t find a way to do it across all posts to the overall post template.
Thanks!
HC
Hello Caum,
At the moment, unfortunately, this is not possible using our child theme because you will have to register your block in td_page_builder_widgets.php as the widget with add_action and this type of file do not support to be overwritten in the child theme, sorry! At the moment, the only way for it is using this in the main theme.
We certainly plan to extend the theme flexibility in the future updates. I’ve added your suggestion on our list and when the time comes our developers will consider it. This may take some time because we have a long implementation list and we take them one by one.
Thanks for your suggestion, have a nice day.
Hello rchjantonio,
We certainly plan to extend the theme flexibility in the future updates. I’ve added your suggestion on our list and when the time comes our developers will consider it. This may take some time because we have a long implementation list and we take them one by one and we cannot say for sure if it will be implemented or not.
Please keep in mind that this will depend on just developers decision.
Thanks for your suggestion, have a nice day.
Hi
Try this css in theme panel > custom code > custom css: http://screencast.com/t/pPtUZu6IVGlW
.vc_col-has-fill>.vc_column-inner{
padding-top: 0;
}
.wpb_gallery .flexslider {
margin: 0 0 0;
}
Thanks!
Ok I understand. However, you cannot neglect the number of users Mozilla Firefox browser has. It affects our blog when a reader fails to navigate.
You can alternatively have an option to activate the old menu style which doesn’t need any fancy browser support and is flexible everywhere.
I hope you understand our situation. We are very much concerned about our readers and we don’t want to loose them 🙂
Hello argosmedia,
We certainly plan to extend the theme flexibility in the future updates. I’ve added your suggestion on our list and when the time comes our developers will consider it. This may take some time because we have a long implementation list and we take them one by one. Thanks for your suggestion, have a nice day.
Thanks for your understanding!
HI
We’re working very hard at next update for Newsmag theme. Thar update will be a major one which will include lots of new features which will improve the theme and will make it more flexible and easy to use.
For now I can’t say how much time will pass until the update will be released but I can ensure that we do our best to make it available in shortest time possible.
Thanks!
3,4) It seems we have some miscommunication here. I do not ask for customization. The only thing I ask is an explanation of what I have done wrong. I did everything according to your instructions (the steps I did are described above). The only question I have is what I did wrong and what steps were made not according to the instructions? I have already used child themes on 4 other sites I have with 4 other themes. So I have never experienced any issues in it. At other themes it works perfectly. I have read the documentation you provided several times and I did everything according to the manual, but it still doesn’t work. Really hope for your advise.
5. Thanks. Sorry for not being clear. The speed booster is already active. The questions is not how to make it work, but if there any chances speed booster will be combitable with this plugin in future https://wordpress.org/plugins/cloudflare-flexible-ssl/ I will highly appriciate if you could consider that possibility for your future updates.
6. Thanks. I do understand that it is not an easy task. If it was an easy task I wouldn’t have asked you about it 🙂 So the question remains — can you please let me know how to set different crop size to featured image in Default post template? It would be really really really helpful if you could advise on the point.
7. Cool!
8. thanks
9. I do understand that. The reason I’m raising this questions is because it seems in your manual there is a discrepancy. So I decided to help you. You mentioned in the manual that we should use CloudFlare, but in the same time you mentioned that gzip compression is required. So if gzip compression is enaebled at CloudFlare by default, probably it would be helpful for the rest of the users if you mention that they do not need to enable gzip compression at the server when they are connected to Cloudflare, as otherwise two gzip compressions will be enabled: at CLoudflare (which is turned on by default) + at their own server. That is the only reason I mentioned it. I believe it really cool when people can help each other, that is why I mentioned it but not because I’m looking for support in the question. When people help each other for no reason, it makes the world better )
11. Isn’t it directly concerns proper work of the speed booster plugin? I believe if we resolve the issue, we will make the plugin better together, won’t we? If we resolve the issue, other users will never face it and will consider the theme as the best in the world.
14. Let me mention that I know the steps required to be made. That code perfectly works at any of my other sites, but it doesn’t work with newspaper 🙁 That is the reason why I asked for support here. For 4 year at my previous theme I gathered hundred of thousands taxonomies. All I want is to make my web site works with the new theme at least on the same level as it worked on the previous one. I would really appreciate if you could potentially consider a possibility of giving me a hand with this unusual question.
15. Thanks. It works perfectly
16. Super.
17. Is there any chance you may consider such addition for future updates?
Really appreciate for your time and kind help. Look forward to receiving your answers. I’m really really really rely on your support.
Have a nice day. Wish all the best to the coolest developers in the world!
1. thanks
2. Is there any chance you may consider adding vk.com share buttom in future? It would also be great if you could add a sharing possibility on the pictures.
3 and 4. It is named in the same way. So again. These are the steps that I do:
step 1. I open functions.php in the child folder https://gyazo.com/fea2016a1f0673e2b4633e1de3acb0a8
step 2. I add the code in the end of the file https://gyazo.com/d3ac607eb8cca0ca871b36e3305e97c8
step 3. nothing happens
If I add the same code in functions.php which is placed in codebase folder — everything works properly. So the question remains — what have I done wrong? The names of the files are the same in both folders child and codebase.
5. Is there any chance speed booster will be combitable with this plugin in future https://wordpress.org/plugins/cloudflare-flexible-ssl/ ? But thanks for the instructions. Now speed booster is active
6. It seems I asked the question improperly. I know that there is different crop options in different template. I meant – can you please let me know how to set different crop size to featured image in Default post template?
7. Sorry. It seems I wasn’t clear with my question at all. Let me build my question in a different way. The issue is the following, let’s say I have the article about Obama. And I set it to 3 different sections – I made the post featured + I put in Politics category and World category. It means that the article about Obama will appear on the home page 3 times. First time in the section with Featured posts. Second time in the section with Politics. Third time in section with World news. The question is how to avoid duplicating posts on the home page when the post is placed in different categories?
8. thanks. My hosting provided that he installed xcache on the server. Is it ok or it is better to ask him remove it and install APC for better performance of Newspaper theme?
9. compression is allowed at the hosting, but he told be that it is not enabled as CLoudFLare do gzip compression by default. Should I ask him to enable additional gzip compression at the server or the compression provided by CF is enough?
10. thanks
11. thanks. It helped for most of the files, accept three files:
• jquer
• jquery-migrate
• wpgeo
Google still detects them. Do you know how to fix this? This time I pasted the code in the correct place
https://gyazo.com/a509970a21bc4868f0cf41ffc1d8ca1a
https://gyazo.com/5704d7eff52baceb35e23fa76814614d
12. thanks
13. thanks
Hello,
Thank you for the wonderful theme. Can you please help with several questions:
1. Unfortunately social counter doesn’t work. Here is how it looks like https://gyazo.com/d3a5e93c412ea8c92faa87dbf18f1985 Everything was adjusted according to the provided instructions. You may see the it here http://freesmi.by/ on the right sidebar
2. Can you please let me know how to add vk.com share buttom?
3. What is a proper way of adding code to functions.php file in the child theme? When I simply add code here https://gyazo.com/c829207705804e51f76ee0dde7401ca9 nothing happens. The changes apply only when I make them in functions.php file placed in the mother folder (not child).
4. What is the proper way of using child theme? I made the following steps:
• I copied the child folder from here Themes\Newspaper-tf\code\Newspaper-child
• Pasted it to here /wp-content/themes/
• Then I opened functions.php file in the child theme and tried to make some additions, but nothing happened. I added the code here https://gyazo.com/100ac1b006855c8be7d7c14091e82559 But the code didn’t work. It worked only when I added it to the functions.php file in the mother folder of the theme
• So can you please advise what is the proper way of making corrections to functions.php file in the child theme? Did I do something wrong? Why it didn’t work?
5. Do you know any alternatives to CloudFlare Flexible SSL as it is not compitable with Speed Booster?
6. how to make the featured image cropped? For example instead of this – https://gyazo.com/72458b385e0f89a9d421657059e66e06 When the image takes almost all the screen, I would like to have all featured images cropped with specific size for example like here – https://gyazo.com/4abb6b786495c59078ab81851559cbeb – when the image smartly cropped and looks amazing. Is it something possible to featured images?
Thanks,
Denis.
Yes I understand – please don’t get me wrong I’m a massive fan of the theme – but things are moving on – I’m just thinking of the future development of Newspaper – mobile is the way forward – AMP/FB Instant etc – so a mobile site must be as close as possible to instant, clearly it can’t be instant but it does need 2 seconds max in load time. Newspaper 7 mobile therefore is a great thing.
However for a news outlet with a large following/visitors, it’s pointless investing in lots of blocks and widgets on a sophisticated home page, so though I still use the theme I’ve stripped it back to basically a roll of articles with one grid and one block. Others will do the same, and all of then sell their own ads on these sites and so need the flexibility.
Recently AdRotate’s author planned to remove mobile ads (except Google type) from his plugin settings, there were so many people begging him not to for this reason that he left it the same so sold ads could appear. If a site owner has developed an inventory of ad positions and prices over two years, he/she then can’t just change these positions when people may have paid for a year or so. It would be the right thing to develop this so a site owner can switch the same options on for the mobile theme if he/she needs them, it can’t be that difficult to do and will keep customers with Newspaper 7+
Thanks
Hi
We get often this question regarding the differences between our themes. I can tell you that the both themes share the same core so their functionality and performances are similar. The main differences are in designs/appearances and the content area width which slightly differs from one theme to another. Newspaper’s grid width is 1068px while Newsmag’s width is 1021px and the newsmag’s theme grid has been designed to support the borders you notice between sections of a page: http://screencast.com/t/pNkgzN1Kn8Y5
Other differences are also appear regarding features, some of the blocks are present on one and missing on the other, for example you could check the Features menu items from each theme live demo and see blocks, modules, post templates… are present in each theme and the design differences – http://screencast.com/t/p87JJpieJd
Speaking from a development point of view Newspaper theme is more complex then Newsmag. Among the differences I can enumerate these ones:
– Newspaper have more blocks, grids and another widgets which arenot included in Newsmag yet.
– Newspaper have more smart-lists available. There are 8 types of smart-lists while Newsmag have 4.
– more posts templates are available for Newspaper, 14 and for Newsmag are only 9 at the moment.
– ad system offers more options fro Newspaper then for Newsmag
We are constantly working on multiple updates for both themes. Adding further features is always a goal of ours. At the moment we work on a major update for Newsmag theme, new features will be added which will make the theme more complex and also its flexibility will be improved.
I hope this helps.
Thanks!
Hi
Theme’s blocks weren’t designed to be displayed on post content so there could appear some layout issues using them there. In most cases a block will be displayed fine within post content but in some cases could appear some layout issues.
To display a block in post content follow this steps:
– create a blank page, add the desired block on it and set it as you want to be displayed: http://screencast.com/t/fj2q2GkBE77q
– copy the shortcode and paste it in post content where you want to display that block: http://screencast.com/t/4fbP8dXOg – http://screencast.com/t/p9dUBEY4 – http://screencast.com/t/46yRqnUaMjk
To replace related article with a custom block you have to edit the file corresponding with post template used and use do_shortcode like here: http://screencast.com/t/EjxTtrx2wisC
<?php echo do_shortcode('your shortcode goes here'); ?>
With regard at support please refer at this link for more details in this regard: http://themeforest.net/page/item_support_policy We can only support offer for current features of the theme, not to extent theirs functionality. Our theme is very flexible and can be customized in many different ways. However that require s bit of coding and some tests to achieve the desired result.
Thanks!
Hi
The theme have options which allow you to display taxonomy tags on custom post types. Here is an example: http://screencast.com/t/Nmyr92I33 – http://screencast.com/t/WMJ7a9wHcckS – http://screencast.com/t/cccXchFx3n
At the moment you can filter posts only by custom post types, not by custom taxonomies in Visual Composer.
We plan to extent theme’s flexibility in future and maybe a sorting by custom taxonomy will be available. However I can’t promise anything in this regard as this is a very complex task and some investigations must be made before. Also we have a long implementation list and we need to chose carefully what features we add.
Thanks!
I ended up going with AdGlare (http://adglare.com) for ad serving which turned out to be much more flexible for my needs.
For one, the ads scale in size, so they look great and proportional on all devices.
Secondly, I was able to show ads in different places, depending on the screen size… meaning I could have a box ad in the sidebar when on desktop or tablet, but then have it jump into the content when on mobile (so that it didn’t end up with the sidebar waaaaaaay down at the bottom).
AdGlare all the way! 🙂
Thank you for the quick reply and your candid feedback. We were finally able to get VC 4.11.2.1 to update manually and needed to reload both Newspaper and the child theme we created, so we have a temporary fix.
I understand that running the update will be both helpful and painful, needing to rebuild certain pages and elements, so I think we’re moving ahead with that over the next few weeks. Wondering if there is anywhere that outlines the benefits/improvements in Version 6 over Version 4, so I am better able to explain the value of making the extra effort? I see extra flexibility in block and module layouts, better stability and design, etc. Would appreciate a link or direction to a couple of forum posts (?) which might give a more complete outline. Saw the link to update process so pretty sure we can figure it out.
Hope all is well with you guys!
