Hello @dkempdesigns!
You need to edit the homepage with the TagDiv Composer by clicking on the green button while you access the homepage in your frontend. Also, you can find an option to edit your homepage with the TagDiv Composer in the Pages-> homepage(hover).
Click on the menus and you can choose which menu to display there. You can create a menu from Appearance -> Menus.
Remove the image from your footer background: https://imgur.com/bOSWxhr
We have 3 options for mobile versions that you can use:
1. Responsive version: A responsive version of your website looks similar to the desktop version. TagDiv Composer is used to edit the page.Click on the mobile viewport: https://www.screencast.com/t/XDQJedlggSB. There, you can see your mobile version and edit or adjust the elements to look better.
2. Mobile pages: https://tagdiv.com/newspaper-10-3-7-update-brings-customizable-and-fast-mobile-pages
3. Mobile theme plugin: The Mobile Theme is a performance-optimized theme included in the main Newspaper theme that only loads on mobile devices. It comes with its own templates and designs for pages, posts, categories, etc., so your current templates from the desktop theme will get converted to the mobile theme layout. Please see https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-mobile-theme/ and https://forum.tagdiv.com/mobile-theme-introduction/ for more information.
A full explanation is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpGkOnJeNZY
If you need to use the mobile version 1 or 2, then you need to uninstall the Mobile Theme plugin.
We recommend to use cloud/PRO templates in order to have the possibility to edit them with the TagDiv Composer which contains a lot of functions and features, please check our tutorial here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-composer-tutorial/
More documentation about the cloud templates is here:
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cloud-library-templates/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/design-post-pages-using-cloud-library-templates/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cloud-library-category-templates/
Thank you!
Hi, thanks but I’m just updating and I need the website to look exactly the same as it looks on version 7. Is there a way I can just do that?
I saved the options but panel 7 has templates and version 12 needs me to create a new footer, for example.
Thanks!
Hi,
You can add the top bar if you use a header template -> https://www.screencast.com/t/YqnngRKe or you can import a header template that is precisely like header style 1 -> https://i.imgur.com/EAothGC.png -> https://cloud.tagdiv.com/header-template-1/ and this way you can customize each element like logo -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/add-logo-newspaper/ , with tagDiv Composer -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-composer-tutorial/.
Please check this video about how can create a website from scratch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoGQ0d5kIBg
You can import a footer template here https://forum.tagdiv.com/footer-templates/
If you want to update the theme, download the latest version from the Theme Forest account and download it.
Please make a full backup to all files and database => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAJXrSI-dDA
Here you can find information about the changes that have occurred in each update over time https://tagdiv.com/newspaper/
I recommend that you update the theme manually https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ via FTP/cPanel/File Manager, also if possible disable extra plugins during the theme update to avoid any problems that may arise and make sure that you have activated the tagDiv Standard pack plugin to keep the website’s look. You can try to update the theme on a staging website.
After you update the theme, you must also update the theme plugins.
In the worst cases, the settings in the theme panel may be lost (there have been isolated cases), in these cases, after the theme plugins that were previously used are activated, you will have to use a backup for the theme panel -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/import-export-theme-settings/
Thank you!
Hi. I’m trying to update but I can’t find the header nor footer templates. I managed to get the cloud template for header but I can’t show the top bar. I couldn’t find the footer template I was using (template 4 in version 7). Is there a document I’m missing on how to update from version 7?
Thanks a lot!
Hello,
Please let me know what footer you have.
If you have a footer template from Cloud Library, you can edit it with tagDiv Composer on a page and you can make change easy => https://i.imgur.com/hVRwTQn.png select the element and change the text -> https://i.imgur.com/iSBc3Cg.png
If you have a footer from Theme Panel, then you can change the text here => https://i.imgur.com/QcZvnS0.png
Thank you!
Hello
I am getting another footer other than the one configured in the Cloud templates or Theme panel (which is configured to follow Cloud templates). You can enter the following link to see what I’m talking about and then go to the home page and see the original footer.
https://diplomaticpressinternational.com/category/news/leadership/
How can I fix this?
Hi, I released my Page speed guide for the Newspaper theme back in 2017. This is the 2023 version for the same.
My Website: https://medicforyou.in
Current Stats:
1. Pagespeed Mobile
2. Pagespeed Desktop
3. GTMetrix
4. Pingdom
Resources used:
Plugins
1. Ad Inserter
2. Akismet
3. Contact Form 7
4. Converter for Media
5. Formidable Forms
6. Formidable Forms Pro (Paid)
7. Inline Related Posts
8. Jetpack
9. LuckyWP Table of Contents
10. RankMath (free version)
11. Regenerate Thumbnails
12. tagDIV Cloud Library
13. tagDIV Composer
14. tagDIV Mobile Theme
15. tagDIV Social Counter
16. Wordfence Security
17. WP Rocket
18. wpDiscuz
CDN– Only Cloudfare Free with tweaks and rules
Hosting– GoDaddy (sucks but will switch later)
Plugin Based Tweaks Worth Mentioning
1. Ad Inserter
Newspaper mobile does not provide extended in-article ads. This is why I switched to Ad-inserter to apply rules to mobile and desktop versions. Works like a charm.
4. Converter for Media
Free webP conversion recommended by Google. Lightweight and also converts your previously uploaded files to webP as well.
6. Formidable Forms Pro- Paid
I bought this to have a quiz and calculator. To be honest, I spent more than 30 hours but still could not learn the conditional tags and essential formatting. Regardless, this is broken on the mobile theme plugin and has a drastic speed impact on the page. Definitely not recommended.
8. Jetpack
I am still to figure out what is the role of Jetpack in SEO and speed. Anyways, I have kept it to not destroy my existing SEO.
11. Regenerate thumbnails
I would recommend regenerating all thumbnails at a time when your visitors are not active on the website. It has some memory usage and should be done in a free environment.
MOST IMPORTANT
I browsed through forums to find that TD Standard Pack is not an essential plugin if you know how to develop your theme properly using TD Composer.
I was already using pre-installed templates. So, I simply deactivated the plugin to check if any pages were broken. Since there were none, I deleted the plugin.
It has huge speed impact and I definitely recommend creating your own templates rather than relying on the easy way out. Additionally, I would recommend you start with a pre-built website, and start editing the following Cloud Templates:
14. tagDIV Mobile Theme
If you have to choose performance over quality, I’d recommend quickly installing this plugin. It is tempting to give your users a wonderful experience, but at what cost? Reduced speed only drops your visitors from search engines. Most of us are bloggers, meaning we rely on Google and Bing for our visitors (in long term). I’d recommend using it without caring for those beautiful blocks or glittering images.
16. Wordfence Security
If you are on a shared hosting like me and using Wordfence, I would suggest you enable performance tweaks.
17. WP Rocket
I used AutoOptimize and various other plugins to speedily my website. I did achieve results, but the “remove unused CSS” is beyond my scope. It requires hours of finding the CSS and deleting them. Even if you understand what I am saying, you are still bound to make mistakes.
I switched to WP Rocket a few months back. It cost me 59 USD for a year. What did I get? Here are tweaks that I was not able to achieve previously (the rest all can be achieved with free plugins):
18. WpDiscuz
The CSS files are annoying and I believe minifying CSS and loading
wpDiscuz> Settings> General Settings> Enable Use WordPress native AJAX functions and Minify JS and CSS Files to Optimize Page Loading Speed.
If you have not installed it yet, I highly recommend you don’t get lured by it. Stick to traditional Comments from WordPress itself. They won’t cost you any speed damage.
Cloudfare Optimizations
I would not go much into detail about this. But I will summarize what I have done:
1. Optimization Tab- Tick marked all options except AMP URL and Rocket Loader (only if you are using WP Rocket because it will break your search button and menu on mobile with a Newspaper theme).
2. Caching- Tickmarked all except Always Online and Development mode.
3. Rules- I have set two rules which make Cloudfare cache all contents on my website except my admin panel. You can set them using the following image, make sure you replace your website name with www or without www (and no HTTP or HTTPS) and in THE ORDER THEY ARE (ByPass at 1st, Cache everything at 2nd).
Image:
4. Scrape Shield- Tick marked all of the available features (3 in total).
Currently, my concerns revolve around the following:
I hope this guide helps you all. Please leave any feedback or queries. Best of luck fellas.
Hello Alex,
Those are the settings https://i.imgur.com/4pN6oVD.png -> https://i.imgur.com/KL6IyhW.png
You can try to import that footer template and you can see the settings -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/footer-templates/
Thank you!
Hello,
If you want to achieve you can do it only using Cloud Template -> Footer Template to edit it with tagdiv Composer https://forum.tagdiv.com/footer-templates/
Thank you!
Where is the link in Newspaper to download footer or header templates? Cannot seem to find it.
Hey
When I looked up Google to know if my website is indexed or not, I found something strange. There were a few things indexed that I don’t want such as:
1. Tag Template
Url: domain.com/tdb_templates/tag-template-default-pro/
2. Footer – Default PRO
domain.com/tdb_templates/footer-default-pro/
3. Category Template
domain.com/tdb_templates/category-template-default-pro/
REF. https://ugandasafariexperience.com
Hello dear Team, I did announce this earlier and followed your recommendation to try the CSS Analyzer in order to solve this issue. However this unfortunately did not help.
Well, looking at the HTML code of the start page there might be indeed some double coding etc. caused eventually from copying initially older content for post and pages of another wordpress theme. So I might need somebody to have a close look at the HTML coding of the website and recommend dedicated action what to do.
I tried also to replace the header, footer and using the basic post / pages application instead of a cloud template but this was obviously not successful.
I was also thinking about using a complete different theme from the cloud templates?
Thanks for some input or even a quote if someone of your team has to work on that seriously.
I never had this issue before using TAGDIV for some years and maybe its really the copying of content from another word press theme causing the trouble. With Google we are doing alright although there is still room for optimization 😉
Thanks and best regards Michael
Thanks for replying, but i do not really understand what you mean.Maybe i did not explain well my point.
How i have to set up the child theme without loosing any data after an update?
I havent done any code modification to my child theme apart from adding the gtag code in functions.
I am asking about changes made to css, content and modicications to outlook through theme;s builder on templates that i added to cloud library.
Do i have to save these renamed templates (page,header,footer,author etc) in my child theme in order not be overwritten in a future update?Is this necessary?
When I Google the title of my site, I get the Newspaper sample page.
https://foresttimes.kr/tdb_templates/category-template-week-pro/
Header Template – Week PRO
Footer Template – Week PRO
404 Template – Week PRO
Single Template – Week PRO
Author Template – Week PRO
Date Template – Week PRO
Search Template – Week PRO
Tag Template – Week PRO
I ask if it is okay to delete these pages. Also, ask where to delete it.
Hello,
We have custom header and footer templates already created and set being used on our templates based on category.
We are expanding our website to include a new plugin that uses Custom Post Types for its content and because this is not category based, we are not able to define a default template.
Is there a way to define what template or header and/or footer the CPT uses when creating its own single-{cpt}.php programatically?
Hello @diocesipn !
Check in the Newspaper -> Theme panel -> Header -> Logo & Favicon -> Text Logo, text logo tagline.
Are you using the Mobile theme plugin? For Mobile Theme plugin, you can change the logo from Newspaper -> Theme panel -> Mobile theme -> Header and the copyright text in footer -> subfooter.
You can adjust the logo differently in the mobile viewport: https://www.screencast.com/t/XDQJedlggSB, so then it will fit there.
We have 3 options for mobile versions that you can use:
1. Responsive version: A responsive version of your website looks similar to the desktop version. Edit the page with TagDiv Composer. Click on the mobile viewport: https://www.screencast.com/t/XDQJedlggSB; there you can see your mobile version and edit or adjust the elements to look better.
2. Mobile pages: https://tagdiv.com/newspaper-10-3-7-update-brings-customizable-and-fast-mobile-pages
3. Mobile theme plugin: The Mobile Theme is a performance-optimized theme included in the main Newspaper theme that only loads on mobile devices. It comes with its own templates and design for pages, posts, categories, etc., so your current templates from the desktop theme will get converted to the mobile theme layout. Please see https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-mobile-theme/ and https://forum.tagdiv.com/mobile-theme-introduction/ for more information.
A full explanation is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpGkOnJeNZY
Thank you!
Hi support, We cant set up footer on mobile. We create footer from cloud library and set it up as global footer, and on desktop everything works fine, but on mobile shows default widgets.tagDiv mobile theme plugin is NOT installed.
On newspaper settings footer is set to show: https://ibb.co/7yfq7w9
On cloud templates footer is set global: https://ibb.co/0VpjyMR
Let us know what to do next.
Thanks.
Hi,
Normally if the WPML plugin is set like in our guide and those header and footer are cloud templates, all that you should do is to duplicate them in the extra languages you have -> https://i.imgur.com/v5ULJu2.png -> https://i.imgur.com/NUlWRNP.png
Is this not working for you?
We have a nespaper theme site and using WPML for translation.
We use the default pro template for our site.
Now when we activated WPML for several languages the header and footer jump back to a standard template but not the default we have put in with the general settings.
We have checked in general theme settings the default post template as well as all other default templates are set up correctly. Can you please advise what we are doing wrongly?
Also you can see from the example below that it takes ages until the language page opens.
Talked with WPML but the referred us to the theme developer
see and example here:
Thanks
HI,
What you need to do is to use a revision from the cloud footer template -> https://i.imgur.com/cOwE6gY.png -> https://i.imgur.com/jiaNFG7.png
Another solution is to change the footer template.
I hope this will help you!
Hello nahwewe09,
I believe that you used cloud header and footer, but right not it looks like you have set to no header footer.
Do you still have the cloud header and footer templates in cloud library -> https://i.imgur.com/0lDz0Xd.png? If yes, then please check there if those are set as global. Also, you can edit the homepage and check in manager if the header is set on no header -> https://i.imgur.com/nUwCTi1.png (check the footer too).
Let me know the results!
I want to import new footer templates from cloud library but when I try to access the cloud library, it loads forever…
Hello,
Unfortunately, the Newsmag has only global header.
If you need only to hide elements, then it can be done using css.
The footer is also global, you can edit it using the settings from the theme panel -> https://i.imgur.com/JgHgh1B.png to remove and add your own elements in footer, choose a footer that has empty columns.
Thank you!
While trying to edit header and footer cloud templates, it’s now not displaying properly and not letting me edit.
Error at zones: 6(models) : 5(dom). The model does not match the content Current state has involved an issue. You could try an UNDO operation (CTRL+Z / CTRL+SHIFT+Z)
Screenshot:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/NfgW14CtPkUcGyr18
Importing new headers/footers doesn’t work.
Site:
https://savvystrat.com
Many thanks,
Jack
Hi, if I update the theme, will my existing theme configurations persist?
As for cloud templates, I’m using them in header, footer, homepage, 404, single, category, author, date, search and tag. If I remove any of them, the design consistency will be lost.
