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Hello,
@BlinX please try to instal a plugin, any plugin from WordPress to see if work. Could be from some permission settings.
If you want you can give us access to your WP and we will take a look and FTP to.
Please send via email at contact@tagdiv.com.
Mention in the message title For Marius and also please paste a link to this conversation.
Thanks for the message!
Happy New Year!!!
HI, folks
for many of you (including us), we wanted to use slightly different method for the social media buttons at bottom of the post in the theme, and for some reason with the default theme setup and using Yoast SEO plugin, the Pinterest image would never populate even with all the Pinterest-friendly code in the head of the theme.
So, starting playing with using the WP AddThis plugin, however its main flaw (and those folks are really dumb in not updating to include the async code which EVERYBODY has been requesting for the pat year – and which can be easily fixed).
Finally, I took look at plugin and sorted out how easy it is to “hack that” for your site. While there are many choices for plugins, or managing “on page” code, we’ve found over the past five years, that the AddThis plugin when used async mode, actually is very consistent and doesn’t adversely impact our pages. Your mileage may vary. Still, think about how many websites have those little orange [+] buttons for sharing and AddThis has big installed base.
So, here is how to do this – was going to post this in my blog, and will later, but redoing my website right now and well, I just hacked our Newspaper theme site to do this, so thought I’d pass it along.
This assumes you will
1) turn off the social media option in the control/customizer panel for the theme, on posts.
2) download the AddThis plugin v 3.5.6+ (the one from the AddThis company) and open file in the plugin folder to edit one line;
3) upload the modified plugin to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder via FTP
4) activate plugin
5) choose settings for plugin as to whether you want the pill buttons with balloons showing number of shares/likes, or the speedier share buttons without the “phone homes” to get read/share numbers (which slow down your website and pagespeed, btw).
So, once you have plugin:
in the folder, you’ll be editing this file:
addthis/includes/addthis_addjs.php
You can edit in notepad, simpletext, or whatever (I use the awesome TEXTPAD 5 on Windows7); do not edit in a word processor like Pages, or OpenOffice, MS Word, etc.
around about line 166-167 you will see this:
function addWidgetToJs(){
$this->jsToAdd .= '<script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/'.$this->atversion.'/addthis_widget.js#pubid='. urlencode( $this->pubid ).'"></script>';
}and you will simply change to: (YOURID is your publisher id you get when creating an AddThis account, which is free; includes tracking if you want that, zero cost, and no impact on SEO or link pollution). If you have no publisher ID, simply remove #pubid=YOURID — IMPORTANT, do *NOT* put in a publisher ID in the AddThis WP control panel as you’re manually over-riding the insert variable here.
function addWidgetToJs(){
$this->jsToAdd .= '<script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/'.$this->atversion.'/addthis_widget.js#pubid=YOURID#async=1"></script>';
}To see this in action:
http://ga-ga.com/1204/beginning-adventure-space-time-reveals-roots-doctor/
Using this hack as of 12.25.13, but if you’re reading this a year later, we might be doing something totally different (view ‘source code’ for page to see whassup).
Hope tha helped somebody.
Once I get our server moved, and my website updated for our main company, my wordpress blog will be back, and I’ll include link to that for more of my little tidbits of tips.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
HI,
if you’re using a cache plugin with “page cache” on that should work.
Many hosting providers also run caching software of varying kinds, but not all websites may have that function depending on plan and how they setup VPS or containers for different customer classes. eacclerator, optcache, memcache, etc.
The .htaccess file goes in the root of your public document area (e.g., httpdocs/yoursitename/public – same place that wp-content lives), and is more easily seen with an FTP application that can show hidden files ( .htaccess is the file name – the dot makes it hidden ). Or, if you’re using something like YOAST SEO, there is an “edit files” option to make additions to the file (which is what I do). It is there, as WordPress writes it’s “rewrite” rules to that file. In your web hosting account there may be a “file manager” which would let you edit it, also.
Smush.it is the popular choice, however it only works on new files not existing ones. I think “regenerate thumbnails” may work when smushit is on, but check the help support on that for those plugins.
What amazes me are the problems you and I can’t do much about
a) issues with Google AdSense
b) issues with social media elements
c) issues with recaptcha (I just turned this off); powered by Google
d) issues with Disqus or any comment platform including the one from automatic
The most hilarious issue is that we installed Google’s “mod_pagespeed” system on our web server, and now it’s saying that there is a PageSpeed error since PageSpeed inserted three 1×1 pixel graphics and isn’t specifying their height and width.
Seriously?
So, basically from my experience wrangling this the past few months, if you want to know your real pagespeed run it with
1) ads off ! You will get pagespeed errors from Google ads.
2) social media off – you will get error from twitter
3) if you use Addthis, as we do – you need to hack the plugin to add the #async=1 option at end of javascript string.
It’s a process that will end up being frustrating at some point. No way around issues with Google’s own products generating errors. SO, they penalize page speed for using their services. Crazy.
Hello,
@mmcmsp like @tonz1976 sayed, just replace all files via FTP. Also please be careful !!! i see you have made some customization. I mean if you have file modification be sure to not loose the modification from files. (like the hearts instead of of stars) in elements.png file.
I’ve installed 3.8 and seems to work fine. We will release an update next week and will confirm the compatibility with 3.8
Thanks @tonz1976 for your help.
@mmcmsp Just copy & replace old version by any ftp client.Its easy to upgrade.
anyway if you face tagdiv social counter plugin error such as twitter follower show zero.Just reinstall this plugin and problem solve.
Dear all, thanks for your tips.
But it doesn’t really help solving the problem if you write that it works in your installation 😉
It doesn’t work in at least two installations!
So again:
could you please tell us in which file the translation strings are saved.
I would like to change them manually via ftp.
Thanks in advance.
Hello,
Please give the right permission on the style.css file via FTP.
This should solve your problem.
Hello,
The menu is the same, probably you don’t have the right sprite images or css. What version of the theme do you have?
Please make the full update again, replace all files via FTP.
Can you show us your site URL.
Thanks for the message!
Hello,
Just replace all files via FTP. Here we have some tips: http://import.tagdiv.com/newspaper/doc/#howtoupdate
All the plugins settings will not be affected.
Thanks for the message!
Radu
site works fine. Some parts of world have been blocked due to massive hack attempts, port scanning, forum spam, and we have dedicated server running CSF and portflood protection, etc. Sadly, being in the U.S. and running various news portals, our servers are common targets for attacks from China, Russia, Eukraine, Arab states, Columbia, Viet Nam, North Korea, Argentina, etc. We’ve had to take a higher level of “autoblock” for some ISPs due to massive system abuse which the ISPs won’t address and just let it go on. If you want to email me from my account, I can check your IP (don’t post your IP here obviously) to see if it’s on the block list (which ideally we’d like you to see what we’re doing with your theme!). As you know often if we get 20 attacks from one range, we block that entire range, but might block a friend along with the foe. A DDoS was knocking out our SMTP and FTP last month, hence higher sensitivity on the firewall.
🙂 Chris
Hello,
this is a very strange issue. We can’t replicate and in order to debug it I would need ftp acces. is that possible?
contact@tagdiv.com – include this forum post link in the message.
Hello,
I can help you but I need wp-admin access and ftp acces to get the logs/enable wp_debug.
contact@tagdiv.com add a link to this forum post in your email.
Hello,
Download the theme from here: http://themeforest.net/downloads connect to your site via FTP using (Filezilla) and replace all the theme files in wp-content/themes/Newspaper
Hello,
I see that the HTML structure is fine. Please send us access to your WP and we will make the update for you. Probably have some corrupted file. Try to copy all the files again via FTP and see if works. If don’t send access at contact@tagdiv.com and we will take a look.
Thanks
I deleted all and reinstall wordpress , database and theme from hdslr.com.br ( still with the version 1,0,1)
Just sent the new version via FTP. Same post, same pages, same plugins. All the same
– Internet speed 35Mbps
– v1.0.1 = 8,16seconds
– v1.7.2 = 24,16seconds
Hello
I deleted all and reinstall wordpress , database and theme from hdslr.com.br ( still with the version 1,0,1)
Just sent the new version via FTP. Same post, same pages, same plugins. All the same
– Internet speed 35Mbps
– v1.0.1 = 8,16seconds
– v1.7.2 = 24,16seconds
tks
Hello,
Thanks @dalandau for your quick answer.
Yes, replace the files via FTP.
The only way to download and apply this update is through the FTP process?
Hello,
1. All the updates will be via FTP, replacing all files.
2. Edit you DON’T MISS block (block2) and add here for multiple categories: http://screencast.com/t/lA4YSXv2ay1
3. Unfortunately the theme was not made from the start to support drop down for top menu.
4. There is a small bug, still searching for that bug
5. What contact me app?
Thanks
The problem was with WP Super Cache plugin. Via FTP, I deleted the folder of the plugin, and problem solved. But now, I don’t have Cache Plugin. What plugin for cache, you suggest me?
Hi,
Is there a way to insert custom javascripts like you would using “Edit CSS” or “Google anaytics”? I dont seem to find an option on the theme or would I need to do it the FTP way?
Thank you!
Hi guys,
I really like this theme, I’m trying to activate it on http://www.weeklypodcast.net but not having any luck. The whole site comes up blank when I activate it. I have tried uninstalling and installing again manually via ftp but still not working.
Any help will be appreciated. thanks!
Look if the htaccess file is set.
– Admin > setting > permalinks > Article name check (/%postname%/).
– verify .htaccess file via ftp.
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress@arneg ..
not sure if this will help you:
It’s included in the /theme/includes/plugins/revslider.zip
this is one of the items the theme asks you to install when you first set it up.
So, if the auto-install doesn’t work, you could unzip that and then upload manually via FTP, presumably to the /wp-content/plugins/
Chris
Hello,
Download the theme again from here: http://themeforest.net/downloads and replace all files via FTP, we have v 1.7 now.
Thanks for the message!
