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Best way is to make a new row in your homepage layout in visual composer and add the text there. Does not need to be at top of page, can be anywhere on page — such as bottom of page as a description of what your site is all about. H1 tags are an HTML tag and must be part of visible text, not in the META data.

Check your Yoast SEO plugin, if enabled, to see if you “disabled author pages” in sitemap or similar.

REF:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-author-page-link-still-redirecting-to-homepage

Just thought I would share my site and a few observations on what I’ve changed that make the biggest difference to the look of the thing.

https://unplug.tips/

The biggest thing that I find has the most impact on this theme is the font, it’s well worth getting your font’s in order, it makes a huge difference and the standard theme font is so ugly it’s untrue (sorry tagdiv)

Second biggest thing is sectioning off areas of the homepage to only show selected content, hiding little content gems for your visitor to find that don’t appear anywhere else, in the big grid or in the top menu 🙂 adding different backgrounds to differentiate content areas and using the carousel to split the sidebars, I hate seeing sites with the sidebar unbroken, all down one side. WordPressy springs to mind.

I’ve dumped the footer, man I hate wordpress footers

I also hate the wordpress blog roll below the VC content area, I’ve sectioned this off to only show posts from 1 category and made that a kind of stand out area for interesting articles from around the web, I’ve not decided on exactly if it will stay like this but I hate the “latest news” type content areas especially when you have each different content element displaying the latest article anyway. Separate everything and you wont need to use the unique articles setting which breaks my site anyway

Some of the less relevant categories have been omitted from appearing in the big grid to try and preserve the websites core message, I just found that having every category appear randomly as they were posted sometimes confused the thrust of the sites message which is travel on a budget, unplug, escape the rat race and that sort of a vibe. I try to alternate the posts so the big grid doesn’t get filled with one type of post but that’s not easy when you can only think of one thing to write about lol

My other pages haven’t really been thought out properly yet, I’m going to leave that until I have more content on the site, as it fills up I will split the top level pages into more categories to make it easier to navigate.

Looks like I’ve got a lot more work to do on writing articles and UX, I’d love to get some customisation of the CSS to change the look on some of the buttons and stuff but that’s something i’m not gonna mess with yet, it’s been hard enough getting to this point……….

Just need some visitors now lol

Cheers

Hi

The theme doesn’t have an option to display different types of ads on the site, for example the header ad will be displayed from the same spot on all pages and posts. If you want a different ad for homepage you need to add a condition in ads.php file like here: http://screencast.com/t/BqOhbFzqqpGS and insert the shortcode corresponding with the ad spotthat you want to use. To get the shortcode add an ad box into a blank page then switch in backend editor copy and paste this code: http://screencast.com/t/Kcqsjk9C7xbU inside do_shortcode function
For the ads from page content you can use the ad box block and use the corresponding spot for your ad: http://screencast.com/t/YlkV5d5yke

Let me know how it goes.
Thanks!

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the quick reply, sorry if you had to repeat the same things again.

1) So in my case, is it recommended that I run the import script, which is also known as the update script?

2) Where do I find the import/update script? (I’m in the theme panel and I can’t find the link, help)

3) Is the import/update script method no longer constitutes a clean install?

4) What is the correct sequence of events to start my update?
– Back-up entire site, database (done)

– Don’t use FTP as “there may be issues” (I have always updated using FTP method, so which is the safer method to update?)

– Please make sure that you delete the following files from Newspaper 4:
page-homepage-bg.php
page-homepage-bg-loop.php
page-homepage-blank.php
page-homepage-loop.php
page-homepage-timeline.php
(do I delete the above files via FTP first?)

– Update Visual Composer and Social Counter when updating from V4 (so do I update them before or after updating the theme?

5) Do I still need to export my current theme settings if I’m using the import/update script?

6) Can I use the 6.5.1 pack to update from 4.6.3?

Thanks again for your help.

• This reply was modified 10 years by dwcp.
• This reply was modified 10 years by dwcp.

1) see the theme docs >> right side of page on how to upgrade from 4x to 6x — and YES! 🙂

https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/

2) I think that is covered in the docs … or was …

Updating from Newspaper 4:

Newspaper 6 is a whole new theme that we release for free to our existing customers. The old version of the theme can be found in the /old_version folder.

We recommend that you do a clean update, meaning that we recommend that you delete the old version of the theme before uploading the new one. If you do a ftp update over the existing theme there may be issues. Please make sure that you delete the following files from Newspaper 4:
•page-homepage-bg.php
•page-homepage-bg-loop.php
•page-homepage-blank.php
•page-homepage-loop.php
•page-homepage-timeline.php

Please update Visual Composer and Social Counter when updating from V4

Updating from Newspaper 4: Please run the import script if you want to update from an older version of newspaper but only after you backed up your settings. After running the import script it may be impossible to roll back to the older version of the theme without a backup of the database!

The import script does the following operations:
•Imports the old settings to the new theme
•Renames all the shortcodes from your pages to the new names
•Imports all the sidebars
•Renames all the widgets from the sidebars to the new names

3) TagDiv does not do the upgrades for you; but you can hire folks to do that if you don’t know how.

Hi Andrei,

I tried all that before creating this thread and nothing worked. This is the error I’m seeing in Chrome’s javascript browser console:

Also, most of those errors you’re seeing are likely coming from ads/3rd party javascript. And to reiterate, the “load more” button and infinite loading work fine on our homepage, but it doesn’t work at all on post pages.

Oh!! This message is on code text:

“<b>Fatal error</b>: Call to undefined method td_page_generator::wrap_no_row_start() in <b>/usr/home/diania.tv/web/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/page-homepage-loop.php</b> on line <b>67</b><br />”