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I’m seeing the same delay with the infinite scroll that was mentioned above. I even see it on your demo page: http://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/homepage-infinite-scroll/. It started with the 4.0.1 update.
On scroll, one additional block set loads then loading stops. I can’t get more articles to load unless I scroll up the page and back down again. I see this in Chrome, FireFox, IE9, and iPhone 5c. I tried commenting out the smooth scroll starting at line 684 of site.js but that had no effect.
Hey Lucian i’ve tried what you say but there is still a lot off white space at the bottom of the blocks,before the update there was not this much white under the blocks on the homepage..
Hi,
Sorry for the delay. I have checked your site and noticed that you use the Homepage with background template so the big slider from the top of the page doesn’t have any posts because you don’t have any posts in your featured category, you need to add posts into featured category which will show up in the slider.
You already have the layout at 1170px which is the full width layout.
Thanks
My homepage wents mad with the last update. I tried setting a new page, saving, reloading, erasing cache… nothing works. The page just makes a mess of the elements with Visual Composer
First, to set a page as your homepage, do this:
1. Create a page and call it “Home” or something.
2. Go to WordPress’s “Reading” settings and set it to use a static page. Then you can choose the page you made.
Then you can customize your homepage by editing that page you made.
If you edit it and see the normal WordPress editing screen, click the blue “Backend Editor” button, which will take you to Visual Composer’s editing view.
From there, you will see the rows and columns that make up your homepage. If you want, set the homepage template at the right, from one of tagDiv’s basic ones. Then you can click on the + icons to add an element. For example, a slider, a Big Slider, a Revolution Slider at the top.
Then the main part of your homepage is usually made up of block elements. The demo homepage is made of blocks set to show their categories. When you edit a block’s settings, that’s when you would make them show your categories — and many other options.
Hope this is helpful! Post again if anything’s unclear.
I just update the VC plugin but it seem that the Css code to take out the white space on homepage from blocks don’t work any more..
.td_block1, .td_block2, .td_block3, .td_block4, .td_block5, .td_block6, .td_block7, .td_block8, {
padding-bottom: 0px !important;
}
Can i get a fix for this please…
The demo blog page images do not have alt tags. Screenshot: https://s3.amazonaws.com/fvd-data/notes/175774/1409565612-d4Wu4R/screen.png
I have checked the td_module_blog.php and it is OK. But, my homepage ( http://goo.gl/03ArrE ) images still do not have alt tags. Actually there are alt tags like alt=””. I think these are empty alt tags because I did not entered alt tag info manually. Howevery I do not want to enter alt tag info for each image manually. I want it to be automatic just as the title tag. So, in order to do this, do I have to change code below?
Find this:
alt="' . $featured_image_info['alt'] . '"
Replace with this:
alt="' . $featured_image_info['title‘] . ‘”
pagination on homepage is lost after update…
Yes. That is how WordPress themes work. That’s how you have all those smaller size images for your sidebar, homepage, categories, related items bottom of post, recommended fly out, etc. — where did you think all those thumbnails came from? They are created by WP and the theme when you upload an image.
If you wish to remove the sizes you don’t use — meaning, if you don’t use certain modules, you can comment out those sizes in the functions.php file, I believe, and also a trick I’ve advised the past 10 months on the forum has been to choose the three sizes in the WP settings > media setting (not theme panel), to the three sizes you use the most (matching modules you’re using), to not make extra sizes.
You can see the sizes created to match each module in the documentation, which is highly recommended to read, here:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/modules-and-blocks/
Without any theme at all, WP will always create three additional thumbnails. With each theme, thumbs are created to match the sizes you might possibly choose to use for the specific theme layout or module.
You can search the forum for tips and help on removing image sizes you don’t use, also.
Hope that helped.
It’s found in the folder when you download all the files from Themeforest. 🙂
They really should add a note about this in the documentation, as it’s standard practice to include version info with file downloads. However most folks new to webdev would not know that.
Note the files:
*changed_files_4.2_4.2.14.2.1.html
*update_log.txt
[ V 4.2.1 ]
– fix categories display in Theme panel -> Categories
– fix Revolution Slider z-index issue with menu behind
– fixed footer copyright text problem with some characters
– fixed social counter + twitter
– social counter – added no follow on links
– classic blog – text logo fix
– classic blog – menu colors fix
– classic blog – boxed version fix
– fixed sidebar bug on template + loop
—————-
Newspaper theme
Here is a list of all the changes between v 4.2 and v 4.2.14.2.1
Modified files – 17 files
•footer.php
•includes\wp_booster\td_config.php
•includes\wp_booster\td_css_generator.php
•includes\wp_booster\td_page_generator.php
•js\min\site.min.js
•less_files\editor-style.less
•less_files\menu-top.less
•less_files\pagebuilder\td_revolution_slider.less
•less_files\post-templates.less
•less_files\stacks.less
•page-homepage-bg-loop.php
•page-homepage-loop.php
•parts\menu-header-center.php
•sidebar.php
•style.css
•wp-admin\images\post-templates\post-templates-icons-5.png
•wp-admin\panel\views\panel_categories.php
Deleted files – 0 files
•none
New files – 0 files
•none
Good morning guys,
Hope you can help me with this as tried in my custom css but no such luck!
I need modify my block on the homepage. (I’m using Block 6):
1. Modify line thickness to 1px
2. Reduce the margin-bottom (presently at 49px)
3. add a margin below the excerpt to give my button a little more space
Many thanks
Hello,
When I check the theme on SEO analysis tool, I see there aren’t alt tags for images on homepage, blog page and category pages.
Please, consider adding necessary codes of alt tags to these images just as you added title in the next update of the theme. If you solve this problem in next update, let me know how to solve this myself for my own website, please.
Thanks in advance…
Hi,
Glad you figured it out, I did not understand yet why do you need to shrink the tabs, look good to me.
Regarding the rev slider please use this css instead of the previous one:
.rev_slider {
z-index: 0;
}I have tested it on your site and should work fine like this: http://screencast.com/t/3frR0Nh3iPz
Thanks
Hi Lucian,
Okay, regarding the Header Ad, I get it now…I added the code per your example and it looks pretty good when the window is re-sized. It looks like I now need to figure out a way to shrink the tab sidebar.
I added the custom css for the Revolution slider but it is still in the forefront and overlaps the drop-down from the Header Menu. Any other suggestions?
thanks,
Bill
Hi,
This is how an image ad banner should look in the html structure: http://screencast.com/t/JymHSJwdqx
I have inspected your site and seems like you have an ad only for desktop, that is why the image it’s not displayed for other screen widths: http://screencast.com/t/rHBJUjnjWY
Please make sure you add your ad like this: http://screencast.com/t/m6wguhFmI
For the rev slider overlapping the drop-down menu use this custom css:
.td_revolution_slider {
z-index: 0;
}Thanks
Hi Lucian,
Can you help me out on how to create custom blocks. I want something like an image tile with text on image. Also can you tell me how to customise the text on top of image, instead of default text background color, i can just use a text shadow or something. I want to redesign the homepage.
I’ve implemented the header ad per your documentation, but the problem still persists.
Also, is there a setting to prevent the Revolution slider from blocking the drop down header menu (see “Solutions” option).
Thank you.
Hi
I want to change the Page Navigation of the homepage. I am using the Homepage – bg + latest articles template for my homepage. I would like to change it to this: http://screencast.com/t/FUOGk506
Please tell me where the code is situated, so that I can edit it by myself. And if possible, just give me the code 🙂
Thanks!
Hi, Shashank
you know, I tried using a sub domain, and in our case with APC and mod_pagespeed I didn’t see much improvement since in theory once it’s cached, it’s not critical which locale on your server it comes from. I think there is some “number of connections” level where if you’re above that it CAN help, which I don’t recall off top of my head; maybe 15 or 20? Meaning if you were loading 50 images per page, then loading some off sub.yourdomain.xyz might speed things up. Again, you’d need to run some multiple speed tests on that to see how many msec you save.
And do something logical like
pix.mysite.zyz >> all portfolio images
mysite.xyz/images/ >> all business images
or something like that, otherwise you might end up with a nightmare of organization remembering what is where. 🙂
ALSO: remember a homepage is always a “special case” where loading many small compressed thumbnails doesn’t add much overhead. I think one of mine has 60+ images on it, also.
But remember most people these days don’t start at your home page, they start on a post found from social media, etc. (unless you’re tracking audience entry points and know the homepage is that critical for speed).
Ok, sounds complicated. In this case I will deal with the other presetes. Anyways, thanks for your given advice, Lucian.
Hi,
Using Themeforest on my Mac locally while developping (site not online yet). Everything works fine, except the visual composer does not work (a main reason for my purchase of this theme), the button actually doesn’t appear as it should. Without this button, I can not do anything to compose easily my homepage. I am now struggling and waisting too much time without this functionality. Reading previous posts, I’ve tried de/reinstall WPBakery, etc, but nothing works. Strange because my configuration is relativelly standard (Safari, last version of WP and Themeforest…). I activated the VC function (both in my profile and with API key).
Could you please help urgently ?
Best, Yan
Hi,
I’m not sure, but you will have to redesign the slider to make it fit well into page.
We don’t have any plans to changes the slider in the near future.
Thanks for the message
Hi Lucian,
thanks for coming back to me. 🙂
Yes, I had the full width post pages working and was amazed how great the pictures stand out in that setup. That is why I intended to achieve the same look on the homepage with the slider for featured articles.
Regarding the slider/bigslider full width, you can try to have this via css but the sliders had not been designed to work like that and I don’t know how will respond
Yes, that is exactly what I would like to try. To have the sliders on homepages in the same look as the full width images in postings with style 4. But if it is too complicated, I may rather pass on this because my coding skills are limited unfortunately.
What kind of risk would I face with full-width sliders and is something alike on your to-do list for upcoming updates?
You’re somewhat satisfactory Chris!
One more problem that I face for iages is the number of downloads. Since I’ve designed kinda homepage that there are almost 60 images. How can I divide them under different hostnames?
It did.
Thanks a mill.
