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Another really weird thing that is happening is that I have ugly fb and twiiter icons in the top right corner. The demo shows nice white ones – I get blue and white. See link. Thanks 🙂

http://postimg.org/image/s0uulfipt/

Hi Simmons. Would that be under the Customize menu? Can’t find one for the nav bar text colour, or the icons.

I think one of the options in the drop down is for white … although maybe it’s a “very light grey” … there should be a default, then 2-3 additional options when setting in the widgets. I have mine set to white/grey on top, and then full color at bottom with logo area in footer.

Hi there – I have discovered that error occurred because of a duplicate css style – I hadn’t changed the style but it was present in my child theme style sheet. Once I removed it the icons show up.

However – is there a way to change the colour of the icons to white? Or will I need to replace the images to do that?

Hi Marius. Yes I can – it’s not live though. I can give you a login to view. Is there an email I can send to?

Hi Simmons, Thanks for replying anyway 🙂 Yes I did already add my social icons and the menu home icon. It is that none of the icons show up = not even the up button that floats along the side, or the breadcrumb images between the items – no icons at all. It’s weird. Not sure where to look for them – thinking maybe a link is pointing to the wrong place or something.

jambr
Hi, not sure if this helps, I had same issue on install… may not apply to you

1) to setup social icons, use the appearance > widgets and then drag the [tagdiv]social widget to the Top Right (social) sidebar; open and put in your URLs, select icon type (e.g., type 1,2,3,4 — which will vary the style by color, white, black); “save” then go look

2) for the main menu, to add a “home” icon you have to create or update your menus under appearance > menus … in my case the “primary” menu I added a new menu item called “Home” per normal WP menu setup then when you go to edit the actual menu item on right side, there will be option to use an icon in place of text. (The icons “enhance” the normal WordPress menu editor; unlike some crappy themes, this doesn’t rewrite and break the whole WP menu system; so, you’re basically setting up a custom menu item and then using an icon vs text).

If you’re saying you don’t see *any* icons when you go to do that, then it’s possible your install was incomplete, and may be missing the sprites included in /theme/images/

Not sure if that helps. I just popped in here while waiting on some automated stuff, not wanting to work. I’m not part of the tech support crew. 🙂

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

Just wanted to follow up on this – my revolution slider is now working. However I still have no icons – can you please help me troubleshoot that.

Thanks.

Only plugin I have is Adblock, when I disable it, everything works fine via the website, when it’s enabled it forces page load on the sub categories and doesn’t start slider :(? Shall I try the install on a diff folder or completely different domain?

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

Thanks very much for the suggestions, Simmons and Marius!

I will try them and

let you know how it went 🙂

Hi
most modern themes have moved to using the built-in thumbnail system in WordPress which uses the “featured” post to tell the system which image should be used for the thumbnail. Older themes (including many I still use like “Canvas’) use both the “featured” method with alternate timthumb method which would grab “first image placed in post.”

However, there is an awesome plugin called “regenerate thumbnails” which can make new thumbnails *and* make all them the featured image.

If you end up with two images on posts, you need to deactivate the “show featured images” in the Newspaper theme customizer (this is what I did). So, for new posts I place my main image, and any additional images into post as per old skool way, then on right side under featured image select the one I want to appear on home page and indexes, and most of the time in social media, and then you’re set.

see: http://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

Just heads up to folks worrying about page speed, one great resource you may already be aware of is my friends at GT in Canada who built a neat testing tool years back, here: http://gtmetrix.com/

Paste in any page URL from your site, such as a post page, and it will tell your speed scores with Google PageSpeed and Yahoo Yslow – but also give you suggestions on various things you can fix; particularly useful is looking at number of calls for some plugins that “dial out” for avatars, social media, etc.

Keeping in mind that most WP themes may have too many calls to CSS files, and some plugins add more, which they shouldn’t (I’ve got one called ‘external links’ right now, and not using any of the CSS in the plugin, but he still loads another style sheet, not needed – having to bug him to remove that …) …

Anyway… it’s a good reference to some of the issues folks run into prior to optimization. YOu can create free account, then run a scan, and then when you tweak, you can come back and rerun test, and see improvements over time.

It’s more useful than running Google Page Speed insights, as it actually provides tips and exmaples on how to actually address each issue, along with explanations – which Google does in a roundabout or confusing way or not at all (meaning Google penalizes your page speed for their own AdSense content … which is hilarious … “you should fix this” – and it’s their content that needs fix!).

I’ve spent 3 months optimizing our main business site (not using WordPress) which has been an adventure; now starting on the WordPress stuff.

I can tell you from experience that Radu and co are doing an amazing job with optimization within the confines of the WordPress setup which inherently has numerous flaws for SEO, like the method for CSS redirect used in the child themes (WP core devs keep using a method not recommended by the rest of the universe … for example).

So, there is a *lot* going on with WP, which *no* theme maker can fully address, only tweak and you need to research common problems and workarounds for *ALL* WP based installs when concerned with Page Speed.

For instance, I do *NOT* use JetPack myself as it “phones home” all over the place and slows things down. SO, every little spinning widget and flashing light and cannon blasting all slow down the page. If you want the most speed with WP, you need to have the simplest layout possible, ala Newspaper, for this kind of site, and then optimize the heck out of all your images, minimize anything that calls out to other sites (like FB comments box), certain JetPack things, and anything that doesn’t run in async with javascript, and avoid plugins which add more CSS style sheets and can’t inherent code, or properly write custom CSS into the head INLINE, not as yet another external style sheet!

Just some suggestions, somebody may find useful as a WP user since 2005, and webdev since 1994.

@Radu: German version already installed. Plugin not necessary. @mbasche has revealed the solution.