- NewspaperThe Newspaper Mobile Theme: Introduction
- NewspaperThe Mobile Theme
- NewspaperModules Builder in Newspaper Theme
- NewspaperNewspaper theme documentation
- NewspaperTheme Colors Introduction
- NewspaperWhat’s Included in the Newspaper Theme Package
- NewspaperFilters and sorting for taxonomies
- NewspaperHow to Add a Logo in Newspaper
- NewspaperBig Grid Flex Settings
- NewspaperHeader Builder
- NewspapertagDiv AMP Plugin Tutorial
- NewspaperBest Of Forums
- NewspaperCache plugin – install and configure
- NewspaperFont Customization
- NewspaperBackground Introduction
- NewspaperHeader ads
- NewspaperPost template ads
- NewspaperCustom ad spots
- NewspaperMain Menu
- NewspaperHow to Install Newspaper via FTP
Hi,
Using our theme you can choose from 3 mobile versions
-> mobile responsive => https://www.screencast.com/t/oJ2ShOp47
-> mobile theme plugin => https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-mobile-theme/
-> mobile page => https://tagdiv.com/newspaper-10-3-7-update-brings-customizable-and-fast-mobile-pages/
If you created the mobile pages with tagDiv Composer, then when you install the Mobile Theme plugin, your pages will be overwritten by the plugin (the mobile theme comes with its templates for page, post, category, etc so your current templates from the desktop theme will get converted to the mobile theme layout, the page content is made without builders in mobile editor => https://www.screencast.com/t/xbgZG8kH also, the options that are provided to edit the mobile theme version are limited (this keeps the things simple)).
This is a video about Responsive Newspaper Theme, AMP & Mobile Theme, Mobile Pages & Templates -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpGkOnJeNZY
So, the mobile responsive is what you see then that you select the viewport on phone => https://www.screencast.com/t/matV17hH, so some settings may apply for each viewport(where is the border blue), and others are not(where the border is black).
The mobile page has the mobile templates from Cloud Library => https://www.screencast.com/t/YCcZ8rL8
Mobile responsive version of the theme and the mobile page editor can be edit with tagDiv Composer, the mobile theme plugin not.
For example, you can have the mobile theme plugin activate and use the mobile page/mobile responsive version for the homepage/pages, but for the categories pages/404 page you can’t use the mobile page/mobile responsive version if you have the mobile theme plugin activate.
So, if you want to design the pages with tagDiv Composer, you can use the mobile page or mobile responsive version.
Thank you!
Thanks for the Guides. My site has improved a lot. But I don’t know how to use the Mobile theme Plugin.
Please give some guides regarding the Mobile Theme Plugin.
Thank you
Hello @hiepmtr !
We recommend using 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/
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 disable the Mobile Theme plugin.
Thank you!
Hi, I’m editing the Newspaper theme. It’s fun on desktop and I’ve been playing around with the theme, but I can’t understand how to edit the header and the footer in mobile view and how to set it as default.

Thanks for your help.
Hello,
Please check the opacity from Theme panel -> Background -> Mobile menu/search background: https://www.screencast.com/t/hcRoHastuO -> https://www.screencast.com/t/SQapAaaiLRwY
Thank you!
For some reason, my mobile menu has gone transparent and I can’t seem to change it.
I try to change colors and background images in the theme panel but nothing happens.
Thank you.
Hi,
I’ve using this theme for about five years. No other news theme comes close to offering what you guys do and that too with great efficiency. I’ll be forever grateful.
From time to time, I like to make feature suggestions and recommendations. I’ve noted a few of them in my diary over the last couple weeks that I’d like to share.
Display all posts in a single line using flex block: Flex blocks offer great flexibility. So naturally it becomes first choice to display posts. It would be amazing to have a flex block that could display posts using slider. Something like choosing to display 12 posts in a single line, with only 3-4 displayed in the viewport; in mobile devices, just one. With the rest of them being accesible using slider. If you’re wondering, I am, indeed, familiar with the next/prev pagination but they’re not very intuitive and user-freindly for mobile devices because it stacks the articles over one another so if there are 4 articles visible on desktop, on mobile they stack up. So if a user has click on next, they would have to scroll down a bit to see the first article at the top. I am talking about something like the bottom row of Big Grid Flex 9, but with flex block’s customizability.
Menu specific module for popups: The introduction of popup to the theme has solved a lot of problems and has provided new oppurtunities. Having a stand-alone modal module for desktop/mobile hamburger menu will be greatly appreciated. For example, instead of button trigger, you can give a menu icon as trigger(without ability to change) that turns into(animated) a cross/close button when clicked, and can itself close the popup without requiring another close button on the popup, an option to set top offset relative to menu as in search feature so that it doesn’t cover the logo, etc.
Menu description: An option to add description to menu items(independent of category/tag descriptions) that would appear below menu and sub-menu items in various menu shortcodes like, header menu, mobile menu, list menu (extended shortcode), etc.
Limiting excerpts/title length using lines rather than words/character: Commonly, we use word or character limits to determine the length of excerpts/titles which often results in uneven display of modules because some excerpts/titles take up more space than others due to variation in word length or character width. So, number of lines limit can help achieve uniformity in the way modules look because all the excerpts/titles would take up the same amount of space, i.e. two lines, three lines, etc. I am not sure if it’s achievable, just suggesting.
You can ask for more details if need be.
Please bear in mind that these are mere recommendations — not demands.
Good day.
Hello,
Please check this topic https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/low-scores-on-mobile-theme-amp-and-desktop-pagespeed-and-gt-metrics-optimize/ and try this code ->
// Preload Newspaper fonts for responsive theme (main theme) function dns_prefetch_responsive()
{
echo '';
echo '';
}
add_action( 'wp_head', 'dns_prefetch_responsive', 0 );
There are many optimization guides provided by our users here in the forum, some made by us; you could check some of them
– https://www.infophilic.com/get-almost-100-pagespeed-newspaper-theme/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cache-plugin-install-and-configure/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/high-number-of-ajax-request/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/score-100100-pagespeed-with-newspaper-wordpress-theme/
– https://www.andraware.com/wp-rocket-for-newspaper-theme/
– https://spraythemes.com/newspaper-theme/how-to-speed-up-the-newspaper-wordpress-theme-using-wp-rocket/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/page-speed-guide-for-2023-beginners-and-advanced/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/newspaper-theme-speedify-your-website/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cloudflare-cdn/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/theme-causing-high-cpu-usage-2/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/sql-querys-high-cpu/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/newspaper-theme-slow-to-respond/
– https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/optimizing-your-wordpress-database-a-complete-guide/
– https://underconstructionpage.com/optimize-wordpress-database/
– https://crunchify.com/better-optimize-wordpress-database-all-in-one-guide/
Also, pagespeed is not covered by support -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-theme-support/
If you use Wp Rocket, you can try to exclude the following files
/jquery-?[0-9.](.*)(.min|.slim|.slim.min)?.js
/jquery-migrate(.min)?.js
/wp-content/plugins/td-composer/legacy/Newspaper/js/tagdiv_theme.min.js
tdBlocksArray
To be able to optimize and to remove CLS and LCP please check these guide => https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/ -> https://www.sqlpac.com/en/documents/google-pagespeeds-lighthouse-6-new-features-lcp-cls.html -> https://web.dev/lighthouse-whats-new-6.0/ -> https://web.dev/lcp/ -> https://web.dev/cls/
Thank you!
Hello itduck2020,
I believe that you are receiving this for the mobile version. What I can recommend i s to try the mobile theme plugin (you can install it from Newsmag > plugins).
This should resolve those problems.
Let me know the results!
Hi,
You can disable the mobile theme plugin on the pages from the Gutenberg editor using the following option => https://www.screencast.com/t/axXRJsWby -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/mobile-theme-introduction/
Thank you!
Hi,
If you don’t want to have the mobile theme activated and you have only AMP, then you need to use Reader template – https://i.imgur.com/zHqX4I5.png and the url you want. The disadvantage is that you have no control over the layout, but it will work correctly with that structure /amp/ -> https://i.imgur.com/nJyzrhD.png
Thank you!
I want something very simple. Using AMP without the problematic “Mobile Theme”.
Already solve it by turning off “AMP” and “tagDiv Mobile Theme” plugin. Thanks
Hi,
After the update I switched to “Mobile Theme”. My site user has decreased by 90%. Good URLs dropped to zero. Please is there anyone who can help technically? Because; I have a problem after the update. I want to use AMP without mobile theme.
see errors.
Recently I started using web stories on my website.
I see there is no support for a newspaper theme
I manually add web stories feed to my page : Tech Web Stories
But I cannot see my feed on mobile. I checked and found out it redirect to the mobile theme, which does not support web stories feed.
So I want to disable the mobile theme page on a particular page.
I already tried making a mobile page separately, but still it redirects to official page on the mobile theme. You can check I here is the link: https://techniblogic.com/web-stories/
Please help me out and also tell me when your web stories support is coming.
Hello There,
After installing and doing a rigorous search on Tagdiv forum, I have realized that your team wasn’t able to solve a few major mobile-usability issues. FYI, recently, even I have purchased Newspaper theme and everything was working fine for me, until I install Newspaper theme on our website.
Earlier I had used and several other websites of mine are using some free WordPress themes, such as Generate press and Kadence. and I haven’t faced any problem as such. But now, after installing Newspaper theme, we are getting issues like;
Text too small to read
Content wider than the screen
Clickable elements too close together
Example:
https://franchisegoal.com/mellow-mushroom-franchise-cost-profit/
Note:
Already tried clearing cache, uninstall, and re-install.
We don’t know what has caused this issue and also we have checked the forum and what we can see is only a “Generic Response”, without any proper resolution.
Can you please check and help me in this?
Hi,
The AMP only works better with the Mobile Theme plugin.
From my point of view, if you don’t use the Mobile Theme plugin, then there is no reason or benefit to AMP.
Also, please check this topic for more details https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/amp-pages-not-working-well-with-this-theme/
Thank you!
After the update I started getting AMP error and my site went down. Reality and Lab are very different. I want to use AMP without Mobile Theme. Please help me.

OK … through a ton of testing, I figured out the solution on my own.
The tagDiv Mobile Theme does NOT support when the AMP plugin paired URL structure is set to use a path suffix of /amp/
https://snipboard.io/hFtCXc.jpg
I used this because Hudson Valley Magazine uses that paired URL structure on its site that we’re replacing.
However, when I switched the AMP plugin paired URL structure to use a query parameter … either the standard ?amp=1 or the legacy ?amp … then the mobile theme finally worked properly.
https://staging.hvmag.com/things-to-do/this-week/?amp=1
I’m guessing that your mobile them plugin doesn’t recognize the /amp/ suffix paired URL structure and instead looks for the ?amp parameter in order to properly display the mobile theme on AMP pages.
This is something you need to update in your AMP / mobile theme documentation. And I am very surprised that no one there caught this given that I actually put our AMP paired URL settings in both my original video and as a link in my 2nd post in this thread.
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Hello!
The AMP version of your website is only delivered to users who have accessed your website through a Google search result. Otherwise, the regular version of your website will be delivered to visitors, just like in your case. My suggestion is to use Mobile theme + AMP. That way, all visitors coming from mobile browsers will have access to the mobile version of your website. In order to verify an AMP page, you need to be sure that you are accessing one which have at the end of the URL “?amp”.
Thank you!
You’re not reading what I wrote and it’s a bit frustrating.
We ARE using the AMP plugin and the TagDiv Mobile Theme plugin. And we have the mobile theme set to only show on AMP. Did you not see the screenshots I posted above?
The problem is that the mobile theme is NOT showing on AMP pages. Instead, AMP pages are showing the cloud templates for the normal site.
Please take the time to read what I have posted and look at the screenshots.
Hi,
Our tusc.org.uk website shows “Sign in” at the top of the mobile menu and I’d like to remove it, but can’t see how.
It doesn’t show on socialistparty.org.uk. It is not part of the menu.
Neither site used the mobile plugin, so the instructions I found at https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-mobile-theme/ can’t apply.
Screen shot at https://www.tusc.org.uk/images/Sign-in-on-TUSC-website%2011-5-23.jpg
Many thanks!
Hello!
The AMP only works better with the Mobile Theme plugin.
From my point of view, if you don’t use the Mobile Theme plugin, then there is no reason or benefit to AMP. Please note that if a page is made by Composer, than the content won’t be displayed on Mobile theme version. You should create the content with the Mobile Editor.
Thank you!
Hello @russellk !
The AMP only works better with the Mobile Theme plugin.
From my point of view, if you don’t use the Mobile Theme plugin, then there is no reason or benefit to AMP.
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 disable the Mobile Theme plugin.
Thank you!