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We use built-in comments with Akismet on some sites.
On others with higher traffic, we use Disqus.
We’re testing an async plugin using Disqus API for faster loads, but I haven’t had time to finalize that.
Generally I’ve stayed away from the FB comments as originally that slowed our pages down and/or caused them to not even load if FB was cocked up — so if that is async now, might be okay — if you don’t mind all the cookies and spying related to that and if your main visitors are coming from FB (if you have a million followers on FB then you’d likely already be using FB comments on your site ….).
When using *any* comment system remember it’s best to use one which allows you to save/store the comments locally which Disqus allows, so if you decide to leave it, you don’t lose the comments. FB didn’t support that — they “own” the comments, which wasn’t cool for our purposes. If they lose them or you switch it off, you lost all of that — not sure if it still works like that.
Anyway, some food for thought.
Some sites are removing comments as waste of time and too many trolls calling Obama a muslin, or pushing anti-immigration agendas or praising jesus for making baby food taste better or whatever. 🙂
Hi-
We would like to be able to disable selected in-post ads on our site ProjectEveMoms.com using Newspaper6. We’ve tried to implement the changes suggested in this forum post: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/disable-ads-on-particular-posts/
However we were unable to locate td_module_single_base.php in wp_booster we found what appeared to us to be an identical file it was named td_module_blog.php in a folder named module_modifier. Unfortunately changes there brought the site down. So we undid our changes and are asking here for some help.
Ideally we’d like to modify post style #2 (or one of the others) so we can simply select that style option from the backend of the post page just prior to publication to produce post without any of the article ads.
Thanks so much for your help!
Kim
Hi,
The theme ad system was designed to work with adsense code, but you cannot add 2 codes in the same spot if this is what you mean.
A solution to have another ad(code) on mobile device will be to paste your code in a custom ad and use do_shortcode function to place it bellow the menu. I don’t know what header style you use, but for example if you use the default template(style 1) you will have to edit header-style-1.php file something like this – http://screencast.com/t/lNgxrndDO If both codes are adsense you can control the them from Theme Panel(disable/enable on specific devices) – http://screencast.com/t/qpivlfoce – http://screencast.com/t/Zm5sI295oJ If one of them is not adsesne you can use those div containers – https://forum.tagdiv.com/header-ad/
<?php echo do_shortcode('[td_block_ad_box spot_id="custom_ad_1"]');?>
Result: http://screencast.com/t/wRTRcHElUNn – http://screencast.com/t/c8gXY3uDqc
Thanks!
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Alin [tagDiv].
Google doesn’t accept you based on the originality, importance, or type of content you’re publishing. Nothing to do with the theme.
You might try some of the forums online related to issues with Google AdSense acceptance.
Basically if your site has a lot of “copied” content from other sources, has questionable content topics against their policies, is located in certain countries, has misleading or confusing URL/domain too similar to a brand, if your site is nothing more than YouTube videos, etc., then they don’t feel you should be showing their ads.
In other words:
a) original content
b) images not taken from other sites
c) some youtube videos along with original content; not just parroting videos from elsewhere
d) content which is not too short — meaning, one paragraph does not make a post
e) remove any affiliate, text links, or inserted content which leads elsewhere or is masked, popups, etc.
f) make sure no hate speech, racism, attacks against anything in particular
You need to carefully read all their requirements in depth, see examples, look at other sites in relation to your own, remove copied content taken from other places, copied photos from other sites, avoid lots of video posts with no content other than video, etc.
They are not obligated to let you in their program, so you actually have to have a site they think is useful in some way.
Hope that helped.
This is very common to be rejected due to being a “splog” (spam blog) for example — not saying you have one, but one example.
Average size for a complex theme is actually about 550KB these days as it combines multiple sizes, shapes, options, layouts, mobile/responsive, etc.
Visual composer is also a bit big.
However the actual footprint is much smaller for web browser via gzip and also with caching in the cloud (e.g., Chrome will cache your data if enough hits come from Chrome users, etc.).
You can also manually “minify” the main CSS file using the tips/tricks from my sticky post on site optimization.
But yes, it’s a bit big for all those features people have asked for (demanded?) — so, there is a lot going on, but it’s better than loading 10 diff. CSS files as it’s actually more efficient for one “packet” …
and some data is actually inlined automatically to help with pagespeed/rating.
There was a post exchange a while back for v4 where I’d asked about what we could “take out” if not using bbpress, woocommerce, multisite, or other things to “trim it” and that would be a good tutorial for Radu or somebody to tackle in a
“what can I take out of the main CSS file”
“what can I take out of the main includes-functions file”
as those are the two big payloads other than visual composer.
Chris
Hi,
I found the error code adsense, thanks,
But I dont understand why the right blok move down upper the other block, what is the trouble with display block ?
Best
Could you please help to insert Adsense or any other ad just before Comments section?
Hi,
The theme ad system was designed to work with adsense code and other codes may not be displayed. You can add your script in a text block and see if it is displayed, as it may be an issue with your code.
Thanks!
Hello Alessio,
In my reply above i showed you how to place an ad in a static page (your homepage).
If you want to display ads only here, you will need to remove them from other parts of your site.
http://screencast.com/t/2OOZQcOBf
You can read more in the ads section of our documentation: https://forum.tagdiv.com/header-ad/.
Thank you!
I have three ads running: header ad, footer top ad and Article bottom ad. The Article bottom ad does not open and I get an error message the “The image cannot be displayed”
All ads images link to other web pages and the header and footer ads work just fine.
What’s going on?
You can see it on any post page but here’s a link: http://howwesee.it/the-downside-of-community-marketing-events/
I really don’t care if you were telling me where I could find a pot of gold. All of your responses are completely unsolicited and not for my benefit but yours (especially since you are not affiliated with the developer). Obviously you have personality issues that require you to insert yourself into places you are not invited. You should seek help and stay out of other people’s threads unless requested to do so.
Hello there,
I have trouble installing the essential Visual Composer plug-in. I have the theme installed via wordpress zip upload and accessed the newsmag tab->plugins to install but it does not work. I have also installed via FTP for both theme and js.composer plugin. Yet, the same error kept appearing as follows:
The plugin does not have a valid header.
Downloading install package from http://www.gamification.co/wp-content/themes/Newsmag/includes/plugins/js_composer.zip…
Unpacking the package…
Installing the plugin…
Destination folder already exists. /htdocs/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/
Plugin install failed.
I referred to other threads with the same issue. Should I send an email to contact@tagdiv.com and provide wp-admin and ftp access so you guys can take a look? Your help would be most appreciated.
Hi
I’ve checked your site and noticed that the td-visible-phone class is missing when visit the site on mobile devices, so please make sure you add the code as I provided above: http://screencast.com/t/7cYkcNiLlvT otherwise the ads won’t be displayed: http://screencast.com/t/T2Oc3hCjG – http://screencast.com/t/ubTFKB76
Thanks for the message!
It doesn’t say it’s malware, it says “this file is not commonly downloaded” … which merely means Google’s caching system for Chrome hasn’t had a lot of hits to that specific file. You can simply click the arrow and select “keep” … or more info.
The language used here DOES imply “oh no, danger Will Robinson …!”
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6261569?p=ib_download_blocked&hl=en&rd=1
Apparently ThemeForest has had their share of bad eggs:
More info for software developers and website owners
To help protect users, Google maintains a list of websites that are known to host malicious downloads and a list of trusted software publishers. If you're a software publisher and your binaries are flagged by Chrome, learn how to resolve malware or unwanted software issues related to your downloads.
This is part of Chrome’s updated security which has a “threshold” for files loaded off the web and downloaded to hard drive, to stop malicious files being written to your HD when they are zero day files.
Several other files do same thing, like a u-design theme update, and woocommerce tabs plugin. Newspaper 6.5 does not 🙂
In case anybody was curious about that 🙂
We have a user on an iPad Mini who has sent several screen shots where images from different stories are showing up where ads should be.
They are on IOS 9, however state the problem has occurred before the update. They are not using any sort of ad blocker.
SCREEN SHOTS:
http://www.wgel.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/IMG_0032.png
In this shot, our two right-side ads were replaced with images from Obituary stories
http://www.wgel.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/IMG.jpg
This screen shot shows one right-side ad and one in-line ad replaced with pictures from an obituary story.
I have been unable to re-create this problem on either my iPad or iPhone.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dan
Hello sejpost,
1) You could do that using a custom CSS but be carefull because it will stretch the white container over your content: http://screencast.com/t/30mgfGny
.block-mega-child-cats {
overflow-x: visible;
overflow-y: visible;
max-height: 400px;}
2) The ‘newspaper’ mega menu was styled differently from the ‘newsmag’ one. Unfortunately there is no ption for this in the theme panel so you need a bit of css to change the appearance, but it requires a lot of modification as other elements are affected by the position of the sub-category list. You can start by targeting the td_mega_menu_sub_cats class and go from there.
3)You can read here how to create a custom ad and then you can insert your code in the theme files:http://screencast.com/t/vp4z0dM0W4J7 – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-insert-ads-in-custom-areas-of-the-website/
Unfortunately we cannot offer custom work as we work hard on the development, updates, fixes and support.
Thank you!
Here is my .htaccess(chmod 755):
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^other/(.*) /wp-includes/$1?putyo_hide_my_wp=pass [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^file/(.*) /wp-content/uploads/$1?putyo_hide_my_wp=pass [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^ext/(.*) /wp-content/plugins/$1?putyo_hide_my_wp=pass [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^skin/main\.css //index.php?style_wrapper=1&putyo_hide_my_wp=pass [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^skin/style.css /nothing_404_404?putyo_hide_my_wp=pass [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^skin/(.*) /wp-content/themes/Newspaper-child/$1?putyo_hide_my_wp=pass [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Newspaper/(.*) /wp-content/themes/Newspaper/$1?putyo_hide_my_wp=pass [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^skin_main/(.*) /wp-content/themes/Newspaper/$1?putyo_hide_my_wp=pass [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^ajax /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?putyo_hide_my_wp=pass [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(((wp-content|wp-includes)/([A-Za-z0-9\-\_\/]*))|(wp-admin/(!network\/?)([A-Za-z0-9\-\_\/]+)))(\.txt|/)$ /nothing_404_404?putyo_hide_my_wp=pass [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Pagination work’s fine with categories and tags, but in main section it redirect to index…
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websystems.
Hi,
Unfortunately we didn’t do any tests with this plugin so i cannot say why it behaves like this. Try to compare the Newspaper post template files (code) with the one from the other theme(on which the plugin works) – http://screencast.com/t/S3FAyI4vYnDn – we use a custom function to bring the content, the other theme(s) may use the the_content() function – https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_content
We use a custom function because we added inline ads – http://screencast.com/t/Nc8mEFEFbmg
Thank you!
Hi Emil,
thanks, this helped with the image problem.
By testing with the chrome developer tools I also recognized an other error – if a menu has a submenu, i can not klick on the parent menu item in the chrome emulator. Can you test if this is the same for actual iPads?
Thanks,
Simon
Using Newspaper 6 on wordpress 4.3.1
Here is a screenshot of what is happening….top raw js is fine but when I added another one later in the day, saved, the wierd charactors show up and of course the GA ad won’t show>

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desertdiana. Reason: image didn't appear
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This reply was modified 10 years by
desertdiana.
Hi TagDiv experts,
Something weird started happening today with the raw js blocks. I am adding adsense ad code and it has been fine. Then today I added another one, looks fine, save the block but when I hit update on the page, the code changes to all these Chinese characters.
Anyone have an idea of what’s going on?
Diana
No i am refering to area where is placed social icons on right and Login/register on left. Here would like to place something like phone number instead of social icons and maybe working time instead of login/register.
But thanks for the links i can manage from here.
I have another questions.
1.When i change some default settings like color or font and refresh the page, first loads default font and then is changed in my chosen one. It is only sechond but can i somehow prevent that?
2. I have bigger logo then suggested dimensions, where can i change this settings, i tried in css to put height 220px but then logo is not sharp any more.
Hi
The site you indicated have our theme but with lots of customization, here are a few tips:
To get the social sharing top on the same line with the author name you need to edit the file which correspond with the post template used, and move the indicated line in meta info container like here: http://screencast.com/t/kndbkTivLDaj then add this custom css in theme panel > custom css: http://screencast.com/t/0Lg6ehz0
.td-post-sharing-top{
display: inline-block;
margin-left: 10px;
}
On the indicated site the category pages have disabled content top: http://screencast.com/t/uH1xkMfmQY
The theme doesn’t have an option to add a different banner image for every category, but you could achieve that by adding a set of condition in category.php file like here: http://screencast.com/t/xkOcUuRK13re
<div class="top-baner">
<?php if (is_category('business')) {
echo '<img src="http://localhost/wp_11/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/p1.jpg" alt="Smiley face" height="200" width="1042">';
}
elseif (is_category('vogue')) {
echo '<img src="http://localhost/wp_11/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/p1.jpg" alt="Smiley face" height="200" width="1042">';
}?>
</div>
You must add a condition for every category and set the image which you want to display. You may need some other customization for this and if you don’t know how to do it youself my advice is to look for a developer from sites like: http://studio.envato.com/ as we cannot ofer any type of custom work at the moment.
Hope this help!
Thanks!
I know that visual composer doesn’t work with the sidebars. SO I’m trying to compile the widgets from my default sidebar using the visual composer for the homepage from a “page”. The visual composer has the tagdiv social counter and ads, but it does not have others like the boddypress login, activity or bbpress. It does have the woocommerce widgets.
How do I get those to show up on the visual composer? I’ve tried adding a custom menu on visual composer but it acts as a link.
I posted in other thread and it takes up to a week to review site as new account even if you already have ads added. If already approved then it takes two to three days for your newly placed ads via theme to start showing again where you added them. You also have to follow Googles documentation or you will get banned. They are really picky on ads on a site and no smart sidebar used with ads on the sidebar, its considered floating widget and is against their TOS.