- NewsmagUsing other ads
- NewsmagSidebar ads
- NewsmagImport / Export theme settings
- NewsmagRequirements for Newsmag
- NewsmagNewsmag documentation
- NewsmagHow to update the theme
- NewsmagBlock settings tutorial
- NewsmagIntroduction
- NewsmagPage Menu
- NewsmagMega menu
- NewsmagLogo & Favicon
- NewsmagFooter templates
- NewsmagTheme thumbs
- NewsmagBackground introduction
- NewsmagVideo playlist
I have set the “article image” for my article (I believe it’s also called “Featured image”), as I have done for all my previous articles, yet that image is not shown as a thumbnail in Facebook postings where I link to that particular article.
I entered the article address in Facebook debugger at
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
and it tells me this:
“og:image could not be downloaded or is too small og:image was not defined, could not be downloaded or was not big enough. Please define a chosen image using the og:image metatag, and use an image that’s at least 200x200px and is accessible from Facebook. Image ‘http://vastavalkea.fi/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Tuloerojen_kasvu_2.jpg’ will be used instead.”
The size of the image is 700 x 446 pixels, so it should be big enough while not being too big. As I understand, 700 pixels is also the recommended width for 2-column-wide images in the Newspaper theme.
As the debugger tells me, another image in the article is used instead of my featured image.
How can I define the image using the “og:image metatag”?
Hi Alin,
This vanishing ad issue applies to my site as well. Add entries into the new custom ad fields and save them. Next, make changes to another Theme Panel option such as a category template setting. Save the change. Go back to the Ad settings and you will see that the ad code fields corresponding to custom ads 4 and 5 are empty. Really looking forward to the next update to hopefully resolve this issue. Thank you.
Feel free to disagree.
We have a large ad network and dedicated senior rep with Google AdSense. In our sites we are using a wide variety of content in our sidebars including search, relational content, and the ads are not the primary element, so while this is stated
Drawing unnatural attention to ads includes placing Google ads in a floating box script that causes the ad to appear in a “sticky" position on the page as the user scrolls down. This type of ad implementation is not permitted.
The meaning of that text refers specifically to a floating sticky AD, not your entire sidebar; meaning, it is a direct violation to have sticky ad similar to floating social buttons.
But specifically:
They have looked at our sites numerous times and said it’s not an issue in this context. If you have nothing on your sidebar except an ad and cause just the ad to stick — THAT violates the TOS. If you have 10 things on your sidebar and ONE of them in the middle is an ad, that does NOT violate the TOS as you’re not specifically “drawing attention to the ad” — you are “keeping content visible” which would otherwise disappear on scroll — meaning, it’s the same as having a “short” page vs “long page” … you’re drawing attention to content, and there happens to be ad as smaller part of that … so in a 300×1400 block, a 300×250 element is only a fraction of the “content” and so you’re not targeting eyeballs with just an ad.
Doubleclick actually allows ajax reload of ads on the page, which is different of course (look at mashable home page right now to be assaulted by Star Wars ads…!). This is NOT the same thing.
So, note that keeping your whole block of content visible is one thing, keeping an ad visible to draw attention to it is a different thing.
We got approval and getting paid every month across our network of sites. Your mileage may vary.
No luck involved on our end, we KNOW this is okay and have it approved. But do what you want.
(FYI: above a certain payout amount or number of sites they *do* check your sites once per year, based on our experience the past decade.)
It’s actually better to start from scratch and NOT use the demo, and simply refer to the online demo site while playing around with your new test site. Otherwise when you actually decide to use it, you have to go in and clean house on all the categories, menus, starter demo ads, etc. — it’s much simpler to learn to use by having blank canvas and “build it up” with some test content, even if you’re using the same image on each test post to try out different layouts, etc.
Just an opinion….
Having an adsense ad in a “sticky” sidebar does not violate their TOS. This is not new content rendered by ajax load/reload, it’s simply bootstrap “affix” where the “rendered” DOM has a section of the page which using CSS “sticks” on scroll. The page doesn’t change, reload or otherwise render new ads, nor does it instantiate new ads or popups. It’s still the same page, it’s still the same sidebar, same div, same “session ID” for the person seeing the ad, with same cookie and tracking for the ad(s) in the sidebar.
Having an ad in any element which refreshes or reloads is a violation; that is not what is happening here.
Simply having a section of the site “stick” and not move does not violate TOS, per my own conversation with them last year.
Keep in mind the “sales reps” don’t make policy.
They will contact you if it does. They will also contact you if you promote ads on your pages which promote software that defeats any Google DRM tech (like ripping YouTube movies or Android hacks), and they will contact you if you use the word “sponsored” near your ads(s) vs “advertisement.”
We’ve been working with Google since they launched AdSense, and trust me, you’re fine.
Hi,
I have checked your site and you have a custom ad on homepage and 2 ad in the sidebar: http://screencast.com/t/qWLRZsUFqAwI – http://screencast.com/t/zgrBhjAgXaFW
Also on you post page I found an inline ad and those 2 ads from sidebar: http://screencast.com/t/o4FvWNNS
Do you have another custom ad in the post page? If these are you ads please clear cache.
Thanks!
I stumbled upon another site recently that uses Newsmag and I really liked one of the module they were using because of it’s responsiveness on mobile devices.
If you go to http://sneakerbardetroit.com/, you will notice posts displayed in Block 11 / Module 10:

When you go mobile, you end up with the block looking like this:

Unfortunately, when I use the same block and module for my homepage, my articles look like this on mobile:

And it creates a LOT of scrolling for users when browsing.
Now my question is, how can I achieve the same results? I noticed I’m on Newsmag 1.7 vs the other site who’s on Newsmap 1.5.
Hi,
This usually happens because of the speed booster plugin which move the css and js at the bottom of the page structure so that the page will load faster, this is why the theme color appears first then changes, because of the cascading property of css, the same regarding fonts.
What you can do is to change the color and the fonts directly into the css style-sheet which will make your colors and your fonts to load first and stay that way. You could also deactivate the plugin if you don’t need it.
For page speed you can also use our guide and some other forum treads:
* https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/pagespeed/
* https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/
* https://forum.tagdiv.com/page-speed-guide/
Thanks!
Hi,
1. I have problem with Custom Ad fields in Theme Panel.
I already enter data in Custom Ads fields (1,2,3,4).
Every time when I make changes in some other menu (footer, categories etc) I lost entered data of all custom ads? Header and sidebar ad is ok.
2. Woocommerce
I have some Q for Woocommerce. Can I write to you on e-mail of the sensitivity of data
i placed my code into another spot custom ad 1
then i called it in ads.php (in child theme) instead of header spot
i used code for displaying images with table :
<table >
<tr>
<th>
</th>
<th>
</th>
</tr>
</table>
now i have two images in a row, and i am trying to css them separetly, maybe there was a better way to do this, but this is how i done it for now 🙂
also, i tried to write css in my child theme (style.css), it had no effect, later tried with custom css in theme panel which was ok
I have a litte problem with mobile style 3 header. I have a little margin.
The others header styles are ok.
http://www.aquoitujoues.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/style3_1.jpg
http://www.aquoitujoues.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/style3_2.jpg
Hi,
The theme Ad system was designed for Adsense and custom banner(image)+link ads, with other ad systems it may not behave properly. You can try to add all code in the template below the previous/next article buttons, but I’m not sure if it will work.
Thanks!
I installed a new copy WP and Newsmag Theme to another domain at the same hosting. It does not works.
I I can provide you with access so that you can see.

Hi there …
i have changed a few things to get other things running. now actually my site loads very slow.
when doing a speedtest with pingdom, it shows up two files, which are involved ….
admin-ajax.php
http://www.1-2-family.de/wp-admin/
these two files seems to be the bad ones …
someone got an idea how to fix this?
best regards
torsten
I have learned to work out with almost everything in the theme and I like it very much.
I am using the TagDiv slide gallery on one of my post, on the normal view, the slide works great but when we click on of the picture for full screen, there is blank photo after every other photo and the message reads like, “Image # 6 could not be loaded”. I tried a lot of 3rd party gallery plugins but they are not that good, I would love to work with TagDiv gallery. Can you help me on this?
Hi,
Check the treads/guide below for more info on how to customize your site’s page speed and other matters please follow and use all instructions provided in all this treads:
* https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/pagespeed/
* https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/
* https://forum.tagdiv.com/page-speed-guide/
Thanks
Hi, Tagdiv
After recent update on 4th March 2015, i found adsense ad not showing for “Article Top ad” (on Post article) region in Mobile Opera browser since many days.
So please check your end not on my website But others also.
i share my website URL here: howtoisolve.com
if you want more ULR for testing than email me on admin@howtoisolve.com
Thanks and Reply as soon possible.
Hope fully you will give solution as soon as possible
Thanks again..Have a nice day
Hi, thanks for your new reply, your words shows a professional approach.
You’re guessing right: we own a sport magazine that provides news and in-depth analysis concerning the world of football (soccer) and finance. We are building several channels specific for the bigger clubs.
Each channel is built via a page that filter posts by tag (each article is tagged with the relevant club(s) ).
The fact is that they look too similar and we want to provide them a club specific style. The other fact is that we don’t want to sacrifice valuable space that now is available for contents or ads.
That’s why the logo option. It will be the newspaper header with a small change representing the club.
TO summarize: 10 (approx) clubs -> 10 pages (post-type = page) with specific logo.
Thanks again
Fabio
Hi tagdiv,
i placed google adsense ad code, at the last of each post.
And then i want to put code of another ad network just above the Social icon or just above the Tag in each post.
There i want to put another ad network (Not adsense)
Screen Given in this URL: https://monosnap.com/image/9zT8U4njdVVQGbWbbMKjrXJYSxMJUV
Thanks, hope that you will help to me,
Hi,
Not sure what you mean, could you please provide more details, I see your site like this on google pagespeed test: http://screencast.com/t/oR4i2nYBzyUq
For those notifications related to your page speed you can use our guide and some other forum treads:
* https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/pagespeed/
* https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/
* https://forum.tagdiv.com/page-speed-guide/
Thanks
Hi guys,
as redtaileagle I have the same problem. Local environment is a fresh made VM (vmware) with Ubuntu 14.04.02 LTS.
php.ini
...
upload_max_filesize = 24M
...
memory_limit = 256M
...
Strange thing is that I did a VM a couple of days ago, same OS, same php.ini & other settings. Everything worked flawless, so I played around the demo and messed up everything as a baby with a new game. This morning I create an identical VM and installed flawlessy WP and the NewsMag theme. Then I tried to download the demo’s data but it freezes just at the end. It downloads something but not all, in fact on the main page you can see texts and can’t see images but if you click on a post everything seems working fine, at least texts and images are ok.
Any idea? because I really can’t understand what’s wrong.
Thank you in advance,
AM
Hi,
@lospicos
Those scripts are usually automatically moved to the footer when using the speed booster plugin however the jQuery scripts aren’t moved to the footer by the speed booster plugin in case you use rev slider plugin. There is a condition in the plugin that if you use the revolution slider plugin then the jQuery scripts will be left in the head therefore you get the render-blocking JavaScript notification.
@soumitmis
We recommend using just page cache: forum.tagdiv.com/w3-total-cache-configuration/
For image compression we recommend a plugin like smush it: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/ not the w3 total cache plugin.
Check the treads/guide below for more info on how to customize your site’s page speed and other matters please follow and use all instructions provided in all this treads:
* https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/pagespeed/
* https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/
* https://forum.tagdiv.com/page-speed-guide/
Thanks
Hi
In the new version when I submit custom ad 2 and/or 3, the other custom ads gets removed. Haven’t had the problem before. Can you help me?
When I do that, the ads look like this, not side by side, but one above the other: http://www.screencast.com/t/P1yfsvoaT6J5
And I want the ads like this: http://www.screencast.com/t/d5adyO8674y
The only way that i made that possible was with the code directly in the loop single, when i put the code in theme panel, with the command <?php echo do_shortcode(‘[td_ad_box spot_id=”custom_ad_1″]’); ?>
<?php echo do_shortcode(‘[td_ad_box spot_id=”custom_ad_2″]’); ?> the ads look like in the first image.
The problem is that with the code in loop single i can’t define just one ad in mobile.
Thanks!
I can’t do it in the Theme Panel, because I had to put the code inside the loop single.php directly. Here’s a example http://www.tabrutal.pt/ve-como-eles-estao-diferentes-o-antes-e-o-depois-de-34-celebridades/
And here´s the code: http://www.screencast.com/t/1XYnmuUUk
This is all right, the problem is in mobile, i can’t have 2 ads next to another, http://www.screencast.com/t/9dQdirWFE
Thanks!