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Generally you can’t use a commercial theme for AMP pages without major re-construction.

Much simpler to use the Automattic AMP plugin then modify the default template.

The AMP format is about speed on a phone and not ‘presentational’ elements as on desktop.

( I don’t work here; but using AMP for 2 years )

Check your Google News sitemap. Theme has zero control over what Google News captures (we’ve been in Google news since the 2005 beta, with 15 sites captured daily). Google checks the sitemap first, then uses its classic bot. If there is no image specified (e.g., a featured image set, showing in the Google News sitemap, or if you have your sitemap set to use multiple images), GN may capture the first or largest image in text after first paragraph as was the case prior to GN specific sitemap.

If you have proper open graph meta tags, and a Google News sitemap; those will be the first cases for images captured. When you use certain images as ‘backgrounds’ even if set as featured they may skip that and use first ‘in post’ image.

So, if you are getting different results with SAME post on two different themes, then YOU need to determine WHAT you are doing differently; e.g., again, if you use a large featured image OUTSIDE the post, or as background on one theme, and as inline image in another, Google may treat those as two different things. Not apples to apples.

Theme provides many options for how images are placed; so if Google is not following your ‘Google News Sitemap’ properly, to fall back on the ‘on page capture’ method, which is outside anybody’s control.

Put another way – nothing the theme developers can do — YOU need to choose a page template that works with GN if they are skipping your GN Sitemap for some reason and/or ignoring your og:image tag(s).

Also note, Google may not show images at all sometimes depending on desktop or mobile view; may show mobile view on desktop, etc. They are in a transition to ‘mobile first’ which you can tell when you see vertical story boxes in borders vs old school laundry list method of display.

NEWS GROUPINGS:
ALSO: if your story is a follow-on (clone or ‘also ran’) of a news item already published elsewhere, they may “group” your news item with those as a “related news…” grouping, and choose the first or last post in that group as the image shown, in certain instances; again, nothing you can do about THAT

• This reply was modified 8 years by simchris.

hi,
I can not cut back the default template, so I can not reach my goal … I just want to use this page template as my homepage.

Hey, hello! As you said, I followed the second method of changing the page template to achieve the effect I want. But there was a new problem, the first page of the navigation bar will display the name of the page, I want to shield them, what should I do?

I want to screen out the contents of the picture red box …

I posted something about this on the forum last year, with some code to add to the category and tag templates to add a ‘page x’ to the descriptions on the page and h1. I have no idea where that is now, but included the php code to fix that.

e.g.

Stuff About Bunnies – Page 2

and

Page 2 – Wonderful bunny category description page.

<?php
/**
* The single post loop Default template
**/

if (have_posts()) {
the_post();

$td_mod_single = new td_module_single($post);
?>

<article id=”post-<?php echo $td_mod_single->post->ID;?>” class=”<?php echo join(‘ ‘, get_post_class());?>” <?php echo $td_mod_single->get_item_scope();?>>
<div class=”td-post-header”>

<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_category(); ?>

<header class=”td-post-title”>
<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_title();?>

<?php if (!empty($td_mod_single->td_post_theme_settings[‘td_subtitle’])) { ?>
<p class=”td-post-sub-title”><?php echo $td_mod_single->td_post_theme_settings[‘td_subtitle’];?></p>
<?php } ?>

<div class=”td-module-meta-info”>
<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_author();?>
<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_date(false);?>
<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_comments();?>
<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_views();?>
</div>

</header>

</div>

<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_social_sharing_top();?>

<div class=”td-post-content”>

<?php
// override the default featured image by the templates (single.php and home.php/index.php – blog loop)
if (!empty(td_global::$load_featured_img_from_template)) {
echo $td_mod_single->get_image(td_global::$load_featured_img_from_template);
} else {
echo $td_mod_single->get_image(‘td_696x0’);
}
?>

<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_content();?>
</div>

<footer>
<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_post_pagination();?>
<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_review();?>

<div class=”td-post-source-tags”>
<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_source_and_via();?>
<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_the_tags();?>
</div>

<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_social_sharing_bottom();?>
<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_next_prev_posts();?>
<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_author_box();?>
<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_item_scope_meta();?>
</footer>

</article> <!– /.post –>

<?php echo $td_mod_single->related_posts();?>

<?php
} else {
//no posts
echo td_page_generator::no_posts();
}

All WP themes read the comment count data from the WP dbase; it’s up to the comment plugin to ‘write’ that info to the dbase. Disqus does that, but it doesn’t seem to work on the author page, but does on the post pages themselves, I found when I used it. Facebook is loaded on FB’s system so not really technically possible without setting up some API hooks which is outside normal scope of theme.

I don’t work here -just some feedback.

Theme has worked fine with Disqus since 2013, so not an issue as long as you setup the sync properly to save data into your WP install — not managed by theme. Again, only issue is the comments count on ‘author page’ template; which can be removed from the template. May not work on modules, but I always turned that off as I thought it served no purpose and used system resources.

Food for thought anyway.