- NewspaperDesign your Post Pages using the Cloud Library Templates
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- NewspaperPage templates
- NewspaperCreate a form contact page
- NewspaperCloud Library Templates
- NewspaperCloud Library – Category Templates
- NewsmagCategory templates
- NewsmagFooter templates
- NewsmagDefault post templates
- NewsmagPost templates
- NewsmagHomepage – How to build and set it
- NewspaperHomepage – How to build and set it
- NewspaperPost templates
- NewspaperDefault post templates
- NewspaperCategory templates
- NewspaperPost template ads
- Apitd_api_single_template::update_key
- Apitd_api_single_template::update
- Apitd_api_single_template::add
Hi,
I’ve also tested this an it seems that the tag and category by id filters aren’t working and the post number limit is also not working.
I couldn’t find the reason for this but we will try to fix this as soon as possible.
To work around this you can use a page template without the latest articles section ( default template or page builder with title ) and add that section using a block, that way you can customize the result as you like using block filter settings.
Thanks for reporting this!
Sooty for the inconvenience!
Hi Support:
I updated to newspaper 6 everything works fine and just something change the edit page screen layout now the visual editor is at the right col under page attribute and page publish not at the regular position under the classic mode. Not sure what happened, I reinstall the template it is still showing the same behavior for both page and post edit. I am using network site for my site, any idea?
Thank
Thank you
FYI,
Yoast SEO has had numerous bugs, check the changelog sometime to see how many bugs they have had. My contention was simply that using Yoast SEO as a “comparator” to anything else related to bugs, is not a good metric.
So, you don’t need to debunk my statement, as it’s well known. Yoast has had numerous bugs which break the site, break other plugins, and major security flaws (where they finally hired a security firm to check them).
H1 is useful on home page; H2 also useful for topical elements such as section heads, but not so much for story heads ad they are ephemeral; meaning, they change daily, so they are not sticky and therefore not relevant to long-term, long-tail SERPS placement.
The “home page” is typically not “critical” for SEO, as you want your “post” to rank higher than your home page for a specific story, including the title and excerpt, so causing them to fight each other is un-wise.
I only speak as an SEO expert having been building websites since March 1995, and widely interviewed on SEO topics by Entrepreneur, PCWorld, Monster.com, etc. And we had a highly successful SEO business for 10 years with over 2 million #1 positions in Google and Yahoo for our clients. And, oh yeah, I have two Harvey Measurement Awards for “most responsive advertising,” and a design award from Apple Computer, Inc. for marketing campaigns for Apple retail products in California, and built Oprah Winfrey’s ecom solution for her “Begin with Love” video series; but what the hell do I know?
TagDiv does provide the tools to add H1 tags to any home page and it should be up to any theme user / site developer to manage their own SEO practices. It could be needlessly confusing to have a built in H1 element on the home page template as there is no default home page template technically, since the presumption is you would be “rolling your own.” So this would require yet another set of code to check if home page and insert something in header, have toggles for on/off, and remove code for those doing their own H1 placement as we have done with WP for 10 years now. Frankly if folks can’t be aware of SEO for their own site, they are generally not that worried about it — and these are often same folk not reading the WP codex to learn how to set permalinks, etc.
One might also argue it’s useful to inspect the demo of a theme before buying it, then using it, then posting numerous times how bad it is or buggy, vs. requesting possible changes politely?
These are just my thoughts, having used Newspaper for almost 2 years now, and have great traffic, great SEO, and placement in Google News, Bing News, and syndicated worldwide through major information systems like LexisNexis, etc.
But that’s just me. Your mileage, as in all things, will vary.
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simchris.
Hello – I am trying to use Big Grid 6 from the Video theme template.
However, even though I have a bunch of posts created and no filter set, it does not appear on the home page.
Is there something I have to do to enable this?
Thanks
Hi,
Please deactivate all plugins except of Visual Composer, clear cache and purge your files if you use CDN then see if you still have this issue maybe it is caused by a plugin conflict. Also you can check browser console for errors and try to disable lazy load effect from Theme Panel > Template Settings – http://screencast.com/t/Dz5X96TVljcc
We recommend WP Super Cache plugin to be used with Newspaper theme and use it on default just page cache. Also please note that if you use cloudflare’s rocketloader is know to cause issues when used with the theme as we haven’t tested the theme’s resources using it.
Thanks!
Hi,
You will need custom modification to display social share on attachment page and also make it work properly with it as the theme doesn’t have an option for this. This is the share function used on posts – http://screencast.com/t/gFlnoGii and this is attachment template – http://screencast.com/t/WBsrac8tt Unfortunately we cannot offer custom work as we work hard on the development, updates, fixes and support, but you can always get a freelancer from sites like: http://studio.envato.com/ if you don’t know how to do it yourself.
Thanks!
This is just a suggestion, not an issue. I would love to see a big grid that spans the entire width of the homepage, though not much taller. I’d also love to see a post template layout similar to style 3 but where the photo spans the entire width of the page (and not as tall there too). Hoping you’ll consider these options for the next update. Thanks!
I didn’t see a suggestion box thread so I thought I’d add one. Here it goes…
1. Add H1 header tag to home page.
Yes, we can add a text block that contains H1. However, many users will not know how to do this. Thus, many users will never have H1 on their homepage which negatively impacts SEO. Another theme I use detects if the current page is the home page, and if so, it applies H1 to the logo and hidden text containing the site title and tagline.
2. Add an option to the blocks that allows users to select a header tag for the block title.
This will allow users to get H2 tags on the home page and archive pages. For the predefined templates, H2 should be selected on the home page and archive page blocks.
3. Include Alt tags in the images contained in blocks.
Every piece of media I have has an alt tag define for it. I would like these alt tags used. In cases where the alt tag is not defined, perhaps there can be an option to use the article title or the media filename as the alt tag.
4. Make it so that interacting with smart lists generates a distinct view in google analytics. I don’t know if this is hard or possible but it would provide users with a great benefit in terms of page views and add impressions.
5. Make it an option that when a site visitor clicks “next” on the last smart list item, they are sent to a new URL we specify. This is a sneaky way to get views on additional articles.
6. Ability to select background images and a URL and target for these images for a category, page, or post.
7. Allow admins to use HTML in their author page bio.
8. Ability to easily embed Facebook comments in addition to regular comments. Perhaps FB comments and regular comments can be placed in adjacent columns, full width without a sidebar next to them? That would be AWESOME. Throw in Google plus comments while you are at it. I’d pay extra for all of this. 🙂
I’ve tried a dozen themes. I’ve thoroughly reviewed all of the top selling theme demos on Theme Forest. Newspaper is in the top 3 themes I’ve ever used. I hope the SEO issues (1-3 above) can be resolved soon. Of note, a lot of the top selling Theme Forest themes have the same header tag issues.
Hi
You can set you sidebar for post from theme panel > template settings: http://screencast.com/t/7Clm0jfj8 also if you’re using a custom sidebar for a category page, it should be displayed also on the articles from that specific category.
Please provide more details and a link if this doesn’t help.
Thanks!
Hi,
Please make sure that you use widgetised sidebar block and set sidebar that you want to display as using the default page template it will not display your sidebar automatically – http://screencast.com/t/7HUghDPJjd
Thanks!
Hi,
Please try to use default page template, disable all your plugins, leave only Visual Composer active, clear cache and purge your files if you use CDN, then check if you still have this issue. Also make sure that you use the latest theme version and also you update the plugins that come with the theme files from the /plugins folder. Also if you use child theme please update it to the theme version that you use.
If you still have this issue please send an email at contact@tagdiv.com and provide wp-access so we can take a closer look at this, paste a link to this topic so we can know who you are and what your issue is.
Thanks!
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Alin [tagDiv].
Hi,
1. You can install the sport demo style with/without the content so it will import setting used on our sport stack – http://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper_sport/ create your homepage using pagebuilder – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-use-visual-composer/ and also set your page template – http://screencast.com/t/aopaRVwr
2. You can use Big Grid Slider or IOS Slider on your page if you to slide the articles – http://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/big-grid-slide/ – http://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/ios-slider/
3. You can customize the ajax pagination using custom css in Theme Panel > Custom Css, if you don’t have basic experience I suggest to get someone to help you for these customizations as we cannot provide custom work at this time, but we can do some suggestions.
4. Not sure what you mean, please provide more details – you can check our demo and see all tagdiv blocks – http://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/block-1/
5. Please provide more details about this.
6. You can add elements to your sidebar from WordPress dashboard.
Please make sure that you go through documentation – https://forum.tagdiv.com/wordpress-information/ we have added there and explained how works some of the theme options also you can check our youtube channel for some video tutorials(we will add more video tutorials) – https://www.youtube.com/user/tagdiv/videos Also please let us know if you still have any issues related to the theme and we will try to help you.
Thanks!
OK. Я постепенно изучаю этот форум и регулярно нахожу на нём много новой и полезной информации для практической работы. Буду следить за вашей разработкой конструктора страниц. )
Сегодня обновил тему NewsPaper до версии 6.3 и очень обрадовался, так как был добавлен очень нужный функционал для работы с Custom Post Type и Custom Taxonomy. Довольно тщательно его протестировал, пока работает чётко, без ошибок и это круто! )
Правда, не хватило нескольких возможностей, о которых напишу ниже в порядке их важности по убыванию.
1. Для одного Custom Post Type я использую несколько Custom Taxonomies и столкнулся с такой проблемой, что в настройках “CATEGORY SPOT TAXONOMY” и “TAG SPOT TAXONOMY” http://prntscr.com/7thcat можно выбирать только одну Custom Taxonomy. Эти настройки отлично работают, но хотелось бы иметь возможность выбирать несколько Custom Taxonomies для вывода их на сайте в нужных блоках “CATEGORY SPOT TAXONOMY” или “TAG SPOT TAXONOMY”.
2. При настройке блоков и других элементов в VC не нашёл настроек фильтрации по Custom Taxonomy. Наверное, данный функционал пока ещё находится в разработке ) В нужных модулях VC у меня без проблем получается выводить записи из Custom Post Type, но очень не хватает точной фильтрации по Custom Taxonomy.
3. При настройке Post Template для Custom Taxonomy я сначала немного запутался, экспериментируя с шаблонами single.php, но потом понял, что данная настройка http://prntscr.com/7thgr1 применяется одинаково для всех записей типа post. В принципе это не очень мешает, но было бы логичнее разделить настройки Post Template для Default Post Type (Blog) и для Custom Post Type.
4. Ну и последнее, в разделе “CPT & Taxonomy” в настройках “Custom post types” можно очень удобно настроить категории и теги для Custom Post Type, но почему-то нет возможности сделать это для Default Post Type (Blog), думаю, многим бы она пригодилась )
Возможно я чего-то ещё недосмотрел или не так понял, буду рад, если дадите хороший совет!
С уважением, Евгений.
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OK. I’m slowly learning this forum and regularly find on it a lot of new and useful information for practical work. I will follow the development of your page builder. )
Today, the theme NewsPaper updated to version 6.3 and was very happy, as was added much needed functionality to work with Custom Post Type and Custom Taxonomy. Rather it carefully tested while working accurately, without mistakes and that’s cool! )
However, not enough several possibilities, of which I will write below in order of descending importance.
1. For a Custom Post Type I use multiple Custom Taxonomies and faced with such a problem, in settings “CATEGORY SPOT TAXONOMY” and “TAG SPOT TAXONOMY” http://prntscr.com/7thcat you can choose only one Custom Taxonomy. These settings work fine, but I would like to be able to select multiple Custom Taxonomies to display them on the site in the required blocks “CATEGORY SPOT TAXONOMY” or “TAG SPOT TAXONOMY”.
2. When setting blocks and other elements in the VC did not find the settings for filtering Custom Taxonomy. Probably, this functionality is still in development. ) The relevant modules VC I have no problem turns out to display records from the Custom Post Type, but are lacking in precision filtering Custom Taxonomy.
3. When configuring the Post Template for Custom Taxonomy I first bit confused, experimenting with patterns single.php, but then I realized that this setting http://prntscr.com/7thgr1 applies equally to all types of records post. In principle, it is not a botherbut it would be more logical to divide the Post Template settings for the Default Post Type (Blog) for Custom Post Type.
4. And finally, in the section “CPT & Taxonomy” settings “Custom post types” can be very convenient to adjust the categories and tags for Custom Post Type, but for some reason it is not possible to do so for the Default Post Type (Blog), thinkmany would have it handy. )
Maybe I’m something else overlooked or misunderstood, I will be glad if you give good advice!
Sincerely, Evgeny.
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extpress.
Hi
You’re using page builder with latest as page template, which means that the page will be built from two parts: the content and the latest article. On your homepage the latest article are pushed down because of the
widgetized sidebar from content http://screencast.com/t/i8eydBoZi If you want to have a sidebar in the latest article section it can be enabled from here: http://screencast.com/t/847Jiqho7a
Thanks!
Hi,
I have checked you site and did not found any issues with SEO page title – http://screencast.com/t/sZ5kX6oTEkoq – http://screencast.com/t/UYHgFmXUfu1Q
Also if you want to change to h1 the article title on modules you can do it from here – http://screencast.com/t/Wg0Jq4IyPQ but I suggest to do the above solution with a text block on your page and use H1 and H2 tags there, is more simple. You also can try to use pagebuilder with title template if you want – http://screencast.com/t/TaYYrsdfxSj to get h1 on page title.
Thanks!
What you said did help, somewhat. http://www.gomerblog.com/pics/screenshot2.jpg look how the big grid is now staggered? I tried all 3 page settings. I wish I could just use a template but when I do I get the original problem I stated before. I have disabled all the plugins and still get this issue. Thanks again for your help
Thanks for reply. Yes, using version 4 for now. Tried different templates but originally set up with “Homepage blank” and worked fine.
It’s at http://www.venturaclassifieds.com and I can provide login if required.
The row is 2/3 + 1/3 with a Slide at the top. Below is another two columns (in same row) that are 1/2 + 1/2. We did not change those settings and was working/displaying fine for a month or two. If we create a new column on a new page (or new row on same page), it seems to work. Once it comes near the slide (TD) now it splits.
http://www.screencast.com/t/xHx25YHOa5
http://www.screencast.com/t/TtKWZtckT0cX
http://www.screencast.com/t/r4kW0qv9bStR
Much appreciated!
Hi,
I’m not sure how you set your page in backend and also what page template do you use. Please provide a link and more details how you set it in backend. Also do you use version 4 of the theme?
Thanks!
Custom page template – Copy page.php to child theme. Rename page.php to page-{page_slug}.php (Documentation).
Custom CPT Template – Copy single.php to child theme. Rename to single-{post_type}.php (Documentation)
Hi,
What page template do you use? If you use page with title it will add the sidebar automatically, try to change to default or pagebuilder with latest articles and see if you still have this issue – http://screencast.com/t/8R1AzP9WHk4
Also if you want to use pagebuider with title and you add the sidebar in the content using pagebuilder try to use full width(without sidebar) – http://screencast.com/t/iizebkR5
This is on our list and we try to find a better implementation for pagebuilder with title template.
Thanks!
Hi,
Can’t seem to figure out why content in a Block 3 on our homepage was displaying articles in a single column (image then headline) and now they are appearing as 2 articles next to each other in a single column? Only change we made recently was updating the “Search display view” in the Template Settings, but not sure if it’s related.
Currently displaying as:
http://www.screencast.com/users/NINJAMobile/folders/Default/media/cca76355-6f57-406b-aa6c-8fa4584829f4
Any help to revert back to single column of articles would be appreciated!
Lucian, I hope you’re having a good day.
I’m using the latest version of Newspaper 4 and the latest version of Visual Composer included with that build to create a page with Big Slider using Homepage – blank template, no parent . My Big slider is not showing any images/posts even though all of my posts use featured images. I followed all of your instructions:
1. Made sure my images are large enough
2. Regenerated thumbnails
3. Cleared cache
4. No CDN plugin
5. Posts are in “Featured” category
Unfortunately, my black page still persists. Here is the page: https://tribyoot.org/tribyoot-times-daily-2/
I hope you can help me find a resolution.
Sincerely,
Philip
Hi,
The default value to limit posts on blocks is added from the code so if you want to change this – http://screencast.com/t/t4l1SZyC If you leave that field empty the limit post number will be the number from WordPress settings > Reading, but unfortunately every time you edit the page and block the default value(5) will be added there again. You also can try to limit posts to 0, it seems to work better then leave the field empty as it will be not added the default limit post value again.
A solution is also to create a page, set page template to “pagebuilder with latest articles”(use it without content) and set only latest articles to display articles from that specific category(it will work like a blog page) – http://screencast.com/t/rC5LNJWrXE
Hope this helps!
What is the correct method or any docs describing how to create a custom page template in a child theme in newsmag.
I have a page where i need to apply some custom code (performs a custom search and some other logic) So far i have copied the page.php and modified this. Is that correct method. Similarly i have a custom post type which i want to apply a template, i have again started by copying the page.php and renaming to single-(posttype).php, is this correct method for this template?
thanks
Hi
The post templates from this screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/Zxd190Wz51N are from Newspaper 4. If you’re referring at this blog: http://demo.tagdiv.com/newsmag_classic_blog/ you can try to use module 1 that will display entire post content but you can add from wordpres in every post the read more button where you want to stop displaying the content in homepage, like here: http://screencast.com/t/fdekkT2jVj
Please post your issues on Newspaper forum: https://forum.tagdiv.com/forum/newspaper/
Thanks!
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Andrei L..