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P.S. Oh, good point, I forgot that if you create a page template it can survive theme updates because it won’t be overwritten 🙂

@Lucian
There wasn’t h1 tag on blog page at all, but thanks to Emil, I have added h1 and h2 tags to my homepage by editing the index.php file. I would like to build homepage with visual composer, and tried a few times. However, I could not build a beautiful homepage. That’s why I use blog template.

Hm. Not sure; I’d likely use the page builder to make a “page” then set that as your home page, as that also allows you to create custom sidebar for homepage, but keep “blog timeline” layout, but also to add “sections” where you want like a custom box top of page above the new posts where you can put something custom with h1 tag; or even a section below latest posts where you put something with h2 tags. That would be simpler than hacking the home page template where you’d need to drop stuff in above and below the page loops, which are kind of complex due to the various theme options.

Hi, the theme layout would have to change for most of those social media options. You could certainly hack this theme, but in one example, you’d have to redesign the layout to have a wide layout for post top, for image and headline, then a skinny column on left for that, and then that would end up going above the story box for mobile devices.

For breaking news, you can obviously add a text box on your home page and use CSS to style a breaking news box – you have that ability right now. It would not be on ALL pages site wide, but you could easily add that to the single post template by calling a “breaking” file, and leave that empty if no breaking news, or populate when you have something earth shattering if your site actually breaks news in realtime. Simple to do. I think this might be on the list of 150+ “requests” for the theme, but not a hot topic for most, and so doubtful you’d see this anytime soon, unfortunately. But easy to add yourself within a few minutes of work.

For the social media stuff, you could create a php file with the social media elements you want, then add that in a float left div with right margin in the single post template at start of the post text, for example, or put a widget on top right of your post custom sidebar – you could hardcode by making a custom sidebar to load for the posts where the social media stuff is hard coded to query current post meta, and then still have the widget areas below that.

But don’t assume I’m being contrarian or negative in any way. Many “custom” things are pretty easy to do with existing plugins, or a couple of quick hacks to the single post template.

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You could likely comment that button out of the theme template (search forum as there are numerous threads on adding or removing buttons; as many people were wanting to add Pinterest for example).

For SEO you might want to keep it, simply for Google “good will….” …. and as far as low numbers, I’ve actually noticed a lack of shares for G+ on almost every major news portal I go to … 376 shares on twitter, 0 for G+ and I feel like a nutbag for sharing to my G+ page. So, I hear ya, man! We’re keeping G+ on all our sites until Google kills it.

Disqus comments show up quickly, unless you have it setup to hold for approval; but the comment counts rarely are accurate. I just disable them in the templates. They do NOT work on the author template page for example and always show “0 comments” … not that most people really care how many comments a story happens to have.

Sync with comments has nothing to do with the theme, but with WordPress. So, once you install DisQus you use the tools for the plugin to sync existing comments to their server so they’ll show up at bottom of posts. It can take a couple of hours, depending on how many comments your site has.

Hope that helped 🙂

Can the tagdiv support team add a landing page template?

The child theme option seems promising, but it’s so complicated and I’ve never touched a thing like that before. :/

Why don’t don’t newspaper have such a template? It should be added.

I desperately need to add a clear landing page to my site in the next couple of days. :/

Well, the sidebar is easy to remove under “page template settings” on the editing screen.

As for the header and footer, there are a few ways you could do this. Here are two:

1. You could edit the respective template files in a child theme to check the page id and only include the relevant elements if it’s not your thank you page.

For example, once you set up and activate a child theme, you could edit the header file you’ve selected in your theme panel. Find this in your-child-theme/parts/header… .php, and add this line before the first div:

<?php if (!is_page('4994')) { ?>

and this at the very end:

<?php } ?>

Your landing page id is the number that comes up when you hover over the link to edit the page: http://www.screencast.com/t/ANsTxW7C

Then you would do the same to other files you want to remove (menu-top.php, footer.php), save, upload, and clear cache.

2. If you’re not comfortable with child themes or php, you could instead do it quickly through CSS:

.page-id-4994 .td-header-bg {
  display: none !important;
  }

And add any container classes that you want to hide, putting them where .td-header-bg is, e.g. .td-header-menu-wrap. You can find these using inspect element.

The CSS solution isn’t great because all the content will still be downloaded by the client’s browser, but it’s very easy.

3. Create a custom page template. WordPress checks for page templates in a hierarchy of importance, including the slug and the ID, so if you your page’s slug is /email-landing and you have a template named page-email-landing.php, or page-4994.php, and so on, WordPress will use that rather than the default one. Then you could edit that one to suit your needs. You could copy page.php from the parent theme’s folder as a starting point.

From what I’ve read, this is probably the most natural solution, but it would still need a child theme to survive theme updates, and to be honest I haven’t looked at enough custom template building yet to know what to advise you. For example, you can’t just remove the call to get_header() from page.php or you’ll lose a lot more than the logo div, etc.

Those are my two cents, coming from a relatively new learner of this sort of thing. If anyone has a better solution, feel free to mention it so I can learn too. 🙂