- NewspaperRetina Images
- NewspaperThumbnails – Fix strange looking images on blocks
- TutorialsExisting content
- NewspaperUsing the theme with existing content
Hello,
look “don’t miss” : no thumbnail
click one article
http://mykiff.fr/bilan-fevrier-2015-fairy-neverland/
the Featured image exist…
I try regenerate plugin but no fix
Ty
Hi,
regenerate thumbnails plugins only “resize down”. If original image is smaller than the new size, it will leave those gray blocks. You can try Thumbnail Upscale plugin for those images. Cheers!
a) make sure you clear all your caching after changing themes; make sure your CDN/cloudflare etc supports mobile devices
b) make sure you regenerate thumbnails to ensure mobile sized images actually exist
c) use a plugin like ‘limit login attempt’s to stop people from trying to guess your password for WordPress; make sure you deleted your “admin” account and made the superuser some other name (e.g., anything other than ‘admin’ and not your site name like ‘planesadmin’ would be dumb!)
d) make sure you use Akismet for basic spam protection
e) consider other security “hardening” features (do google search for “WordPress Security Hardening”)
f) why would your WordPress self-hosted platform lock yourself out of your own admin account? Bizarre that your hosting provider turns off access to your WP admin — that isn’t nice.
They already regenerate
It’s not the same problem then as mine only happens when the child theme is enabled, but yes, those two rules will work with the child and parent themes.
Looking at your site, I’m not seeing the issue appear on Chrome and desktop. I do see that you need to regenerate your thumbnails though. It’ll fix the skewed images. Regenerating your thumbnails may just fix the problem you’re having, so you should try that before adding any custom CSS rules.
Use this plugin to regenerate your thumbs: Regenerate Thumbnails
I know the plugin isn’t updated much and says it’s not compatible with newer versions of WordPress, but it works just fine with 4.2.2. I used this plugin to regenerate all my thumbs earlier this week. It took a long time because there were almost 3,000 images to regenerate, but it worked great.
On my homepage at InsideTheStar.com, I’m using Block 18 at the top of the page to show one large post, and then two smaller posts. The Large post uses the thumbnail size 696×385.
Here’s a screenshot of the problem I’m having:
Notice the grey bar at the bottom of the thumb indicating the thumb isn’t filling the thumbnail block fully. I’ve checked in inspector and disabling the width and max-with 100% allows the height to fill the space, but obviously creates other problems.
I used the “View Image Info” tool in FireFox and included that data in the shot as well. It shows on the pointed line that the image loads at the right size (as cut by them theme on upload) but is being resized a little smaller somehow.
I’ve checked all plugins and can’t find the problem. Using an identical setup on my dev site (dev.insidethestar.com), I’m not having the same issue. This is happening regardless of what image shows there. The one pictured is actually is actually the front of a YouTube video that the theme generated.
I’ve regenerated all thumbs multiple times and checked the theme settings: all thumbnails sizes are turned on. I’m not using the Photon feature in Jetpack, since that has caused this problem before.
Any ideas what’s causing this?
Hi,
That post isn’t available anymore: http://screencast.com/t/KgqVriqJem6a
According to gtmetrix you still need to optimize images. I suggest you use a plugin for that or add the following code in functions.php file:
add_filter( 'jpeg_quality', create_function('', 'return 50;' ) );
This will compress all images to 50%, you can change that value, after you add the code you have to regenerate all thumbs – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-fix-strange-thumbnails/ and also empty all caches and purge CDN files.
That reported scaled images seems to be on tables landscape view where they are scaled using css: http://screencast.com/t/kK4sfEqrK however that is the way they are designed.
Thanks
Same here. I tried Forece regenerate and resize 696. but nothing change.
Please help me fix this.
Hi,
Thanks @Ing Geek!
@dragon I’m not aware of any scaled images served on desktops so please also provide a link so I can inspect and test your site and use force regenerate plugin like @Ing Geek suggested and make sure all your images regenerate successfully without errors.
Thanks for the message!
Hi,
You can use Style 4 for Big Grid blocks that you use – http://screencast.com/t/9rTVSf4G2e6 – http://screencast.com/t/XnBppWJqpRx
Also regarding regenerate thumbnails…did you get any errors? You can try to regenerate them again as it seems that for some of your images did not work – http://screencast.com/t/VpjCXYJs or you can try a plugin like Force Regenerate it also removes those thumbs not used by the current version of the theme.
Thanks!
First. Use Force regenerate thumbnails plugin
Second. You neet crop all your post images 696px for style whit sidebar. and 900px if you dont use sidebar on your post.
Thats all
Hi,
Please read this guide how to upgrade to the version 6 – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ make full backup and after the update please also update the plugins that come with the theme files from /plugins folder and then you can run the script, it will import old settings from database and it will change the shortcodes – http://screencast.com/t/eZxxuqvsTir Also you have to regenerate the thumbs – https://forum.tagdiv.com/using-the-theme-with-existing-content/ The content of your pages will not be affected as running the scrip it will update the shortcodes, but you need to change the template – in version 6 there are 3 page templates – http://screencast.com/t/ROt8QyaaZDnA Unfortunately you will have to re-add widgets on your sidebars, some of them may not be imported or don’t exist anymore.
Hope this helps!
Hi
Firs rt please try this guide and regenerate the thumbnails for all your images: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-fix-strange-thumbnails/
I’ve checked your site and haven’t found missing images could you please provide some posts that don’t show the featured image so I can inspect them.
I did found some missing images files reported in browser’s console: http://screencast.com/t/gXiz2iAHj for which you could try to update your permalink structure if regenerating thumbnails isn’t working.
Please let us know how it goes!
Thanks.
Hi,
Please regenerate your thumbnails using this – https://forum.tagdiv.com/using-the-theme-with-existing-content/
Thanks!
Hi,
First please backup your site (database and files) – https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
We recommend that you delete the old version of the theme before uploading the new one – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ After the update please also update the plugins that come with the theme files from /plugins folder and then you can run the script, it will import old settings from database and it will change the shortcodes – http://screencast.com/t/eZxxuqvsTir. Also you have to regenerate the thumbs – https://forum.tagdiv.com/using-the-theme-with-existing-content/ and re-add your widgets in the sidebar(s).
Thanks!
Hi,
Please check the documentation how to update the theme and how to run the script – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ The only thing that it is not written here is that the old customizations will not work (theme’s files customization, custom css). We recommend that you delete the old version of the theme before uploading the new one, also update the plugins that come with the theme files from /plugins folder. After the update run the script, it will import old settings from database and it will change the shortcodes – http://screencast.com/t/eZxxuqvsTir. Also you have to regenerate the thumbs – https://forum.tagdiv.com/using-the-theme-with-existing-content/ You may have to re-add widgets on the sidebars, some of them may not be imported or don’t exist anymore.
Hope this helps!
Hi,
Try a different regenerate plugin, an example would be – http://screencast.com/t/VOuqkjWwr9f – https://wordpress.org/plugins/ajax-thumbnail-rebuild/
I didn’t do any tests with this plugin so i can’t say if it will work, it’s just an example. If it doesn’t work please look for an alternative.
Thank you!
Hi,
I see that you use version 4 of the theme, you will have to change the height(to your specific height) for your thumbs that are used on IOS Slider in functions.php – http://screencast.com/t/Ekbehu1X then regenerate your thumbnails using – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-fix-strange-thumbnails/
Also you need to add this custom css for each screen size: http://screencast.com/t/DOTC37t5M
@media (min-width: 1200px) {
.iosSlider-col-2, .iosSlider-col-2 .item {
height: 500px !important;
}
}
@media (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1018px) {
.iosSlider-col-2, .iosSlider-col-2 .item {
height: 350px !important;
}
}
@media (max-width: 767px) {
.iosSlider-col-2, .iosSlider-col-2 .item {
height: 300px !important;
}
}
Thanks!
Be sure to regenerate your hash keys also!
Visual Composer is a memory hog; no doubt about it.
With Newsmag the last version of VC crashed our server (processes went from .06 to 52, with 8 XEON processors and 32GB ECC RAM); we had to use the beta “SHIM” workaround that Radu came up with.
Basic solutions are:
a) make sure you have at least 128MB allocated for php, and have that in the wp-config.php
b) limit number of queries (e.g., have a 10 most recent list in sidebars, not five queries of latest 2 items from 5 categories); consider disabling the “related posts” element; don’t use mega-menu
c) if you have a LOT of posts added daily, image processing is an ‘expensive’ use of CPU, so consider pre-planning your modules to limit number of image thumbs being built per story, ensure you have a high compression level set and pre-optimize the heck out of what you upload – don’t upload a 767kb file when it could be 45kb at outset for example
d) consider turning off the stupid comment counters (ahem); who cares how many comments a story has, really? That’s a huge amount of queries going on all over the place.
e) optimize the heck out of your site (some of my suggestions are in the stick for site optimization, including adding the memory item in wp-config.php and removing all the comments in wp-config.php — all that crap in there getting loaded over and over)
Stuff like that can set a good baseline to watch the system and see if it chokes. In other words start SIMPLE as possible with everything off, then build up to meet your system capability — if it just dies no matter what, go back to V4; and wait for version of SHIM beta from Radu which works with NP6 (basically this lets you have a homepage with most of the neato modules, but without some of the more dramatic options of VC). I’m running the shim beta with Newsmag on 3 sites now, and zero issues.
Not sure any of that helps … but food for thought …
@Steven – I’ve already done that (you’re right, it is a good feature) – My problem is that I don’t want to regenerate all of my image uploads, just the featured images, as they are the one’s that are affected by changing the theme.
Hi,
Please try regenerate your thumbnails to fix size issue – http://screencast.com/t/63VTQ15j5rS Also if you want background color for Big Slide articles like in version 4 of the theme, please edit you page and set Style 4 – http://screencast.com/t/m8cWbDMR – http://screencast.com/t/X71ujJmiiL
Unfortunately the theme doesn’t have an option for this, but you can try to change it using custom css in Theme Panel > Custom Css and apply a color for post titles on pages(it will be applied also on Big Grid Slide) – http://screencast.com/t/wCh0iuWQlRe
.td-module-title a {
color: #a465a5 !important;
}
If you refer to the block title in version 6.1 it was added an option in Theme Panel >Theme Colors to set a general color for all blocks/widgets titles – http://screencast.com/t/IcPkM5CMB – http://screencast.com/t/c3u7wg6EXVo
In version 6 of the theme were changed the page templates, the sidebar that you see on those pages is sidebar added for latest articles. You can manually add a Widgetised Sidebar widget to your page content – http://screencast.com/t/UwD7n61Q if you want to use that template with Latest Article. Or you can set Pagebuider with title and the defautl sidebar will be add automatically, you don’t have to split the row – http://screencast.com/t/CZZO259mZ3
If you use unique articles and you have an issue with doubling articles, please note that this issue was fixed in version 6.1, so please update using this guide(FTP method) – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/
Please try to remove this code to not show author when the article is shared – http://screencast.com/t/UadS1GJEv and then use facebook debugger and see if works for your articles (fetch new scrape) – https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/
Thanks!
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This reply was modified 11 years by
Alin [tagDiv].
@jamespayne here is a tip for you in your theme panel settings turn off the images settings that you don’t want and leave what you will use on your site in this way only the images for those blocks you need will be regenerate thumbnails….this is a awesome feature that was put in V6 take use of it…
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This reply was modified 11 years by
Steven.
I was just thinking the same thing after changing to the newspaper theme, but have found that even though Force Regenerate Thumbnails performs an excellent job of re-crunching the images and deleting any outdated sizes, it’s actually creating more images than we had before due to the Newspaper theme image settings.
We need to use 5/6 different sizes of featured images to show properly across the site (category, search, related etc) but Force Regenerate Thumbnails is re-doing ALL of our images, not just our featured one’s. We normally have 5-10 full size images per post and don’t need to generate 5/6 unwanted versions per image.
Is it possible to just regenerate the featured images as this wold work perfectly? There is another regen plugin called Ajax Thumbnail Rebuild that works very well, but it doesn’t delete the unwanted versions like Force Regen does.
🙁
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This reply was modified 11 years by
Ben Iskander. Reason: grammar
Ok it’s working now. But all my pictures are missing. I am trying to regenerate thumbnails but it doesn’t seem to help. Any ideas?
Hi,
I have checked your site and you use an old version of the theme, Newspaper supports new YouTube API from version 4.6.3, so I guess that you don’t use even that version. You have to update to the latest theme version 6.1 using this guide – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ first please backup the site (database and files) – https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups We recommend that you delete the old version of the theme before uploading the new one, also update the plugins that come with the theme files from /plugins folder. After the update run the script, it will import old settings from database and it will change the shortcodes – http://screencast.com/t/eZxxuqvsTir. Also you have to regenerate the thumbs – https://forum.tagdiv.com/using-the-theme-with-existing-content/ You may have to re-add widgets on the sidebars, some of them may not be imported or don’t exist anymore.
I recommend this because I have also tested your videos and did not found any issues, the playlist is working properly – http://screencast.com/t/GnpXTSQqb
Thanks!
