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I have recommended couple of plugins so many times on the forum it should be a sticky by now 🙂
1) Auto Post Thumbnail PRO – will generate a featured image from the first image in each post (http://codecanyon.net/item/auto-post-thumbnail-pro/4322624)
2) Thumbnail Upscale – to make larger images to match theme sizes from existing mis-matched smaller sizes (e.g., if your image is 600×400, this would give you the larger sizes)
3) Use the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin as needed with the above.
I used both of these to transfer from a Woo Canvas setup to Newspaper, as one example.
(admin: feel free to repost this to a sticky if you want) 🙂
* Did you setup mod_pagespeed to work with your CDN ?
You have to setup sharding or origin domain settings for mod_pagespeed to work with a CDN.
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/domains#mapping_origin
* Also, check to see if the thumbnails are actually being written in your images directory.
Did you regenerate all your thumbnails for the theme when switching to it, so that the thumbnails are actually there?
Either of those would be my first suggestion.
For your site did you
1) setup the gzip/deflate for your server to serve compressed content / mandatory
2) did you add expiration data in your htaccess (Apache) file or similar for NGINX / mandatory
3) did you optimize your images for best size/speed
4) did you use functions.php to remove ?=123 version queries and set better image optimization default for WordPress; then perhaps regenerate thumbnails
5) remove external elements as needed, such as using social media counters, jetpack, or other systems which call on outside websites for data, slowing page down?
6) did you optimize your database using wp-optimize
Many of these items are covered in detail in the Page Speed sticky thread.
Items 1 and 2 are good for at least 20 points alone.
Hi,
As you can see here: http://screencast.com/t/1qNOksLr the 3 right thumbs from the left side of the slider should be at 326 x 159 while yours don’t fill the whole thumb-wrap container: http://screencast.com/t/FDaoi8dGt
The solution for this is to regenerate the thumbnails: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-fix-strange-thumbnails/
Please make sure you follow and apply all the steps from the guide on “how to fix strange thumbnails” should fix this.
Also please make sure before doing this that you disable all plugins especially any CDN plugins and purge files also empty cache, after you have done all this regenerate the thumbnails.
Also try to add a bigger featured image size for your posts, at least 1200 in width.
Please let me know what you find.
Thanks
Hi,
These are the image sizes that the theme uses: http://screencast.com/t/DR0EMtjZXf
So you need to add an image at least 745px of width and 483px height so that it can fill the whole big slider’s image container because neither the theme or wordpress don’t enlarge images to fit the container, you would need a plugin for that.
Make sure you use a image large enough to fill the slider’s container then use this guide and regenerate thumbnails, make sure you deactivate any CDN plugins, purge files and empty cache first if you use any of this.
Please let me know if you still have this issues after this.
Thanks
Hi,
Please use this guide: https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/ and install the WPBakery Visual Composer plugin from the plugins folder that came with the theme files.
Then please disable all plugins and then regenerate thumbnails, also remember to empty cache.
If this dose not solve this issue please send your wp-admin user and pass at contact@tagdiv.com so we can check this, also send a link to this topic or specify your issues details.
Thanks
Well, you need to regenerate the thumbnails using the “regenerate thumbnails” plugin to make the new larger images to fit the slider. It will “from now on” make new images.
And, obviously, if you’re using a caching plugin of any kind, you need to turn OFF the caching before building new images so they are seen at new sizes.
As to other issues, you had the broken layout from the outset when I looked at it earlier; but at least your image is now filling the space.
Almost looks like you have been changing the spacing between columns or blocks.
But I’ll leave that for somebody from tech support to help you with.
Hi Christopher, thanks for your reply! I flagged the issue with the plugin developer, still waiting for an answer from him.
Hi Lucian, thank you for the css code, it works perfectly. I also installed the plugin to regenerate the thumbnails and it seems to work, so thank you for the suggestion!
Hi,
First try to regenerate the thumbnails: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-fix-strange-thumbnails/
Please let me know what you find.
Also noticed this while checking your page: http://screencast.com/t/9Vlvb1DzK
You can remove it using this css in theme panel > custom css:
.td-full-layout .td-menu-background:after,
.td-boxed-layout .td-menu-wrap:after {
background: none !important;
}Should work like this: http://screencast.com/t/dm9ZX4pDfYhl
Thanks
Probably need to contact the plugin developer since changing the names of images, may not actually change all the links and instances of the indexes with the images, especially if you’re using any kind of caching.
Presumably the plugin would rename all your core image files based on the size you had originally? Ideally you could then simply regenerate thumbnails for all the news sizes from the renamed MAIN images and they’d be built with new name.
However since you’re using a plugin to change the NAMES of the files, one might assume it also updates all your posts to reset all placed, featured images with the new name also?
Obviously you would need to line up the changes to your posts to have the NEW image names in the posts so that the proper thumbnails are being built for that module.
Not sure if that helps, but not really a theme issue, specifically.
Wordpress does not “enlarge” images; you need to use a plugin to do so. I’ve recommended one a bunch of times here on the forum that I use, which is the “Thumbnail Upscale” plugin. You would need to activate that, then run the regenerate thumbnails plugins. Basically WordPress stupidly disables the upsize function even though web server supports it with their thinking “it makes the photos fuzzy….” (sigh). So, a plugin basically hooks into the built in server function (imagemagick for instance) to simply write any sizes larger than your original uploaded image, which fit the theme, if so called by a module or the larger slider on home page.
Hi,
Glad it worked out.
Thanks for the message!
Hi,
All the plugins are up to date already. I don’t know how they change but now it’s working well after “Regenerate Thumbnails” 🙂
Hi,
How did they change? did you also updated the plugins? please provide more information and a link so i can take a look.
Thank you, Emil G.
Every time that I’ve tried to update to the new version (from v3 to v4), my featured image slider turns into this: http://imgur.com/rDCSOV1
I’ve regenerated the images and that doesn’t work either. Any idea?
Hello,
I’m using WordPress 3.8.4 (4.0 soon) and just updated the theme to the last version 4.3 but I got a little problem.
All my thumbnails have changed…it’s normal? Did I have to use “Regenerate Thumbnails”?
Thank you all 🙂
Hi Christopher, I been optimizing images with PSD and it worked for the “orginal size” but not for the thumbnails. So, I think I should add this function
add_filter( 'jpeg_quality', create_function( '', 'return 60;' ) );
in my functions.php file like this right? http://screencast.com/t/OstTpuEvVqow
Then when I run “Regenerate Thumbnails” it should generate all the thumbnails with this “low cuality” images. Or shoul I lower all image quality for all image sizes in PSD (really a lot of work)
Thanks again and nice weekend!
Well, on my site I have it set to upscale proportionally…. so everything goes “up” in scale properly. It makes larger images to scale, it doesn’t stretch them in only one direction. You may need to “regenerate thumbnails” once you install the plugin. I use it on numerous websites both with and without the Newspaper theme, works flawlessly.
You may have to se the “crop image” function in the Newspaper theme panel.
I have several images that are a bit smaller than the featured image slider (700×352). Is there a code I can add for the slider for the image to be stretched to fit? All of the other thumbnails are correct dimensions when I regenerate the images besides this.
Hi,
@Sotiris
a. You can regenerate thumbnails for specific images using the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin, like this: http://screencast.com/t/4fwczDAbkTm
b. You can try to find a plugin that dose that.
c. The theme uses this image sizes: http://screencast.com/t/yVdr3GyCe generated when you upload an image. The theme dose use an image size created by WordPress, more exact the thumbnail size: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_post_thumbnail
Note that the image sizes added in functions.php are used for modules if you decide not to use some of the modules you can remove the image size.
Thanks
Thanks Christopher for the info, I’ll try your approach too.
I had 13 thumbs per upload and by disabling WP Media, I now have 11 thumbs.
Just two thumbs less …
Maybe, I’ll disable a few sizes from functions.php
Haven’t decided yet.
I found it’s better to set the three sizes in the WP admin > media sizes to the three sizes you plan to use the most from the modules used by Newspaper.
The regenerate thumbnails plugin is not part of the theme, so likely good idea to review the documentation for that plugin before you use it; also download and backup all your images before you do anything, since you cannot “undo” using it on existing thumbnails. However it doesn’t touch your existing “main” uploaded image.
Ok. I disable WordPress thumbs.
Settings–>Media and set each box for width and height to 0.
Hope it works..
Yes, a lot of thumbs, do we need them all?
Sotiris check this link https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/just-2-thumbnail-sizes/
Hi all!
I am a new happy user of NEWSPAPER Theme and i need your help 🙂
I’m trying to set up the theme on a existing content (in a demo server). We have thousands of images uploaded and as you understand is too difficult to regenarate all of them (Considering time need and hard disk space).
Also as i understand when i upload a new image there is no need to generate all those new images (13!) except from the featured image. Correct?
Plz let me know:
a. If i can regenerate only the featured images from the old contet
b. If i can generate images only for the featured image for the new content and not for all the other uploaded.
c. In wordpress -> Settings -> Media -> Sizes i deactivated all dimessions (S,M,L) because this is a job of Newspaper. Is this correct?
Thank you in advance!
Sotiris
