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I purchased the Newspaper theme last night. The key was the magazine style homepage.
Whenever I create a homepage everything seems to be working -I can add blocks and update the settings – but when I go to update the page it simply wipes all my changes from the visual composer. And I am welcomed to Blank Page – I have no content yet!
I can also not preview any of the changes.
All I have managed to get to appear on my homepage is a latest articles list.
I also haven’t been able to get the big slider to work.
My site has existing content (600 posts).
I have deleted the WPBakery plugin and reinstalled from the provided files. I have deactivated all my other plugins and even deleted some redundant ones. Still no luck.
I’m at a loss. Without a magazine style homepage the theme is lovely, but redundant to me. I’m the first to admit that I’m new to wordpress, so I really hope its something I’m doing that I just can’t see through.
Any suggestions?
The post link is http://moonbash.com/samsung-galaxy-s6-review/
Hi there,
Where can I found the following array script from version 1.6 (td_global.php from wp_booster folder). It somehow vanished with 1.7.
array(
"param_name" => "sort",
"type" => "dropdown",
"value" => array('Upcoming Events' => 'upcoming','- Latest -' => '', 'Random posts Today' => 'random_today' , 'Random posts from last 7 Day' => 'random_7_day' , 'Alphabetical A -> Z' => 'alphabetical_order', 'Popular (all time)' => 'popular', 'Popular (last 7 days; enable first from ' . TD_THEME_NAME . ' Panel -> Block settings -> 7 days post sorting)' => 'popular7' , 'Featured' => 'featured', 'Highest rated (reviews)' => 'review_high', 'Random Posts' => 'random_posts', 'Most Commented' => 'comment_count'),
"heading" => 'Sort order:',
"description" => "How to sort the posts.",
"holder" => "div",
"class" => ""
)
,
Cheers
Hello, this is what I meant with stretched:
Original: http://s24.postimg.org/3shnb0rid/Milano_Panoramica_FILEminimizer.jpg
Thumbs with width:180px: http://s24.postimg.org/biofg5ttt/stretched.jpg
Problem is that other than width: 180px, there’s an min-height:135px:
style.css – row:8768:
@media (min-width: 1024px) {
.td_module_10 .entry-thumb {
min-height: 135px;
}
}
If you try with the original image, I think that you should see the same problem.
Definitive solution:
Use thumbs: 640 X 350
Add in .css:
@media (min-width: 768px) {
.td_module_10 .td-module-thumb {
width: 180px;
height: 135px;
overflow: hidden;
}
/*following code is for play button image preview on video-type posts*/
.td_module_10 .td-module-thumb img {
max-width: none;
height: 135px;
width: 246px;
margin-left: -33px;
}
.td_module_10 .td-module-thumb .td-video-play-ico img {
max-width: 40px;
max-height: 40px;
}
.td_module_10 .td-module-thumb .td-video-play-ico {
left:103px;
}
}
Thank you for your time and sources. I reviewed all of it and tried the recommendations and here is where we are:
We have set up our categories with slugs. We are now trying to set up our page names, titles, and descriptions so we can set up our URL strings. We can not find where we define our page names and page descriptions and assign slugs to the page names. This will enable us to set up our URL Strings. Please tell us where we find this. We are ensuring that we do not set page titles equal to slugs and page names.
Hi,
Cache could cause many issues, we recommend using just page cache and to avoid issues id recommend to empty cache after each change you do. I’m not noticing it: http://screencast.com/t/ecmw7JGtm
Seems that sometimes Google’s testing tool could preview your site’s in different ways. Recently we had as similar report about the site looking unstyled or just a white screen but didn’t had actually any issues in the browser.
Yours also looks good in the browser: http://screencast.com/t/rgfSisDh
Thanks for the message!
Hi,
Not noticing it: http://screencast.com/t/p2HIPlw5RT
Seems that sometimes Google’s testing tool could preview your site’s in different ways. Recently we had as similar report about the site looking unstyled but didn’t had actually any issues in the browser.
Your looks good now: http://screencast.com/t/rgfSisDh
Thanks for the message!
Hello,
If a review consists of, for instance:
A: 5 stars
B: 4.5 stars
C: 5 stars
D: 2.5 stars
“Summary” is being calculated as “4.3”.
But I want the summary to be shown in 0.5 ranges, just as in the category ratings. That is, review overview must result in 4.5, not 4.3.
Or 3, not 3.1, for example. It should round up or down.
How can I change that?
Thanks!
How do I get rid of the Jetpack shortcode in my story preview text when I have a video posted at the top of a post?
I tend to share a lot of videos so this is currently a problem with two or three stories on throughcracks.com.

Thanks for the support.
I am noticing my 1.7 pages are loading muuuuuch slower than the 1.6 test sites.
Today I can’t fully judge as we were being slammed by yandex …. and others … from Russia.
Server processes spiked at 270 once, which surprised me it didn’t melt. Normal is 0.9 to 1.2 (!).
On 1.7 it’s taking forever right now to even preview a page. Frustrating.
Also weird is that my animated GIF keeps getting turned into a jepg even when I upload via FTP. (WTF?)
Soooooo……. we’re definitely NOT in the Summer of Speed we had going with Newspaper, that’s for darn sure.
Not quite sure what to do just yet. But it’s noticeable the speed hit visually …
I would like you to ask you some questions:
1. How I can change the white background color on boxed layout homepage with background: http://themeforest.net/item/newspaper/full_screen_preview/5489609 (the part between footer and big slider)?
2. How I can change the gray background color on the footer of the same page?
3. On homepage how to disable the hyperlink on block titles, make entire background of .block-title the same color and change the color and padding of ajax arrows?
4. How to make the category article display view not to show images, eg as block 10 that displays only the titles?
5. How to make a specific block 10 on homepage to have overflow-y and max witdh?
6. Is there a way to make a featured post on big slider sticky, so to stay there even if it is very old?
7. What is the minimum resolution that a featured image should have to fit on every block and slider?
Thanks a lot
Hi,
Thanks @00rgiles!
I’ve noted your suggestion and we will consider it when we decide to improve the reviews system.
Thanks for the message!
I would personally like to see an option to add predifined lists of criteria on a per category basis. I think this would save a lot of time and stress to editors.
At present, every author that signs up must check other reviews in the category to see the criteria used and what order they display. Without keeping this the same it can look unprofessional.
I would say this would make a welcome addition in my opinion.
Rich
You can turn that off from the
theme pane > posts settings 🙂
I do that too … 🙂
Comments box still works.
Hi,
Sorry for the delay!
Unfortunately the theme doesn’t have an option for that, and we cannot provide custom work at this moment as we’re a short team and our products development, updates, fixes and support takes all the time that we have, so considering this I believe the best solution for this would be to try and find a plugin which you can use for that however I can’t recommend you one as we haven’t tested the theme with any of those types.
You can also try to find and hire a developer or an experienced freelancer to get this done for you.
We had different request related to the reviews system however we haven’t decided on anything until now. I’ll add your request on our list and consider it if we plan to improve the theme’s review system in the future.
Thanks for the message!
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Lucian.
Nice mod Chris I use to put this in functions
add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false');
Just do not like that bar when previewing my page/post
Hi,
I’m currently having an issue with the theme allowing rich snippets to be shown. I’ve tried disabling all plugins but JS Composer, which the site didn’t like and didn’t have any effect.
I seen another thread regarding the same issue, but on the NewsMag theme: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/rich-snippets-for-review-posts-are-not-showing/
Testing tool for my site: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/structured-data/testing-tool?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.averagebrosreviews.com%252Flego-movie-review%252F
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!
Then likely you have some other issue with caching, or didn’t make the page you built public, etc.
If you can preview the page when editing the “page” and it works, then make the home page the static page — that is managed by WordPress and your .htaccess file being writable.
You might try resaving your permalinks?
Clear your website cache if you have one.
Hi, typically you need to
a) setup a page, create layout with visual composer, preview
b) go to WP settings > reading > first section
change to using the page name you created for home page
front page displays
[x] static page
>> page name
Hope that helped 🙂
Often what I do is just do a simple 2 column layout with something like
[ 2 col ] [ 1 col ]
in left column use block 11 for latest
in right column use widget area, temp use the default sidebar
make that live so home page works
then I create second page to mess with layouts until I like it, then swap the static page used for home page and delete the first page.
Hope that helped 🙂
Hi,
We’re planning to review different kind of products and we’re a multi-author blog. The issue today is that it’s hard to make everyone use exactly the same criteria and criteria names. Sometimes they forget one, sometimes they name it differently.
How is it possible to add predefined sets of criteria so users wil choose the kind of product and automatically have the right criteria to rate the product ?
Is it natively possible ? With a hack ? Or maybe in a future release ?
Thanks.
Bertrand
Hi,
Do you refer to post’s reviews?
If you do please enable it like this: http://screencast.com/t/3pk4MPAB
Hope this helps!
Why element Button color red in visual composer have a problem ?
in visual composer show red color

[img]http://www.uppic.org/image-016E_550BD4C1.jpg[/img]
but in preview show black color

[img]http://www.uppic.org/image-CE2E_550BD4C1.jpg[/img]
You can use the built-in media manager in WordPress.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Media_Library_Screen
You can also name your files in an intelligent way to keep track of them.
e.g., we often name our files based on story and author initials…
jsg-book-whitelines-640×320.jpg
cls-review-moogtar-500×375.jpg
Also, you can specify to upload files into date based folders, to be able to find things by month/day/year.
Not sure that helps. But images are actually managed by WordPress, not the theme 🙂
Hi..
When using the Video Post Featured Image feature, WP grabs the image
from YouTube. So far so good. When using Block 6, this preview image
has a black bar on top and on bottom.
Any advice to prevent this except changing the Block Type?
Such as automatic zoom so that no borders are visible?
Cheers,
Guenter
Thanks for your fast response.
I understand your solution, but it doesn’t work for me. The reason is that I have some CSS which removes the star rating from the top of the post …
.post .entry-review-stars {
display:none;
}
This seems to remove the date as well, not just the stars. If I remove this from the custom CSS panel, both stars and date are shown.
Is there any way I can have a date at the top of a review post, but no stars?