- NewsmagSmart sidebar
- NewspaperSmart Sidebar
Hi,
Indeed, Adsense would not allow ads to be placed in a floating box. So if you plan to use such ads in the sidebars, disable the sticky sidebar setting in the theme panel
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/smart-sidebar-2/
For most default post templates and also cloud templates there are a total of 3 article ads (some templates have additional spots). With default post templates you can enter the ad codes in the theme panel
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/article-ads/
Using cloud templates for posts the ads have to be entered in the template
– https://www.screencast.com/t/4v6M0Rui
Thanks
Hi,
@vijayrana This is a very old topic, the initial poster may not reply.
The sticky (or smart) sidebar setting is located in the theme panel
– https://www.screencast.com/t/x8hT9KYIQq
There you can enable or disable it if needed. It will affect all sidebars sidebars in the website, including the new option in the composer for sticky columns
– https://www.screencast.com/t/2y3d2VmjL9
Hello pocto,
5)Please provide some useful screenshots with your desired changes so I will be able to provide a more accurate response.
6)You should simply add a block into your sidebar from Widgets section and sort it by Latest Articles. Also, if you want to add the Widgets on your Sidebar from the page, you should edit it with TD Composer, Widgetized Sidebar element.
7)Unfortunately, the theme does not have any such an option that allows you to make some changes over that section from the panel. All the available settings for that section can be found here -> https://www.screencast.com/t/sgRJn7ig8T If you want to customize this area in another way notice that you should do it yourself through the code because we cannot provide support for untested plugins. Usually, we recommend the developers from studio.envato.com.
8)Sorry but please notice that’s the default functionality of our Smart Sidebar and it has been designed to works as expected, in that way. If you want to customize it you should do it yourself because we cannot provide support for untested plugins.
P.S I’m sorry that I have missed answering your other questions.
Thanks for your understanding!
Thanks for the quick reply, Catalin, but you missed answering some of the questions, please:
5- How do I make some of the elements on the homepage to show visible border?
6- How do I make the widget “Recent Articles” in the sidebar to show featured images/thumbnail pictures, as it is in the demo:
https://www.screencast.com/t/y2jUztdnt8k
7- How do I make the “Related Articles” and “More from Author” to show bigger featured images in mobile, rather than the current small images:
https://www.screencast.com/t/38KicbAHP
8- Is it possible to make the smart sidebar remain constant when scrolling down as well as when scrolling up? Right now, it shows the last item on the sidebar when scrolling down, and shows the first item on the sidebar when scrolling up. Is it possible to only show just one when scrolling down and up?
Looking forward to your answers,
Thanks!
Hi support team,
Great theme! Playing around with it and still loving it the more each day!
Instead of putting my questions one by one, I have compiled them these past months into the following?
1- How do I reduce the time that the dropdown menu falls for the mega menu, upon mouse over the menu items? It’s a bit distracting when it shows with the slightest mouse over. It will be good to reduce the time.
2- How do I reduce the height of the “Top Bar” (top bar is the black top menu)?
3- How do I make all posts on frontpage to open in new tabs, when clicked on?
4- How do I make all posts on category pages to also open in new tabs, when clicked on ?
5- How do I make some of the elements on the homepage to show visible border?
6- How do I make the widget “Recent Articles” in the sidebar to show featured images/thumbnail pictures, as it is in the demo:
https://www.screencast.com/t/y2jUztdnt8k
7- How do I make the “Related Articles” and “More from Author” to show bigger featured images in mobile, rather than the current small images:
https://www.screencast.com/t/38KicbAHP
8- Is it possible to make the smart sidebar remain constant when scrolling down as well as when scrolling up? Right now, it shows the last item on the sidebar when scrolling down, and shows the first item on the sidebar when scrolling up. Is it possible to only show just one when scrolling down and up?
Looking forward to your answers,
Thanks!
Hello,
Prior to latest update everything was working correctly. Now when you are scrolling and the Smart Sidebar feature gets fired, it increases its width making the inner elements to overflow the page.
Please see the example to understand what I mean: visit https://sviluppo.radioradio.it and try scrolling the page.
We need to fix this as soon as possible. Thank you for your help.
Hi guys,
We are playing around with tagDiv composer for our site redesign and it is amazing. We are still learning new things everyday as we explore new ideas. The ability to be able to control how the site appears on each screen size at a granular level is brilliant.
Also really pleased with the new cloud template function. It addresses my biggest bugbear with Newspaper – the ability to adjust the overall width of the columns – but it’s allowing us to create some genuinely unique page designs rather than seeing different sites that look exactly the same as ours.
Couple of requests for future updates. Some may already have been mentioned, some may be bugs, some may not currently be on your radar, but hopefully it helps:
– can’t choose a sidebar from the main post composition screen if using a cloud template. We would like to be able to run sidebars that are customised for different article categories, but that’s not currently possible. We could create several near-identical page templates, each with a different sidebar, to address this but it seems clunky when everything else is so sleek.
– paginated articles don’t work. It doesn’t seem to recognise page breaks. We may be missing something but we really can’t get it to work.
– TD composer doesn’t have accordion/tab functionality. We’re currently scratching our heads to work out how we will replicate or replace this, as we currently run a lengthy glossary that uses an accordion to hide and display all the descriptions, and we can’t do this with TD composer.
– following on from the above, it would be great to have the ability to load anything into a row that only displays a certain height and then has a ‘load more’ pagination function, like the blocks do for posts. For example, we are using the testimonial features in quite a different way, but there will be potentially loads of them on a page so it would be good to only show a few with the rest hidden behind a ‘load more’ button. See here:http://compareallvans.co.uk/reviews/ford-fiesta-active-2018/
– we have been trialling closing off comments after X days. Using cloud templates, this causes a “Comments are closed” message to pop up at the top of the page under the menu. See here:
http://compareallvans.co.uk/used-car-warranty-consumer-rights/
This doesn’t happen with the traditional Newspaper templates, which display the message in the correct place after the last comment.
– We’re currently having trouble with smart sidebars using inner rows, but this is probably our own fault rather than a bug.
– Newspaper (and Newsmag) lack behind other themes when it comes to presenting reviews. Given how slick the rest of the features are, this is something we’d really like to see developed in future editions. We’re also currently looking at plugins for incorporating user ratings, but not sure whether they’ll play happily with TD composer.
Thanks guys, and we’re really enjoying building a new site with Newspaper 8.8!
stuart
Hello,
You have to activate the scrolling option for pages as well. Please check this guide: https://forum.tagdiv.com/smart-sidebar-2/
Thank you!
Hi,
The option in the theme panel you are referring to has to be active, it it’s not the sticky settings will not work. That was the case before the new option was introduced, the general smart sidebar option has to be active.
Maybe this functionality will change in the future, but for the moment that is the case.
Thanks
Hi… I read a post about sticky column on https://tagdiv.com/multiple-sticky-sidebars/ and I try it, doesn’t work.
I don’t use smart sidebar because of Adsense. Can I use those sticky column without activing smart sidebar https://prnt.sc/k4z5vp? Here is my blog https://irfan.id.
Thanks,
Hi,
The smart sidebar capabilities would depend on your theme version. If you are not using the latest theme version, you have to add a class to the row in order to make that column sticky
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/smart-sidebar-2/ (check lower in the guide)
Since the latest update, the option is now in the composer and not limited for that layout
– https://www.screencast.com/t/xdH54myuuTV3
We will update the smart sidebar guide as soon as possible.
Thanks
Hi,
I can’t seem to get the smart side bar to appear on the homepage beside block 18.
There is an area for it that appears below the big grid full 6.
Can you please tell me how.
This is my site http://www.musicforlondon.co.uk
I have it as default and it appears on category and post just fine.
Many Thanks
Titus
Hi,
On pages there is a required class that needs to be set for the row and also a particular row layout that has to be used. This guide (at the bottom) mentions how it can be done
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/smart-sidebar-2/
I would like to mention that in the coming update or the following one, the sticky capabilities on pages will be extended.
Thanks
Hi,
I wanto to make the block (For example: block 21 ) sticky with the help of TD Composer or one way. How can I do that, I use smart sidebar, but it worked for category page not for the home page.
Thank you.
Hello silvaniodc,
Ensure that your smart sidebar has been correctly setup according to our documentation from here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/smart-sidebar-2/
Thanks for your understanding!
only the default sidebar of the theme is smart, other bars created by me are fixed. I would like the sidebars created by me to have the smart feature. how to make?
Hi Simion,
Thanks for your kind reminder! I am not very familiar with Adsense policy. I have already removed the smart sidebar and cleaned up all the areas which may violate the regulations.
You are very helpful at all. Thank you very much.
Regards,
Francis
Hi,
You can either make the sidebar sticky so it scrolls down with the page
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/smart-sidebar-2/
Or add more widgets in the sidebar to fill the sidebar space.
Thanks
Hi Team,
I activated the smart sidebar which shows in desktop and mobile mode too. However, I don’t want to show the smart sidebar content in mobile mode. How could I do so? Please kindly advise.
My website: NicoBros.com
Thank you.
Regards,
Francis
Hi Simion,
After a lot of trial and error, I achieved what I wanted with NP theme itself but just 1 caveat (I had to lose the sticky smart sidebar feature).
This custom CSS does the magic.
@media (max-width: 1018px) and (min-width: 768px)
{
.td-pb-row [class*="td-pb-span8"] {
padding-right: 14px;
padding-left: 14px;
width: 100%;
}
.td-pb-span4 {
width: 324px;
}
}I think I need some customizations to js/tagdiv_theme.js file to handle the stickiness around this section of the code:
if (tdUtil.getBackendVar('tds_smart_sidebar') == 'enabled' && tdDetect.isIos === false) {
Basically if we can avoid sticky sidebar if the width is between 768 & 1018 in this code section, I think I’ll be all set.
Could you show me a piece of code that does the check for the screen size in jquery and not trigger the event for scroll-up.
Let me know if this makes any sense.
Thanks, JK
Hi, I want a sidebar width to be exactly 300px. On browser resizing, if 300px sidebar width content can’t be fit it in, I don’t want to see a responsive sidebar by becoming slimmer & slimmer but rather I want the sidebar to be dropped to the bottom of the page. I have tried many CSS tweaks but could not make it work. BTW I have smart sidebar option turned on from theme panel as well.
Could you please suggest exactly what do I have to do to achieve this?
Thanks, JK
Hi,
You can make them sticky, for the moment only when the 2/3 + 1/3 layout is used. Please check bottom part of this guide
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/smart-sidebar-2/
There are plans in a coming new update to expand the possibilities of using sticky sections with the composer.
Thanks
I created some Pages with td composer and used the widget sidebar. The sidebars are not sticking like the smart sidebars, that is used when I don’t create the page with td composer. Is there any way I can make them sticky?
Hi,
For the moment there is only a sticky sidebar section that can be used in pages. This requires a certain layout to be used and a specific class to be added to the respective row. Please check the bottom part of this guide
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/smart-sidebar-2/
Thanks
Hello Catalin,
I’ve upgrade the theme to 8.8 (themeforest-5489609-newspaper-wordpress-theme.zip).
Upgrade WordPress to 4.6.9
Upgrade tagdiv composer
Upgrade system status parameters to max_input_vars = 5000
Issue still there.
Desactivate each plugin cumulative and event tagdiv composer and issue still there.
Don’t think it is related to any of these as it is js stuffs. Looking at the line in question and setInterval at line 313.
tdEvents.resize_event_medium_run&&(tdEvents.resize_event_medium_run=!1,tdSmartSidebar.td_events_resize(),tdCustomEvents._lazy_callback_resize_100())},100);setInterval(function(){tdEvents.scroll_event_slow_run&&(tdEvents.scroll_event_slow_run=!1,td_events_scroll_scroll_to_top(tdEvents.scroll_window_scrollTop),td_more_articles_box.td_events_scroll(tdEvents.scroll_window_scrollTop),tdCustomEvents._lazy_callback_scroll_500());tdEvents.resize_event_slow_run&&(tdEvents.resize_event_slow_run=!1,tdAffix.compute_wrapper(),
