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Update:
This was caused by the Google publisher chrome add-on. Thanks!
Hi,
@okti I’ve tested this and found no issue. Please make sure you update the social counter plugin also then test again.
@Chris S We’re currently working on fixing all the issues we had with the 1.7 version, we’ll also add an option for the lazy load feature so it can be disabled from theme panel. As soon as we have it ready and we test it rigorously we’ll have it released.
We’re sorry for all the trouble and the inconvenience caused, we will do our best to make sure that this will not happen again!
Thanks for understanding!
After the update my pagespeed did even get faster. I am using w3 total cache and cloudflare. I disabled the lazy load functionality because I could not see the images on my Windows 8 phone. My server configuration is Linux, CENTOS 6.6 x86_64, Apache 2.2.29, PHP 5.4.36, MYSQL 5.5.42-cll, Perl 5.10.1
Maybe this helps the developers to eliminate some issues. Kind regards.
Hi,
The activation warning appears a few days after you installed the theme, check the following guides:
Registration guide – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-activate-the-theme-newspaper/
How to find the Envato Purchase Code – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-find-your-envato-purchase-code/
The Visual Composer plugin that comes with the theme is licensed to the theme, the license specifies that only we can provide the updates and you don’t have to buy it or register it. We provide updates on a regular basis, after we test the plugin for theme compatibility the plugin is included in the latest theme update.
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Hi,
To use RTL you should localize your WordPress: http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language
Install WordPress in your language then automatically the theme will use the RTL.
Search the forum for suggestion and fixes for the issue you may encounter with this and you should also consider that unfortunately we recently have decided that starting with the next theme update we will not include RTL support within the theme. You can still use the theme as it is but unfortunately you cannot updated it as you will lose the RTL support or you can update it and make yourself the necessary adjustments needed.
The theme’s grid will be changed on v.5 and with it the whole css, from the code perspective it will practically be a new theme and unfortunately we don’t plan to add RTL support for it, sorry for this. There are a lots of new elements and we had to take this decision because we don’t have too many RTL customers and designing the theme to support RTL layout will cost us lots of resources.
If you can’t use the theme we can offer a full refund, just send an email at contact@tagdiv.com and we will explain the procedure.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
Thanks for the message and for understanding!
Hi,
I am using the theme panel to change color settings. Clicking save, which appears to work (tick appears), website color change doesn’t update and when I come out and go back into theme panel no color change is registered
Thanks
Darran
ENC Definitely picked up speed from the changed, even when checking during your downgrade.
There’s no question about it, NewsMag 1.7 has something wrong with it that’s affecting installations on multiple server platforms, types, and configurations.
Looking at the update log for 1.7 I only see one possibility for where the problem could be, and that’s in the lazy loading code. The adjustments to the search function could be causing it, which seems unlikely, but there is no longer an option to enable/disable the search from the main menu.
I know there were instructions for disabling the lazy loading feature, but 2 lines of php and one CSS class do not a comprehensive lazy load make. I can’t think of anything that would cause every entire page to load at half speed, or worse.
After 9 years with WordPress and 20 years with webdev… and the sticky post in this forum on how to upgrade the theme … um, yeah… I updated it with fresh version.
I have to do completely fresh version as I tweak the theme for some minor things like custom field for hit counter, remove the XLRPC thing from header, minify the style.css, remove the breadcrumbs from search template, and put in our custom functions for optimization and disabling some things like not loading the visual composer CSS on post pages, etc.
So, in theory all things being equal the 1.7 site should behave just like the 1.6 sites except with lazy loading on top.
And I never use child themes, and all files are uploaded with Linux/unix line breaks vs windows, etc.
(I’m an advanced user …. obviously …)
Hence my … what the hell, man reaction with the ENC site.
So… going to roll that back once I get couple more client things done.
Basically going to use our tweaked 1.6 version – same exact thing running musewire.
Of course the dbase for ENC is hideously huge, and 10x the size of musewire, but other than that …
We have 32GB RAM, 12 cores of XEON power, and dedicated gigabit switch in Class A datacenter (SoftLayer) … so, we’ve got the juice.
ENC has 512MB allocated to PHP. So… may I just say … “sheesh!” 🙂
Yeah, got them both open right now in Chrome and eNews is stalling for several seconds before it even starts displaying the next page. Whereas Muse Wire responds instantly on most pages, though a 1-2 second delay occasionally (from the current server load I’d imagine).
When you updated the one to 1.7, did you:
- completely remove and install the new version fresh
- overwrite the old version entirely
- overwrite the changed files from the patch directory with new versions
Curious if something was missed in the patch files that could be contributing to such disparaging results between versions.
Yes it is. I noticed on the first page load after the upgrade. I never worked with 1.6 because of all the issues around the social counter plugin. I planned to set aside some time to work that all out and test things and was looking for an off-peak time to do it, in case there was any down time. Never got around to it until today. So, I patched from 1.5 => 1.6 with updated plugins for that version and then patched again from 1.6 => to 1.7 immediately after.
I know the PHP version compatibility issues were with 1.7 and not 1.6, though maybe that ended up being the issue with the social counter plugin (idk?). But I have no clue how fast 1.6 was.
I thought disabling lazy loading would make a bigger difference than it did. It doesn’t surprise me that your server processes went up so high after reading about the YANDEX issue. I’m going to check tomorrow and see how my GPU usage was affected by moving to 1.7 today. Not showing any increase so far but I’ll know for sure tomorrow.
Not at all useful on the .gif issue since I never use them, but that sure does remind me of how Windows handles the .gif format without the proper codecs and such; converts them to jpegs outside of a browser.
Great, do you know aprox when will this update take place?
Okay, all on the same site listed above, I’ve tried these plugins with 1.7:
Zen Cache – 62 Desktop PageSpeed Score
WP Super Cache – 62 Desktop PageSpeed Score
Gator Cache – 62 Desktop PageSpeed Score
WP Fastest Cache – 62 Desktop PageSpeed Score
W3 Total Cache – 68 Desktop PageSpeed Score
No Cache – 62 Desktop PageSpeed Score
On all tests I had the speed booster plugin enabled. I also ran tests before and after browsing the site to populate the cache.
I find it interesting that the only plugin that gained even a single point on the page speed test was W3TC. I hate this plugin. It’s constantly taking me to the plugin dashboard when I want settings, has annoying popups on the admin, and slows down the back end of any site it’s installed on.
Why are none of the other plugins reporting any difference at all? All of the caching plugins besides W3TC had the same effect as having no caching plugin installed.
I like the lazy loading on the new update, but if I have to entirely sacrifice my choice of compatible caching plugins to have it, I’d rather not. Can I turn the lazy load off to test these again?
Something is wrong if the only caching plugin that has any effect is W3TC. Before the 1.7 update, all of the tested plugins listed above worked to varying degrees with NewsMag. Some were better than others and every single one got my page speed score of the site as it is now over 80. None of them even hit 70 with 1.7.
Sorry to keep going on and on about this but it’s a MAJOR issue. You’ve already got customers ditching the theme above over it. What can be done about this?
Thanks.
As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, WP Fastest Cache is the highest performing caching plugin for tagDiv themes. I have yet to test the other caching plugins on 1.7, but this new update is no longer compatible with WP Fastest Cache. I only mention that because this plugin works on many themes, meaning it is compliant with WordPress standards and NewsMag now affects the WordPress core somehow.
1.7 dropped my pagespeed score from 89-93 to 62 and below. There were no other changes to the site. I updated the theme plugins by deleting the old plugins and installing the new plugins. As for the theme, I replaced changed files from the patch folder.
I’ll update here when I’ve tested other caching plugins with 1.7.
I’m getting the same kind of issue after updating to 1.7.
From what I can see, the new version of the theme doesn’t support caching. I don’t the POS overbloated W3TC to cache my site, but what I use worked perfectly before the update. Some features of a caching plugin *might* need some compatibility fixes for each theme, but the theme is disregarding header expiration settings even, so I doubt it’s the plugin. WP Fastest Cache is what I’ve used with NewsMag and Newspaper with no issues.
All images are having to load fresh on every page load, whether it’s a VC template page or a standard single post.
My site background is also only loading once out of every 3-4 page loads. Not sure if that’s related to the slowdown or not, but there it is.
Site in question is http://bluestartimes.com.
Hello;
Thank you for your repply;
I did the update and nothing have change.
Hi,
I’ve also tested this using the latest theme version and it seems that the color settings for block title doesn’t works.
I’ve added this issue on our todo list and we will fix it in next theme update.
Until then you can use the css from below to change slider’s block title: http://screencast.com/t/CPUskhkh0
.td_normal_slide .block-title span {
color: #EDC5C5;
background-color: #4726E0;
}
Thanks for reporting this!
Sorry for the inconvenience!
Hi,
I have checked your site, but I’m not sure why do you have this issue. Please try this without any plugins active, leave just Visual Composer active, also clear cache an purge your files is you use CDN.
I have tested this on our demo and how you already saw it works fine. On our demo we use the latest theme version(4.6.2) so please make sure also that you use the latest version. If you need to update please follow this guide and use FTP method(also make a backup of your current theme’s installation): https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme/ update also plugins that come with the theme’s files from /plugins folder.
Thanks!
Hi,
Unfortunately theme doesn’t have an option for this, you can set the font from Theme Panel > Custom Typography.
We’ll also consider to add an option for this in future updates if more people will ask for it, but we have to be very carefully what we chose to implement as we have over 200 request on our lists.
Thanks!
Hi,
Unfortunately not as you would need custom modifications for this and we cannot provide any type of custom work at this moment as we work hard on development, updates, fixes and support so the time and resources don’t allow us to provide custom work. Sorry!
I suggest you get a freelancer form site like: http://studio.envato.com/ ..if you really need this or search for a plugin that could help you do it.
Thanks for the message!
Hi,
This error was already fixed for Newsmag theme and for Newspaper will be fixed on version 5. On that version will be a major update for Newspaper and all these errors will be fixed.
Sorry for inconvenience and thanks for understanding!
Hi,
Did you manage to update the theme? Do you have an error as I cannot figured out what the issue is?
Please make sure that you make a backup of your current theme installation and the make sure that you follow the above guide to update. Let me know!
Thanks!
Hi,
If you have custom modifications to the theme files you ca take a look and see what files we change until latest update and update only that files. Anyway we have made many changes till version 1.7.
If you don’t have any modifications to the files please follow this guide to update and use FTP method(also make a backup of your current theme installation, so you can revert if something goes wrong): https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-theme/ and also update the plugins that come with the theme files from the /plugins folder.
In 1.5 theme’s version we have renamed some shortcodes:
– td_ad_box -> td_block_ad_box
– td_authors -> td_block_authors
– td_homepage_full_1 -> td_block_homepage_full_1
– td_popular_categories -> td_block_popular_categories
– td_video_vimeo -> td_block_video_vimeo
– td_video_youtube -> td_block_video_youtube
– td_text_with_title -> td_block_text_with_title
– td_slide -> td_block_slide
– td_social_counter -> td_block_social_counter
So the renamed widgets have to be re added to each sidebar after this update. Make sure that you backup your database and if possible get the widget list from your sidebars.
Rename the short codes via SQL: https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-newsmag-to-1-5/
The shortcodes shouldn’t be a problem, they will just appear on page as a code, you have to locate them and manually modify them to the new format: http://screencast.com/t/Da8k0HHtSD or use the SQL query (in phpmyadmin) to automatically replace them in the database – http://screencast.com/t/G1SwZNDb
Hope this helps
Hi,
The posts from blocks can be filtered by category OR by tag and the default one is filter by category – http://screencast.com/t/rPqwwPT0 You would need custom modification for this and it is not an easy task I suggest to hire a professional as we cannot provide custom work at this time as we work on updates/development and support. Sorry for this!
Thanks!
Hi,
I can tell you exactly when it will be an update, but it will be soon as possible we hope at the end of the next week.
Thanks!
