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Before the update to V3, i used to have greek google fonts (open sans and roboto). After the update although i chose them, the greek fonts are not displayed nicely (The english fonts are ok).
I have tried to install the greek google fonts. I installed their code after <head>, but i don’t know what to do in order to add them in css.
Please help me with that.
@Kronos17 we use a shared web hosting service based in Switzerland (Infomaniak). We are almost ready to go into production ^^ But since this update to 3.8, the modal login widget doesn’t work anymore. Unfortunately, the only thing we can see, is the fatal error returned by Firebug.
I will try to make a clean install on the productive environnement to see if it’s working or not.
Hello,
First of all I’d like to say a big thank you for such a great WordPress Theme. I was looking for a very long time for news/magazine style WP theme fully compapitable with buddypress. So that’s how I came accross to choose this theme.
For sure there are also some issues, which I’m facing as well, so I hope you’ll be able to help me to solve it.
So let’s get started.
1. Ability to move Author Box to the top of the page.
Well, in my opininion for users it is much more important to see post authors at the top of the article nor at the bottom, when there is a multi-author website. So don’t you think that it would be very cool if we would be able to move author box to the top of the page?
Also some more issues:
– Now it shows author’s username in author box. Would it be possible somehow to change it automatically to author’s First and Last Name?
– Also is it possible to do drop-down author box similar to starbox does have?
2. Add LinkedIn share button together with other social sharing buttons
Now all articles can have Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest share buttons. But I think LinkedIn is also worth of being together with these buttons as it usually sends quite a lot of social visitors.
Also maybe it would be worth to consider to add social counters similar to Mashable does have?
3. Source URL and VIA url options doesn’t work properly
This theme does have a very cool option which let’s to mention who wrote the article and put a nice looking source.
But the problem is if let’s say you’ll put http://www.google.com/analytics in “Source URL” and http://www.google.com in “VIA URL”, then the system generates broken links and it redirects to 404 error pages.
In this case “Source URL” redirects to http://www.mywebsite.com/my-post-url/www.google.com/analytics and “Via URL” redirects to http://www.mywebsite.com/my-post-url?www.google.com, when it should redirect to http://www.google.com/analytics and http://www.google.com.
4. Ability to change text colors in main slides
Now if you change the color of the whole site, then the color in big slide will change as well.
The main problem is if I change website color, then sometimes the collor of title and collow of the box, which wraps the title, doesn’t look very attractive. So, it would be great if we could change class=”td-sbig-title-wrap” and class=”td-sbig-title” (the same is valid for small slides as well) via admin panel.
In this case I can change slide colors myself via css. But I think for many user it would be very useful if the would have a chance to change those colors themselves via admin panel.
5. Consider about “register” option in Login form at the top menu
There is a very cool option that we’re able to insert login form at the top menu, but I think it would be fair enough, that if users can login, first of all they should get an option to register on the site? 🙂
I think in that form should be additional “Register” form or at least something similar to “Not registered yet?”.
I want to thank you in advance in taking your time to read my problems and recommendations.
I do really believe that all those options would be very useful for other users as well, so maybe it is worth to consider to implement them in the next theme updates.
If not, I would really apreciate your recommendations on how I would be able to fix all those problems myself.
Thanks a lot and waiting for your honest answer 🙂
I have updated the theme today and I facing a problem with fonts. Although i have made OPEN Sans as the default font, in my home page http://www.aplotaria.gr/ there are 2 blogs with texts that are in PT Sans fonts http://snag.gy/RdPU4.jpg
Also PT Sans are the subtitles in posts.
Please let me know how to change these fonts.
Thanks in advance
Hi.
The only thing that I changed was to update your theme and installing the ‘WPBakery Visual Composer’ that you have requested. This plugin is the reason for ‘Infinite Load’ stopped working. I already test all the plugins.
How do I fix it ?
Regards
Hello,
Unfortunately we cannot offer custom work anymore. We would have gladly made it for you but we work very hard on the updates and features for all the users. You can always get a freelancer from sites like: http://www.envatostudio.com/
Thanks for understanding!
This is from the plugin docs on github…
=== Envato WordPress Toolkit ===
Contributors: envato, valendesigns, japh
Tags: install, update, api, envato, theme, upgrade
Requires at least: 3.0
Tested up to: 3.3.2
Stable tag: 1.6.2WordPress toolkit for Envato Marketplace hosted items. Currently supports the following theme functionality: install, upgrade, & backups during upgrade.
== Description ==
According to this the plugin was only tested up to WordPress 3.3.2 and the admin menu in WordPress has been partially overhauled once, and mostly overhauled once since then. Also, it was last updated three months ago meaning before WP 3.9, 3.8.3, 3.8.2 and 3.8.1 were release.
Either way, have you tried contacting the people who made that plugin? They are who provide support for it regardless of whether or not tagDiv tried to make their theme compatible.
Hi I have updated the website to the current theme and below error msg is comming.Please tell me what to do.
website link- http://mavcure.com/
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wpb_js_remove_wpautop() in /home/curepaty/public_html/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/includes/shortcodes/td_text_with_title.php on line 30
Hi!
@Radu A
Hum, I didn’t modify something. But maybe something went wrong during the last update (to 3.8). I will try to re-install it.
Hi,
@leda your problem is because you have hidden the featured images http://screencast.com/t/pdEdHG23 and this will hide the video to.
We will fix this in the next update, until that add this code: and get_post_format($this->post->ID) != 'video' like here: http://screencast.com/t/EQ9ziZKUl
Thanks!
hi,
I have search the theme for ‘vc_row el_position’ and found it only on td_first_install.php file.
this file is used only when importing the demo content.
can you paste the link to your site so we can check it out.
Thanks for you message.
Radu A.
@Kronos, due to some security updates in the wordpress 3.9 we thought that we should stay with the new update but I recently updated the theme to its version 3.8. Although, i haven’t posted anything out to see if the thumbnails are working correctly but on my homepage this code is displaying on top of the big slider — [vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"] and below the slider — [/vc_column][/vc_row]. please tell me how to remove it. and i will post about the thumbnail problem later.
hi,
visual composer is used to create pages not posts.
doc on how to update : https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme/
theme doc: https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-documentation/
Thanks for you message.
Radu A.
Hi,
We will take a look.
Thanks!
I had someone help with increasing my page speed, he said that what is slowing it down is the requests for so many fonts. Is this true? Why are there so many requests for fonts? Is there an update that will decrease this? Thanks
hej
i receive to errors on my webpage after the newly update.
The errors appear above the sliders that i hae on my webpage.
error is:
vc_row el_position=”first last”] ect.
Do you know the reasson I receive the error ?
Thanks,
Claus
I know what the problem is…
WP 3.9 contained some pretty huge changes, including media handling. Newspaper 3.7 specifically addressed these changes to maintain the themes compatibility with WP.
So it makes no sense to dig any further. You either need to revert back to WP 3.8.3 or upgrade the theme.
I’d strongly recommend that you take this time to do the following.
1. Revert back to WP 3.8.3 until the following steps are completed
2. Move all customizations from the parent theme to the Child Theme ( Child Theme Documentation – https://forum.tagdiv.com/child-theme-documentation/ )
3. Upgrade the theme to 3.8 following the specific instructions for the 3.7 update that are crucial future theme versions and your problem directly ( See the guide here – https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-v-3-7/ – specifically note that the existing wpbakery folder must be deleted for 3.7 + to work )
It is a chore to move the customizations to the child theme but doing so means you can stay current on features and bug fixes without this headache in the future. Remember, every release of a theme and of WordPress includes bug fixes – not just the features you’re so eager to dismiss.
Good luck and please post back here if you run into any problems.
@kronos i have already regenerated all the thumbnails. I am running this theme for more than 6 months now and everything was going fine until now. The theme stopped making extra thumbnails just all of a sudden. Also, i would like you to know that before when i uploaded any images, it automatically created many versions of the image in different sizes to use for thumbnails in different places but now the image just remains intact and when i check the uploads directory in wordpress i only found one image.
Also i am currently running WordPress v3.9 and v3.6 of the Newspaper theme. I just don’t want to upgrade the theme because i’ve entered a lot of custom code in the header and the new updates doesn’t have anything for me. I don’t need any of the new features they launched. Please provide any solution to the problem.
It’s a pain but take your time to do it once and things are just much simpler from there. Don’t forget to activate the child theme.
No problem. I appreciate your insight based on your own experiences. I am going to go the Child Theme route. Should have from the start, but neglected to put it in place from day one.
Thanks again.
Philip
BTW – If you were running the latest version of wordpress you’d have issues. I recommend upgrading to WordPress 3.9 and Newspaper 3.8 right away.
Read this guide first – https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-v-3-7/ – and just upload the full 3.8 files where it says to upload files. The rest will work out. The 3.7 update had a major change.
WordPress 3.9 is a milestone upgrade meaning it’s not just bug fixes. They made some major changes to some parts of the software.
Not exactly the kind of issue I had… I messed up.
For your problem, unfortunately, you must upload the whole theme fresh since you missed the patches – that’s the most sure-fire way to get it done.
If your customizations are in all in the Custom CSS tab of the theme panel, then they are safe in the database.
If your customizations are all in the child theme files then they are safe from a full install of the parent theme.
If your customizations are all in the parent theme then you have just a few choices and none are great.
1. Never update the theme again, which also means you can’t upgrade to WordPress 3.9 as 3.6 and below of the theme aren’t compatible with WP 3.9
2. Best Option – Move your customizations to the child theme and Custom CSS of the theme panel so you don’t lose them on future upgrades to the parent theme ( Here’s Newspaper child theme documentation – https://forum.tagdiv.com/child-theme-documentation/ )
3. Worst Option – copy all of your customizations to Newspaper 3.8, meaning you’ll have to do that with each update
4. You could go through all of the updates since version X to 3.8 compiling a complete list of modified files, but if you miss one your site will likely break ( 3.7 had a major change, see https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-v-3-7/ for instructions to convert the Visual Composer to a plugin )
Wish the news could be better. Good luck.
