Bug when I modify a sidebar

Hello,

I use newspaper for my website http://www.newlook.francelysee.com
I have a problem when I modify a sidebar. I go to “appearance” => “widget”. I modify a sidebar that I have created previously, and I save it. I use this sidebar for my pages, there is no problem.

But when I come back to “appearance” => “widget”, few hours after, the sidebar is empty. Every widgets I put inside has disappeared.

Can you help me to correct this bug, please ?

Thank you,

Arnaud

And I have an other problem. Why I can’t see the “block settings”, like here :
http://www.noelshack.com/2015-21-1432468546-capture-d-ecran-2015-05-24-a-13-54-28.png

You can see here, i haven’t got the “block settings” : http://www.noelshack.com/2015-21-1432468635-capture-d-ecran-2015-05-24-a-13-51-33-2.png

Thank you very much,

arnaud

For the widgets;
Often that is issue with your caching (common with stuff like GoDaddy where you have to keep clearing with the clear cache button to get anything to save properly), or the ajax in your web browser isn’t really saving that. I run into this with IE on Windows sometimes and have to switch to Chrome. Seems to happen randomly with widgets, and only started with WP 4.2x.

Sometimes it’s another plugin you have running which is causing a conflict by possibly trying to load some other additional java element in the admin panel and two copies of jquery loading, etc. — might have to try disabling your other plugins to find which one causing that issue.

Thank you, I will try to find the plugin who causing that.

I have an other problem. Why I can’t see the “block settings”, like here : http://www.noelshack.com/2015-21-1432468546-capture-d-ecran-2015-05-24-a-13-54-28.png

You can see here, I haven’t got the “block settings” : http://www.noelshack.com/2015-21-1432468635-capture-d-ecran-2015-05-24-a-13-51-33-2.png

Thank you very much,

Arnaud

I dont think newspaper yet has all the options from newsmag theme.

I don’t solve yet my problem with sidebar’s widgets. I will continue to search.

I need “block settings” because I have a problem with pictures. But I hope I can resolve it without.
I used the plugins “force regenerate thumbnails” and “reg. thumbnails”.
You can see here, in the homepage, the thumbnails are goods : http://www.newlook.francelysee.com. I want the same for all the website.
But here, in a category page, the thumbnails are not modify by “reg thumbnails”, and they are not good : http://www.newlook.francelysee.com/?cat=62

What can I do to have the thumbnails as the homepage, for all the website ?

Thank you

You can modify how images are “cropped” — but you will need to “hack” some settings; there is no consistent way to ensure all images are “cropped perfectly” as all are different — as are all photos. So, some might get top chopped off, some might get bottom chopped off. To have images be “perfect” for all shapes and sizes of thumbs you would likely need to create your original images very carefully to have appropriate spacing on all sides so you end up with a “safe area.”

For example you could edit the functions file in the tagdiv booster folder to change the default crop direction for a specific thumbnail size following the settings for WordPress, as found in the official docs … e.g., you could have “crop from top, left” or “crop from bottom, right” .. etc.

SEE:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_image_size

TagDiv can point you at the right file to edit in the theme folder, to experiment with.

Block settings are not included with the Newspaper theme; nor advertised to have them, nor shown in the demo; but will be supposedly coming in Newspaper v5. Obviously you can’t somehow “add” that admin panel from another theme to this one — doesn’t work that way. However, that feature most likely will be in Newspaper 5 coming next month (hopefully). Remember theme docs for Newsmag do *not* apply to Newspaper — two different themes!