Hello there, I purchased both Newsmag and later on Newspaper. Initially, I used Newsmag. The theme is great, however, I was not very happy because there are always lines created in the theme whenever I want to create layout by myself using visual composer and its add-ons. I changed it to Newspaper and here are problems that need to be fixed:
1. The article thumbnails need to be recreated. I used Force Regenerate Thumbnails. I have more than 5000 images hosted and whenever i run the plugin, it always stop at around 200 processed images. I know that we can run this plugin on a single or several images, but I dont want to go through post-by-post and find which articles are already used images. Any other way to speed up this process?
2. Regarding big slide: I have two issues:
a. Not like Newsmag, I can not set category filter to “Featured” with Sort Order is set as “Random Posts”. The big slide will be disappeared with this combination;
b. I have many images with white background, and again, whenever it displayed in a slider, then the arrow navigation will not be visible because the background of the image is white. Please fix this and how to make the slider images just like Newsmag. I know that you put color background to keep the post title visible. But without gradien effect, the arrow of left and right navigation would not be visible.
3. Regarding post template, many articles published in the previous theme (Newsmag) are using full post featured iamge position which is not avialbale in the Newspaper theme. Whenever I changed to Newspaper, the article would not visible until I change the post template. Any other way to make this process simple and efficient? I hv already created many articles.
4. My speed test with google using this theme is zero. How come?
Thanks
my wevsite is: gigisusu.net
I find the normal “regenerate thumbnails” works better than “force regen” plugin.
Try upping the memory allocated to WP in your wp-config.php file which MUST be done *in addition* to the php.ini/php memory setting for hosting account.
Newsmag is a ‘bordered’ site — it uses lines to show separation of different content areas; as clearly shown in site demo. Of course, you can hide the borders if you want to. Newspaper is more ‘open’ and ‘wider.’
Speed test “zero” ? Impossible unless page didn’t load. You would likely need to optimize your site, try following my sticky post and the theme docs.
This is different theme than Newsmag — so obviously not all the same options are available. However many of the cool features from Newsmag will be in “Newspaper 5” coming “really really soon now ….” (as free upgrade, per TagDiv folk).
Just food for thought; I do NOT work here 🙂
Hi,
@Christopher thanks!
@vtobing You can change the color of the Grid line on Newsmag theme if you want this – http://screencast.com/t/9wYZwr0k
1. Please try Christopher suggestion and use Regenerate thumbnails – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-fix-strange-thumbnails/ anyway I have checked your homepage and the thumbnails are displayed fine – http://screencast.com/t/EafYUovZba
2.
a. Not sure why do you have this issue, if you have articles on Featured category it should be displayed also on Big Slider.
b. You can use this custom css in Theme Panel > Custom Css for Big Slider arrows – http://screencast.com/t/DtyeieMwq8e
.iosSlider.td_block_big_grid .td-icon-left, .iosSlider.td_block_big_grid .td-icon-right {
color: red !important;
}
Also for normal slider you can add a background to the arrows – http://screencast.com/t/bDrHvF5t7u
.iosSlider .prevButton, .iosSlider .nextButton {
background-color: red;
}
3. You can try to change the post style as default from Theme Panel > Post Settings – http://screencast.com/t/SoPnjVmiAjRR This option is overwritten by the ‘Post template’ option from the backend – post add / edit page.
4. To improve the pagespeed score please check if the following optimization are done on your side – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ – and this one – https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-pagespeed-2015/
Thanks!
@Christopher and @Alin, thanks Will give it a try…
