Hello,
I’m a fairly basic user, but I’ve been using the Newspaper theme for several years and am trying to clean up a few items on my site. I’ve highlighted the areas in question in yellow with arrows and a box in the attached screenshot.
Specifically, I’m trying to understand where these elements are edited, as I haven’t been able to locate them within the Theme Panel or template settings.
I’m also noticing that the dates shown on the “Popular Posts” section don’t appear to update. These posts are quite old, yet they’re still being displayed as the most popular, which likely isn’t accurate anymore. I’m not sure whether this is related to caching, a widget setting, or how popularity is calculated.
Any guidance on where to edit these items or how to refresh the popular posts logic would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance for any help.
Hi,
I believe that’s on your blog. The footer can be customized with the composer. If you edit for example the homepage with the composer https://prnt.sc/9ORTEOqJmztt and scroll down to the footer, you can click on anything and customize it https://prnt.sc/VdlRyG4eUfXu
The posts that Popular Posts displays depends on the filtering and sorting it uses. It may be set on popular sorting, which can display older posts as well if they are popular. Or it may be “stuck” if the options required for the theme to count post views are not active. I suggest changing the sorting to random 7 days, to have some variety of new posts in that block https://prnt.sc/g9fHJYkj22t5 as a quick solution.
Everything can be customized with the composer. The theme panel is very rarely needed to be used. It was used more many years ago when the theme used to use the simpler header and footer templates, or post templates, etc. But ever since we added the cloud library and the PRO demos, these are fully built with the composer -> https://tagdiv.com/cloud-library-templates/
Please let us know if we can help with something else and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Thanks.
Hi Simion,
Thank you very much for the detailed explanation and for taking the time to include screenshots — that was extremely helpful.
Your clarification around customizing the footer directly within the composer makes perfect sense, and I appreciate the context on how the theme has evolved away from relying on the theme panel. I’ll proceed with making those adjustments directly in the composer.
The insight regarding the Popular Posts behavior was also very helpful. I’ll adjust the sorting to a random 7-day view as suggested, which should give us a better mix of newer content while we review whether post view tracking is fully enabled.
Thanks again for the clear guidance and for pointing me to the Cloud Library templates as well. I appreciate the support and will certainly reach out if we need anything further.
Best regards,
Jerry
