Before removing Newspaper theme, I’ve tried a completed reinstall of WordPress and used a new instance for the same. I’ve followed https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/ as well before installing the theme. So this completely bare-bone installation with no extra plugins attached also experienced the same issue.

What I concluded from the behaviour is, too much load is pushed back to WordPress host when a slight change is made. So for example when I try to edit the header, for each keystroke a lot of things are happening behind.

An suggestion from my side is to have a button to disable this live reload and only the UI should be rendered when save button is pressed. Don’t know whether this option is already there or is this the exact reason behind.

Regarding the support, I’ve noticed the time frame already before starting this thread. What I noticed is replies where given to another posts which came past this post. So, there might moderators need some time to get back for particluar issues that’s acceptable if a reply is posted like “We’ll get back to you soon” in the thread meanwhile.

Anyhow I’m moving from this theme due to CPU bottleneck I experienced but it’s a wonderful theme. Thanks, appreciate your time. 🙂

Disappointed support from team, meanwhile I reinstalled the whole WordPress and retried in a new EC2 instance still the issue persists. I’m initiating a refund request in Themeforest.