http://screencast.com/t/xLXKpKMMH
Screen print of the forum typo (bugs me too!).

It would be a great addition to the theme panel. That and the option to directly enter the Twitter via source are sorely needed.

Thanks again for the help Christopher… I will be testing this out today.

Well it’s not simple but good rarely is. Thank you sir. I’ll hunt that down later this evening.

You misunderstood.

That’s where you make the edits but I offered nothing on the code you presented. From looking over the code I see that you would have to custom code this and it’s more advanced than simply copying code from file-A to file-B as the queries are not setup for it. The query you need for this isn’t in any of the blocks or modules and likely doesn’t exist.

Good luck.

I haven’t seen an option for this – as you mentioned setting the category means you have to manually opt for a sidebar in each post. Devs will correct me if I’m wrong.

The easiest way I see to do what you’re wanting is to make a new page for each category archive using the page builder and select no sidebar for that page. Then set the sidebar for the category in the theme panel and all should work as you want – Category archive with no sidebar and and all posts with a sidebar.

Hope this helps.

The page you linked to is the only one showing that issue among a dozen I viewed. What’s special about that post? Might be why the ad is showing like that.

Can’t help with the second part, but the first part is simple.

http://screencast.com/t/7KzjANOY37M
Edit your block two in the page builder and select Popular (All Time) from the Sort Order box.

http://screencast.com/t/ysrIvB6lti1c
Edit your block two in the page builder and change the Limit Post Number to 10.

Sure. Glad it’s working for you now. You’re really going to like the features of this theme.

You should go ahead and start enabling the plugins you want to use one by one, testing the site after each activation to make sure things are still working correctly. Once you find the plugin that breaks it again, post the name of it here so the developers know what plugin it is and may possibly be able to fix the incompatibility from their end in the next update.

Cheers 🙂

Yeah it is a pain to do, you have my sympathies.

I just can’t stress enough letting him at least have an admin account on your site to check things out. Marius probably can spot the issue with his own eyes in a few minutes and have you up and running.

Short of that, I’ll subscribe to this thread and watch for your next reply. Maybe we can figure it out the hard way.

That would be my suggestion. Many other themes offer this setting in the options panel for this very reason.

The shortcodes can be added in the text block and text with title block, plus in posts and pages.

You would need to find the module that each block on your homepage is using and make the edit there. Just open the block source files for the blocks you’re using and it’ll tell you at the top which module it uses.

Blocks are located at includes > shortcodes
Modules are located at includes > modules

@Donkified You bought something and are having a unique issue (One that hasn’t been mentioned anywhere on this forum or the comments on Envato) that Marius has generously offered to fix for you (Theme installation and setup is not a free service included with theme purchase). You have declined him access for a first hand look. I’ve done this kind of support before and first-hand is the fastest way to get it done. Relying on an inexperienced blog owner (No offense intended at all) to give programming details is always slow, frustrating, and barely eventually as effective as just looking at the code.

So yeah, CHILL OUT A BIT…

chill out? im chilled out. I bought something, it doesnt work, i want it fixed. Simples.

Marius offered to fix it more than once, you declined. Let him help. Otherwise…

As far as the white screen loading, Newspaper is a website them, not a WordPress admin theme. So if it’s going white on the backend it’ll either give you an error at the top of the screen in black text that you need to share with us here or there is a plugin conflict that’s causing this. Your site and this theme have been given major upgrades over the past month so a plugin not playing nice with everything is not only possible, it’s likely.

1. Deactivate and delete the Newspaper theme
2. Deactivate and delete all plugins
3. Re-install 3.9 from Dashboard -> Upgrades menu
4. Do NOT use FTP for the above instructions – use WordPress if at all possible
5. If you have to use FTP, make sure your client is in binary transfer mode before you upload anything
6. With only Jetpack and Akismet plugins (If you use them) installed or activated on the site, activate Newspaper
7. Test drive the site and see if it all works.
8. REPORT FINDINGS BACK HERE

Short of you correctly following those instructions you will need to let Marius on your site to fix the issue with your site (Thousands of other people using this theme without this issue means it is localized to your setup).

Make sure you are downloading the WordPress installable theme file from your Envato downloads panel and do not change the name or file extension. This theme does take longer to install on the WordPress theme installer – that’s normal. Every theme is a different size and themes with less than 30% of the features of Newspaper are obviously smaller files.

Make sure you have WordPress 3.9 installed!

You purchased this theme from Marius (tagDiv team member). Please make this easier and take his FREE help and give him access to your site. Others have done it and been very pleased with his work. He doesn’t make his living from the rest of us if he scams you.

BTW – I’m not with tagDiv, just another customer like you with a background in programming and design trying to help. The fact that other customers are speaking up for the theme and trying to help you says a lot! Think about it.

@papap You should be able to handle the upgrade just fine from 3.6 -> 3.8 but 3.7 had a big change you need to catch up with.

https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-v-3-7/

Follow that guide to make the change on the visual composer plugin and install the 3.8 files in place of 3.7 as instructed. Basically…
1. Upload 3.8
2. Delete the wpbakery folder from your server
3. Follow the prompts on your dashboard to install the required plugins

Happy hunting

Wish I could say for sure what plugin it was, but I ran into the same problem on a demo site I run. The demo runs on the same server as the live site for testing purposes and had all the same plugins activated as my live site, yet the Twitter follower count was zero while the icon and Follow button in the social counter widget went to the correct Twitter profile.

So, I deleted and reinstalled the social counter plugin – updated from 1.0 to 1.3 and no change on the erroneous count.

I then took a guess and decided to delete to a BUNCH of useless old plugins I have tested in the last six months. None were active but something made a difference. So, for lack of a better option, here’s the list of inactive plugins that I deleted…

    Author Avatars List by <a href="http://bearne.ca">Paul Bearne</a>, <a href="http://mind2.de">Benedikt Forchhammer</a> (will also delete its data)
    Authors Page by Aimbox
    Avatars by Peter Sterling
    bbPress by The bbPress Community
    Block IE6 by Eric Hamby
    CF Post Formats by crowdfavorite
    Coeur Admin Color Scheme by Titouanc
    Column-Matic by twinpictures
    Custom About Author by Little Handy Tips
    Digicution Simple Twitter Feed by Dan Perkins @ Digicution (will also delete its data)
    Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup (will also delete its data)
    Feedweb by Feedweb
    Getty Images by gettyImages
    Gravajax Registration by Alex Cragg
    Gridster by Carsten Bach (will also delete its data)
    Meks Smart Author Widget by MeksHQ
    News Manager by dFactory
    NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster by Next Scripts
    People Page by Jethin
    Recent comments widget with excerpts by Corey Salzano
    Simple Author Widget by vinoth06
    Swiftype Search by Swiftype, Inc.
    Widget Icon by dFactory
    Widgets Reloaded by Justin Tadlock
    WordPress Related Posts by Zemanta Ltd. (will also delete its data)
    WP-Cirrus by Christian Kramer & Hendrik Thole
    WP-DBManager by Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (will also delete its data)
    WP Biographia by Gary Gale & Travis Smith (will also delete its data)
    WP Super Cache by Donncha O Caoimh (will also delete its data)

Something worked. I would guess maybe the cache plugin??? But I have no real clue. Keep in mind some of these plugins are more than 2 years old since last used so most won’t be helpful in figuring out what plugin is causing the conflict.

I’m running 3.7 with VC and WP 3.9 on this site. Never had a problem before I spotted it tonight.

The “Last Updated” area shows May 1st as the most recent, so it should be out tomorrow.

Happy for it myself. All my customizations are safely stored in the database and child theme and this update is a definite bug fix.

Since it’s just a few of you having the issue (Works perfect on my fully updated install) then it’s very likely a plugin conflict. You can rule out the Official Facebook and Jetpack sharing plugins as I use both without any issues along side TD Social Counter. I also use Rotating Tweets within inches of the Social Counter output on every page with no issues.

One thing to note is that the Ultimate Addons component is 3rd party while Templatera is made by the same people who make VC. Choose from too many columns and you might get overcharged.

But to be honest with you, your site is running pretty fast as-is. The lightbox you’re using could be faster but most come with different styles or methods and simply switching that around could make the difference, or optimizing your images. So yes, you have an unknown issue with speedbooster that’s not tied to your lightbox plugin but speedbooster isn’t gaining you any ground anyway. Nice site sir.

Read the upgrade guide again. You missed a big something…

Supposed to be less files in 3.7.

Check it again. I use speed booster and that lightbox plugin with Newspaper 3.7 and WP 3.9 – works perfectly. Therefore it’s pretty certain that your problem isn’t speed booster.

Lightbox was working when I clicked the link to your site just now. Maybe you’ve changed it already.

Responsive Lightbox by dFactory works very well with the Newspaper theme and all associated plugins/features. It’s also free and available from your plugins menu.

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Gotcha. Thanks for the info.

Almost forgot. The Call To Action 1, Teaser Grid and Tour blocks are missing from VS as well.

What’s happening to fix this?

set all to that size and regenerate all thumbs

Copy all thumb generation sizes from the functions.php file into the child-themes functions.php file and set each one to the size you want. If you want only 326×159 images then set all to that size and regenerate all thumbs. But only copy the code you are changing to the child-theme, not the whole file.