But I have the proper thumbnail selected. From the beginning I selected all of them! Any other ideas? As I said this only happens when I install the latest VC version. Once I install the previous version there is no problem with b-18 at all.

Thank you but I don’t have enough space in my server. I think I am going to probably wait until the next version of VC and see if it is resolved. But you are right when you said that block 18 was not using its proper thumbnail. I have two b-18 beside each other on the homepage and one image is using 696×385.jpg and the other 673×385.jpg. I don’t understand why this is happening!

Can you give me some css that I could use for this block and see if that fixes the problem I have in my local installation? The problem may be that for whatever reason the two big images of b-18 are using other blocks’ thumbnails. That could perhaps also explain why the whole block moves a bit to the right.

Many thanks.

Hi,

I said the problem was happening in my local installation because it is there that I have upgraded to the latest WordPress version, 6.7.1 of the theme and 4.11.2 of visual composer. It doesn’t happen on my website because I haven’t upgraded yet. With reference to my website, I have the thumbnails selected. In fact I have all of them selected, even though I don’t need all of them.

What it is happening on my local installation is that when I install version 4.11.2 of visual composer, block 8 goes all strange: (a) thumbnails don’t fill the container; and (b) the whole block moves to the right. See the attachment at http://screencast.com/t/MrHrYGOo

It cannot be a plugin conflict because I don’t have any, except VC. When I go back to the previous version of VC, block 8 rectifies itself. And all my photos are big as well. So there is a conflict somewhere between the theme and VC.

I have the latest WordPress upgrade, 6.7.1 of the theme and version 4.11.2 of visual composer. I have no plugins because this is a local installation I use for testing purposes. Yet block 18 is now broken. And it doesn’t happen if I install the previous version of VC. Of course when I install the previous version of VC, all I see is circle turning!

This is how b-18 looks like: http://screencast.com/t/MrHrYGOo

Is this a bug?

But I have the latest WordPress upgrade, theme and also VC. I actually upgraded everything two days ago. I have no plugins because this is a local installation I use for testing purposes. Yet block 18 is broken. And it doesn’t happen if I install the previous version of VC. Of course when I install the previous version of VC, all I see is circle turning!

This is how b-18 looks like: http://screencast.com/t/MrHrYGOo

I had the same problem but it resolved once I upgraded the theme and VC to the latest version.

I had the same problem. I tried to edit the homepage and all I could see was the circle turning, nothing else. I upgraded the theme to the last version and so VC. That has done the trick. But I am afraid there is a problem with at least one block: block 18. The block contracts and the same happens with the photo.

http://screencast.com/t/MrHrYGOo

WP User Avatar is also a plugin that will help you.

I don’t know how I found myself with two! But WP Rocket is using the one outside the wordpress folder to write all the stuff to cache my site. But both contain the same line: AddHandler application/x-httpd-php56 .php .php5 .php4 .php3.

That is all I know!

That is interesting. I have two htacces files. One is in public_html, which is the one that WP Rocket uses to write all their scripts. I have another inside the WordPress folder which only contains, AddHandler application/x-httpd-php56 .php .php5 .php4 .php3. But I don’t think there is a problem.

To be honest, I don’t have a problem with paying some annual fee for support, especially when the support is good. But what Envato is asking for is too high in my opinion.

Yes, I used your solution and it was great until I discovered that in my smart phone using Chrome, videos do not resize and it only shows half of it. However, when I switched to Firefox the videos look OK. I have now put back the original code and instead of 100%, I have specified 80%. But the problem is still occurring in Chrome on my smart phone.

Can you please check this link for example and give me your opinion? http://churchandstate.org.uk/2015/07/the-rights-home-school-conspiracy-how-i-helped-gop-launch-a-religious-war/

Thank you!

I left my local installation with no plugins and I have noted that when I click “restore down”, this anomaly is taking place in IE (http://screencast.com/t/dMAS8MslRr). The same problem doesn’t occur in Firefox or Chrome.

UPDATE: When I then put back the line that you guys told me to delete: td_video.attr(‘width’, ‘100%’); (http://screencast.com/t/5EWuDsJMGfi), the problem is rectified, even with all my plugins back (http://screencast.com/t/KyovnYv1).

What should I do?

Thanks in advance.

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Could it be that you guys told me to remove a line of code in tagdiv_theme.js so that embedded youtube videos wouldn’t automatically resize to 100% on articles? Thanks.

I also have the same problem with videos. I use WP Rocket but I don’t use CDN or js/css minification. In a tablet the size is fine, just in the smart phone. This is one example: http://churchandstate.org.uk/2015/08/read-here-three-powerful-stories-which-again-confirm-the-urgent-need-for-real-immigration-reform/

Thanks.

Totally agreed. The days of installing wordpress, a theme and there you have it, a website, are over. You wonder where this is going. Is it going to become so complex that ordinary people won’t be able to create websites and share information? Even Facebook and Twitter have their own way to extract images and excerpts. I’m getting too old! 🙂

Oops. I know. I suppose the damage has been done already.

I am in fact reading all the stuff you have written. You are some productive person!!

The reality is that all this optimization is a bit overwhelming. Then you have to add SEO as well, plus the theme panel. I tell you, everything was much easier when html was the only way to do a website. 🙂

Now that you mention the regeneration of thumbnails. With my old theme, the size of my website was 1GB more or less. Now it’s over 4GB, because Newspaper requires so many different sizes of images.

I bought WP Rocket too.

It doesn’t work, I’m afraid. I went from a huge excerpt appearing in the homepage to none at all!

This is the code I entered: http://screencast.com/t/sBcSHfD43 and this is what I got in the homepage: http://screencast.com/t/VhVm2GU8VSGa

What next?

Thanks!

I don’t think I explained myself properly.

I cannot control excerpts from Theme Panel because unfortunately for the last few years I have been writing excerpts via the WordPress facility. Now I have discovered that they are too long for this theme, as you can see in this screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/cMu09dXshzH.

I need a way to automatically shorten my excerpts on the homepage. I have recreated your default demo so I am using quite a lot of blocks. My problem is where to add the code.

I had the same problem in the categories page but I added this code to M16 and it resolved the issue:

<div class=”td-excerpt”>
<?php echo wp_trim_words(get_the_excerpt(), 30); ?>
</div>

Thanks in advance!

I just tried one of your pages now and I had no problem with Fb.

Thank you, Andrei. It works.

Yeah, I will do that.

Great, thanks. If I export my theme settings, then I uninstall the demo and I install it again … will I recover my theme settings once I import my theme settings?