Sadly, the theme is not at all compatible with PHP 8 as it will just go to the white screen error.

For those that can get into their server, you can go ahead and install PHP 8 so when Newspaper does do the update, you can switch over immediately.

Sent.

Thank you.

Has anyone else been able to figure this one out as I know I’m not the only one it’s happened to.

Much appreciated.

Hello,

Actually before the update, you could customize AMP with the AMP WordPress plugin. For some reason since the update, the AMP is no longer showing up on the left hand size on the back-end of WP panel. Before you were able to choose 3 different ways to have AMP work with your site.

When I try to download the latest version of Newspaper, it won’t complete the download. It’s done this to other people in that past so you all have dealt with this before.

You would just have to reupload the last version of Newspaper theme you had along with the plugins. If you keep each version, it’ll be no problem to reupload over the new version. They just released a bug fix version yesterday so if you’ve not gotten that, it might be your solution.

with these updates, you have to wait a day or two, check here to see what problems arise and wait for them to come up with the next bug fix. many popular themes go through these growing pains.

This is a great them, but there have been some big frustrations when updating. Things like having to change your post from ‘Default Template Style’ setting to ‘1’ or else all your articles/posts would show up blank.

For me the worst has been the abysmal Mobile plugin as it caused way more headaches than just letting the AMP plugin do its job. If you use a free plugin like Asset Clean Up, it will actually get your site speeding up in mobile mode to keep Google happy.

I hope the developers fix this as it’s a pretty big issue and many people still don’t realize to come here for help. Is this update slowing anyone’s site down now or speeding them up?

I’ve tried for years on this theme, but the Related Articles doesn’t really filter so well. I wound up using Inline Related Posts which filters perfectly plus it places related articles into the body of your posts rather than just at the end.

A quick and easy way is just to add this line to the very end of your functions.php file. Leave out the plus signs, of course:0

+++++
add_filter(‘comment_form_default_fields’, ‘website_remove’);
function website_remove($fields)
{
if(isset($fields[‘url’]))
unset($fields[‘url’]);
return $fields;
}
++++

We had the same problems with our news sites as our Google Insights were in the 30’s. We now use both WP Rocket (caching plugin) and Asset Cleanup and we are now in the high 90’s for both mobile and desktop. We’ve been using these for the past two months and now Google is pushing our search results much higher as our site loads extremely fast (.7 ms – 1 sec) even with a lot of high quality images.

The Asset Cleanup plugin will take a little testing out but we had it going in about 45 minutes as it goes through everything on your site to test out. Since we couldn’t get any help figuring this out, I thought I’d pass along some helpful hints since Google is a real pain in the butt to make happy. They can be like that unhealthy relationship we’ve all been in and can’t get out of! Our site is movietvtechgeeks.com so you can see for yourself how fast we load.

We wound up not using their mobile plugin as it really slowed things down and our Google Insight Mobile was in the 30’s. We wound up using a combination of WP Rocket and Asset Cleanup plugin (an amazing free one) that got our site into the high 90s for mobile and 99-100 on desktop. There’s a lot of extra in this theme that really slows things down and these will help muddle through it. (movietvtechgeeks.com)

This code is from WP Rocket.

What I was doing was showing you the code that will keep lazyload from loading Feature Images to find out how to make it work with the Newspaper Theme.

I’m sorry that my writing is not that good to understand. I am trying to be as specific as possible for you to understand.

The code I sent was code that works universally (in this case it was for WP Rocket) to keep Lazy Load from lazyloading feature images so they come up immediately and then lazyload does its thing for the rest of the page.

I am trying to find out where the code is in Newspaper for the lazyload function so I can apply (and rewrite the code specifically for the Newspaper them) it.

Hi,

I found the code needed to disable lazyload on an image class. I have searched through the theme editor, but I can’t find any lazyload code.

I’m hoping you can give me the correct newspaper code to add in place of the ‘rocket’ wording. I’ll then be able to also add the code for the front big grid section of the homepage. I think many Newspaper users will find this helpful, especially on mobile devices.

+++function rocket_lazyload_exclude_class( $attributes ) {
$attributes[] = ‘class=”td-post-featured-image”‘;

return $attributes;
}
add_filter( ‘rocket_lazyload_excluded_attributes’, ‘rocket_lazyload_exclude_class’ );+++

There actually aren’t any plugins that deal with this. Surprisingly no one has offered this fix before.

It’s not about a plugin conflict.

What I actually stated in my original post was asking if there is a way to have the images on a site load above the fold and then lazy load works from there. Currently, with lazy load ticked, when our site comes up it’s just a grey screen for nearly 1.5 seconds. The reader has to begin to scroll down for those to show up.

As most people know, people don’t begin to scroll down until they see the full picture on an article or frontpage show up.

Hopefully you can understand what I’m saying. Basically, if the images above the fold of the sit can immediately pop up when opened, and then lazy load takes over from that point.

Just a thought. Would it not be easier to work backwards and just make the Newspaper theme responsive better to work on mobile.

It seems like we’re having to do more and more work when I actually bought the theme due to it being responsive so I wouldn’t have to worry about creating a whole other mobile site. As I have a very busy news site using Newspaper, I can’t afford to ‘try’ these new things as they often become buggy. It seems that since Google is pushing ‘Mobile first’ and they’re huge on speedy sites, the developer would go back into the Newspaper theme and make it speedier.

Just a thought on this.

Found the solution. I’ve been using Newspaper for years so I had the page builder + Latest Articles as page template still on.

You have to hit the Default template selection and then you can have control over it.

Was there a solution to this as I’m having the same problem. When I go into the Page to edit, I’m able to edit every other aspect of my homepage, but when I get to the Latest Articles section at the bottom, I’m unable to do anything. I can’t find anything like the screenshot either.

No ‘Page Settings’ will come up like the screen shot.

I found this to be an issue also. We have a massive server, but when I try to use the Cloud Library, it’s a huge memory hog. It’s frustrating because we have to use this if we want to have the infinite loading for Single Posts.

I don’t understand why the developers can’t just add an ‘auto loading status’ in the theme panel rather than making us have to create a whole new template. This is included with many other themes out there, and since Cloud Library is creating a memory issue, hopefully they will rethink this.

I just noticed the new Google demands and webp is their big push.

When I used any webp images on Newspaper, I noticed they don’t show up in Featured section section on homepage, but they show up in article.

That’ll be hard to say as WordPress 5 has got some conflicts with plugins, and now Google AMP has been updated which conflicts heavily with the Newspaper theme. Google now wants only 50KB or less of CSS code so many themes are going to conflict.

It’ll be a time will tell type thing for now.

Yeah, I got this message too from Windows Defender

JS/Jasobfus.B!ml

And it stopped the download.

Have you checked in the ‘old version’ of your Google Search Console as you can see if there are any errors there. Tne new search console doesn’t show Rich Cards for some reason.

Also, Google decides on which Rich Snippets to show and you know how temperamental they can be. If there aren’t any errors showing up in your Rich Cards section, it’s just Google being Google. It’s definitely not the theme.