As always, great support. All good – thank you 🙂

Have you tried using Chrome? The reason I ask is because I had a whole bunch of issues with Firefox.

Thanks for the tip – This was not available using Firefox – neither were many other features for that matter. I’ve switched to Chrome.

Old post – but in case anyone doesn’t know, if the category that you don’t want to show has an id number of 12, you can simply write “-12” in the filtering for categories and it will now show all but category 12.

Hi I have two sites both broke after latest update.. first one removed all plugins and site was total trash – i have manually fixed that one… the other one seems to not show any wpbakery blocks….. i can’t seem to fix that.. i havent turned on debug tools yet.. but i suspect I will need to clear some cache or reinstall wpbakery again (which by the way is showing out of date)

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Never mind… Fixed my own issue – I renamed my wp-content back to normal and everything worked again. It looks like you have not parametised wp-content in your code checks i guess… This is the danger of changing wp-content folder names I guess.. I definitely don’t do it anymore, but I used to do it years ago (this was one of those sites that I must have done it on years ago). As for edge… I give up.

Fyi: In an effort to be part of the solution, and not the problem, just thought I would let you know that renaming the wp-content is a “supported” action, however many developers hard code the folder name making it a fairly dangerous activity – I assume this is why it broke in my situation. Maybe the team could look at following the standard whereby the foldername is actually fed by the variable..?

See https://wordpress.org/support/article/editing-wp-config-php/#moving-wp-content-folder

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NOTE: Be aware in my case, I just took a closer look at my deployment and i can see that I have renamed the wp-content folder to a special name (I did this a long time ago, when I thought that was a good idea haha!)

Hi,

Same here – Just bought the theme (again). I have this running on another site (same IP) and when updating it does the same. I’ve been using newspaper and newsmag for years (with other licences). What am I missing – I have checked the link provided above, I’m meeting all requirements (everything is also green on the system page). Site works. It wanted to update “out of the box” when I downloaded the theme from Envato, which I thought was strange…? Currently showing running 10.3.3. I will attempt to manually update.

Also – I have used a homepage style from the tagDiv cloud (Romania News Pro) that seems to be broken in Edge (who uses Edge I suppose?) – it looks all broken..

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Feature request: only show comment bubble when count is higher than 0 – I do this manually and am currently retrofitting this “feature” myself with each new release in my child theme….

Do you want us to write the code for you? How is this a support issue??

What version of WordPress are you using?

Rogger as an avid fan of both Newsmag and Newspaper over the last 3-4 years I can assure you plenty of new features and hard work does go into Newsmag too – as an example the platform update from v2 to v3 was massive. You need to understand that for TagDiv to do massive updates, there’s a huge amount of testing that needs to be done.

Incidentally I prefer Newsmag- although my newspaper site is a little out of date and I haven’t had the time to slowly manually bring it up to the latest version… Too many updates! Heh

The issue was as a result of setting Firefox to never remember history

Hi selflessambition,

This isn’t a theme specific question exactly – it is an annoying WordPress problem.

By default you cannot change the author of a post until it is actually saved at least once.

If you go back either using quick edit or edit again into a post, you can change the author to someone else – per post.

If you wanted to change a number of posts at once, I think you can bulk quick edit change the author. If not, there will be a plugin – you’re just not looking hard enough 🙂

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brad: Security with this theme is quite good – you just need to make sure you’re on the latest releases. I’d encourage you to look at upgrading to v3.1 when possible – if you bought the theme from Themeforest; it should be available for download there.

Chris: Great! I recently upgraded to 3.1; Although I have so many extra bits and pieces running on my site, I need to cut things down – I have set up a paywalled section for my customer with premium content, running woo commerce, subscriptions, members, bbpress, etc. I need to do something to speed things up. I have an events plugin that is just too slow with this theme I can’t even use it. The whole site runs quite nicely with default themes. I’ve only just started on my journey pulling out the extra bells and whistles – for instance; the td-backstretch routines: I can get by with a static standard backstretch image; I don’t need all the shiny js that they’ve implemented there, I dont need a 700k css file, etc. I understand why they have done it the way they have, it’s just too diverse now and for poor little servers like mine, it’s just too much. I’ll probably quit and give up before I finish haha.

No problem – hope it helps… After 3 years with this theme – I do still love it so much but with all the layers of abstraction (and unexplained css hacks and old elements overwriting each other from older versions), the speed at which the pages load is now crippling my site.. I’ve decided to strip out all unnecessary bells and whistles for my needs.. I mean the css file is 712kb and almost 200k for just the home page (and that’s before any media content)!!! Wish me luck!

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Strange.. It makes me think you might be looking at the wrong file!…

This file here at your site is what I am talking about: http://gonzookanagan.com/wp-content/themes/Newsmag/style.css shows it on line 1444 and 1445

Anyway – since you’re using notepad++ by the looks – search for this text:
.td-pb-row [class*=”td-pb-span”]

It should be soon after that line.

Ah! I see the line numbering issue – you are opening it on a Windows machine and it is double line feeding – so just double the number… maybe around line 2888 ?

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Oh sorry – if you were to look at the files behind your site via FTP, you’ll probably find a folder somewhere near the top:

public_html

Under that you should find:
wp_content/themes/Newsmag

In that folder, you should see a file called style.css – this file contains pretty much all of the Themes base css code. The lines are in there. Make a copy of this file, modify it and that should be all you need to do.

Hey Brad,

I found it by running firebug over your site and highlighting the element.
The code I am referring to is in the theme’s style.css file in the root of the theme – as I said, I came across the same issue myself some time ago – I’ve checked since my last post and it doesn’t exist in Version 3 of the theme. I removed it using firebug, and your page seemed to behave. Without knowing why they put it in there, I can’t be 100% sure it won’t disrupt something – I couldn’t see anything obvious… but if you take them out, the problem will go away… fairly sure.

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Hi Bradkrauza,

I have seen this happen when older versions of the Newsmag style sheet when a custom CSS has been added somewhere – upsetting their placeholden span hacks.

I can see in this example that on your style sheet you have .td-pb-row [class*=”td-pb-span”] adding in a margin of -99998px and then a padding of 99999px.. – You will find it on your style sheet at around line 1438 (style.css)

I seem to recall the TagDiv guys did this type of hack in Version 2 of the code – don’t think they do it anymore… Are you running V2 code? If so, maybe a full careful upgrade to v3 is required here, or just remove the padding/margin element from the offending element – TagDiv people – any explanation as to why you guys put this big block in v 2.37 of the code – I ran into this once before myself, couldn’t figure out why you guys put it there…? It’s not in the current code..

.td-pb-row [class*=”td-pb-span”] {
border-left: 1px solid #e6e6e6;
display: block;
float: left;
margin-bottom: -99998px !important;
margin-left: 0;
min-height: 1px;
padding-bottom: 99999px;
}

I think if you took out the margin-bottom and padding-bottom, the gap would go away – but I don’t know why they did it in the first place, so something else will probably break.

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You could create a custom sidebar with your own code to do this.

I tried to post the modified code but the editor here stripped some of the code. If you would like the full example, I can post it on a temporary web page for you to retrieve external to here..

In the versions I have been running with, I just added an extra line and a check – you could probably achieve this more “cleanly”, but here’s my modification (I added in $GCN to store the number of comments, then I tested for it being greater than 0 – fairly straightforward I thought):

**UNFORTUNATELY – This editor stripped some code from the sample. I can’t post the code here 🙁

This would need to be replaced in the following files (from memory – I haven’t looked since June):

~/includes/modules/td_module_slide.php
~/includes/wp_booster/td_module.php
~/includes/wp_booster/td_module_single_base.php

Of course, if you have not set up a child theme, you will lose these changes upon next update.

NOTE: The sample code above is provided as is and there is warranty on its performance or effectiveness. Use this code at your own risk. If you are not sure what you are doing, don’t do it. The code may reference a version of the theme that is different to yours. Always compare the code with your existing code before replacing anything.

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Please tell me which version of the theme you are running. There are slight changes throughout various versions of this theme – I wouldn’t want to give you the wrong code 🙂

..I say its a “bug” – a very minor one.