I appreciate your reply. I adjusted the ‘accent’ setting and it did adjust the link highlight color. Unfortunately ‘accent’ color also includes the background color blocks on the main menu. I guess you would have mentioned it, but to be clear, there’s no separate setting for just the hyperlinked text? If not, I’ll use custom CSS to manage that.

Thank you,
Lon K

Hello Simion,
Thanks for the link for the code error fix.

About Posts; Gutenberg inserting itself in the Page/Posts layout pages is a bit dis-orienting and I remember now that posts were configured pre-Gutenberg using the list of Sidebar layouts and post layouts selectable in the Theme dashboard. I’m not sure what you mean when you say;
‘While the composer allows the creation of post templates https://cloud.tagdiv.com/#/load/Single through the cloud library plugin, it can’t be used to create the actual post content.”

Is there some way to view and select TagCloud Library templates within the Post layout page? I don’t find it. If not, how are we to select one of the Post templates for use on a post page?

Lon

Simion,
I replaced all the blue color hex codes in the file you posted and it seems that has solved the problem.

I have another problem thats come up. I tried to create a new Post page but in the page view neither of the page builders are visible to use? In Pages they are visible in the top bar. I deactivated and re-activated the the plugins but there was no change.
When I select create new Post, a white page comes up briefly with this error message, then continues to the new Post page.
“Warning: call_user_func_array() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, function ‘wshk_meta_save’ not found or invalid function name in /home/metamo19/public_html/marketwise/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php on line 288”

Is there a fix for this?
Thanks,
Lon

Hello Simion,
The current load speeds on GTMetrix are after going through all the recommended site and server adjustments, and running a couple optimization plugins plus reSmushit image compression. I removed one block of news posts and thumbnails which sped up the loading a little. I think the only option left to me to try and get below a 2 seconds load is to use a CDN to cache files and close more of the news blocks.

About the flashing and blue color mentioned; I added the code that Catalin posted and it improved slightly.

Can you tell me where in the theme files the blue color is coded as the default color? I will replace it.

Thank you,
Lon

Hello Catalin,
I added your code in the Newspaper theme dashboard as your example shows.
I still get a white flash when I return to Home from any page. Plus the blue tab still shows up momentarily.

I don’t understand your comment,”you have set up another main menu background for that section’??
Another one? I have set only a color background and an image background in the theme dashboard. The color background was an attempt to avoid the white flash between the loading of the image background.

How do I set up the background so it is pre-loaded and cached and doesn’t reload at each page view?
Why is the blue tab appearing on the top menu?

Lon

Hello Vlad,
1.) I’ve gone through all the steps suggested and the GTMetrix score has improved from
’90 /69,5.2 sec’ to ’90 /74, 3.1 sec’. The only thing I can think of to drop loading time below 2 sec. is to remove image content from the home page. I don’t have a CDN and only an intermediate level VPS account.

2.) Could you suggest a solution for the odd re-loading of my home and secondary pages? I have Super Cache installed but whenever I go to the home page or refresh it commpletely, it reloads the background, menu and home page content. Before it reloads it flashes white which is very distracting. Also, the top menu flashes to some default blue color on some tabs, before returning to correct color settings. I’ve searched everywhere through the Theme Panel and can’t find the blue setting anywhere in order to turn it off.
‘Mkdv.meta-morphos.es’

Thanks,
Lon K

I’ve completed all your suggested fixes on ‘mkdv.meta-morphos.es’ but found no solution.
The screenshots are below.

The common factor, whether the store page was setup with TD Composer or WP Bakery, is that the WooCommerce products DO display when that shop page is NOT selected as the ‘Shop’ page in WooComm settings, and DO NOT display when that page is selected as go to Shop page in WooComm settings.

I deactivated all non-Newspaper plugins at one time, and then deactivated plugins one-by-one. The results were the same.
I also activated/deactivated WP Bakery plugin in the test.
No child theme is in use.

*** FYI On the blank display page the Chrome Console shows following error in red:
“Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
/storetc/mode-less.js:1 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)”

Newspaper appears to have code obstructions to allowing WooCommerce to function in it’s normal way. Will your programmers correct this in the near future?

-Lon K
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Screenshot examples:
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Thanks Calin for your reply.
Your suggestions helped move me along to a solution.
It turned out that there was an update needed on the stock quotes source site to white list my new site location. It was but something was messed up in cloning/developing/replacing the site. That was fixed and quotes now display correctly.

I couldn’t get the title font for Block 8/Module 7 to adjust to the settings in either the theme panel or the TDComposer Elements Style settings. I did a search and found I’d added some custom CSS in the past that globally said that ‘entry-title’ should be 21px !Important. I removed the !Important and now the local, granular CSS settings are in control.

I have two questions.
What is your preferred Developer viewer to best track the source of page errors? I’ve used the Tools on Chrome and Firefox. What is your first go-to tool?

Second, While updating my site (marketwisetrader.com) I tried to rebuild some essential pages (home, store,..) using the front end TDComposer. It doesn’t have as many block elements to work with but it seems that Newspaper programmers are shifting that direction. On my home page, in Composer view, a yellow warning pops up saying ‘This page was not made with TDComposer’. As best I can remember I started with my home page built with Page Buider, then replaced all rows, columns, and elements from the Composer dashboard. But the page still says, ‘Not built with TDComposer’. Will this create problems for me in the future? Do I have to begin with a new white page and Composer?

Thanks,
Lon Kaufmann

Hello Simion or other Newspaper tech assistants,
I’ve been working on updating my website to the latest Newspaper version which has included trying to transition from using WPBakery to TDComposer for layout. I’ve rebuilt the Home page, About, and, Store pages but have been dissapointed with how difficult it is to accomplish what I want with TD Composer.

1.) Many of the valuable layout blocks present in WP Bakery are absent in TDComposer including the dozen WooCommerce blocks and widgets. I’ve tried but don’t find an easy way to customize the WooCommerce Store page layout using Composer. I loaded a WooCommerce shortcode plugin but don’t find any way to view it or use it when rows and columns are setup in Composer.

#2) Managing fonts has always been crazy in Newspaper. The fine granulations of font options for customization of the module, blocks, templates, articles, & headers, is almost too much to keep straight. Often when a setting change is made, it fails to affect the target line of text. Currently, despite using the Firefox page Inspector tool to track down the error, I can’t find the source of the font error for display of the post article titles in Blocks 8, 2, & 11 on my home page. They are now too large.

Somehow my attempt to standardize the site’s font styles and sizes, by adjusting settings in the Newspaper theme panel, has over-enlarged those titles. In the theme panel I don’t see any setting source for the faulty ‘Old Sans, 32px, 400, 26 line-height’attached to the titles.

I setup a new home page using Composer and added the Block 8. Despite inputing various font style data, there was no change registered on the fonts displayed in that block. The same error persists. How do I track down the source of such Font issues? Should manual font settings made in the Composer blocks, override Theme panel font settings?

Could you assist?
Thank you,
Lon Kaufmann
Current clone site: mkdv.meta-morphos.es

Thanks Simion,
Yes the theme panel footer setting was set at home page. It wasn’t clear what the setting was for. I thought it was to say which page the footer setting would target.

I’m experimenting with translating WP Bakery layout pages into Composer layout pages.For best results should I just completely rebuild WP Bakery pages? From initial experimentation it doesn’t appear that Composer recognizes blocks previously placed by WPBakery.
Thanks for your help.

Hello Simion,
Thanks very much for analyzing the home page and picking up on the CSS and spacing settings that were throwing off the layout.
I adjusted and now have the home page in good shape.

Could you view all the secondary pages on the site? (mkdv.meta-morphos.es) For unknown reasons it appears that a copy of the complete home page now displays on each secondary page, starting at the bottom of that secondary page and scrolling down.
How do I remove this?

I have a question about WooCommerce. Do you have any suggestions for setting up those store/cart, etc. pages so they are most stable?
I don’t think I have the ability to adjust page layout on WooCommerce pages using either of the page layout editors, correct?

Thank you,
Lon K.

Hello,
I updated to the latest Newspaper version (v9.7.3) and it appears to have corrected the enlarged single image problem on the home page.
I’ve tested removing all custom CSS and margin/padding on WP Bakery layout blocks but still have an unresolved layout issue on the home page. The top right text block will not locate in the top row, right column location as in the WPBakery layout. I would attach a screenshot but don’t see that option here. See the original non-updated site for correct location of that block at Marketwisetrader.com

I placed a second text block with default text in the same location but it also bumps down to the next row just like the original which has stock market quotes in it.

A second unrelated issue on home page is that I can’t get the footer to display. I selected display footer for home page in the theme panel.

Could you provide suggestions for fixes to these two issues?

Original layout: //marketwistetrader.com
Cloned dev version with all updates at: //mkdv.meta-morphos.es
Thank you,
Lon

Hello Bogdan,
I added the ‘tdc_map.php’ file but there was no change in my home page or secondary pages.

Suggestions?
Updated Development site: //mkdv.meta-morphos.es
Original site: //marketwisetrader.com

Could you answer the questions at the end of my last post?
‘Will the back end editor, WPBakery be phased out in the future?’
‘Will there be a problem in the future if some pages are ‘legacy’ having been built with WPBakery, and others built from front end with TagDiv Composer?’

Lon K

• This reply was modified 7 years by Leofitz.

Hello Calin,
I’ve completed all the updates you listed in your previous message.

I still see the same problems on my home page and secondary pages.
Please review my development updated version here; //mkdv.meta-morphos.es

The original site is here; Marketwisetrader.com

What do I do next? Do you need to login into my account?
Thank you,
Lon Kaufmann

Hello Simion,
I’ve updated my site Newspaper theme to v975 as well as all plugins and WP. Even with all non-Newspaper plugins turned off my website home page layout is jumbled. See original here; Marketwisetrader.com, and development clone, updated version here; //mkdv.meta-morphos.es
The store products page is blank. The post pages seemed to do better.

I built the site page layouts using WPBakery Page Builder. When I view the page layouts with WPBakery selected, the row and collum layouts look correct. When I preview the pages however, image sizing is off, and row/collum, block location is out of order.

How do I correct this?
Thanks,
Lon K

I cleared caches and also worked through all the menu styles. I found that the login would appear when using styles 1,3,5,7,8,10,and 11. But not 4,5,6 unless I deleted the logo image.

I’m trying to create a menu bar that’s short in height and includes the menu tabs plus the Login on one line. When the Login appears above the main menu row of text, its almost as high as including the original top menu bar.

I tried shifting the PHP login widget code after the menu code in the ‘header-menu.php’ file but it didn’t shift the login text to the right side.

I’m now testing some Login plugins to see if I can get a menu bar about 45 px high that includes a login.

I have another question related to the loading of the menu and all the site pages. When a menu tab is clicked why does the menu always flash load the default black-blue colors first, and then replace with my chosen custom colors? The menu font also goes to bold then back to the normal capitalized which I have selected in the Newspaper settings.

Also why do the pages always flash and completely reload when each new pages is opened?. It seems that some pre-loading is required or there’s a coding loop somewhere that double loads the menu, the background image, and the pages.
Could you suggest a fix? It’s distracting as is.

You can view this by visiting wwwthetradershedge(dot)com
Thanks

I followed all directions but no login appears.
See attached screenshot.

My site is here; thetradershedge(dot)com

Hello Bogdan,
I just started getting the same ‘flashing’ display of the header menu default colors loading before my custom colors are displayed. I turned off any recent plugins and pasted in the CSS you posted above in the Newspaper/Style.css file at the bottom of page.

I’m using Newspaper, Magazine front page, and Header Style #4.

Thanks.

Hello Bogdan,
Is there an update for the menu location fix which you describe in this thread? I’m using Newspaper v7.4 and the shift of login code didn’t work for me. Nothing additional was displayed on the header menu.
Thanks

I should amend my previous post. I have been able to save the first slide as background on the slider stage but it doesn’t act like its pre-loaded. You can view the home page at The TradersHedge

You’ll see the first slide seems to shake and reduce slightly. It’s not a smooth display. The background image for the site also seems to shake and adjust when you first visit the home page.

Could you suggest a solution for these issues?

Bogdan,
After testing several methods I’ve found a way to post Amazon Ads in the Newspaper theme.
I installed the Plugin ‘Amazon Link’ and input my Amazon AWS account Public Key and Private Key in the plugin settings.
Under Amazon Form Settings selected ‘iframe image’.
Then on a new Post or new Pages, look under the text window and settings, and find the ‘Amazon Link’ settings. You can do a Search there for whatever product you want to advertise. Select your product, click ‘Insert’ and the shortcode displays in the text box.
Copy this. You don’t need to save the Post.

Go to Newspaper/Theme Panel/Ads/Custom Ad#, Paste in the product shortcode.
In Pages/Visual Composer add an ‘Ad box’ block. In the General tab select from drop-down menu the Custom_Ad# you setup with the shortcode. Make your customizations of background color and margins,etc., and Save.
You can paste in 2-3 shortcodes in one Custom_Ad. They display side by side.

I haven’t yet run the process of actually buying something to see if the link records the action to one’s Amazon associate account. But displaying the Ads is a start….

Hello Eros Power,
See my reply to Bogdan B.concerning a way to post Amazon Ads.

It appears that its difficult to setup one one site layout that is satisfying when viewed on both standard monitor and mobile. So I understand the mobile theme is an option.

Is it possible to turn off the Newspaper-Magazine themes default effort to transform the standard site into a responsive version?

That is, to have the complete site page (without mobile plugin) displayed on mobile screens as simply a scaled down version of the standard layout for large monitors? The ‘pre-responsive’ viewing of a website.

I have this option with a framework theme and the mini display of the complete web page works fine. One simply zooms in to select the menu or view areas of the page.(Please see; http://www.kaufmanndesign.com)

Catalin,
Thank you for your reply. I’m not sure that I understand your comment concerning not being able to compare the two sites?
On my laptop and external monitor the http://newstest.meta-morphos.es/ home page looks the same when the mobile plugin is turned on or off. The only difference I see is when I view the site from my mobile phone. The mobile plugin reduces the front page to a vertical stack of scrolling blocks.

I’ve now removed all CSS fron the ‘newstest’ site and only have the Visual Composer and Slider Revolution plugins activated. The one customization is that I replaced the original top left column block with one Revolution slider block. One a large monitor the front page looks AOK and displays the same on Firefox and Chrome. When I view it on the mobile phone it almost displays correctly but the left margin is shifted left and crops off some of the text. The right column doesn’t display well.

It appears that one solution is to use it with this one customization and with the mobile plugin turned on. On mobile viewing it abbreviates the front page content but at least displays a usable vertical scrolling stack of info blocks.

Is it possible to turn off the Magazine themes default effort to transform the standard site into a responsive version?

That is, to have the complete site page (without mobile plugin) displayed on mobile screens and simply scaled down to fit the mobile or tablet window? I have this option with a framework theme and the mini display of the complete web page works fine. One simply zooms in to select the menu or view areas of the page.(Please see; http://www.kaufmanndesign.com)

This would provide a simple solution for several issues. The pages could still handle iframes, and there would be no surprises for any pages customized with CSS. If a page look good on a normal screen, then it would look fine on a mobile screen. Maybe this setting option is somewhere in the theme settings?

It’s a bit of a surprise that with 50+ Visual Composer elements and blocks as standard tools on the Newspaper theme that it’s not possible to shift a few around without breaking the theme. In the Magazine/Newspaper theme, is it primarily the first top left column block that’s critical to hold the page together as originally intended?

Thanks, Lon K