Problem resolved: Reloaded Newspaper files, cleared cache, and purged CDN. I’m not sure why the byline went wild but glad it is fixed.

Pages is set by default. You may change the settings in the roles part of the Visual Composer settings.

Go to yourdomain.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=vc-roles

Change the pull down to custom

Check the box for posts

Hope this works for you.

Does information in this thread help?

https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/update-problem-7-4-7-5/

Just a bump that this is still not fixed in release 7.5.

Hi

No. It didn’t help.

I’m not interested in the July release due to reported issues. Plus, the header code for apostrophe reported several versions back is still not fixed and I’m tired of fixing it each time.

Plugins are not an issue. Please look at the report. It’s all theme coding errors.

Development isn’t easy and I wish your Devs all the best. Maybe they should concentrate on the validator for the next release. 😉

Do you have the ajax post view count enabled?

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Minor issue: the access modifier is missing in the static function render_generic. Regardless, I’m not able to pull that information properly.

td_weather::render_generic();

This leads to three missing parameters.

And FWIW, the render_top_bar_template is a private function.

Oh well, it was worth a try. 🙂

Thank you !

The way to pull the date:

echo date_i18n( 'l, F jS, Y', strtotime( '11/15-1976' ) );

Now I just need to figure out how to grab that weather widget in the top menu.

Well, CSS is still not good but coming along.

Wow !

<!– Dynamic page generated in 3.843 seconds. –>
<!– Cached page generated by WP-Super-Cache on 2016-05-29 18:46:33 –>

Almost 4 seconds is a killer. Remove WP Super Cache and try WP Fastest Cache. Enable compression, minify, and others.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fastest-cache/

Next, go to MaxCDN and buy the least expensive CDN for your site. Set up a pull zone and use WP Fastest Cache to connect it to your site.

Also, disable the speed booster plugin. Worry about getting that caching working for you.

• This reply was modified 10 years by LPH.

Have a look at step 5 and see if this helps.

https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/

Personally, it slowed my site way down and I wasn’t able to remove render blocking for the CDN. I hope you have better luck with your site.

Updating from 4 to 6 was a huge leap. The change from 6 to 7 should work fine because you are already using the Redux Framework backend.

I used sFTP and uploaded over the files currently on the site but always have a backup in case something goes wrong. Here’s a proper way:

Put the site in maintenance mode (https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-maintenance-mode/).
Use Filezilla (https://filezilla-project.org/) to connect to your server.
Download the current wp-content/themes/Newspaper folder to an archive location. Don’t overwrite the new version.
Using Filezilla, rename the online directory Newspaper to Newspaper6.
Upload the Newspaper 7 to wp-content/themes/Newspaper
Log into WordPress
Take site out of maintenance mode
Enter Theme Panel and check settings.
Save as necessary.

Good luck !

• This reply was modified 10 years by LPH.

Worry about the render blocking after doing some of the easier things: cache, CDN, minify …

Content and page load speed are far more important than Google’s recommendations in Insight. It’ll also depend on where you get your traffic – some of the best sites are not perfect in Insight

Examples

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=www.techmeme.com&tab=mobile

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2F

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F&tab=mobile

In other words — content first, responding to visitors second, webdesign optimization to the point it isn’t a distraction for your visitors.

Good luck on your site – it loads fine. It’s heavy so you can lighten it with removing grid blocks or keep it as is … and enjoy things 🙂

Instead of WP Super Cache, try https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fastest-cache/ and check on the minify options in the simple settings for WP Fastest Cache.

Worry about the render blocking after you’ve done some of the easier things. Currently there are over 106 requests going out to the server. The plugin should lower that number for you by combining files and getting rid of several other “optimizing” plugins currently active.

Looks fine here. I’m assuming localpulse.net as the website. Loads fine in Chrome. Maybe it was a cache plugin and you didn’t clear the cache?

It doesn’t look like it because the weather widget is controlled in the header section and isn’t available in the categories section. It would be a nice feature, though.

Sorry. I thought this could be set by the theme and override the reading settings in the WordPress panel.

admin–> Settings –> Reading
Change, “Blog pages show at most” to 6

Sadly, I want some of the categories to show 5 posts in a layout and 6 in another layout. Is there a way and I’m missing it?

Thank you.

I haven’t tried Zen Cache — which is now Comet Cache.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/comet-cache/

Maybe I’ll give it a try to see how things work.

Thank you Bogdan,

These are the pages I’m working on – http://www.retainingteachers.com

The layout is close but the menu on the left doesn’t look like the nice menu on the Newspaper documentation. Does this come down to CSS or something else?

I’d suggest installing two plugins that can help as well as remove WP Super Cache. I use the premium version of Fastest Cache but the free one works well. Also remove photon or anything else in JetPack if you are have it installed.

1. Remove query strings from static resources
2. WP Fastest Cache

Attach MaxCDN (it’s cheap) to WP Fastest Cache and your site will improve more.
Remove anything Google (analytics, etc). This slows things way down.

Finally, run P3 Profiler: https://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/ to find any plugins causing an issue.

I haven’t installed the speed booster plugin because that looks complex but it’s next on my list.

Hope this helps.

Thank you. This fixed the issue.

Answer: Editor Picks are done by choosing the “Featured” category within the post new / edit of WordPress. This should be in the documentation.