Oi Felipe,

(se eu tou entendendo bem) tem que mudar o modelo da página, ver primeira imagem:

https://forum.tagdiv.com/page-templates-2/

Isso daí faz aparecer uma tela nova por baixo do editor da página que deixa configurar o aspeto do loop dos artigos (ver segunda imagem do link anterior).

Se essa tela não aparece, é preciso ativar na opões deste ecrã:

Penso que é isso, abraço!

Hi there!

the theme seems to be well implemented but the website itself needs some attention I think. WP Super Cache is not correctly configured, gzip compression is “crashing” the access to your website with incorrect or unsupported compression. Also, I don’t think Speed Booster Pack Plugin is helping you. In fact I think it’s making it worse by trying too hard to force js defer and scripts/css to header/footer and halting the site.

Hope this helps and sets you in the right track, cheers!

Thank you Ing Geek, that totally makes sense. Analytic and Adsense seem to be very picky about js, no wonder, it’s how they control what they pay. I stopped using the speed options in cloudflare after a day or so of experimenting with them and afterwards, I only minify html in cache plugin. Those would brake up some functionality but I always assumed it was because I’m a lazy coder and my site is all patched up. I guess a simple static website with very good code can benefit from cloudflare features, specially rocket loader.

@mahmoudfathymohamed
Today I’m seeing no mixed content so I guess you fixed it 🙂 visited several articles and no content blocked and padlock was always green, I saw no problems like yesterday.

Moving to https is usually a good thing. It can lower your traffic acquisition from search engines if not done carefully though. Since http and https use different server ports (most), both versions of a website, if they exist, are considered individual websites. Since the content is the same, search engines will label one as a duplicate. Search engines don’t like duplicate shit. When there’s http and https versions of the same site, webmasters should take measures to inform search engine which version to crawl and index and which to ignore (robots.txt, rel canonical, htaccess)

You only have https version so you don’t have to deal with that. What you might consider is the “juice”. Before you went https, did you had any particular page/article that ranked well in search engines? Or did any “respectable” website linked to yours? If yes, then you are losing that SEO juice because those rankings and those links point to something that doesn’t exist anymore. If no, which probably is the case because you’re online since only 10/2015, then don’t bother.

Cheers!

Hello,

January seems to be the slowest month every year, it’s the month people pay the credit card bill from xmas. Companies are in annual balance too. That means less ad clicking/bidding. Did your traffic drop too? Ads seem to be working fine.

Did you recently moved to HTTPS? I’m getting mixed content and since my browser blocks it, your site gets blocked. You have wildcard? you seem to use cnd subdomains. There’s also http link in some images too.

There’s also some shortcodes showing like [/tps_header]

Don’t know if this helps, just my 2 cents. Cheers!

Hi,

a good way to update is to make sure we have a backup of everything and we know how to restore a website if things get messed up somehow. Here are the details, I usually go with option A but C seems legit too:

https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/

What do you mean with customization? If you mean the settings you changed in the theme panel, those are usually kept since they are in the database. The social counter widget though, sometimes disappears from the sidebars.

If you mean changing php, js, css files, then yes those are lost. The whole folder “Newspaper” in wordpress is replaced in the process. If you did that, a program like http://winmerge.org/ is very useful.

Cheers!

Hi there,

I think I had the same issue as you do since I didn’t move the whole site to SSL.

In such case, the login form should not be available through HTTP or users will login via HTTP. It will work but what’s the point in having SSL and have the users to login via HTTP? If define('FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true); is set in wp-config.php, then the login will fail if made on HTTP. That’s what was happening to you, I think. It was happening to me.

To overcome this and still use the theme’s beautiful login window you have to customize the theme:

– make the header detect if user is not logged in and is connecting through http. If so, instead of printing the log in form as usual, the theme prints a link to the HTTPS version of the current page and adds a request o open the login window automatically.

– make the footer catch the request to automatically open the login window
(https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/need-javascript-help-call-the-modal-login-window-after-page-load/)

– change td-login.php file to set the https cookie wp_signon($credentials, true);

Here have a look at it working and if you want I can put here all the details. Click login on the top left menu and you will be redirected to https and have the login window thrown at the screen:

http://www.infoporto.pt/en/

Cheers!

Hi Emil,

thank you so much, it works like a charm! I did add more conditions because I wanted to only run on call.

Cheers!

Hello,

pagespeed will always pick up on some thumbnails. You can customize the theme or choose to use just some of the theme’s blocks that aren’t “responsive by themselves”.

Some blocks are designed to show in different sizes depending on the size of the screen. Those blocks will show an 300px image if the screen is 1920×1080 but if you change to a tablet, the images will be 600px, in some phones in landscape, the “standard” 696×385 image even gets upscaled to 720px. To cover all the possibilities, the theme chooses to load the 696px image, even if sometimes it will downscale it to 350px. I like this feature of the theme, keeps it beautiful across devices, but it has this cost.

If you have pages with lots of blocks/images you might consider using the small blocks only and not the MX ones.

You can also show less articles per block and use the “load more” or infinite scroll, pagespeed will pick less thumbnails.

What about image lazyload? it should work as the above, pagespeed should only pick up the first images cause it doesn’t scroll down, but I’m not sure on this one.

The other solution is to edit the theme files and make them load a small thumbnail even if the block shows big in some cases. It will upscale a small thumbnail up to 700px and it will be ugly but pagespeed will approve. You have to weight things out and compromise.

Anyway, if you consistently get 696px images of 50KB, it’s not critical I believe. I manually “smush” my photos in PS, I don’t usually compress as much as you seem to compress and it still seems an acceptable compromise between performance/graphics. But soon I’ll move to something like WP smush because I’m getting authors/contributors.

Cheers!

Hi,

you can hide the counters with css, just paste this in the theme panel custom css code section:

.td_social_info {
display: none;
}
.td_block_wrap.td_block_social_counter.td_block_widget {
display: inline-block;
}

The 1st part hides the numbers and the second hides the empty space left. css does not disable or remove things, just hides them, but no one would bother to disable css in their browsers to look around.

If you really want to disable them, you have to customize the theme, the same thing for adding pinterest. It should not be hard if you are familiar with editing php files.

Hope this helps, cheers!

Hi,

it’s related to wordpress roles, to see the featured image box the user has to have the capatibility to upload files and contributors don’t have that.

You either change your users to authors or you let contributors upload. To do the last one, you can use a plugin like capability manager or insert some code in theme’s functions.php

You might want to consider things like max upload size, or do you want contributors see images from other contributors or above.

Hope this helps, cheers!

• This reply was modified 10 years by nf_prt.

Hi,

“editor picks” and “popular posts” are widgets. Go to appearance>widgets in the wordpress menu and you’ll find the sidebar and the “footer-bars”, you can assign any widgets to the footer or place those “editor picks” and “popular posts” in the sidebar as well.

Cheers!

Hello,

I think it might be broken (facebook counter). Mine has stopped updating the number of fans a couple of days ago, it’s stuck in some number. Twitter seems to be working fine but I don’t get that many new subscribers as compared to fb to say for sure.

It’s a minor thing, I can wait till monday when TagDiv staff will adress this, and may even be from the side of fb and only temporary.

Cheers!

Thanks for your input Chris, always a good read! SSL seems indeed the way to go and I do think I had a small rank boost because of it, even though I made a mess of it.

I have to learn more about using canonical link element correctly, make some choices and then set things straight so hopefully I get google to rank http or https at my discretion while not losing the rank boost.

$25/yr for SSL is really cheap! Got mine for free (1yr) when I recently moved on to a better server (siteground) but renewal will be $65 and it’s not “wildcarded”. Guess I’ll try to negotiate with them when the time comes 🙂

Thanks for your words again, I’ll get back at this if I get more knowledge and experience worth discussion.
Cheers!

(Indeed, funky shit at word break! FF/WIN7-64)

• This reply was modified 10 years by nf_prt.

Hi guys,

nice topic, I’ve been trying to learn more about it.

When you guys say “move to https” do you mean that your website will be exclusively https and http will no longer be available?

I did nothing like you and so I’m a bit apprehensive, although my point in having https was to “secure” just a small part of the site like wp-admin, logins and the store.

I did not change WP_HOME/SITEURL, just added define(‘FORCE_SSL_ADMIN’, true), so I guess wordpress is oblivious to connection. WP supercache creates static pages for https as well and performance seems unaffected. Site operates apparently well: I’m on http, click the login link and it goes https, I login and it throws me back to http afterwards. I browse the site, it stays http, and if I click in the edit my profile link for example, it switches me back to https, login session is always kept.

No mixed contents so far, padlock goes green. I plan to move my images to a subdomain and the SSL certificate only covers the domain. Tested a redirect from subdomain to domain folder and the padlock was green too. I also use cloudflare in strict mode: server <ssl> cloudflare <ssl> user

Ranking in google looked the same to me, it’s a fairly new site and it was growing slowly but steadily and still is. I ranked a few 1st places (regionally) in small subjects and even ranked a major one recently!

Again, as I know little about this and I’m probably doing big time shit, google tried to sort things out. It doesn’t rank both versions of the site, it chooses one. Everything’s http, except for the homepage and what google thinks its sensitive, like the wc cart page for example. Curiously, I have a page called “online reservations”, no online reservations are made whatsoever it’s just an article about it. Google ranks it https :). And google mix those because, regionally, my site gets that submenu under the search result and those sub-entries are either http or https accordingly to google’s criteria.

Cart page is fine and all that but I think I’d rather have the home page raking as http. Should I use a redirect or use webmastertools to exclude https version?

Any notes on this will be highly appreciated, it’s a topic I’m pretty noob at and we gotta learn everyday, thanks guys!

Cheers

Hi,

not really sure I got what you’re trying to achieve, but if what you want is for the blocks to show a selection of pages instead of a selection of posts, this might help you out. I did it for posts but should work for pages too. The only thing to it is not filtering, you just input the id’s of the pages and they’ll show in the blocks. If you change the selection of pages just a couple of times per week like I do, it’s great. If you constantly need to change the pages that show in the blocks then you might need another solution.

This works on widgets too btw 🙂

https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/diy-show-only-specific-posts-on-block-and-sliders-filter-blocks-by-post-id/

sorry about bad English, I was in a hurry…!

I installed this plugin video-thumbnails

It does what NP6.4 theme does for video post types. The differences are it does it for every post type and it doesn’t have a box to input the video’s url. It scans the post content and grabs the first url of a video, fetch the thumbnail and set it as featured image.

This is nice because it won’t interfere with the theme video post type, since in those custom post you put the video url in the box and not in the content, the plugin wont scan any video and the theme will keep working as intended.

So, 1st step is install plugin, 2nd is to make the theme know there’s a video in the post.

Fortunately, the plugin has a function for this so you just need to add it to the theme. Edit the following file:
/public_html/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/includes/wp_booster/td_module.php
lines 282 and 283 should be like this (NP6.4)
// on videos add the play icon
if (get_post_format($this->post->ID) == 'video') {


replace with:
// on videos add the play icon
if (get_post_format($this->post->ID) == 'video' || get_video_thumbnail($this->post->ID) != null) {


Done!

It should work flawlessly, sometimes I use the theme video post type which is awesome and other times I paste a video in a regular post, sometimes just to have a thumbnail 🙂
The plugin doesn’t trigger if you (only) use the theme video playlist because the shortcode only has video id’s and not urls.
You can simply paste a link to a video, it will work but those links can show up in excerpts, so use [embed][/embed] if the video url is the 1st thing in the post content or comes before the excerpt length you have defined at the theme’s panel.

Hope it hepls, cheers!

Hi,

yes you can! You can paste the shortcodes directly, even in custom post types. I believe it works as long as the VC javascript loads with post (by default it loads, at least for me).

Or you can go to VC settings and enable the VC interface in posts, the VC button will appear just like in pages.

Cheers!

Hi!

it would be very odd for a theme to stop a scheduled post… Do you use any plugin like this wp-crontrol to check on the cron jobs? Do they show up as usual and keep recurring or are stuck in “Non-repeating”?

Some hosts might mess with your cron jobs if they are set incorrectly and start to generate a lot of processing, check the CHMOD on wp-cron.php file.

Cheers!

Hi,

you can set it in the theme panel, I think you’d want style 6 and 8:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/category-templates/

This is for the categories.

For your front page, it kind of depends if your front page is a page made with visual composer or if it is the “blog page” with the posts.

Cheers!

Hello,

have you tried running force-regenerate-thumbnails plugin?

https://forum.tagdiv.com/thumbnails-fix-strange-looking-images-on-blocks/

This plugin should fix all of your existing thumbs images, but if in the future you upload small images, they will be showing like this. Use images greater than 700×400 or use a plugin like thumbnail upscale.

Cheers!

Hi,

I also had some issues with the scroll up button. It still doesn’t work for me in some rare cases like old ie mobile devices, but it’s like 0.1% of visitors so I don’t care.

In your case, it can be a bit of css:
line 20212 of style.css (newspaper 6.4)
@media (max-width: 767px) {
.td-scroll-up-visible {
display: none;
}
}


I think it should be like this (at least I changed mine and it shows the button in mobiles):
@media (max-width: 767px) {
.td-scroll-up-visible {
display: block !important;
}
}


You can try to replace the code in style.css file or paste the second block of code in the “custom css” section of the theme panel.
Hope this helps, cheers!

Hi,

I’ve done something similar, it might be easy but you need to give more details please. Like what’s the trigger to show the icon. By default, the theme triggers the icon on the thumb if post type is video.

Would your trigger be, for example, show icon on thumb if post type is regular and categories/tags are A,B,C?

Here’s mine: show icon on thumb if post is regular type (or not a video post type) but the post has a link to a video or has a video embed.

(note that the thumb itself does not get the icon printed in it. the theme overlays an icon image. this means, for example, that the icon will not show when the post is shared on fb or similar, regular feat image with no icon is shared)

Cheers!

Hi,

try pasting the following css in the theme panel, in “custom css”:

.td-grid-style-1 .td-module-thumb a:last-child::before {
background: none;
}

The overlay is meant to make the titles readable in case the photo is too white like the titles, but your images are dark at the bottom, you should be fine. You can also add overlay to just the titles like we did in the big slide at infoporto.pt
Hope this helps, cheers!

I find the plugin very stable now, I would say it’s 5 times better than what I had available originally 8/9 months ago, when I started this as a hobbie at first. Again, I recommend a decent server, the cheapest one will require work to stay fast and deliver a pleasant user experience (like CDN, cache, optimized images, etc)

Dates are now easily set, used to be an headache. Depends what one consider “small things” I guess 🙂 everything that is standard or mainstream works very well.

Comments are not affected by the plugin (except for the labels of the input fields ofc), a comment made in a post, regardless of its content or its language, will appear in all versions (languages) of the post/page. I remember I stumbled upon an extension/plugin which allowed to show comments separated per language, I see it can be useful in some cases but it is not for mine, a least for now, so I never used/tested it. Out of the box, no option is given to the user commentating in regard of classifying a post as being in any particular language.

Menus are great, I just need to customize the theme or the plugin to show a flag in mobile, between the icons of search and slide the menu. Right now is ok but (just one click away) but I kindda like gimmicks

You can have a look at http://www.infoporto.pt but I still have some bugs and it might not be the best example because it has some customizations and custom post types and custom post fields… I just started January and I have other things not related to the site it self to deal with… The hobbie became serious but I had to focus first on one language first because, in my case, there’s a will to have some depth in the differences of the contents of each language (2 so far, soon professionals will be hired to translate a more solid number). I also had delays in releasing “final” and complete version of my site cause of constant developments, newspaper seems to support child themes and custom post types now so I need to check out that first before continuing to fine tune the custom functions I already made.