Thanks for your help. But I actually didn’t move anything. I just added the Newspaper theme and then activated it. That was my migration. All files stayed on my server and I just added the theme. Any idea why?

Ah many thanks! I will use that in a child theme! Thanks so much~

This is easily changed if the Newspaper theme uses the_archive_title() but I checked the files and can’t find that/ I too want to alter that text without adding Yoast SEO… does the theme actually use the_archive_title()?

Since we have a responsive theme in Newspaper plus other fantastic AMP plugins, why is there a need for a separate mobile plugin? Is it only related to page speed? That shouldn’t be an issue so much anymore.

5 years ago there would have been a need for a separate mobile plugin, but this Newspaper theme needs no extra theme to worry about. It is a responsive theme. Instead, development should go into a conditional statement to show one menu over another when certain screen sizes are used.

Why doesn’t TagDiv developer use the wp_is_mobile() function to easily and quickly show one menu over another? Here is more info: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_is_mobile

Can use code like this?

<?php
if(wp_is_mobile()) {
echo MOBILE MENU ;
} else {
echo DESKTOP/NORMAL MENU;
}
?>

I am migrating a big website from another theme to Newspaper. On the other theme we used the Video format because we had Video podcasts that were hosted on Youku and Youtube and then embedded in each Post, so the format of that other Theme worked well for what we needed to do. So when we moved over, all looks good except the Featured Image at the top is missing.

Most importantly, we like the video icon that is placed on the featured image — it works well on all the archive pages, but only on the Single does it not appear and the Featured image also does not appear.

I’m using the Default post template so that corresponds to the loop-single.php so the code below appears to be responsible for displaying the featured image. But It doesn’t appear to reference the Post Format type?

<?php
// override the default featured image by the templates (single.php and home.php/index.php - blog loop)
if (!empty(td_global::$load_featured_img_from_template)) {
echo $td_mod_single->get_image(td_global::$load_featured_img_from_template);
} else {
echo $td_mod_single->get_image('td_696x0');
}
?>

These posts don’t have uploaded videos to WordPress either. These all are either Podcasts with audio files or they are Youtube videos embedded in each post… so is there a quick fix to get these to show?

Is there a template file that is specifically for the Video format? If there is, then I can make it a child theme file and tweak it, but I’m unclear which file is responsible.

Hi:
I don’t quite understand. I have many posts that have Video as the format selected. And each one has their own Featured Image already. But one of them show the Featured Image on each Post. If I change the format to Standard, then the Featured Images appear. But if I remain them Video format, no Featured Images appear… why?

Too late. I followed the method inside the theme to do it and there appeared no other method. I entered my Envato Code and the next page for registering was mandatory and there was no other way to get around it. Now I have 2 separate accounts. Not what I wanted and will create problems later as I add more licenses, but it’s ok.

I suggest you make this info VERY CLEAR in the WP admin so I don’t need to query you and find a link that sits on your site.

Hi, but I’m still unclear why updating a theme would wipe out the changes in the Appearance>Editor? Why would that happen? That’s not supposed to happen.

Thank you, but I don’t understand why it would be erased if I update the Newspaper them? I don’t think I ever had this problem before when I updated a theme… if it truly is removed, then it’s best for me to do a header.php in a Child theme.

thank you~

I want it disabled because it shouldn’t have been enabled in the first place. 🙂

A Theme should operate on the frontend, nit the backend. There should be a separation of content and style. That’s the big reason why people moved from Movable Type to WordPress 12-14 years ago (I was one of those ppl who also switched to WP 12 years ago).

The “sidebar” in the Post Edit gets in the way on smaller, lower resolution screens and it causes confusion. I understand that it was created to show users what the “Post area” would look like on the frontend, but it shouldn’t be there by default. It should instead be a toggle preference in the theme.

Thank you for your help.

Ahhhh, so no way I can do this in the child theme? I’ve been clearing cloudflare, server, opcache, and local caches repeatedly when trying to make it work on a child theme, but I’m glad now it seems to only work with a parent theme change.

OK, I will do it in the parent theme, but I hope there is a toggle or something to allow/disallow thin in the theme. I need to repair it each time there is a Newspaper theme upgrade 🙁

It takes up precious real estate in the window. I hope theme can work on the “outside” and not on the “inside” or WordPress — you understand my meaning?

I read through this thread a couple weeks ago and implemented the change but it would only work if I made the change in the Parent theme. If I changed it in editor-style.css of the child theme, the change was not reflected and I still saw the “sidebar” in the Edit Post screen. Anything I’m doing wrong?

I have this exact same problem. When I am in the WP Admin and create or edit a new post, there is a dotted vertical line in the Edit Post textarea with the word “Sidebar”. How can I remove that?

Very true. I see errors starting to disappear 🙂

For WP Bakery updates, you need to buy a separate license from WP Bakery… buy the license and then you can update.

WP Bakery and tagdiv composer will both eventually be replaced by the default Gutenberg being added to WordPress installations now. There will always be room for tagdiv and Visual Composer to work inside WordPress, but I’m sure more developers and theme designers will opt with working with Gutenberg.

So it was a good strategic move for tagdiv to build their own WYSIWYG editor, but now they need to pivot to another method to engage future customers. I suggest they build upon Gutenberg and make a kickass complement to Gutenberg. That way they can grab even more customers who may not need the Newsmag or Newspaper theme, but instead want better Gutenberg-related addons.

Just my two-cents 🙂

This is good info and I appreciate it! We started 6 weeks ago a big S2 project and today we turned around and now working on Woocommerce. I like woocommerce in general much better because it appears to be potentially more extensible. And we can retain Newspaper theme 🙂

Also, is there any competitor to S2 that is approved for this theme? My goal is to have a subscription newspaper site, so I would like to use the theme called “Newspaper” and also use a plugin to control billing and restricted content.

Can Woocommerce work with this Newspaper theme?

Is there any way for me to allow my developer to access this forum too? I want him to see this information and participate.

Oh dear, I am about to implement a big S2member implementation on a site running Newspaper theme. I wish I had access to this forum before I purchased!!

Have you been able to find a workaround for this issue with S2? Have you run into other problems with conflicts between Newspaper and S2?

Yes +1 for this. I really need to have Weibo and WeChat as part of this theme. Wechat is also used in many other Asian countries. Even if there is a way to manually add it via a function so it displays and works within the Theme Panel?

Sorry, one more thing. Because this site is a frequenbtly updated news website, I need to include H:i for the time. And I need to show the timezone: CST.

So an example time output I need to show on posts is like this:

2018年08月24日 — 22:14 CST

That is a standard way Bloomberg and other news outlets output their timestamp.

For example, here is a function that alters the date, but is there a way to tweak it for Newspaper?

<!--?php <br ?--> function custom_themify_loop_date($date_fmt) {
return 'l, F j, Y';
};
add_filter('themify_loop_date', 'custom_themify_loop_date');
?>
Code from here: https://themify.me/docs/date-time-format