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Christopher is a long time WordPress user. Anything else you need to know is private ;-) I *do not* work for TagDiv, but I've been using their themes since late 2013.
simchris
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Check with your hosting provider that they have setup proper A NAME and C NAME records for your domain name in the DNS entries for your website.

simchris
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If you can’t update to latest version of theme where it’s fixed; I think you can simply edit out the secition in the header.php file ?

simchris
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We use the DUPLICATOR plugin to do this kind of thing over here.

We had to change name of one of our websites to make it shorter after 10 years, and so were able to clone/move, and as part of the clone image it did the site name changes through the dbase. Pretty amazing, really.

simchris
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If it pre-dates turning comments on, you may need to actually go to the post and check the ‘comments allowed’ box for that single post, which is part of WordPress, not the theme. If you can’t see option, use the Post Page visibility tab top right of post edit page to enable the options on the post page ‘comments’ – then check box ‘yes’ on the post.

Might not be your issue, but most common one 🙂

( I don’t work here, just lurk for treats. )

simchris
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You might create your own custom style sheet for printing. Lots of online tutorials for this.

Most themes have no such option built-in as the universe has moved to “paperless” and “print to PDF” or “save as PDF” is more common these days and that if often subject to how the particular solution works in printing, often with its own internal styles to embed fonts legally in PDF vs bitmaps.

Some browsers require setting print layout to ‘wide’ (landscape) vs ‘tall’ (portrait).

Or, install a print to PDF plugin, which is what we did on our site(s). I think we use the free one from bestsoft or something like that.

(( I don’t work here. ))

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simchris
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Basic WordPress functions – might want to visit the ‘codex’ on WordPress.org to learn the basics of WordPress which are not theme specific.

Categories are created, deleted, managed at admin > posts > categories

Menus are managed typically at admin > appearance > menus

see:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Manage_Categories_SubPanel

sorry, if that was not what you meant.

( I don’t work here; just lurk for gingerbread cookies as handouts … )

simchris
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You can easily see that using F12/developer mode in Chrome web browser.

I think it’s 14px for the post content, possibly 15px. Also found in the styles.css file.

simchris
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I think you can turn off ‘tags’ in posts by simply switching that off in theme panel under ‘posts’ ?

simchris
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Yes. Welcome to Facebook. 🙂

You can try
a) check your OG meta data in post head via view post
b) check post with FB debug tool
c) make sure you have large enough featured image
d) try to use unique file names for your images, as this seemed to be one factor with Facebook (e.g,. “myimage.jpg” “myimage-01.jpg” “myimage01.jpg” not great … site-puppies-041817-640×480.jpg is better)

Test your post/site speed.

Note also, we have had timeout issues with our insights the past week with Facebook, and just launching our site via business manager this morning timed out and no content on FB.

So, they go through their little hoops. I think their developer conference going on “right now” might or might not have some impact, or just the nature of the web.

They seem to go through flurries of not being able to capture images, and we end up having to use the pesky ‘refresh attachment’ for few days, then it stops happening for no specific reason. Regardless of theme, or server, or whatever. And all our images are 600×450 or 620×450.

simchris
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Facebook doesn’t always capture image properly, which is inherent in how FB works when busy, or if it ‘times out’ trying to retrieve your open graph identified image.

simchris
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If you pull content from other websites, not related to theme. Some sites can block external loading without permission.

For images to be used as thumbs, they need to be set as ‘featured’ which needs plugin to generate from the image in post from other website.

Might not be your issue, but your note wasn’t very specific.

See the theme docs for tips on how to speed up site pages; of course if loading stuff from exeternal site you have to wait for content to load from other site — nothing you can do to ‘speed up’ that.

( I don’t work here. )

simchris
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No reason it should “suddenly” stop working unless something else changed on your website. So, if you have auto plugin updates turned on or similar, then when stuff gets updated it might break things.

Perhaps try clearing caches (if any), resave permalinks, clear transients with WP-Optimize or similar.

Check error log on server and debug mode in WordPress,etc.

(I don’t work here.)

simchris
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Undo whatever change you did to make something stop working?

simchris
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I believe this was updated in recent versions of the theme.

simchris
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Yes, unless you use the normal OEMBED method for Soundcloud you can use the Soundcloud embed code found on their website.

You might find the actual official WordPress docs “codex” helpful in learning to use WP:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds

————–
Usage
To embed a video or another object into a post or page, place its URL into the content area. Make sure the URL is on its own line and not hyperlinked (clickable when viewing the post).

For example:

Check out this cool video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

That was a cool video.`

WordPress will automatically turn the URL into a YouTube embed and provide a live preview in the visual editor.

Another option is to wrap the URL in the [embed] Shortcode.

[embed width="123" height="456"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ[/embed]
If WordPress fails to embed the URL, the post will contain a hyperlink to the URL.
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simchris
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See the “requirements” section of the theme admin panel, where it shows you the recommended settings and your current settings.

Visual Composer does need a lot of system resources, so memory in your WP-config.php file should be 64M or higher, and all execution times should be increased depending on complexity of your page(s). I have mine set to 300 secs.

simchris
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Normally you’d develop a copy of your site with new theme in a sub-domain or alt dev setup like MAMP on your hard drive and import database from server (lots of articles on web for this).

Install theme via FTP if your hosting setup has funky permissions.

Some people “switch” to new site layout by setting aside a weekend and doing changes when things are less likely to freak people out. Note all your posts won’t break choosing new theme, indexes work, etc.; so often you can switch on new theme, then work on your homepage first, then sort out the rest.

I think there is also a theme switch plugin where you can work on new layout, test, then switch back to old theme. Have not tried that.

simchris
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make sure you are only uploading the main theme zip and not ‘all files’ zip.

If your hosting setup doesn’t have correct permissions, you need to install via FTP.

simchris
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Usually best option is to un-do whatever changes you made which caused site to stop working.

it cannot “just suddenly stop working” unless something changed.

Usually, reinstalling theme is good choice, turn off plugins; disable auto-updates on anything that broke site.

Resave permalinks, clear transients with WP-Optimize; clear any caching used, etc.

simchris
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Easter Holidays Schedule:
April 15, 2017 – Limited support
April 16-17, 2017 – Easter Holiday
April 18, 2017 – Back to normal!

simchris
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Install via FTP or fix your Curl setup.

simchris
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You need to fully disable caching and clear caching before moving anything.

So, that’s why you’re getting cache errors – which are not part of the theme.

You might check with support for the caching plugin for that.

simchris
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Well, I meant just where there was confusion.

E.g., most font settings are self explanatory:

“post content” obviously refers to the post content
“post title” obviously refers to the post content.

For the “modules” those are pretty much shown here:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-theme-thumbs/

Category grid styles are here:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-category-grid-styles/

simchris
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I usually do a search/replace in the style.css then that becomes the new ‘default’ fonts 🙂

Muuuuuuch simpler.

simchris
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They are in the visual editor on the post edit page.
https://codex.wordpress.org/File:write1.png

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