Newspaper has supported AMP since Nov. 2015: Simply use the Automattic AMP plugin, and possibly the Yoast SEO ‘glue’ addon if you need that with Yoast.

As with all things, you should “try it out” and see which solution works for you. Coke vs pepsi 🙂

You don’t really need child theme unless you are making changes to core code.

Best way to update theme and plugins is via FTP, as you download the files from Envato/Themeforest to your PC/Mac, then upload to server.

Allows you to make backup before update, in case you need to roll back, and you HAVE all the files to do the updates as both the theme folder, and the various plugins that you happen to be using with theme.

Anyway, that’s how I do it to avoid issues.

So, have you moved the item to a full row to get it to work?

What contact form script/plugin are you using?

Ideally you should be using an SMTP plugin which requires login of an actual domain email account on your site to ‘send’ out email from your domain.

Also, do not use “email confirmation to person filling out form” with forms, as this can be used by spammers; only have a ‘thank you’ page after form filled out.

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Usually with custom ad code you can just wrap that in normal HTML with the element you need to add, with custom CSS.

e.g.

<div>
<div class="mybugcss">- advertisement - </div>
... custom ad code or js here ...
</div>

What does the error message say?

Are you running old version of PHP (5.2 ?) – you should have 5.6 or later.

Are you running WP 4.7.3 — older version should *not* be used.

What version of Visual Composer? Did you update that with the theme?

This theme is not hosted on WordPress.org — like most themes on ThemeForest you need to install via FTP to have it done properly. Good to learn, as it allows you to make proper backups, make sure you install plugins properly, and KNOW it has been updated correctly.

See the theme docs on how to update the theme. 🙂

More specifics?

Version of theme, version of VC plugin?
PHP version? WordPress version ?

Make sure you update Visual Composer plugin when updating theme.

Note that things *do* change in new versions of Visual Composer, so always wise to check “changelogs” for ANYTHING you install to know how you might need to “adjust” content for those changes!

Don’t use the Envato updater as it never works right on many server setups due to permission/ownership problems.

FTP is best way, and only way if you keep having problems.

Some browsers can disable javascript so certain things won’t always work.

Also, some browsers are old/retired and should not be used at all — e.g., Safari on Windows (not secure); IE 7/8/9 on Windows, etc.

View your actual page source to see where extra H1 tag is.

Normally this will be added automatically as the title headline for a post; so you don’t want to add another one yourself. This title/headline should match the meta data for title and the permalink for SEO.

When you view your page source where is the “extra h1” coming from?

Don’t rely on page scanners to be accurate — LOOK to see yourself what is actually ON your page.

Best to

a) keep track of changes
b) download new theme version
c) apply changes to core files in NEW version
d) delete old theme folder via FTP
e) upload new theme folder with changes re-applied via FTP

Also good to backup anything placed in theme panel text boxes or widgets into a plain text file for safe keeping.

Also good to have full MySQL backups.

(( I don’t work here. ))

No prob.

Note another reason, if your site is https, and you’re using a free https certificate as part of the https everywhere initiative; most of the new free https certs will make the site unusable for very old, insecure web browsers that don’t support TLS and only support defunct SSL1/2/3.

This is kind of rare, but it does impact some people who have folks still running WinXP, or Win7 with IE7/8/9/10 — all of which are defunct/deprecated and not secure at this point.

Likely check error log for your hosting account.

Check system status in theme panel to ensure you have enough RAM allocated to WordPress.

Consider fewer modules in sidebar/footers, don’t use ‘mega menus’, turn off lazy loading animation, consider turning off related posts/more by author, and the like.

If your system getting ‘overloaded’ from peak access times, you need to look at optimizing your site for both resources on your system, and how many things are using those resources in your layout.

Just food for thought (I don’t work here) 🙂

Meranda Devan
you likely want to start your own topic.

You can update the theme from the panel, but you need to download the theme zip from Themeforest, then install that zip by uploading from your hard drive.

Alternately, it’s wise to learn how to FTP, as this is the best method to upload theme update while deleting old folder, making backups of images, folders, etc., and uploading any plugins included with theme you actually use.

What did you recently update on your site to break it ?

it *cannot* just break on its own. Technically impossible.

Did you check your pages with F12/Console for errors?

Do you periodically clear transients and clean up dbase with something like wp-optimize?

Did you check your server error log for anything like hack attempt, system errors?

Did you check with your hosting provider for any server issues?

Did you check your website via FTP for any malicious software ‘hidden’ on there?

(( I don’t work here, just some feedback, using TagDiv themes for over 3 years now; and this never happens on our sites! ))

Also, good to check if you have a proper full site backup so you can “go back” to the prior day before it “broke” to repair it.

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You control that sort of thing by using a custom import system like FeedWordPress or similar where you can filter elements, set excerpts vs full text, remove errant HTML, etc. — none of that is controlled by the theme as content “imported” via another system will be affected by how the content imported is brought into each post and related data fields.

Also helps to read.

This answered your question before you posted anything:

Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner

That means exactly what it says. You can’t stream that video except by going to YouTube to watch it. You cannot stream it on your website. Period.

I know your post made me want to go live ‘screaming’ 😉

• This reply was modified 9 years by simchris.

Seems like you don’t have your site very well configured if you keep breaking it.

See my comment on your other post on this topic.

Site can’t “suddenly” break unless you update it, change it, your host changes system, or you get hacked.

Theme has nothing to do with “everything suddenly not working.”

You should

a) scan site with free Securi scanner online to make sure no malware
b) make sure you have latest version of WordPress – everything prior to current version is not secure
c) check to see if anything changed on your site without your knowledge – hosting issue, caching issue, CDN fail, etc.
d) you enter your activation code in the theme panel for Newspaper – it should not “suddenly” ask for it again unless your site or dbase broken
c) make sure you have backups of your site in case you need to revert to an “un broken’ version.

You might need to provide more info after you check the above items!

Gravatar (avatar) is part of WordPress, not the theme.

So, you either need to hack the WP install to replace default graphic, or, as suggested, use a plugin which allows you to set your own gravatars/avatars per author or as default.

You might want to read up on the WordPress.org codex to learn how the basic functions of WordPress work, to help understand elements like this.

(( I don’t work here. ))

Turn off animation.

Use lazy-load plugin.

Or, upgrade hosting/server to https + PHP7 + http/2 and you won’t need it. 😉

If you’re still using WP 4.3.3 you need to update as anything prior to current version has major security holes. Many things updated for 4.7 version of WP may not work properly with WP 4.3x !!

WordPress versions 4.7.1 and earlier are affected by three security issues:

The user interface for assigning taxonomy terms in Press This is shown to users who do not have permissions to use it. Reported by David Herrera of Alley Interactive.
WP_Query is vulnerable to a SQL injection (SQLi) when passing unsafe data. WordPress core is not directly vulnerable to this issue, but we’ve added hardening to prevent plugins and themes from accidentally causing a vulnerability. Reported by Mo Jangda (batmoo).
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the posts list table. Reported by Ian Dunn of the WordPress Security Team.
An unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in a REST API endpoint. Reported by Marc-Alexandre Montpas of Sucuri Security. *

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Likely need to edit the header files. It doesn’t hurt anything in modern semantic markup, as the header area is separate from the article/main area of the document. An H1 in the header only indicates that is the primary element in the header vs any other graphics, text, menus, etc. as the primary object.