Only solution is to not use Google fonts.

See some of the posts in forum about using only web safe fonts, and not using *any* Google fonts.

A little tricky, but sounds like you’re not able to load stuff from Google’s CDN very well.

Once you have updated WordPress, all you have to do is delete .maintenance file from your site’s root folder using FTP. If you can not see .maintenance file in your site’s root directory, then make sure you checked your FTP client to show hidden files.

In Filezilla, you can force it to show hidden files by clicking on Server » Force showing hidden files from the menu bar.

WordPress creates a .maintenance file during the update process which indicates that your site is in the maintenance mode. Unless this file is removed your site will remain in the maintenance mode and your users will continue to see the notification.

Theme does not control categories; those are managed by WordPress.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Manage_Categories_SubPanel

To manage categories, et al, in the menus that is managed in the menus panel.

If you “deleted” things you might want to go to your backup prior to the change.

If you don’t make backups, this might be good learning experience as to why they are useful.

You can also look at your actual open graph meta in your posts by learning to use ‘view source’ in web browser to SEE what is actually there, then make adjustments as needed using Yoast SEO or similar to control the OG data.

I still use an online cssminifier (google it) to copy/paste the main style.css. Works well.

Note that the newsmag ‘font’ is a trimmed version of fontawesome; so if you’re using fontawesome you might want to make sure you are not loading both fonts. I ran into this on one site and went ‘doh’ 😉

To test breadcrumb behavior, you can also replace the theme breadcrumb with the yoast breadcrumb in your chosen post template and see what happens. Or use the nifty navxt breadcrumbs.

Also be aware Google is doing a major update this month targeting low quality sites which only clone/copy other content and originate none of their own. Such sites will see deprecation in rankings, SERPS, and they may over-ride anything you do regardless of theme/format if you have such a site.

If the current breadcrumbs don’t throw an error in Google document check, and have the correct modern schema, then it’s not an issue with the breadcrumbs.

It might be change of theme for March is coincidental with Google major SERPS update for March targeting certain types of sites (e.g., Google the “fred” update as one bit of info on the topic).

Could be simply Google re-indexing your site.

Be sure to resave permalinks, clear transients, clear/reset all caching/CDN (destroy all old copies basically), resubmit sitemaps to Google via search console. This makes sure you’re “back in sync” with actual pages vs cached pages in Google archive.

Just food for thought after 22 years of webdev and playing with search engines. Might have nothing to do with your issue, but it might depending on how site setup, et al.

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Use a plugin. Theme does not have an advanced ad module, only the simple version included.

Most themes have no such option; you can use JetPack or various plugins to do this.

If you want to update, yes.

Normally look at what has changed and see if you need/want to update.

You don’t have to unless there is major security flaw, or something not working right.

WordPress is updated more often than theme.

Need to update plugins manually from the “all files” download from ThemeForest.

You might also try this, which I’ve not tested …
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-gif-player/

simple method; upload graphic(s) that are GIFs via FTP to a folder on your website.

Then put the explicit URL for the graphic in your post/page.

WordPress doesn’t support the multiple image sizes in the IMG tag, with animated GIFs, I think might be the issue.

Always best to save any custom CSS placed into theme panel, and text in boxes, etc. into a backup text file for safe keeping; also consider copy-pasting custom homepage “code” to a file as well. Make note of any special text you have placed into widgets where you don’t have that info saved.

What you can do, and what is commonly done in WordPress news portals, is upload images via FTP into an /images/ folder, and then put the explicit URL for the image in the HTML of the article, and don’t use the media manager except for the featured image.

Note that WP makes images from anything added to the media manager, per the default sizes shown on the settings > media page for *all* themes, defaulting to those most commonly used by the default blog themes included with WP.

So, *all* themes follow this behavior by adding additional add image classes to fit theme layouts, and for this theme they can be disabled based on the theme panel.

The only solution that works across all themes, is to simply use the FTP method for common images, and then use the media manager only for the ‘featured’ image for a story.

Anyway, that’s how we’ve done it the past 12 years on our news portals.

For first question, that is not related to theme, but a basic WordPress element hack; you will likely need to Google that topic to see how to hack that as it’s similar to the hack we use here to add html to the author bio box. Same idea. WP doesn’t support that by default.

Because it’s not hosted on wordpress.org, but a commercial theme sold at ThemeForest.

See the theme docs on how to update.

FTP is best way as you can also do full site backup same time!

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Speedbooster is optional. See the theme docs for how to add certain plugins to it’s “allowed” list. Otherwise you can’t use it with certain plugins. Again, it’s optional, but you may have to tweak to work with your site/setup.

PHP 5.6 and PHP7 include ‘opcache’ support inherently, so you might look into that.

For WP caching, there is recommended solution in the theme docs.

Alternately, you can Google how to add a custom hack to your functions.php file if you don’t want to use YOAST, to remove the /category/ “slug” from URLs.

However, theme has no control over the permalinks structure, which is part of WordPress.

Best method is to learn to use FTP.

This allows you to *see* the actual files and folders on your server/website, and KNOW what is really there.

Install the main ‘theme’ zip file. not the ‘all files’ download.

Wise to LOOK inside zip files on your PC before loading them to your website, as general rule.

Would still be loaded as part of the page in the main style.css – overall size would be similar.

20kb of data inline would still be 20kb of data in the main style.css.

user guide
https://forum.tagdiv.com/sharing/

Make sure you paste it into the right place. See the theme docs for WHERE to do that properly.