Simple fix is to use monitoring tools on your hosting account to see where largest amount of unwanted ‘hits’ are coming from and block their IP or IP block of numbers at bad ISP.

Or, use whatever your current monitoring tools are and start implementing a bad behavior block list of banned IPs from visiting your website.

We have about 500 blocked IP ranges in our block list from Russia, N Korea, eastern Europe, parts of Africa, etc. which abuse our system but now cannot reach pages or load ANY content from our sites.

Anybody can ping your search with ? and also try password resets, look for bad exploits for nulled themes and plugins on your system. Downside to ‘dynamic’ sites vs static pages.

First create categories, per normal WordPress practice.

Then edit the menus from the appearance > menus … part of normal WordPress admin.

See the them docs – link right side of page.

Contact Yoast support.

They have a forum for help on the WordPress.org plugin repository.

TagDiv doesn’t make, manage, or support the plugin settings or usage. So, reading the docs on how to use it helps, but also note that if Google has a page indexed, telling them to “not index” it is only a suggestion not “the law” … they may still index it since it’s on the web.

However, if you look at the support forum for the plugin some others seem to be having noindex issues, so good to look at the replies there for help.

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We did have them randomly skip two stories this morning.

This implies one of their periodic updates, such as they are in process of doing with Google Site Search (GSS). So, usually they have some “weirdness” couple of times every year.

Placement in Google News based on a *lot* of factors (we have been in there with 10+ sites since the beta back in, oh, 2004?). So, they can hide news temporarily within a window of time, they can skip stories due to content (you can report a story missing if it’s in your news sitemap, not generating errors, and not running prohibited content — e.g., conflicting with AdSense rules, etc.).

Generally you can test your news sitemap, resubmit it, move to https if not already — which is now a ranking factor — as is page speed. Your desktop and mobile should both be over 90.

You can test your content is there with site:yoursite per their instructions.

But main thing is not having copycat, stale, duplicate or cloned content. Meaning, if there are 100 items in Google news about Britney Spears breaking her toe, and you’re last to party, they may skip inclusion of that item as it adds nothing to the barrage of like-content already there.

Nothing to do with theme; it’s always original content; speed; https; AMP; error-free code, etc. that impact your visibility in Google news.

And also remember you will see diff results based on browser, locale, logged in/out of Google, IP address, recent searches, etc. — there are no “static” 1,2,3 results for anything anymore.

Just as follow up, we use this on several of our sites for pulling in stuff to the sidebar pointing to one of our other websites; nice since it also caches for awhile not out pinging the other site every time page loads:

WP-RSSImport

https://wordpress.org/plugins/rss-import/

Hope that helps somebody. Free is always nice, too 😉

They don’t do work for hire.

Hello
I am no longer updating this thread or posting to forum, but you should be able to use all this stuff with Newsmag, as most of it is common to all WP installs, especially Linux/Apache stuff.

Stuff like editing/moving the fonts are likely still in the same files and locations if you look for them.

Obviously, the way to do any mods is to make backups, then working copy; upload work files with changes, test; if busted, re-upload the backup files. Make backups of changes as you go, so you can ‘roll back’ to any middle version of modified files.

Good luck!

Chris S.

Use FTP to delete / install plugin updates safely if your hosting/wordpress setup blocks the admin panel from deleting or installing files.

Many companies block certain websites based on safe browsing ratings, tagged as adult content, etc.

Nothing to do with theme.

This happens at MANY companies to block employees from wasting time at work, going to adult websites, etc.

You might look into things like adding a “web of trust” verification to your met data and rating meta data.

Welcome to the interwebs!

Look like from your ads and stats, not the theme.

Well, the theme creates the front page thumbnails from the ‘featured image’ — so unless there is a featured image selected, no thumb for modules is made.

Or, you can use something like we do for our news sites, called Auto Post Thumbnail PRO, which is $10 or something like that. It will capture first image in post and automatically make dupe image and add as ‘featured’ so that the theme can create thumbs. 🙂

(I don’t work here.)

I actually won’t be posting anything on the forum at all in 2017.

So have a wonderful new year folks!

Chris S.

Perhaps use normal HTML to put the ad spots in a text widget on sidebar? You don’t have to use the ad widget for the sidebar, it’s just a convenience.

Or, perhaps use an ad module like AdRotate and put the shortcode into template.

See the basic docs for WordPress under default “user roles” to understand how admin, author, contributor levels work. Not theme related.

Create new users. I believe an ‘editor’ can specify the author. So, an editor could edit/approve a story and perhaps change the author assigned to that story under the author drop down in the post editor. Not sure.

See: https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

Obviously each author needs to have a user account of some kind before he/she can be attributed as the author of the story. You then simply select that author from drop down on the post edit page, if your privileges are high enough.

Theme doesn’t manage any of that stuff, unfortunately.

Did you set image as ‘featured’ image in the post ?

Well, again, reading the basic documentation for WordPress in the codex at WordPress.org good place to start if you’re still confused about posts, pages, custom post types, menus, excerpts, content, post title, etc. — are all part of *all* WordPress sites and not theme specific.

WordPress is a publishing platform, and the theme is a “style/design and added functions” platform sitting on top of that.

meaning, headers, menus, posts, titles, sidebars, widgets, footers — are all normal elements of WordPress.

So, starting there perhaps with a default WP theme that comes with WP to “learn” how WP works would be good starting point. THEN, graduate to a complex theme like this.

Meaning, if you don’t know what a post title is, then you won’t understand what the settings do for the post title.

Just food for thought. 🙂

There is a learning curve. But often theme developers can’t take the time to teach people the basics. And making videos and screen shots is tricky — beyond the ones they have already done to explain the theme workings — since things DO change and so complex videos can become obsolete quickly, vs “how to install a dishwasher” tutorials.

Learning WordPress — starting point:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_with_WordPress

WORKING WITH WORDPRESS:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Working_with_WordPress

New to WordPress – FAQs
https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_New_To_WordPress

(( I don’t work here. Just suggestions 🙂 ))

Good to know; I believe the theme is only tested to PHP 7.0x

1) change default compression of images in wp-config

2) test a post with GTMetrix.com for all the things you need to do

3) see the theme docs for tips on optimizing your site, server, etc., which have nothing to do with the theme

Best to upload via FTP, to ensure it gets uploaded properly to server.

Dunno. I don’t work here.

might be script errors on page
Refused to execute script from 'https://joinme.sp1.convertro.com/view/vt/v1/joinme/1/cvo.gif?cvosrc=display.40814.21224222025408141&cvo_creative=99801367' because its MIME type ('image/gif') is not executable.

or might be that the source material disallows loading outside a page and won’t work in jscript container.

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We’re not having this issue here, for what it’s worth.

Also be aware that some advertising networks can contain malware; so often in checking your site for “actual” JS issues, first step if often turning off ALL advertising and rechecking after clearing all caching.

You can do so using iframes. You would need to wrap a div or target iframe with the external URL being that iframe content target. Basic HTML, nothing to do with the theme.

Some sharing sites do this, like Stumbleupon.

Of course, some of us more savvy folk in the news business use top target sniffers to reload our pages without another site’s content bar on top, to ensure no confusion on where the person actually is for security purposes.

🙂

Also seems to help, after update

a) resave permalinks
b) clear all ‘transients’ with wp-optimize plugin

Also remember when editing elements on a ‘page’ in VC, when you save things in the VC panel, you still need to save the actual ‘page’ containing the VC elements.

Then clear browser cache to view updated page.

That’s what I do anyway. 😉