Also note that in various plugins and such, you need to put full URLs to things … like https://www.facebook.com/whatever

not just

facebook.com/whatever

I use

a) mysql/phpadmin ‘check/repair dbase’

b) WP-Optimize plugin couple of years now; highly recommended:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-optimize/

** ALWAYS make backups of your SQL dbase before doing anything to it, as precaution. I have not had any damage done to my 20 sites using above methods, but you should have periodic backups in any case.

See the theme docs for tips on optimizing your site

See
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_meta_box

Always good to use the Google tools to *look* at the 404s, and see WHERE the links originate. For example, if some dumb bot site created ad links in social using your page content, and link to you for social spam — it’s not your site causing the errors, but 404s generated because bad links are being built pointing at your site. That situation has nothing to do with theme.

Suggest looking at the source of the inbound links causing the errors. With some back tracing and such you can block the IPs, you can also check to ensure your site content doesn’t load in iframes (redirect to top window, which we do on our main business site; this stops social spam from click-jacking our content with ad iframe above our content frame, etc).

1) change author to a “name” not an email
2) on the post settings page, toggle the stuff to “off” you don’t want to see on the post pages
3) for the templates/modules, find the “meta” setting to turn off elements for those

Maybe footer?

yep 🙂

one of the big secrets to services that speed up WordPress are

mod_pagespeed with memcache, http/2, php7 with opcache, page caching system

all that stuff really helps.

btw, with php7 only couple minor tweaks needed to theme code; and rumour has it the next version of theme in couple of weeks (sooner?) may have php7 support baked in, once WP 4.7 drops (and likely 4.7.1 based on how this often goes).

Not part of theme; the excerpt box is a built in feature of WordPress.

Likely need to Google that as it may require adding a function to your functions.php file to hide that on the post screen pages.

With some ‘user role’ plugins you can also hide that for all users except admin.

Theme does not control the visiblity of the excerpt box on the post edit page.

Well that might just be the dumb way they built that.

Remember you can name your menu items whatever you want with custom links, and put anything as drop downs.

So, that could just be a dumb way they built that for the demo.

But regardless, you can setup your own menus all sorts of ways from the WP menu panel, the custom mega menus, and the per category menu settings panel. So, lots of choices.

Easy to get lost though. I know I do 😉

You should delete your setting above immediately — never post logins/passwords here — it’s a public forum.

Note: you can find the visual composer plugin (js_conmposer.zip) in the ‘all files’ download from ThemeForest in the /plugins/ folder 🙂

Well, in my case, that is not a bug …
there are no sub menu items for tech, so visitors are shown “more to read topics,” including a drop down category selector to explore topics.

That is a setting of the category page header.

So, for instance I just went to the category settings panel in the theme panel, and changed the drop down category behavior to “none” —

https://californianewswire.com/CA/technology/

see ? now there are no items shown as “more to explore” menu under the menu bar. But NATIONAL, which also has no drop down choices, still has the more to explore bar.

You do have some control over that for EACH category as to how it works. Not sure how you had tennis in tennis, as I’ve not seen THAT happen before on our sites.

Not sure that helps. But that was kinda what I had meant as “you can control that…” to some respect and in my case not having any “bug” but rather a feature. Admittedly kinda set as default at the moment since I had to fix several sites in our network horribly corrupted from Aug 5 server and RAID failure (long story).

Anyway – maybe that will help 🙂

Good first step is fix all the errors being generated on the page.

Do “F12” in Chrome for the console view; always wise to check that for any issues.

jquery-migrate.min.js:2 JQMIGRATE: Migrate is installed, version 1.4.1
www.fashionghana.com/:834 Mixed Content: The page at 'https://www.fashionghana.com/forums/politics/160/' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure image 'http://www.fashionghana.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/newlogo-1.png'. This content should also be served over HTTPS.
www.fashionghana.com/:846 Mixed Content: The page at 'https://www.fashionghana.com/forums/politics/160/' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure image 'http://www.fashionghana.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/newlogo-1.png'. This content should also be served over HTTPS.
www.fashionghana.com/:849 Mixed Content: The page at 'https://www.fashionghana.com/forums/politics/160/' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure image 'http://www.fashionghana.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/newlogo-1.png'. This content should also be served over HTTPS.
www.fashionghana.com/:1900 Mixed Content: The page at 'https://www.fashionghana.com/forums/politics/160/' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure image 'http://www.fashionghana.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/newlogo2.png'. This content should also be served over HTTPS.
ping:1 Application Error: There was a problem getting data for the application you requested. The application may not be valid, or there may be a temporary glitch. Please try again later.

Make a custom post template which does not call the ad units; and then simply use that template for the special post.

Plenty of tutorials online for how to clone a standard single-post.php template, rename it, remove stuff, and then use that as alternate for custom situations.

Obviously if you want to do something unique with the theme, for something not designed or advertised to do, as with *all* WordPress themes, you have to build your own solution for your unique needs.

REF
https://codex.wordpress.org/Templates

One issue we’ve seen with Google News, is with certain layouts where the “category pills” are ABOVE the headline on the page, vs moving them below the content (we moved them below the author box … ).

Stupidly, they are “supposed” to read the Google News XML site map you should be feeding them, which has the title in it, and not managed by the theme in any way.

But in some odd cases they do seem to prefer

[menus/logo]
[breadcrumbs]
[headline/h1]
[sub head/h2 – optional]
[body of news item]

versus

[menus/logo]
[breadcrumbs]
[category links] x
[headline/h1]
[sub head/h2 – optional]
[body of news item]

Be sure to view the page source of your posts to also ensure you have Open Graph tags for og:title as well.

Hi, note
I am building the “main” menu items by hand, and not using any automation in WP …

so, for example here:

https://californianewswire.com/CA/articles-political-opinion/

you will see in the “politics” menu item, the current category is “highlighted” …

so probably I was comparing apples to oranges, vs apples to apples …

sorry … man, I sounded like a bozo in my comments earlier. Sorry about that. I notice I seem to be a dork when using my iPad vs my desktop machine. Not my usual sunny disposition and more snarky. Weird.

Anyway; TagDiv is back, but getting through comments and queries.

Note, they go ‘old to new,’ so we need to stop posting on this thread so they will actually reply.

Chris

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We had an ad banner full width below the banner across top of all our sites for almost 10 years in Adsense, above the two content columns, with no issues. Even switching to Newspaper then NEwsmag 1.0.

Archive Org; Jan 2015:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160117145517/http://californianewswire.com/calif-assemblyman-gatto-reminds-on-new-laws-for-californians-jan-1-2016/

then we “hid” that above the content banner on mobile devices (phones), per the options in the ad panel (*show desktop, tablet; hide mobile).

So, desktop and tablet got above the fold ads, mobile got bottom of content ads or the sidebar.

Bow with Newsmag 3.1 I’ve just been lazy on the final optimization, due to the Aug 5 server crash, and just loading one ad in the sidebar on all devices; which tucks below on mobile.

So, you just need to “plan” how your ads appear on devices and go TEST them — obviously — .

The theme is compliant; it’s up to you to “engineer” your ad placements to fit your needs.

For example for some folks, not using Adsense, having an ad unit for a movie opening, above the fold on a movie website, might not be crazy.

But obviously, for good UX, you should not have the top half of your iphone view of an article be an ad box; but should show the story title and/or story photo/image.

Food for thought, anyway.

I use the ‘scripts to Footer’ plugin.

You can also do the trick to un-enqueue and load jquery off the Google CDN; which is found in my optimzation thread near the end (docs > DIY tutorials > best of forums)

You mean on the forum ?

Note the check box bottom of the topic “Notify me of follow-up replies via email”

Sorry. I am able to customize my menu any way i want. Guess i must have different version of theme.

Go to the footer settings in theme panel

See theme docs link right side of page to explore options in the theme ?

also note that http/2 is a great solution for https sites as it ends up serving a nice cached “the whole page” as ONE single connect per query.

PHP7 also great solution, once theme fully supports it.

Are you using PHP 7 ?
theme not yet compatible with PHP7.

What a lot of people do is setup something like the free version of mailchimp and then send peeps newsletters from that vs from your website.

Theme is fully compliant with AdSense.

Sidebar ads are responsive, inline ads are responsive — if you use responsive adsense code. Theme just puts your Adsense code into the spot, so you need to use responsive ads for a responsive theme/layout.

Have been using theme for 3+ years with AdSense with zero issues.