Hi,
likely Feb. ?

I have to get our new corporate website 2017 done for January (working on that right now, oh wait, no I’m not, I’m here!) 😉

Using super lean WordPress home-brew theme, with Bootstrap 3x and avoiding some dumb aspects of WordPress (like, why enqueue css in head, then unenque with function, then manually put in footer .. ? why not just put it in footer to begin with – duh !).

Anyway… for this plugin doing some neat things for our own “corporate site,” like adding the excerpt box for pages, so THAT can be used for SEO elements, and custom field for Facebook image; basically couple of really simple things to not have to load Yoast SEO and ACF to do some really basic things. I don’t use YOAST SEO for anything except the headers META and sitemap, and it’s getting freaky bloated now for just doing that!

Anyway… the idea for plugin is to allow me to add all the stuff I keep doing in one darn plugin so I can stop editing every damn functions.php file !

However, before I can release to public I will need to make some admin panel options, to turn stuff off/on (like maybe you want the stupid emoticons?), and perhaps you want less compression than “50,” so how nice to have an option to set quality factor in a box ? Yeah!

So after 12 years with WordPress, finally snapped on this latest project and said “you know, why don’t I just put all this damn stuff into a plugin?” — anyway, that’s the plan. Doing it for myself, and this will trickle into a free thing others can use.

Peace out!

Chris

Hey…
in my install, it’s not loading the TD Composer stuff unless logged in 😉

Chris

We have our own server with opcache, memcache, mod pagespeed and testimg http/2 so not currently using amy caching plugin.

I just didable toolbar entirely from the user settings page which is built in option in wordpress per user

it works for me … but it cant edit existing homepage layout, you hsve to start with new blank page!

1. – this can be disabled from the modules settings in theme panel under ‘meta’ settings; I always forget where that is, but really good to “explore” all the theme panel elements!

Dunno on the other stuff.
(I don’t work here.)

Probably need to use an ad management system which hooks into the user roles; way outside of the theme capability.

Common issues with loading elements:

a) not enough memory allocated to WP (256M or higher recommended)
b) timeout and process run time too low for php (mine is 2000 for both)
c) mod-security running blocking elements in WP
d) using old version of php (5.4 not recommended; 5.6 recommended)
e) general permisssions issue due to WP being installed by the hosting panel and partially “owned” by root, apache, and not by ftpuser
f) funky issue with CDN setup
g) poor optimization plugin being used to minify or compress elements of code on the fly, breaking capability
h) cURL and other server elements not working
i) robots.txt blocking access to parts of WP
j) custom WP install not setup right, renaming paths and folders
k) mis-match of https and http, www and non-www site structure

These are most often the “reasons” why 20,000 people can do something and 200 cannot.

If you cannot login, then via ftp do this:

a) rename /wp-content/plugins — to xplugins
b) delete all theme folders except for the stock twenty-sixteen
c) then login
d) then go to appaarance > themes, and change theme to twenty-sixteen
e) rename plugins folder back
f) only activate necessary plugins
g) install theme and plugins fresh, via FTP

once theme working
a) resave permalinks
b) use wp-optimize plugin to optimize your WP dbase

Oh, no worries. Not trying to add menu to rev slider.

Just going to try to do this

[ – – – – – menu – – – – – ]
[ – – – – slider – – – – – ]
. . . . [ content ] . . . .
[ – – – – – menu – – – – – ]

Will let you know how it turns out.

Basically just use AdSense “responsive” ads, which is what they prefer you do now anyway and you will have no issues. This is what we’re doing across multiple sites with zero problems.

Paste in using text view on post screen not visual editor as wordpress tries to convert code to html.

Update via ftp and dont use that crappy plugin to update… seriously it fails on so many servers it should be outlawed!

Couple comments…

A… wordpress has its own built in rss feeds that dont need plugin, so not quite sure what was meant by it being important for a newspaper theme to have rss feeds … meaning every category and tag and author has built in rss feed automatically

B… if you are trying to import rss feeds from other sites, with permission, feedwordpress is recommended to import the full text and image … we use this along with auto post thumbnail pro plugin to pull in news from send2press.com/wire rss feeds by topic

C… if you just want to show an rss feed on your page from some other site, and only show the items temporarily, there are many rss reader widget plugins that work including the widget included with wordpress

You need to add CORS rules to your htaccess file and your CDN if using one.

Make sure you add the CORS rule to your website htaccess and your CDN if using one.

Hey!
as one of the original “make me a shim!” proponents back in the day, I know what you mean.

So – you might try the “successor” to that shim which is the new TagDiv Composer plugin, which can replace VC, and has all the blocks and more that the shim supported. 🙂

So you can build stuff with it, without using VC then switching on the shim. Now, just use the TD Composer and ditch VC and the ooooooold (2014?) shim.

Basically the shim is no longer supported, as far as I know. The TD Composer is the way to go. See the sticky post top of forum.

I’m using it on all our sites now. 🙂

Try it ! 🙂

We use the free ‘thumbnail upscale’ plugin, as WordPress cannot “enlarge” images for thumbs by default, stupidly, even though the image library on web server supports it.

Try that with regenerate thumbnails. 🙂

Hi, they actually have it “full width” for the viewport …
and here is the example:

https://prgrants.com

I was thinking of having the full width newsmag logo top, the hack for full width footer with CSS, and perhaps putting the slider “above” the normal body container so that it would be full width like the menu bar.

Have not yet tried it. Just got tired of trying to fix the nutty bugs in that other theme, and want to switch for January 1.

NO panic or rush or anything, just was thinking the other day “duh, I could just move this thing to newsmag … !” 🙂

If you import the demo ‘content’ it includes example posts for helping to design a site from scratch. You probably want to delete those or uncheck the content import option and only import the ‘styles.’

Install theme via FTP is the best way to properly do it.

LOL …
trust me, we’ve all been there !

Chris

You can simply place it into a text widget in the sidebar. Did you try that ?

Wow. Are you dense or what?

The plugin is updated when the next full theme is updated, not before.

The next version of the VC plugin will be included with the next version of the Newsmag themne, which likely won’t be released until the new major version of WordPress comes out in couple of weeks (4.7) which has a *lot* of changes. SO, they have to make sure theme works with WP 4.7, and then will push an update if needed, and this might include VC 5.0.

Again and again and again …
you cannot update VC to 5.0 until the theme is updated.

This was my last attempt to help on this topic.

Cheers.

(( I don’t work here. ))

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