Note –
well known issue with some servers to switch off “FastCGI” option for PHP in hosting panel.
This was common issue with GoDaddy.

You should be able to use WP media manager regardless of theme.

With theme active most common issues are that the server setup is not allowing theme to “write” the needed thumbs for each new image.

So,
a) check permissions on the media folder is “writable”
b) check at least 96M allocated to WP in wp-config.php
c) on some systems, disable “fastCGI” option under your php settings in theme panel.

On some/most servers, also need to have Glib/imagemagick installed to process images (should be by default, but not always!).

This takes care of 90% of such issues.

Google sometimes “scrapes” the text from the first element on page in lieu of meta data; and this happens sometimes when Google is re-indexing “everything” or specifically your site in the AMP vs desktop vs mobile SERPS shuffle o-rama.

Same things happens with Google News sometimes where they would grab the category bug above the headline and make that part of the title on Google News.

One thing you can do is add a text block to your website home page using an h1 tag which is short description of the site, typically same text you have in the meta tags, OG tags for your home page.

Double check your home page meta doing view source. Make sure your home page featured images all have proper description “alt” tags.

I believe it’s to generate youtube images, and might be used for ads, or VC to generate thumbs from videos.

I think it’s a YouTube video trying to store Flash data in web browser.

This is likely due to ads, or ads being served with videos from YouTube.

Google is somewhat helpful:

search “what is ytimg.com”

To be clear.. theme not infected.
This forum was infected due to forum software exploit.

https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/forum.tagdiv.com/

ISSUE DETECTED DEFINITION INFECTED URL
Website Malware MW:JS:GEN2?web.js.malware.fake_jquery.003 https://forum.tagdiv.com/ ( View Payload )
Website Malware MW:JS:GEN2?web.js.malware.fake_jquery.003 https://forum.tagdiv.com/404testpage4525d2fdc ( View Payload )
Website Malware MW:JS:GEN2?web.js.malware.fake_jquery.003 https://forum.tagdiv.com/404javascript.js ( View Payload )
Website Malware MW:JS:GEN2?web.js.malware.fake_jquery.003 https://forum.tagdiv.com/login/ ( View Payload )
Website Malware MW:JS:GEN2?web.js.malware.fake_jquery.003 https://forum.tagdiv.com/register/ ( View Payload )
Website Malware MW:JS:GEN2?web.js.malware.fake_jquery.003

We got this notice in Chrome today, also.

Might be false positive due to customer pasting code into a help post which is seen as nefarious.

But, since it’s a login/password protected site, that is very odd.

SECURI ALSO SHOWS ALERT
https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/forum.tagdiv.com/

ISSUE DETECTED DEFINITION INFECTED URL
Website Malware MW:JS:GEN2?web.js.malware.fake_jquery.003 https://forum.tagdiv.com/ ( View Payload )
Website Malware MW:JS:GEN2?web.js.malware.fake_jquery.003 https://forum.tagdiv.com/404testpage4525d2fdc ( View Payload )
Website Malware MW:JS:GEN2?web.js.malware.fake_jquery.003 https://forum.tagdiv.com/404javascript.js ( View Payload )
Website Malware MW:JS:GEN2?web.js.malware.fake_jquery.003 https://forum.tagdiv.com/login/ ( View Payload )
Website Malware MW:JS:GEN2?web.js.malware.fake_jquery.003 https://forum.tagdiv.com/register/ ( View Payload )
Website Malware MW:JS:GEN2?web.js.malware.fake_jquery.003

I think some folks are using their own licensed versions, with the theme, but not tested. Remember theme has some custom blocks, and as long as there is no conflict with the new additions, might work okay.

You can always try it, then go back if things not working right. 🙂

4.12x isn’t that old, really.

https://wpbakery.atlassian.net/wiki/display/VC/Release+Notes

Normally you get a new version of the plugin with the next full theme update.

see the wordpress docs … theme does not control the main function of comments:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Comments_in_WordPress

Make sure you install just the theme zip folder, and not the “all files” zip — that will never ever work.

For Google fonts you can go to Google’s website
https://fonts.google.com/

For common ‘font stacks,’ you can preview here
http://www.cssfontstack.com/

Also nice extension for Chrome for Google Fonts:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-font-previewer-for/engndlnldodigdjamndkplafgmkkencc

You can wrap the ad div in a background color.

You can disable comments on pages/posts from the discussion meta box; simply make it visible from tab top of the screen; then make sure comments is unchecked.

Also, comments normally off on ‘pages’ — so ideally your contact us page should be a ‘page’ and not a ‘post’.

I’m actually using Newsmag now, but very similar for some of the admin panel.

I think you can turn on the image sizes in the modules panel for theme? The section where you can turn on/off different images sizes for blocks/modules.

You can see one of my Newsmag sites on the “showcase” page … (the California one). Note the site just switched to Newsmag 3.1 from 1.7, and I have not yet fully optimized it (logo wrong size in footer, mod_pagespeed is off, critical CSS not yet in header, etc.).

TagDiv is in diff time zone from me — I don’t hang out here, but sometimes I have little iwndows of “waiting on some dumb server thing to run …” where trapped a moment or three; so poke my head into facebook, here, couple of the wordpress plugin forums I use, then pop back. So, sometimes I’m around, sometimes you won’t see me for week ot two ….

these days I just chime in if its something topical to what I’m actually doing, like the https stuff.

Yeah.. just went through this process with about a dozen sites … !

the MySQL search/replace is this — change to your site URL, obviously, remember closing / or image links break, and if you changed the default wp table to something other than wp_posts (e.g., monkeyboy_posts) … you need to change obviosuly

update wp_posts set post_content =
replace(post_content,'http://myawesomesite.com/','https://myawesomesite.com/')

this is *not* something to put in functions.php or wp-config.php you enter this in the “SQL” screen under phpMyAdmin for your WP dbase, then hit “go”

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I think you need to
a) have ‘crop’ turned on to get it to fill
b) and/or might need to add the ‘thumbnail upscale’ plugin we use
c) and/or make sure that image size is enabled in theme panel

(( I don’t work here … ))

You still need to search/replace your mySQL dbase to replace http://yoursite with https://yoursite, ensure all your links in theme panel are https, like to logo, and perhaps put explicit https URL for site in your wp-config.php folder.

I just went through this with all our sites.

Example might be useful to get assistance ?

Also super important:
a) delete old themes you no longer use!
b) delete plugins not being used or planned to be used.
c) make sure you have full dbase backup, site backup, etc.
d) look in your plugin folder for any weird php files you didn’t put there or included with theme;
e) reset/refresh CDN, clear cache, resave permalinks, clear transients with wp-optimize.

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consider doing CLEAN install of WordPress and *all* plugins!

• This reply was modified 9 years by simchris.

Remember that certain plugins include tracking/advertising.

Things which load off another site, like Facebook/Twitter likes, comments plugins, social sharing plugins, etc., can all add tracking.

Try turning off ALL your plugins except visual composer, and scan again.

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Also view your page source for one of your posts to see if something is actually printed in the source code to determine where that might be and what is putting that on page — perhaps do this FIRST.

On your post edit page for the above post, make sure the [ ] discussion meta box is visible, and see if the allow comments box is checked YES.

We used to have DIsqus on our sites but went back to using built-in comments, so I’m a bit rusty.

Maybe a current user has some more insight.

But I do recall all the “discussion” options need to be “on” just as if you were using built-in comments in WP.

In other words, with Disqus off, is there a comment box on the page?

Many of those are from the Ad Networks from the ad systems(s) you are using to track visitors/viewers.

If you turn off your ad modules and retest, you might see something quite different. 🙂

You should always have back up of your site, custom CSS, images, database before ANY major WP or theme update.

Do this first.

What if the server crashed and there was no back up ?

What if you break things on the upgrade ?

Do you have comments turned on for your site ?

Right … you can create a custom “page” as landing page for any topic and manually create elements for that on the topic, and liberal use of ‘search’ boxes, and category drop-down selectors on the page help too.

Theme doesn’t control “structure” of how WordPress builds categories, pages, or tags, in the sense of how they rest in the WP hierarchy.

Sounds like simply building topic landing “pages” vs “post categories” is one option.

Or, build a custom category template, and then manually select that for the category you want to do things a slightly different way from default.

Way outside the scope of the theme itself, probably.

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