We had this on our news sites and got rid of them.
Useful for longer stories that break into multiple pages, but for news sites with 400 to 900 word stories it served no purpose.

Just an opinion, sorry not actual help.

I just used this to make some social icons to “follow us” in a sidebar text box. 🙂

You can just copy the HTML from the footer widget if that is what you’re asking…. like so:

<span class="td-social-icon-wrap">
            <a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/BUNNIES/" title="Facebook">
                <i class="td-icon-font td-icon-facebook"></i>
            </a>
        </span>
        <span class="td-social-icon-wrap">
            <a target="_blank" href="https://plus.google.com/+BUNNIES" title="Google+">
                <i class="td-icon-font td-icon-googleplus"></i>
            </a>
        </span>
        <span class="td-social-icon-wrap">
            <a target="_blank" href="http://BUNNIES.com/feed/" title="RSS">
                <i class="td-icon-font td-icon-rss"></i>
            </a>
        </span>
        <span class="td-social-icon-wrap">
            <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/BUNNIES" title="Twitter">
                <i class="td-icon-font td-icon-twitter"></i>
            </a>
        </span>

Change the size with CSS class on div wrapper, or whatever.

If that was not what you were asking, pardon intrusion.

I just did this on our website, actually 🙂

• This reply was modified 9 years by simchris.

Dunno.
You might have to get this:
https://vc.wpbakery.com/addons/vc-for-sidebars/

But I don’t work here ….

I use ‘Simple Local Avatars’ plugin 🙂

Well, if you look at line 5 of your wp-config file, what’s there?

Perhaps a link to your dbase or directory no longer there, old caching setup, etc.?

If so maybe your “dbase is going away” — or trying to write to folder not actually there anymore?

If you already looked at your wp-config.php file…..

a) check system status in theme panel
b) check error logs on your hosting setup/account
c) increase default memory for WP, if not already done so in wp-config.php
d) optimize your dbase with wp-optimize

(etc.)

(( I don’t work here, just some advice. )) 🙂

• This reply was modified 9 years by simchris.

Sorry. I’m not available for consulting at this time, and don’t promote my own services via this forum.

If you’re very good at SEO, then you likely don’t need me.

See Google’s info about changing site layout and how this can impact initial SERPS.

Also, read the YOAST tutorials in regard to your original question regarding “focus keywords” which has nothing whatsoever to do with the theme.

Main factors are
a) good content
b) optimizations for Google; page speed, https, AMP compatibility; meta data and markup
c) basic site optimizations for caching, minification, compression, ttl, opcache/memcache, http/2, mod_pagespeed, et al

Theme is not the mission critical aspect of any of that.

Good luck!

In some cases the iframe or movie player for Flash or whatever may have higher “z-index” than menu.

Read up on how z-index works for more info.

Yes you should set meta description for homepage. Also add an h1 text block to homepage describing what focus of site is.

Yes, you need to use yoast tools for optimizing meta data but only you can materially change your content to be more focused on a topic. Common sense you cant just add random paragraphs of text to your posts for seo.

Good seo is about the baseline content on page… everything else supports that.

You might go download googles official guideline doc for seo best practices and read the yoast tutorials as first step.

But upshot not theme related.

Try using f12 console to see any js errors.

We use auto post thumbnail pro to bring in external images with theme.

Hi, note i meant to say google rolled out new algorithm.

Disable ‘use ajax views’ from the theme panel ?

You might try adding explicit language = EN or whatever in your wp-config.php file

https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php

you “should” be able to set this from the WP admin panel, but I find this helps:

define( 'WPLANG', 'en' );

or

define( 'WPLANG', 'en_GB' );

Might not help but worth a try 🙂

Seems to work for some folks. I personally will be moving to php 7 on Dec. 15, but have not yet tested it; luckily our hosting setup allows us to change php versions per site from hosting panel — so, one can “turn on” php7 and see if everything works or not, and if not, then ‘go back’ to php 5.6x.

For time being, try this out:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/php-compatibility-checker/

It’s a permissions issue; try deleting the old theme folder via FTP or your web hosting file manager dashboard.

Also note YOAST recently rolled out new algorithms for search incorporating AMP, emphasis on local search, new x-factors rolling out for https (and now caution in Chrome browsers for non-https sites); so everything got shuffled a bit recently regardless of theme, platform or content.

If you don’t have https, now would be good time. You can also follow whassup with Google changes on sites like SearchEngineLand, Google blogs and forums, etc.

🙂

We have amazing SEO results, but that’s because the content was created from the get go without concern for the “template” impacting SEO.

Meaning, the theme does not add/change your actual post content, title, meta data, h2/h3 tags in post or basic SEO practice of having your primary keywords in post title, meta title, first paragraph, description, and used couple of times in the actual post.

So, if your page is about chicken soup and that isn’t used properly it won’t rank as such, and regardless of theme/template/fonts/style/colors used.

Perhaps you mis-understand ‘focus keywords’ — what that means is that for any given page/post about something, like “chocolate recipe” — that “focus” keyword is used to “test” the SEO value of that post under that phrase. So, the “focus keyword” for that page might be “chocolate recipes” and you’d need to ensure that page is “optimized” for that content.

You can’t auto-magically add more content to posts without knowing what each post is supposed to be focused on; meaning if you have an article about Fords, just randomly inserting 20 instances of “FORD” on the page isn’t going to help anything.

You could hire us to help on this but frankly, the best course is simply look at your content and the posts you wish to rank well and really look at them one by one, and use the tools to ‘review’ that post/page. Yoast SEO then can help you “analyze” that — just because there was no focus keywords entered in yoast panel doesn’t mean there are none. Any page on any topic has built in focus keywords just by having the text in there.

So, my suggestion would be to read through the YOAST documentation and tutorials in depth to better understand what it actually does in this context (pun there).

We’re not cheap; but we’ve been doing SEO for 21 years now. But the point of using Yoast is to educate you on how you can do it yourself.

Start with good content about something. Then optimize that post using Yoast as an aid, but not always the 100% accurate expert. It’s an opinion, not the law. YOu can use it as help, not a requirement.

Hope that helped just a little 🙂

Turn off the sidebar ads on mobile from theme panel with toggle;
turn on the ‘insert in posts’ ad for mobile. 🙂

Note the sticky post top of the forums.

I think there was a tutorial on how to implement the google custom search in the docs > tutorials > DIY > best of forums, you might look at 🙂

As FYI, rich pins still work with Newsmag theme without issues.

Note also that Pinterest started to have some glitches capturing pin data the first week of October, which seems to be sorting itself out now.

They were getting the image but not the headline, but issue with Pinterest and not theme.

I know you’re using Newspaper; this is just some feedback that Pinterest working fine with Newsmag on other side of the room 🙂

Funnily enough TD did used to suppress this, but then those bakery boys kept changing how that thing pops up.

Would be nice to find way to fully suppress that nag screen.

If using Yoast SEO, you can change the title per post.

However, most og:tags by default use the “page title” meta; meaning if your website is setup to have a meta title tag of

Story Title Here | My Site Name

*that* is what gets printed in page source as the OG:title tag.

Sorry that may not help …