Don’t really fully understand your post, but whatever. I don’t use the plugin, but some here do. The comment I posted was from the article source, not my voice/opinion.

I have no dog in the hunt; and just sharing the info, since I stay on top of this stuff along with the latest openSSL vulnerabilities, etc. as we are a PCI-DSS certified system here. Most people here don’t stay on top of security hence so many “hacked” sites this year from TD theme users (unrelated to theme, of course).

Anybody using the plugin should look into the issues, if they care. 🙂

People get their sites hacked by not staying on top of this stuff; so shared in that spirit.

Do as you will.

Yeah!!! I don’t use the child theme as it’s a redirect for one thing, and second — as theme evolves and you need to update stuff, using child them doesn’t really serve intended purpose.

In olden days, a child theme allowed one to make a “alternate” version of main theme, with different look/feel.

However, issue becomes with complex themes that having to update TWO themes at once for one site is nightmare.

Have not used child theme in years due to that. But I’m a weirdo!

Note – if using a caching plugin or external service, they “might” be adding query strings to things to control caching. I remove query strings so things can be cached. But some other plugins can add them back to disable caching or modify how css and js are cached.

In my example code, on all my sites regardless of theme — not using any external optimization system / CDN, or caching plugin — it does remove the query strings ….

Also note all my optimizations started with newspaper then moved to newsmag and are theme independent as they impact how WordPress works, not the “theme,” unless something specifically says “/* newsmag fix*/” or similar. 🙂

Latest vulnerability is not fixed.

version 0.9.4.1
Compatible up to: 4.5.4
Last Updated: 6 months ago
Active Installs: 1+ million

W3 Total Cache was updated six months ago with a fix for two security issues. The last major update, 0.9.4, was released in 2014. After many users began to wonder if the plugin was abandoned, we spoke with author Frederick Townes in March to learn the status of W3 Total Cache. His said that development and other operations have been ongoing and that his team is working towards leaving officially beta and moving towards a 1.0 release. No major updates have been issued and Townes’ company blog has remained silent.

At this point, the only option users have is to disable the plugin or use an account with author or editor permissions instead of the administrator account. The plugin’s author has been contacted about the vulnerability but there is no security update available via WordPress.org yet.

Weird. It DOES scroll down forever.

Couple of things to try:
a) disable the contact form 7 loading on single posts if you only use on pages — wasteful there

b) try changing background to solid color as it might be the “size” of the background image; often smaller “tiled” image better than “big giant image” — this used to be issue in old HTML hand coding days, but only thing there that “might” be culprit

c) you might have to disable plugins one by one to see if smoething is loading hidden element “below” the end of the HTML container; we had issues with this back in the day with certain social sharing plugins

stuff to try anyway …

btw, if you’d like to “syndicate” our news, you can do so from here:
https://www.send2press.com/wire/rss-feeds-by-topic/

Example of another regional site syndicating our stuff onto a ‘national’ page:
http://tippnews.com/category/national-news/

There you go. 🙂
Glad you got it sorted !

It’s probably blocking something like external load of jquery, CDN, google fonts, etc. — you might be able to dial in the settings to allow trusted stuff — but a pain, obviously.

I think EDGE may have a developer mode, like Chrome, which seems to make a better experience when testing your own websites.

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Issue with your site permissions.

Best way is to learn to use FTP, where you can go to your actual theme folder and delete old theme and upload new one.

Sadly this is how your site and WordPress seem to work, and varies by install and permissions issues for hosting setup.

FTP is best way, as you “know” what is actually there and what is not if the WordPress functions are not doing it right.

You don’t need to “activate” the plugin, you simply turn it on from the plugins page; then ignore any nag screens about activating it with theme vendor; it’s not needed with the bundled version.

See the theme docs for more info.

Might be a firewall setting, malware/spyware on PC, weird zoom setting, etc.

Upshot: seems to be unique to your setup as generally EDGE works like Chrome, Safari, etc. and shares no lineage with Internet Explorer — it’s a modern browser using all the modern standards as Chrome and Safari do, and so will/should work the same for all websites.

You might check other theme demos on ThemeForest, try some ecommerce sites, etc., to see if also getting the same error, then try to narrow down what might be causing it.

what code?

If you need opera mini support, do not use the optional mobile theme. Period.

Probably something that messed with how the style.css file loads, and/or changed how your custom CSS written in header (e.g., some over-rides placed in header by theme panel, would get over-written when style.css moved to footer, as the original CSS would re-override the over-ride, etc.).

Tricky that 🙂

Always a community effort here! 🙂 Glad you got it sorted.

F12/console great way to check stuff — Chrome is great for that (and EDGE, also to a lesser extent). Often when “something weird going on” it’s the first place to look, BEFORE just turning everything off.

Also great way to isolate CSS classes you want to change by highlighting them.

That is not added by theme. Usually from Yoast SEO or similar.

Always check your pages with F12/console for errors …

I’m seeing this in visiting your page:

swarmdetect.js:1 A Parser-blocking, cross-origin script, https://assets.swarmcdn.com/swarmcdn.js, is invoked via document.write. This may be blocked by the browser if the device has poor network connectivity.

one of your posts at random

VM277:2 Uncaught SyntaxError: Label 'https' has already been declared(anonymous function) @ swarmcdn.js:5
2swarmdetect.js:1 A Parser-blocking, cross-origin script, https://assets.swarmcdn.com/swarmcdn.js, is invoked via document.write. This may be blocked by the browser if the device has poor network connectivity.
jquery-migrate.min.js?ver=1.4.1:2 JQMIGRATE: Migrate is installed, version 1.4.1
swarmcdn.js:962 Waiting for DOM Content
swarmcdn.js:950 Page ready swarm load proceeding
swarmcdn.js:858 API adcd16c4-a237-44ad-909f-e1a242766273
12f36af…:40 Uncaught TypeError: data.match is not a function

Might or might not be the cause. Just worth noting, this is not “normal” on visiting a website so might be throwing something off in those browsers.

Tagdiv.com and all demos work perfectly for me in MS Edge. Your site works perfectly for me, also.

You might want to clear your cache, make sure you have no funky extensions added in latest version (like ad blocker or similar), and make sure you have Windows 10 updated fully to the latest version including security patches, and “anniversary edition” fixes.

EDGE current version:
Microsoft Edge 38.14393.0.0
Microsoft EdgeHTML 14.14393

If you’re still using the beta version or first edition, you need to update Edge. Also make sure you’re not loading pages “as Internet Explorer” in EDGE, which might cause such issues.

Best to unzip the folder on local PC and upload to the plugin folder where indicated.

If you’re talking about the “blockquote” in middle of a post, you can change that with CSS.

Simplest thing is learn to use F12 in chrome and the inspector; you can use pointy tool to highlight anything on the page to see the CSS. For most stuff you can then simply over-ride that CSS class. In some cases with multiple classes, you might need tagdiv help to figure out which element to target.

I always make our block-quotes smaller, too 😉

Note if you have 8GB of RAM and this is your main site you can increase the RAM for WP up to 1GB. I did this for our “main” big site (16 years old!). Really helped. Post max size /upload max = 50M; php execution time and max input time = 400.

We’re still running php 5.4.16, but will be testing php 7.0.10 for January switcheroo.

Note for verification code for Google, etc., it’s actually easier to just download the html files and keep them in the root of your domain, and then as part of your backups. This way it’s not tied to a theme, or plugin. Yoast SEO, if used, also has blanks for this so you don’t have to modify any theme files.

Just some thoughts 🙂

Not really theme related since pagination usually managed by WordPress.

The reason “page 2” shows older content, is that most indexes are in reverse date order by default in WordPress. Meaning if you have 10 items per page, then page one has newest posts, page 2 has 10 posts older than that, page 3 has 10 posts older than that, etc.

Probably a function you could add, but you might need to scour the web for how to do that, as nothing the theme actually manages; more of a permalinks, slug, URL matter.

Sorry, don’t have easy answer on this one. You’d think GoDaddy would have answer since this is WordPress specific, not theme specific — you’d have this same issue with ALL WordPress sites, regardless of theme used.

More of a browser problem with CSS animations, than theme specific issue.

Kind of like the bootstrap based themes with boxes that fly into the page, and half the time they stick in the wrong place on the ipad, or the page crashes. Safari problem. Works fine in Chrome.

I have just stopped using any such CSS “flying, fading, zooming, bouncing” crap, as it just does not work “everywhere….”

( stupid internet !)

Call me crazy; but adding a section/tab in the theme panel “update plugins” might be useful to explain these same topics that come up over and over (and over).

Info on installing optional plugs are there, but maybe links to “how to update” in forum would be good, too.

Just a suggestion 🙂

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You are probably aware, but having multiple browser tabs open often slows things down, contrary to the supposed sandboxing. I’ve run into this where one tab locked up due to Facebook or an ecom site due to all the cookies, active updates, notify attempts, tracking, etc.

Probably not the issue. But I have run into that. Especially with Safari. Chrome, too. Firefox is a p.o.s. for most things, which is why I refuse to use it anymore. My PCs have only been compromised twice in 20 years, both with FF.

Sorry – no help, just observation looking at video 🙂

WordPress normally shows posts in reverse date order on all indexes (“newest at top”).

In theme modules you can set the sortation per module, with default being date sort, unless you choose a random sort manually.

There is no default in WordPress to do random posts — this is a setting you chose, or using a template where that was an option as starting point/example.