Theme doesn’t control the WordPress general settings:

WP Docs are super useful:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_General_Screen

Membership
Anyone can register - Check this checkbox if you want anyone to be able to register an account on your site.

New User Default Role
This pull-down box allows you to select the default Role that is assigned to new users. This Default Role will be assigned to newly registered members or users added via the Administration > Users > Users Screen. Valid choices are Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, or Subscriber.

Super fast on our system running 20 sites with millions of unique visitors per month; dedicated server.

Lots of possible reason it impacts YOUR setup(s):
With fully updated WP (4.6x branch), disable “bad” plugins that modify admin screens not updated for latest versions of WP.

So, a bad admin mod plugin might do dumb stuff like load custom fonts (new WP uses native fonts), load jquery more than once; using external tools like Jetpack, stats plugins, etc can slooooow site down — not related to theme.

External plugins which do content checks, bad Yoast SEO settings, plugins that try to rewrite/optimize images you upload “in post” can all slow things down (e.g., better to upload media via media manager separately, THEN place in posts).

Often checking your admin pages with F12/console for broken things, or things loading more than once is useful.

Also make sure your cache is cleared in browser, make sure you’re not using adblock on your own admin panels, or some funky extension in your browser, etc.

Make sure you’re not having portions of your admin loaded via CDN, separate from local stuff due to timestamp mis-matches; make sure not blocking portions of your admin via robots.txt or htaccess, or using a minification or optimization plugin on your admin pages — all that stuff BREAKS things.

But to be clear, I can say we have super busy 15 year old news portals, udpated daily, using this theme highly optimized, and having zero issues with admin panels. Just as point of reference.

(( I don’t work here. ))

You can optionally use a plugin I happen to use instead “Scripts to Footer” which works as well on my sites.

You can also edit the Speedbooster plugin to “allow all plugins” — but you’d have to check forum for the hack to do that, as I don’t use SB any more myself.

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Also useful to at some point read the documentation for using WordPress … ?

You can find that on WordPress.org — the site for WP; the theme folks at TagDiv don’t make WordPress; only the theme.

See: https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page

https://codex.wordpress.org/Working_with_WordPress

https://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels

READING SETTINGS:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels#Reading

Reading
The settings in the Settings Reading Screen are few in number, but still important. You can decide if you want posts, or a “static” Page, displayed as your blog’s front (main) page.

You can also adjust how many posts are displayed on that main page. In addition, you can adjust syndication feed features to determine how the information from your site is sent to a reader’s web browser or other applications.

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So reading the above, while looking at your WP admin panel under “reading” should give you a good idea how to change that setting for WP, to change “how many posts” are shown per category index.

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Welcome to WordPress!

It’s a great platform, and while there is a bit of a learning curve, once you learn to explore the different admin screens, learn what they do, and try out things via “experiments” it becomes easier and easier! 🙂

Good luck!

(( I don’t work here. ))

So, the plugin you’re using also adds a featured image to your media library, and shows on the post page as a “featured image” ?

If there is no local “featured image” for the post, then no thumbnail for blocks/modules can be created by WP.

Auto Post Thumbnail Pro (or similar) will take snap of first image in post or download and “create” and assign featured image to that post, which then is in the media library so WP can make thumbs resized for various modules.

Good luck!

(One presumes you have also turned on the module thumbnail “sizes” you want to use from the theme panel.)

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Make sure you have enough memory allocated to WP, try disabling any plugins which mess with images (e.g., you can’t edit an image on CDN from WP); and generally best to edit photos on your local HD using Photoshop, GIMP, etc. Also check stuff like php timeout and such settings. And do F12/console in Chrome to see if any errors while in the admin panel or media panel.

Stuff “suddenly” not working, is usually not related a theme, but a plugin or WP update.

Issue with your server setup and caching.

Always best to do updates via FTP, as you can “see” folder deleted, and new folder uploading; upload new plugins, and make backups of critical files at same time in case of server crash/retirement.

You should update the plugins that come with the updated theme, per the install/upgrade docs.

Be sure to clear caching, reset CDN with any updates, also.

If it “suddenly happened” two days after updating the theme could be anything: web server update, hack, etc. If you have automatic updates turned on, WP might have updated something and broken site — theme doesn’t break the site randomly 2 days after update, in my own experience (I don’t work here).

You can try
a) not using child theme
b) theme needs VC if you have used it for anything like home page; or some of the CSS isn’t there. If you’re using the beta TD Composer, then only those blocks supported by TDC will work, any “special” VC blocks will not.
c) switch to default theme

Note you have a number of errors on your site for font not loading, missing image, and “OTS” parsing error related to font not decoding. Use F12/console in chrome to see browser errors.

Keywords for Google are put into your title tags, post title, h1 and h2 tags on page, story excerpt, etc. Google has not used “keywords” in meta tags for a decade now. Using YOAST SEO allows you to fine tune per page and per post your meta data, and to use keywords in meta if desired. If using a custom field, you might need to manually add a hook into your header.php to insert the field, or use a function to enqueue the custom field with the head elements done by WP. If your site is in Google News, consider using the Yoast News SEO add-on or similar.

Not sure that helps or not 🙂

Waaaaaaaah

Asked and answered numerous times. Try disabling lazy load effect, try better optimizing your images. Check your cache, cdn, use of external tools like photon, smush it, etc that affect image loading.

Many of us long time users tired of the same questions over and over that are specific to your setup and not everybody else. 3 years later.

Sorry its such a chore to read the options to fine tune stuff. Man i hate wading through these rants. Oh wait, now im doin it too!

You may need to use a plugin to take external image and add as featured image and media manager. I use auto post thumbnail pro here. WordPress can only make thumbs from local images. Theme uses wordpress image functions.

Theme does not handle email. You may have to use smtp plugin. Likely want to check with forum for the plugin.

Heya!
just to chime in …
if they/you are using mod_pagespeed (possibly not), don’t forget to add a webp type;

for advanced users with WOFF2 fonts, you would also add TTL for woff2

e.g.,

ExpiresByType image/webp "access plus 604800 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/font-woff2 "access plus 604800 seconds"

depending on server/CDN setup you might need (out side the time to live section)

AddType image/webp .webp 
AddType application/woff2 .woff2

(on many servers, fyi, you can also do: “1 month” if you prefer)

e.g.,

ExpiresByType application/font-woff "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/font-woff2 "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-fontobject "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-font-ttf "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType font/opentype "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access plus 1 month"

I have dedicated server, so as ever each setup type will vary depending on your use 🙂

(( FYI: what is WOFF2? Once you get obsessed with speed, you start getting to the “next level” stuff like so:

The new WOFF 2.0 Web Font compression format offers a 30% average gain over WOFF 1.0 (up to 50%+ in some cases). WOFF 2.0 is available since Chrome 36 and Opera 23.

https://gist.github.com/sergejmueller/cf6b4f2133bcb3e2f64a ))

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See the link to docs right side of page ? Go to “tutorials” > “pagespeed guide”

https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/

There is a tutorial in the theme docs on how to add those plugins to the speed booster setup.

For those who missed it, the classic thread may be useful in the ‘best of forums’ DIY tutorials section of this site:

https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/

it’s classic cheesy goodness!

Update via FTP; best way.

Create new category called ‘featured’ – then select that category to display on home. This is how we do it here for our slider of featured stories on our news portals.

Issue with your WordPress setup.

Best way to update theme is to
a) via FTP delete old theme folder (keeping backup if you made changes to core files, of course)
b) unzip theme folder from themeforest on your hard drive, upload to theme folder via ftp
c) upload the plugins to the plugins folder

Usually caching issue. You can also try

a) resave permalinks
b) clear transients with wp-optimize
c) simply go to appearance > menu and resave menus

At least I find this useful for menu gremlins with theme updates/changes 🙂

You can find the latest bundled versions in the “all files” download from your ThemeForest account.

Theme panel under template settings ?

https://forum.tagdiv.com/smart-sidebar-2/

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(( with the lazy load animation — sometimes your server >> browser times out then shows nothing … this is very very very common issue ’round these parts … with SOME browsers; try turning it off for a day and see what happens — seriously ! ))

🙂

smarty pants … OUT !

Well, you should not be blocking access to your wordpress install with robots.txt – if that is what you’re asking?

This error is NORMAL when changing themes as while changing things your theme directory loads, which should not normally — meaning, your theme directory is not a public page.

You can simply mark the error as fixed, and move on with your life.

This may happen EVERY time you change a theme, and this is why the theme docs, and many sites, suggest using a “maintenance” plugin while doing any major changes to themes as it shows a “working on it” message to Google vs exposing the theme folder. But that is sometimes a pain to deal with, too.

Basically, you will get an error when changing themes since the old theme is being inactivated and where does Google go where that is happening?

Nothing to worry about, unless you’re seeing dozens or hundreds of errors, which would be a mis-configuration of site, domain, hacker, etc.

Hope that helps.

ADMIN: likely good to make a note about this in the “install” and “upgrade” pages/docs if not there already, as we’re now going on 3 years of this question around here