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 😉

Try using the ajax option in the theme panel if you’re using caching of some kind.

Also check your posts with the F12 console view for any errors on your posts that might cause issues.

Yes… that is how responsive design works.

Not sure there is option to disable responsive design, since that is one of the main features, and is designed to make things work right on phones and iPads, etc.

But I don’t work here … so stay tuned for TagDiv response on … “responsive…”

AdSense ads work perfectly.

Usually an issue with not putting in code properly, or Google not yet reviewed the placement on the site to start the ads showing.

You can test this by
a) create simple text sidebar widget, from normal appearance > widgets
b) paste in your AdSense ad code (should be responsive version)
c) view page with that sidebar widget
d) ads should work

if they don’t work in sidenar, something wrong with code you’re pasting in.

If the code works in sidebar, but not ad panel; double check ad panel again; then retest, then do F12 to view console in Chrome for possible errors or plugin conflict for your site with javascript.

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You need to tell Avast it’s not malware as an exception; one of many reasons I no longer use Avast. 🙂

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Best way to do this is to learn to use FTP and manually delete the old theme folder, then upload the new theme folder to /themes/ folder and new plugins to the /plugins/ folder in wp-content on your website.

Seriously, worth learning to do – simple, quick, consistent. You know it works, because you’re doing it.

Also good time when doing that to make local backups by downloading your site to your HD, to have safe copies of your site, old themes/plugins, images, wp-config, htaccess, etc.

You may have permisssion issue on your folders.

Best way to do this is to learn to use FTP and manually delete the old theme folder, then upload the new theme folder to /themes/ folder and new plugins to the /plugins/ folder in wp-content on your website.

Seriously, worth learning to do – simple, quick, consistent. You know it works, because you’re doing it.

Also good time when doing that to make local backups by downloading your site to your HD, to have safe copies of your site, old themes/plugins, images, wp-config, htaccess, etc.

Best way is to unzip the Newspaper theme folder, and just upload folder to the /wp-content/themes/ folder.

I think there is setting in theme panel to disable the mobile theme option.

You would need to put the ad code into each spot that matches that maximum ad size; theme cannot “set the size” for your external plugin.

So for “small devices,” you need to ensure the ad unit from plugin shortcode or whatever is only serving that small size, or set as reponsive in your software.

Some common issues are
a) lazy load animation turned on; turn it off
b) external optimization of images breaking file type (e.g., Photon, Smush-It)
c) server update; need to reset your caching
d) expiration of CDN based on bucket expiration; need to reset
e) browser cache corrupted; clear history in your web browser
f) WordPress transients issue;
— 1) resave permalinks (get in habit doing this after any plugin/theme updates!)
— 2) optimize db tables with wp-optimize plugins.
g) And probably should check first: conflicting plugin or ad banner from AdSense/etc. breaking images; use console view in web browser (F12) to check for page error breaking page load.
h) less common, but images being loaded via http, page loading via https; no redirect for http >> https and/or domain mis-match from CDN/cache.
i) mod_pagespeed rewriting images, but breaking on serving the files due to server or domain setup error.

Good luck!

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And, again by “mobile” do you mean phones? An iPad is a “mobile device” as is a “tablet.”

On a phone, having a SIDEBAR would not work as everything would be narrow and tiny.

So your best choice is my suggestion:

a) turn off desktop ads on mobile from ad panel, so they won’t appear in sidebar (below content)

b) turn on “in content” ads on mobile, off on desktop, to have ads show above or in middle of content on mobile devices.

Or, hire a developer to edit the “viewports” and “break points” for your layouts as you wish for “mobile” devices.

Best of luck!
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Luckily there is option to export your custom settings from theme, but not changes made to core files. This is why FTP is best as you can keep local copies, make changes then upload over the working theme, and if anything not working, go back to safe template that you worked on until you dial it in.

But that’s just me … 🙂

Facebook will pull whatever image is noted as the og image in your head php data (view source on that page to see which image is there in the og:image tag).

Usually you can do couple of things:
a) make sure the video thumb is grabbed as the ‘featured image’ for post
b) use Yoast SEO to custom specify an image you want to use for Facebook

Yep. 🙂

Not that I know of. You should be downloading copies of each update to keep as back up in case you need to revert to a prior version, to have the plugins, and the help files included in the “all files” download, which includes the changelog.

Also, if you go to bottom of the theme page on ThemeForest, a simple changelog is found there; as well as single link to recent changed files, which I think is this one

http://tagdiv.com/td_deploy/Newspaper/changed_files_7.3_7.4.html

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Found with each new theme download, in the changelog files 🙂

Basically, don’t block any of your wordpress folders in robots.txt or Google cannot render parts of your site; which you can see when doing ‘fetch as google’ or mobile friendly check, etc.

Normally, you create a new page, like “home” and then edit that with Visual Composer.

SO, first you need a blank page to actually build anything — just as if you were making a new page for things like your bio, privacy statement, contact page, legal statement, etc.

You need a blank canvas to paint anything 🙂

Then if you need/want the latest VC plugin version that works with theme, your option is to download it with the ‘all files’ bundle, extract it from the /plugins/ folder and upload via FTP to your site. This presumes you’ll have backup in case it does not work as you expect, such as when VC changes some of its block code/CSS from time to time without warning.

You should optimize your site a bit for things from the report like removing query strings, compressing javascript and main CSS, where possible; consider searching web on how to optimize some of the stuff you’re loading from external sites like DISQUS — e.g., why is the disqus code loading on your home page?

It’s a process.

Make sure you have enough memory allocated to WordPress, and make sure you increase the limits for php processes time-outs, and consider reducing the number of external elements on posts which sloooow down the site. You can’t control the stuff loading from elsewhere and these do impact your score; so only way to increase score when using them, is either not use them, or find ways to optimize how they load — but not part of theme.

I do have a lengthy post in the docs > tutorials > best of forums on some speed up tricks I use; and many others here have posted similar.

To stay sane:
1) try optimizing your site with disqus off, ads off, and not using external elements like jetpack, or external things like smush-it, etc.
2) optimize based on a typical post page, not home page as they will never get highest score due to all the modules, queries, and images

Good luck!

You get a “bundled” license of the full version; however you only get updates when the theme itself is updated; you don’t get a free PAID license to the plugin. So, you get free updates to the latest “tested” version of the bundled plugin once it has been tested as compatible with the theme and when the theme is updated. Just because a new version is out, doesn’t mean you need it, that it works properly, or is included before the next theme update.

Google doesn’t care what color your blog is; look at all the video/movie,game, and entertainment sites with black backgrounds serving AdSense ads.

You should probably review Google’s actual guidelines/requirements for sites, as that is the de-facto answer to what they will/will not allow.

https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/23921?hl=en

Just some feedback as somebody who uses his iPad every day going on 4 years:

On the iPad in portrait, the sidebar does stay on the right unless you have something in the sidebar which is not responsive and which has a fixed width of 300. So, this is why it’s best to use “responsive” ad units, and anything else you put in your sidebar.

On a phone, it would make no sense to have the sidebar visible as it would be too narrow for anybody to see.

Simpler solution is to turn off sidebar ads on mobile, and then enable top of post ads for mobile 🙂

I guess if you’re using an iPad mini, the OTHER best solution would be to create a new viewport for “that size” which is in-between a phone and iPad. But you’d likely need to figure out what size that is, then modify the style.css to add that”width” at bottom of your style.css file.

So, the original iPad mini, which isn’t a good idea to shoot for is 1024×768, which is really about what a modern phone happens to be.

However an iPad MINI rev4, has a resolution of 2048-by-1536 — so you’d need an “interim” viewport added for the 1536 width to not break and go to smaller size and lose sidebar.

Hopefully food for thought 🙂

I’d probably add it to the actual post template that I am using, like template 2 or 5 or whatever in the main theme folder ?

TagDiv tries to hide that nag screen, which Visual Composer folks include to try to sell you add-ons and other stuff, which is dumb since this is a legal bundled edition that does not need to be ‘activated’ with the WP Bakery folks. You can just ignore it, as super annoying. You don’t actually need to do anything.