Had to download 72,000 images the other day via FTP. I feel your pain 😉

Then stupidly remembered I could do a ‘backup’ from the server panel and ftp that into one of the other sites as gzip file.

Took a look in the folder and went ….. ouch. Not only all the oddball sizes, but stupid stuff like
main-image-600×450.jpg
main-image-600×450-1.jpg

Waaaah!!!!

YOu may also find this Facebook information page helpful:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices

OG = “open graph” … Facebook need these “tags” to work properly in pulling in your post info. Most of us use the Yoast SEO plugin, which sets those for you, as Arved007 kindly noted.

It’s a learning process; but take it slow, and read up on WHAT is actually going on when you share stuff to Facebook. There is some technical jiggery-pokery going on behind the scenes for it to work properly that has nothing to do with any specific WordPress theme or setting.

Probably some kind of way to do this with a php command in the mysql dbase; but no idea how.

Don’t know how to automatically delete old thumbnails; I was actually looking at best way to do this myself recently.

One thing you can try, is have your host make a gzip of your entire website, save out as backup on local HD; then try something like this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/media-deduper

Not sure it will help. Have not yet tried it.

For a clean install I went through and found the 5 sizes we use and turned the rest off.

In our case we have tons of images from old theme over 10 years, then tons from the new theme of past 2 years.

Somebody is going to make some moola if they develop a plugin to somehow logically scan the media dbase and smart delete based on sizes after building index — e.g., delete all images with size of 423xN if no longer used. Shazam.

I’d pay $50 for that right now.

Make sure you have proper OG tags in the head of your posts; as FB needs those to know WHAT to pull into a share box.

Much better choices than JetPack, which I also personally refuse to use. Okay for a blog, but not for any larger website.

What size image are you actually uploading?

Covered on the wordpress docs page, but yes.

In broad strokes you need to create a new button using the email icon and print icon from the icon font found in the theme folder, then add these two buttons to the module where the social buttons are built.

We created our own set of buttons in this way to entirely replace the TagDiv ones.

I plan to make a donation-ware plugin out of this at some point, but wer’e backed up here due to server crash Aug 5.

Basically copy the simple buttons CSS/code and change the icon and for print you need to use the common coding to launch PC/Mac print function found online.

These would be simple things for TagDiv to add as a toggle on/off, but adding too many things break the buttons onto two lines on mobile, etc., which is why it’s sometimes tricky.

If you don’t want to deep dive hacking the theme to do these (or hire a developer)…

Another option: use a plugin, turn off the TagDiv options, and get on with your life 🙂

TagDiv is likely not going to build out a whole tutorial on how to build custom buttons step by step as that isn’t really part of the theme, and “most” people don’t need that since you can simply email a page from any browser or mobile device without an on-page button, and same with print (CMD+P). So, they are nice, but really redundant as every web browser has those options “built in.”

So, not likely TagDiv will add them — put another way; anybody doing email or print of web pages already knows how to do that 🙂

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

Use the theme zip alone, not the “all files” zip.

Best method is to learn to use FTP, via FileZilla or something. Tricky first time, but then you have total control of uploads, you can easily make backups of your files, etc.

See my tutorials in the tutorials > best of forum section for some help with that 😉

You need to look inside the /theme/includes/td_booster/ folder

note in the theme folder all those other folders? Those are the supporting files and modules for the theme.

So, you find the “file” – td_video_support.php – which is an actual file … just like style.css is a “file” ….

then add the code to the file on the line indicated

http://screencast.com/t/CSGcbqLF

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Check one of your posts with GTmetrix.com — much better at explaining all the things you actually need to do to speed up your site, with examples. You can also exmplore my lenghty opus in the tutorials > best of forums if you dare 😉

The example they linked to worked for me:

ref
http://screencast.com/t/RZLIOPUNdqh

but as also clearly stated in the linked thread, it may not work if certain plugins conflict and break the plugin entirely and what it tries to do — no way to make compatible with 1,000+ WP plugins out there.

So,

option
a) comment our or remove the section as previously indicated;
b) if does not work; then don’t use plugin
c) if you don’t use plugin, use my alternate suggestion

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also as a tip from many users on themeforest and various theme support forums, avoid using the envato theme updater as more likely to break your site by doing partial or incomplete update of your theme. Best to always use FTP so you know 100% it is done properly every time for both theme and updated theme plugins.

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(seriously, though – sorry if I offended you; I just disagree strongly with your title of this thread.)

Hi
best thing to do is install the plugin as per normal plugin installation practice.

WordPress docs: https://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins

“activate” the plugin on the WordPress admin (not theme panel) > plugins panel. Under name of plugin click the activate link. It’s now “on.”

That’s it. It will now show as “activated” in your list of plugins.

You can ignore any messages printed by the plugin saying you need to register it. You only do that for a paid version to get support from the plugin author. With the free bundled version, you only get support from the theme developers when used with this theme.

Hope that helps 🙂

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For me, I always install plugins via FTP, by uploading the plugin file to the wp-content/plugins/ folder directly. That way I know it’s properly installed. If it won’t turn on, you likely need to try reinstalling it via FTP.

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My sites work. I win 🙂

Have a nice day!

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SO, you’re just complaining that a theme vendor is ‘helping’ you by WORKING on your website for you, and not charging you anything to fix YOUR problems? Wow. Good job, fellow. You will make a lot of friends.

And yes, I am wonderful and amazing, thanks for noticing 😉

Sorry it’s not going the way you want.

#IlearntheUnlearned

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You can activate the plugin on the plugins panel; this turns the plugin “on” — you can ignore the ‘nag’ screen saying you need to register for support; different type of ‘activation’ and not needed with the bundled version.

Wow. Lot of babies on here today.

Been using the theme on high traffic sites for 3 years now.

Stupid user error most common issue, and “RTFM.”

Learning how to use WordPress always good first step; reading the instructions a good second step; can’t figure out how to update the plugin?? It’s in the plugin folder when you download the ‘all theme files’ from ThemeForest – then you delete old plugin folder, upload new one — drama over; learning to use the tab top right of the WordPress post screen to toggle and untoggle sections of your post layout is a good thing to learn — this allows you to hide or unhide various boxes used on the post editing page (only you can do this, the theme cannot manage your site for you).

I don’t work here; but TagDiv has gone above and beyond in providing support for folks who seriously need to spend time on the WordPress Codex learning how WP actually works, what themes and plugins do, how things conflict with one another, how to better utilize the provided tools and have a better sense of “exploration” vs asking in tickets “do I press the save” button to save? Um, yeah, what else is the save button for? kind of questions. They have extreme patience for rude, obnoxious and sometimes bizarre requests for help that have nothing whatsoever to do with the theme.

Sorry you’re having a problem. Welcome to WebDev. It’s a journey, not a vacation.

Theme doesn’t control the tags widget; that is built-in to WordPress. You can use a different tag plugin to do custom types, sizes, CSS format, etc.

If you’re advanced user, you can also cobble together your own element using the WP docs (codex) and drop that into a code box, in theory
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_tag_cloud

Or see the plugin section on WordPress.org for the most popular tag plugins for use in sidebar or footer widget area.

eg.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/cool-tag-cloud/

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What I usually do is create a new row in the column as a text/html box; then put in the google maps “embed” option for the map. Works great.

You can alternately use the “Scripts to Footer” plugin (works with Newsmag 3.1), which I use on some sites not running the speed booster plugin. It works pretty well, also. Won’t move the main style.css to footer, but again — I won’t repeat my mantra on “critical CSS loaded in head, then de-enqueue main style.css from head, and put in footer.php file” (which is how I do it … ).

You would need to create two sets of CSS files, then put a javascript toggle (or ajax) to reload page with new CSS and set cookie for preference; there are tutorials on the web from past 20 years on how to do this.

Hi, Radu 🙂
Funnily enough internally here for our news business we refer to the ‘dirty’ version of a story as one with all the bold, inline images, video, soundcloud, and the ‘clean’ version as one we keep in UTF-8 in a ACF custom field (for our main business, not for the news portals which pull from the mothership).

Which actually was going to lead me to my question – is there a way to disable TDC for ‘posts’ (toggle, filter, hook, function?) since we only plan to use for home page (‘pages’) ?

(( I’m going to post this question in the support forum for TDC. ))

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