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Christopher is a long time WordPress user. Anything else you need to know is private ;-) I *do not* work for TagDiv, but I've been using their themes since late 2013.
simchris
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You are installing wrong file. You need to use just theme zip not the all files zip. Good idea to unzip stuff on your pc before uplaoding to server to see what is in zip.

simchris
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AND … OMG …
I just noticed the little drop downs for the modules now show the category ID numbers!!!!!!!!

How freaking cool is that!

Wow, loving v3 so far. Seriously. Couple sites were still on 1.6, so that should tell you my minor glee on a few things 🙂

simchris
tagDiv Member

Most common mistake is updating theme by ‘over writing’ vs deleting old folder and uploading new one; or uploading zip vs the unzipped folder; OR forgetting to ALSO upload all the new plugins included with the theme.

But this should work, generally
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/

Just remember NOT to try using the pokey Envato updater thing (never!!!!!) and always do via FTP, so you can LOOK at your folder and see WHAT you are actually uploading to server vs guessing/hoping/praying its right.

So, you might try my suggestions on ‘resetting’ so you can login, — or do clean install of theme/plugins.

simchris
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Hm.

Well couple of wrinkles.

1) changing the mx2 to mx9 still tries to load a large thumbnail 511×400

		//build the results / try mx9 vs mx2 8.22.16
		if (!empty($td_query->posts)) {
			foreach ($td_query->posts as $post) {
				$td_module_mx9 = new td_module_mx9($post);
				$buffy .= $td_module_mx9->render();
			}
		}

2) removing the thumbnail from the mx2 module leaves the blank space; so I tried removing the outer div, and then applying a style class override at bottom of style.css to make all text font size 15px; but had no impact.

Still playing with this. Seems like I need to double check the mx2 module not being used in anything else first. Might need to make new module like x2search then revise the CSS for that to remove the thumbnail indent padding before the text loop.

———— EDIT ———–
oh, duh — perhaps I should try module 9 vs mx9 ? LOL.

THis worked (and double duh)

//build the results / try _9 vs mx2 8.22.16
if (!empty($td_query->posts)) {
foreach ($td_query->posts as $post) {
$td_module_9 = new td_module_9($post);
$buffy .= $td_module_9->render();
}
}

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simchris
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Been there 🙂

Our old server crashed Aug 5 while migrating to new hardware; some sites down 24 hours, some 5 days.

Luckily Google is pretty “smart” about the actual content — meaning, unless you change the content, rankings should not change dramatically, and usually recover after theme swap.

simchris
tagDiv Member

Awesome sauce !

Thanks, I’ll play with that 🙂

I’d rather not turn on the thumbs for the search, but like the search in the top bar, so this should work.

simchris
tagDiv Member

Hi
note in my example, I ended up removing the hyphenation element as that messed up the headlines and such with hyphens !

Just adding this should help with the long URLs breaking out of the container, as you already do for the headline block/div

overflow-wrap: break-word;
word-wrap: break-word;

🙂 Thanks!

simchris
tagDiv Member

My original answer is still valid.

simchris
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YOAST SEO
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-seo

simchris
tagDiv Member

Hey!
Note couple of things, “theme” cannot delete your settings, or remove images, etc. This is more likely an issue with under-powered settings, or plugin, or caching problem.

Obviously you need to ensure you have enough memory allocated to php both via server settings and in your wp-config file; limit plugins that conflict with others, and have a caching plugin setup properly to not destructively rewrite page content randomly serving broken cached copies of pages.

You can also keep backups of your settings to not “recreate” work, if you have an ongoing infrastructure problem, as well as tools > export, and copy/dump mySQL settings after/before major WP and deploy updates.

Likely you should ensure you check your memory settings, turn off all caching plugins or auto-minify/automization plugins, anything from Jetpack rewriting content, etc. and then test your site and check error logs (which you should be doing periodically in this type of situation — what errors are you getting? Did you turn on debug mode in WP to see what errors are in place “right now” ?).

Only you can manage your own server and framework settings — theme is merely a style box on top of your base setup and cannot “delete your content” randomly or intentionally.

I don’t work here, but have been doing webdev for 21 years and working with WordPress since end of 2004; so just some feedback and pointers on how you might approach debugging your issues today.

Best of luck!

simchris
tagDiv Member

Obviously any “SEO settings” built into the Genesis theme framework and generated by their framework is gone when not used; their framework injects the SEO data into pages.

Instead, consider moving to YOAST SEO, and you can recreate much of the same capability.

This is why I personally use something like YOAST now, because it’s “theme agnostic” — problem with theme/framework-based SEO, is that is only works with that setup — it’s not destructively changing content.

simchris
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You need to specify each category in the editor for each ‘block/module’ on your home page in the visual editor on the ‘page’ you have created.

To tune your site, you need to do a number of things

a) increase default memory for WordPress in your wp-config file
b) make sure your hosting setup is optimized (gzip/deflate on?)
c) put proper directives in your htaccess file (for Apache; sligtly diff. for Nginx)
d) optimize images
e) tune your site with ads off
f) consider using caching AFTER you have everything else sorted

You can test your site speed and recommended fixes at gtmetrix.com for free.

Also see the theme docs on ‘speeding up your site …”

simchris
tagDiv Member

No problem; working on my sites right now, also 😉

simchris
tagDiv Member

If you can’t get into the site; try via FTP renaming your plugins folder to xplugins; then try logging in. Once able to login, you can delete and replace any plugins from clean copies via FTP; don’t over-write old plugin folders – delete old plugins, replace with current new versions.

simchris
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a) note the tagdiv business hours, top right of forum.

b) Might just be your home page layout,
this page shows as mobile friendly

http://top10reviewz.in/prize-money-gifts-p-v-sindhu/

However you need to pay attention to the errors presented:
* This page uses 2 resources which are blocked by robots.txt.
* A temporary error occurred. 2 resources on this page could not be loaded. The results and screenshot may be incorrect. You may want to try again later.
https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/…mMhp4i.css
https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/…dQgHfSn.js

c) generally to make your site ‘mobile friendly’ you need to ALSO optimized your server for speed and proper server setup, compression, time to live, etc., optimize images, etc.

For example, I tested your page here:
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/top10reviewz.in/2UlrZtmY

Page Load Time
15.9s

Total Page Size
4.05MB

Requests
212

————-
For optimum page, you should serve less than 50 requests, page size should be under 1MB, 2MB for a photo site perhaps with a lot of uncompressed images, and page load should be as close to 1 second as possible, and not more than 4 seconds.

You have a lot of work to do to optimize your website.

Good luck!

simchris
tagDiv Member

Actually, if I’m having a search box at top of the sidebar, maybe its redundant to even have the search icon in the menu bar. Presumably I could edit the menu header module being used to remove the search box div/span?

Sorry — maybe two options, and this would make a great tutorial since this comes up a lot if memory serves.

a) how to remove the thumbs entirely from the ajax search box; mod a template for ajax search?

b) how to remove the search span/div entirely from xx menu bar file ?

Thanks as ever. Obviously I’m redoing stuff for v3 which is why I hadn’t needed to pester y’all about this stuff since v2 launched 🙂

simchris
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If you’re using a plugin or Jetpack to auto post to social media, best to check settings and support for those products. Theme does not auto post to social media sites.

simchris
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Okay … super annoying for those of us NOT using emoji or google fonts, WP 4.6 “helpfully” added a dns prefetch for the stupid emoji (seriously)….

so anybody else head cleaning, will need to update their emoji cleaner like so:

remove_action('wp_head','print_emoji_detection_script',7);
remove_action('wp_print_styles','print_emoji_styles');
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_resource_hints', 2 );

simchris
tagDiv Member

Oh, and as you may or may not know, with the over-rides if you put them in the theme panel CSS box, you often need to put !important at the end to get it to do it.

simchris
tagDiv Member

Hey… ! Using the F12 “console view” in Chrome it will tell you any javascript or major nutso errors on page, sometimes from plugins, sometimes from pasting wrong thing into a post box or sidebar widget.

Couple of years ago I told people to shut up when they’d say “check it in console…” like I could use my superhuman brain or psychic abilities to sort it out on my own! — but last couple of years I’ve come to reply on it as invaluable.

🙂

simchris
tagDiv Member

From your themeforest account under “downloads” …

also see the theme docs (link right side of this page) on how to upgrade.

simchris
tagDiv Member

Note you also have some errors on your page calling the Google maps API multiple times, so good to sort that out also if “urgent.”

simchris
tagDiv Member

vaporwavezone
good idea to learn to use Chrome web browser and the F12 inspector. You can highlight any CSS element on page to find it, then add custom CSS over-ride to your panel CSS box, or often at bottom of your style.css file.

SO, for example on your page:

.block-title > span, .block-title > a, .block-title > label, .widgettitle, .widgettitle:after, .td-trending-now-title, .td-trending-now-wrapper:hover .td-trending-now-title, .wpb_tabs li.ui-tabs-active a, .wpb_tabs li:hover a, .td-related-title .td-cur-simple-item, .woocommerce .product .products h2, .td-subcat-filter .td-subcat-dropdown:hover .td-subcat-more {
    background-color: #4db2ec;
}

so, just an example you might “try” something like this:

.widgettitle, span {background-color: #990000}

or

.widget, .widgettitle, span {background-color: #990000}

or something like that.

Remember TagDiv support only open M-F during their local business hours, closed weekends. Might be the weekend “now” in their timezone.

But experiment with the above. You can also simply edit the style.css file at line 11045.

Note that the widget is a default widget from WordPress, and *not* the theme, hence no admin panel settings on that element.

Sorry if that isn’t exact CSS to use; just pointing you in right direction. 🙂

(I don’t work here.)

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simchris
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Thanks, Andrei
I thought there might be option; guess I should follow my own (ahem) advice and actually LOOK through all the new panels and see what’s new in v3 … 🙂

My crown is back, I feel special!

simchris
tagDiv Member

Hey …. changing my photo got rid of my extra special neato super cool friends of TagDiv little crown icon ! (waaaah!) 🙂

You likely had that keyed to my email address vs “user id” so when I updated that to my gmail account with my South Park gravatar, lost my little special bug.

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