See theme docs on how to update.

Yes, Wordfence has issues with WP 4.5.2 — another forum member posted a fix/help for this if you search for it.

You can also test your page at GTMetrix.com – test a post, not home page. This will provide more help on how to optimize your site if new to WP.

Also, see my tutorial in the help > DIY > best of forums, for extended optimization for things like time to live, gzip/deflate — these alone are good for 20 points for pagespeed insights.

It’s a process to optimize your site if you choose to use complex “magazine” style theme. It’s very simple with non complex textual site/blog layouts.

So, expect to spend some time – there is no “one click” solution.

Theme does not manage that; Google does in choosing which elements to show in SERPS; they don’t typically show the post name again since the ‘Main’ link above the excerpt is in fact the title; so they tend to show site > category > sub-category – as that is more useful to jump to that topic vs another redundant link to the main page, which the main link already does.

This is good for SEO, not bad.

You, in theory, could change breacrumbs to *not* show the category at all — but as long as a category is in the breadcrumb on the page — regardless of “markup” — Google will still scrape the categories from breadcrumb.

(( I don’t work here … ))

Should be listed in the changelog from the files download on themeforest in the main ‘tf’ folder.

Best way to install Visual Composer is via FTP, but make sure to delete existing jscomposer folder first, make sure all your other plugins are off; make sure if you’re running anything like Wordfence you have patched it to work with WP 4.5.2, etc.

VC does work – on huge number of websites and huge number of themes. But, it can be pokey to get it installed.

Theme docs outline how to install and update, which is best place to start.

You do need to activate it from the plugins panel in WP, but you don’t need to activate a license for it if the ‘nag’ screen appears.

Not sure that helps. But it *does* work, just a little tricky. Not fault of theme, but the way VC works, oddly enough.

Working for me just fine.
Sounds like you have some issues with your setup.

Useful to disable all plugins, update theme, update plugins, and only use visual composer to tesr update. Skip using child theme.

Dont use anything that modifies code like wordfence or cloudflare unless you know what youre doing. Avoid jetpack.

Connection issues usually mean your server setup not optimized, or you are trying to connect to offline sources like jetpack stuff which crashes all the time.

I dont work here, just some feedback that it does work. But visual composer is a little wonky in its setup and updates. Often deleting the jscomposer folder completely only way to upgrade the damn thing.

Hmmm.. pesky gremlins!

Try this

a) resave permalinks
b) use wp-optimize to remove transients
c) clear your web browser cache/history

Might work, might not
(this is what I go through when this kind of weirdo thing happens ..)

Update the plugins via FTP from the plugins folder in your download from themeforest.

If using wordfence – disable it; causing many issues with wp 4.5.2

might not be your issue, but a top problem

If you’re using WordFence, disable it as causing issues with many themes with wp 4.5.2

might not be your issue – but top one right now

I have not tried this, but worth a look

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/125805/auto-add-image-title-caption-alt-text-description-while-uploading-images-in-word

Yeah…. seeing that with whole bunch of themes/foundries, and sites, as of WP 4.5.2 with WORDFENCE specifically. Same complaint on more than one other forum.

Another “optimization” plugin also causing issues, but couldn’t remember the name of either one. Coffee NOT kicking in today!

🙂

This might not help but seems to work on some installs

* resave permalinks
* disable Yoast SEO, then re-enable (you don’t lose settings)

Note if you are using some “optimization” plugins or services — these are known to cause problems with WP 4.5.2.

You might want to see the theme docs on how to change the menus.

Also
you can usually figure out which folder is the plugins folder, as that is where akismet.php will be, which is installed by default with WordPress.

Your WordPress posts are saved in the php mysql dbase — probably good to learn how to back-up that as first step before doing anything! 🙂

FYI
always best to install via FTP, as you “know” it is uploaded properly and where.

Plugins have to go into the /plugins/ folder in /wp-content/ regardless if you rename /wp-content/ to something else

You can always check with your web hosting for support on using their particular setup also.

I think you can disable that from theme panel, under post options?

Newspaper works fine with both and has nothing to do with the TLS/HTTPS setting on your web host.

It’s possible there is something in theme trying to load via https. When trying to login to your site, does it show http in top bar when you’re logged in ?

Also possible GoDaddy may be started to enable the new free https for sites and didn’t tell you — but that is unlikely (yet), but something to watch out for 😉

Also, fyi, SSL is obsolete, so think in terms of “https” and not “SSL” moving forward. SSL is actually not secure, and has never been, was replaced by TLS, and the first two versions of that were/are not secure either.

I keep saying “SSL” too, and have to stop myself!

Not sure any of that helps… just some feedback.

Wordfence has broken with a lot of themes with WP 4.5.2, not necessarily theme specific. Likely good to double check the Wordfence support forum, also for an update to their system.

Theme docs have instructions on how to update … see link right side of page >>>

So, you cleared transients, and have allocated more than 40MB RAM to WordPress in your wp-config.php file ?

Visual Composer won’t work unless you allocate more RAM in your wp-config.php file.

it’s typically been in the ‘all files’ download with tagdiv themes the past 3 years.

Is this what you’re looking for ?

==
[ Version 2.3.7]
– fix: social counter facebook issue with new API keys
– fix: security issue

[ Version 2.3.6]
– new: Visual Composer updated to latest version 4.11.2
– new: Revolution Slider updated to latest version 5.2.4.1
– fix: a jQuery syntax issue that appeared after WordPress 4.5 update

[ Version 2.3.5]
– fix: WordPress 4.4.1 homepage pagination issue

[ Version 2.3.4]
– new: visual composer was updated to the latest version 4.9
– new: revolution slider was updated to the latest version 5.1.5
– fix: modified structured data to comply with Google’s new requirements

[ Version 2.3.3]
– fix: pagination was not working on categories with big grid disabled on WordPress 4.4

==

Newsmag theme
Here is a list of all the changes between v 2.3.5 and v 2.3.6

Modified files – 5 files
includes\plugins\td-social-counter.zip
includes\wp_booster\wp-admin\panel\panel_core\td_panel_data_source.php
includes\wp_booster\wp-admin\panel\panel_core\td_panel_core.php
includes\wp_booster\wp-admin\panel\td_demo_installer.php
includes\td_config.php
style.css
New files – 0 files
Deleted files – 0 files
none

Version of Visual Composer included with the theme is 4.11.2 which is latest version tested compatible with Newspaper. It’s included in your theme downloads from ThemeForest.

07.04.2016 – ver 4.11.2
– Added: Compatibility with WP 4.5
– Added: Filter for database query limits
– Improved: Input Sanitization
– Improved: TGMPA compatibility
– Improved: Pageable Container Back button behavior
– Improved: vc_siteAttachedImages now uses get_posts instead of direct query
– Improved: Ordering by meta key in grid elements
– Improved: loop param work with multiple taxonomies selection
– Fixed: Google maps scroll behavior
– Fixed: Initial loading for Masonry Media Grid
– Fixed: Advanced Custom Fields vendor initialization
– Fixed: Post Grid filter taxonomy names collapsing