You can find all the great “membership” plugins for WordPress through Google search, like so:

https://www.google.com/search?q=top+membership+plugins+for+wordpress&oq=top+membership+plugins+for+wordpress&aqs=chrome..69i57.5281j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

• This reply was modified 10 years by simchris.

Andrei — again, you might want to put a big notice about this on right side of page for the next month, since a lot of people don’t seem to be getting alerts from ThemeForest about the theme updates 🙂

(I will shut up now … )

for (2)
you should look at using WooCommerce which is likely to have the plugin for Stripe/PayPal.

WordPress themes don’t have ecommerce built in, that is handled by the top three ecommerce plugins for WordPress, like WooCommerce, etc., and then you use different payment modules inside of that solution.

You will likely have a very long wait for “built in” ecommerce capability in any WP theme (like “never”).

for (1)
you would likely need to find a debug tool and figure out which CSS is not working, or perhaps create a new @media size/breakpoint specific to that phone. The web browser built into that phone might not be compliant with modern web standards like HTML5/CSS3, if its not Chrome-based.

Since the theme is responsive, that means it resizes and serves up modern HTML/CSS based on the “viewport” … so, if you figure out what the “size” your phone is using, you can adjust/create an @media query for that size/shape, assuming the browser on that phone understands modern HTML5/CSS3/etc.

Note that things like Visual Composer, and external plugins are not built by TagDiv, so you’d need to address compatibility concerns for THAT to the respective plugin developer for Visual Composer (WP Bakery).

(( I don’t work here; just lurking today re theme updates …. but above is fairly common sense and might help you with your unique situation … ))

Sorry…. I don’t work here sorry.

You can view my tutorials in the DIY on optimizing the theme with all the various settings I use to get 95+ on desktop and mobile. But mod_pagespeed is just a tiny part of that.

Mod_pagespeed can also be optimized on server which – again, has nothing to do specifically with this theme. For example, is the server using opcache with mod_pagspeed ? Are all the default filters turned on?

TagDiv folk might be willing to share their settings. But, again this is not a theme related issue.

Mod_pagespeed alone won’t fix all the optimizations needed for fastest site speed/loading, etc. — it’s a “helper” …

It does look like you’re using my settings from my tutorial and posts here, so good start. You need to experiment with the other filter settings. Again, I don’t suggest doing any of the merge/move CSS/JS options, as I found it breaks things. Your mileage may vary 🙂

See:
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/config_filters#level

• This reply was modified 10 years by simchris.

Theme has nothing to d with mod_pagespeed.

This is something managed at hosting level, and should be optimized for WordPress in general. Do search online f or how to setup mod_pagespeed to work with WordPress.

Also, see my thread in the docs > tutotorials > DIY > best of forums on site optimization to see my settings.

I don’t recommend using mod_pagespeed for messing with CSS and JS files, as it is more likely to break stuff with WordPress, jquery, plugins, theme, etc.

Very much a trial and error — you need to test the settings for your own site, plugins, hosting, platform, etc., and then see how it works by viewing your page source, testing page speed insights, gtmetricx test, etc.

Andrei
you might consider adding a new section in the right menu under “Documentation” (below that).

New section:

TOP ISSUES
> WP 4.5 Images Not Loading
> WP 4.5 V. Composer Not Working
> Activate/Update Visual Composer

I’ve seen something like this on other support forums; it really saves the same 20 posts from customers who don’t know how to “scroll back” in forum to find answers to the same topic, so it gets posted over and over and over. Makes it hard for others to keep on “actual” issues that might impact us.

Just suggestion — would save you a ton of support time, to simply have a single locked “answer” for any breaking issue each time it happens vs 50-100 Q/A posts for identical issue.

Funnily enough, my menus used to work on iPad in where I could click the “main” item and it would work, but no longer do. The sub-menu items work, but not the “main item” on the menu when there is drop-down. This is using Safari in portrait or landscape on iPad. Same behavior in Chrome on iPad as well.

And, I’m actually several versions back on NewsMag, and not yet installed WP 4.5 just because I’m still testing some stuff with jquery.

So, this isn’t specific to the latest version(s) or anything. This change actually came awhile back on iPad, and I decided I was too busy to deal with it. On California Newswire, I started just adding the main menu item again as the first thing in drop down …

e.g.,
POLITICS
> Calif. Politics

so that way the first secondary menu item is the same as the main “short item” label…..

Anyway… point of all that was — yes, the “main” item label doesn’t work as link on iPads with latest iOS version WHEN there is sub-menu. However, it *did* work in prior iOS version. So, go figure.

• This reply was modified 10 years by simchris.

How are you trying to install it? When do you get the error?

Normally you would install from your theme panel and upload the zip from your hard drive. Theme does not control that. You would use the single newspaper.zip file, not the all files zip.

Or, install via FTP by unzipping the files on your HD then upload with software like Filezilla.

See the docs right side of page for how to install properly.

I update via FTP so that I can do a full “snapshot” of the site, folders, images, plugins, etc.

Also reminds me to delete oooold themes or plugins I’m no longer using, in case I sometimes forget to do that.

Then when I do the updates, if anything goes wrongo reindeer (as a co worker used to say), I can roll back to the safe one.

Obviously best to do this before the WP 4.5 update too.

Also worth considering “disabling” any “auto-updates” – which you can do in your wp-config file, if not already done. I hate auto updates — WP thinks they’re great, except every 8th time it breaks the site completely!

try clearing any cache/cdn reset if used;
also try clearing transients with wp-optimize

I guess WordPress 4.5 can “break” how jquery is loaded in a *lot* of themes, or they switched to calling a newer version than most themes and WP 4.4x had.

So, if your site stops working with WP 4.5, then you’d likely need to update, –or– perhaps unenqueue jquery from theme in your functions.php file and then load via the Google CDN. Oddly one of my sites where I did that had zero problems with the new WP 4.5 update, while others had the problem.

Obviously make a full back up of your dbase and site content so you can “roll back” if it does not work.

Visual Composer may stop working with new version of WP due to the new version of jquery being loaded.

See theme docs right side of page for good starting point 🙂

Try this first:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-how-to-update-the-theme/

Hope that helps!

I’m doing updates this morning myself.

• This reply was modified 10 years by simchris.

See the support for the AMP plugin on WordPress.org plugin repository; this theme has no control over the plugin or the AMP template. Read the docs on the AMP support site for plugin on how to enable featured images, how to enable adsense, tracking, etc.

The AMP template is NOT part of the theme.

Yep. Not a theme issue. Theme doesn’t control how Disqus works.

Did you also update the VC plugin at same time you updated theme; clear caching/CDN as needed, clear transients?

the vc/jscomposer plugin is in the ‘all files’ download from themeforest in the oddest of places — the plugins folder! — so, you might try getting it from there.

Oh, looks like you did find it, sorry.

You need to update both theme and plugin to fix issue with WP 4.5.

Delete old jscomposer folder in your plugins folder, upoload new one. Clear caching/CDN, and also transients using wp-optimize or similar.

Should work!

You need new version of theme and Visual Composer update released yesterday.

Download the new version with theme; updated yesterday.

Sign up for email updates for when theme is update from the downloads page in your ThemeForest account.

Theme was updated this week for WP 4.5; check your download folder on ThemeForest, also sign up for ‘update emails’ there so you know when the theme has been updated 🙂

Thar ASAP enough for ya ?

Good luck!

Not really a theme issue, but somebody might be able to help.

Images are uploaded via the WordPress image manager, not the theme.

You can Google this issue as it appears to be very common.

The error is somewhat explanatory in that the execution time for php is set too low by your hosting provider. This is not managed in any way by the theme.

Yes. You need to use a plugin for that. I think Yoast SEO supports this.

Theme does not control permalinks or default WP slug/structure.

• This reply was modified 10 years by simchris.

You need to upload the zip file for theme only; not the “all files” zip which also has docs, plugins, changelog, etc. Unzip the all files on your hard drive to see its contents.

See the theme docs, right side of page on how to install theme properly.

Via FTP delete the jscomposer folder in plugins folder.

Install clean version.

You may need to clear all caching/CDN as applicable; also clear ‘transients’ using WP-optimize.

Always keep backup of working site as snapshot so you can roll back if needed.

Good luck!

That never works for me; using FTP is always best choice as you can also download working backup of site before doing update, in case you need to ‘roll back’

You might also like my extensive optimization guide for this theme, including basic stuff, mid-level, and very advanced topics:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/