Yes,
YOU need to properly setup your hosting system.

a) Enable compression is done at server level => you need gzip/deflate active, this alone is good for 20 points
b) you need to enable browser caching settings, aka “time to live” — this is typically done in your htaccess file
c) server response time is how fast/slow it takes your hosting system to respond to a response and start building a php page — that is mostly due to your hosting setup, nothing to do with the theme

Use my optimization guide in the tutorials / DIY / best of forums, to learn how to properly optimize your WordPress site.

No complex theme will “out of the box” do as well as a pure text-based theme. So it’s not apples to apples.

The main issues you have are a) and b) and only YOU can fix that as it’s NOT theme related.

Good luck.

(( I don’t work here . . . )

Roll back your site to your backup for the time being.

Looks like both VC 4.11 + WP 4.5 causing issues all over the web.

Probably not. Looks like there are some issues, including possible conflict with v4.11 of Visual Composer.

You may wish to hold off — or, if you know how to do full backup so you can “roll back” if it doesn’t work, then proceed with caution!

@Gideon

UPDATE:
Looks like current download of VC with Newsmag is only version 4.9 and *not* 4.11 as comes with latest version of Newspaper (!). (DOH!)

It’s possible 4.11x works, and 4.9 does not. Possible neither works.

Roll back to your back up for the time being.

UPDATE:
Looks like current download of VC with Newsmag is only version 4.9 and *not* 4.11 as comes with latest version of Newspaper (!). (DOH!)

It’s possible 4.11x works, and 4.9 does not. Possible neither works.

Roll back to your back up for the time being.

Revert to your backup for the time being.

You can get latest version from your ThemeForest account by downloading “all files”

VC Changelog:
https://wpbakery.atlassian.net/wiki/display/VC/Release+Notes

What current vulnerability in VC 4.11 are you so worried about exactly that you need 4.11.1 “right now.”

Last time there was major security flaw announced in VC, TagDiv had update to theme and VC same day the patch was released. So not big worry there. 100,000 users are a priority for TagDiv, so they don’t wait a month to patch things based on being around here myself the past 2.5 years.

Just some feedback 🙂
( I don’t work here . . . )

Issue is primarily with Visual Composer. I believe they (TagDiv) are waiting on WPbakery to update VC before TagDiv can push an update with the new version.

Also useful to go READ the changes to WordPress for each major full dot update vs ‘patch update.’ Note all the changes to how images work. This means generally you may need to regenerate your thumbs for the new compression optimizations.

Always keep BACK-UP of your working site, before doing ANY major update to WP, so you can seamlessly ROLL BACK to prior version. Good time to plan for that as it’s a basic WP admin skill everybody running a website that is more than a blog should learn.

I no longer provide help/support around these parts, but popped in to see how the fur was flying before I even attempted my updates. Also checked the VC support forum where everybody freaking out.

ALSO be aware that WP sometimes have its own inherent bugs — but normally those should have been tested by major plugin devs (ahem WPBakery you froods!) with the RC1 and RC2 versions prior to WP releasing latest build today as stable version.

Anyway…. just some feedback as long time lurker here (2.5 years so far … ) 🙂

Roll back if you can. Try disabling VC if you can’t.

Also good time to make sure you disable auto-updates of WP core files, if you don’t already do that.

Hi folks
I no longer have *any* time to help out around here, sadly, so you won’t be seeing my smiling face anymore on the TagDiv forums unless I myself desperately need help with something.

Best bet is to follow the AMP plugin support threads.

Note that “featured” items outside of posts don’t show up on AMP as they are not part of the actual post box. However the plugin docs do have solution for adding featured image to post template, so presumably featured image would work same way. Upshot – you may need to modify the amp template to your needs.

The unknown syntax error could be just about anything … but generally you can’t have inserted javascript from bad plugins, you can’t have over active CDN/plugin compressing the AMP code and breaking it, and you can’t use default injection of adsense codes that use javascript.

Hope that helps! Good luck! 🙂

Have a great 2016 everyone!

Signing off.

CS

Can be due to various factors:
a) bad pllugin installed
b) CDN issue if loading from CDN, using Jetpack etc.
c) lazy load image option – try disabling

To debug a plugin; turn off everything except Visual Composer.

Theme does not control comments emails, or account setup emails or forms. WP handles all email, unless you have a form or other plugin allowing access to the site in some way.

If using a form handler, disable sending confirm emails. Most common spam method. Disable WP sending you emails about spam comments on your blog/publication. This will look like spam, but it’s actually your setup having WP email you about spammy comments.

If allowing people to ‘sign up’ on your site, make sure you have akismet, a good recaptcha, and possibly other solutions out there.

Make sure you use a plugin like Limit Login Attempts to stop people trying to guess passwords.

Try normal security practices and figure out WHAT is actually sending the emails. New account? Form reply? Lost password hacks? Disable XML-RPC unless you 100% know you need it.

Lots of articles online about this issue.

Not a theme problem 🙂

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Our sites rank at top of SERPS with TagDiv themes and we generate $200K annual revenue. So, works for us 🙂

Note we had this issue with client using another theme for an ecommerce setup, and the layout blocks for the home page used “ad” in them and so the shop home page had no products when viewed in browser with ad blocker.

For that particular project last year, I had to do a search/replace using Dreamweaver (any programmer text editor can do this too) to do a full search/replace of the entire theme folder.

e.g.,

home-adblock-one

had to do full search/replace

to change to something like

home-showcase-one

Then it worked. Bit of a pain. But it worked in this case since on that project the elements on front page of store were NOT ads.

Of course, with “real” ads, the adblocker will look at where the ad unit is coming from, the name of the image, the folder it loads from (eg., /ads/myadone.jpg would be an ad), etc. — so the CSS class alone might not solve issues with ad block stoppage.

Just food for thought.

Best bet is to make back up of dbase, backup of all site data via FTP, export theme settings from theme panel, export data from WP export panel, copy/paste anything from custom css panel to text file, etc. — these are all normal backup/safe keeping procedures.

Upload new theme over old one. Make note if you changed any templates you will need to reapply them. Remember to also update plugins.

Envato toolkit sometimes does not work, resulting in mix of broken pieces — hence good to have backup where you can simply re-upload via FTP to put eveeything back vs site being down.

I started thread on this earlier, do search for it. You could try putting code at top of the single post template you are using and the other code in the singke content loop after the post loop.

If that makes no sense you might need to hire somebody. Trial and error it to test.

Some seem to work fine, no way of knowing which might not. Try one and see how it goes. Share results ?

Use a text box widget?
Ad widget?

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You can disable lazy load from theme panel.

Theme does not manage that; it’s entirely part of WordPress.

This might help, vs hacking a function for it:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-forgot-mail/

or if you’re technically inclined (probably not if you didn’t already Google for an answer):
https://www.engagewp.com/create-custom-lost-password-email-wordpress/

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Try install via FTP; always best way to install plugins with WordPress. Best to understand what/where is being installed on your site.

Check with your hosting provider. gzip/deflate must be ‘active’ on the web server.
You can control settings for that via your htaccess file if on unix/apache. Trickier with Windows hosting.

Theme has nothing to do with hosting settings.

Install just the main theme zip not “all files” zip.
See install instructions in link to docs >> right side of page 🙂

Not really theme related, possibly a plugin issue on your live blog?

Try disabling all plugins except for Visual Composer.

Do the menus work if you switch to twenty-fifteen theme ?

Theme doesn’t manage the default WP menus function.

Hi, sorry I missed what you meant on the interim changes 🙂

This is why it’s often good to download each new version and save it in your developer archive, so you have intermediate versions for reference, even if you don’t actually install each version.

That’s what I do anyway, out of paranoia. 🙂

A “historical” changelog page would be useful, I think.