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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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Or for those who are possibly lost:

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“changed_files_6.6.5_6.7.html”

Newspaper theme
Here is a list of all the changes between v 6.6.5 and v 6.7

Modified files – 12 files
page-pagebuilder-title.php
page.php
style.css
includes\td_config.php
includes\plugins\js_composer.zip
includes\shortcodes\td_block_authors.php
includes\wp_booster\td_global.php
includes\wp_booster\td_wp_booster_functions.php
includes\wp_booster\wp-admin\panel\views\td_panel_categories.php
includes\wp_booster\wp-admin\panel\td_view_theme_plugins.php
js\tagdiv_theme.js
js\tagdiv_theme.min.js
Deleted files – 1 files
includes\plugins\revslider.zip
Deleted files – 0 files

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“update_log.txt”

[ Version 6.7 ]
– new: Visual Composer plugin updated to the latest version 4.11
– new: Revolution Slider plugin updated to the latest version 5.2.2
– fix: Theme Panel fixed the structure for categories that have multiple branches(subcategories with their own subcategories)
– fix: Visual Composer 4.10 – Video Player resize problem for aspect ratio 4:3 and 2.35:1
– fix: removed some old Visual Composer detection code from td_wp_booster_functions.php, it was causing an error in certain cases
– fix: improved the Visual Composer detection code inside the default page template file, it was triggered when the shortcodes didn’t have unique names(ex. Woocommerce shortcodes)
– improvement: Authors box widget/block – added user roles option, now you can set it to display only the desired role(s) – https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
– other: to keep the theme size under 8MB we removed the Revolution Slider install from the Newspaper->Plugins section. You have to install it manually – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-install-revolution-slider-v5/
– other: removed unused code from “page-pagebuilder-title.php” template file

simchris
tagDiv Member

There are 2 different change logs … did you look at both ?

There is usually one which lists all the files changed.

simchris
tagDiv Member

Changelog usually found in the ‘all files’ download of theme from themeforest.

simchris
tagDiv Member

LOL πŸ™‚

well, that would explain THAT !

Many of us Linux folk “assume” you’re on Apache/Linux.

Ideally, this forum should add a “signature” file indicating the platform you’re using (Win or Nix), version of WP, and version of the theme for support help. But adds a lot of bloat.

simchris
tagDiv Member

Not theme related — theme does not manage your hosting of WordPress settings, but

a) you need to change the site URL in WP admin > settings > general > site URL ; then resave permalinks
b) you can add in wp-config.php
c) you may need to search/replace old domain name in the php dbase if you have things in the post meta like image placements using old URL — changing URl doesn’t update that stuff
d) you will need to clear all your caching, obviously (in both site/CDN if used, and browser)
e) you may need to clear ‘transients’ using something like wp-optimize
f) you need to resave your permalinks again

Good luck!

simchris
tagDiv Member

Well, either way, not theme related πŸ™‚

Theme doesn’t affect, manage, update or alter your htacess file for WordPress.

Likely WP Rocket (you might read their docs) does its own rewrite rules and removes the ones that WordPress normally has in your htacess file.

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simchris
tagDiv Member

That could be Chrome error.

Or, best bet … view the /amp/ endpoint in browser, then do ‘view source’ and check for anything that should not be in there like google analytics being injected wrong way, adsense not inserted per amp docs, odd JSON from something not needed for AMP, etc.

simchris
tagDiv Member

Your main htaccess file is typically in the same folder as wp-config and same one wordpress writes to when saving permalinks with normal install. Other htaccess files can be used on per folder basis for security and other purposes.

Google what an htaccess file is for more info.

See the wordpress.org install wp info for how htaccess us hsed for wp.

simchris
tagDiv Member

I suggest 96m as the default 40mb is based on personal blogs use.

simchris
tagDiv Member

See the wordpress.org docs on disabling author endpoint. Not theme specific. Likely there is a function hook to disable author template. You might also then need to disable the link in author box includes and the author meta pulled top of post loop since those default to link to author page.

simchris
tagDiv Member

See the wordpress.org docs if you are new to wordpress.
See docs on editing wp-config.php which is your main config file for wordpress in the root folder where wordpress lives.

simchris
tagDiv Member

Well, you can create custom fields, then pull those custom fields into your post template(s). This is basic functions of WordPress and not theme specific.

Yoast should not slow down your site if you increase memory allocated to WP (try 96M in your wp-function.php file), and if you turn off un-needed functions.

However, there are other plugins you can use to create custom meta tags.

Yoast is useful for managing the trickier things like secondary pages for archives, indexes to eliminate duplicate meta data.

simchris
tagDiv Member

Hi
it’s better to implement the hooks into the functions.php file vs adding another plugin (my opinion only).

Reason is latency, additional php overhead, and possibility of plugin introducing issues if not updated with new versions of php, wordpress, other plugins, etc.

However, if it works for you, that’s great.

Always best to add your own functions if possible, which is at least how we do it over here.

Any plugin that loads admin only CSS/JS functions on your posts/pages code, is a bad plugin where that should only be hooked into the admin panel and not your posts/pages, btw.

There is a simple function to remove VC from loading on post/pages, which we use, also.

simchris
tagDiv Member

Hi
yes, pretty much only U.S. news πŸ™‚

try to figure out where that ‘tag’ is being inserted (not likely from theme) and quash the plugin adding it in, either hack the plugin, or find alternative.

simchris
tagDiv Member

You will get that from doing theme update.

Nobody would “normally” go to that folder as it’s not part of the website.

Just mark ‘fixed’ and ignore πŸ™‚

simchris
tagDiv Member

Been there πŸ˜‰

simchris
tagDiv Member

Did you increase default memory for WP in your wp-config.php file ?

simchris
tagDiv Member

See the theme docs ! Link right side of page >>>>

simchris
tagDiv Member

Might be basic WP function

perhaps add this to functions file or similar?

add_action('pre_get_posts', 'change_search_limit');
function change_search_limit($query){
$number_of_posts = 30;
if ( $query->is_main_query() && is_search() )
$query->set('posts_per_page', $number_of_posts);
}

or
http://wptricks.net/tutorial-to-display-a-different-number-of-post-on-search-result/

might not be what you’re looking for, but perhaps some nails to help with barn building πŸ˜‰

simchris
tagDiv Member

Yeah, run into this too.
You can go back to prior version of VC and TagDiv pages should still work, usually.

So you might try that for the time being.

simchris
tagDiv Member

You can use one of the modules/blocks in the sidebar, by dragging one of the TagDiv block widgets to sidebar, then select category, or all posts for that block. Try it πŸ™‚

simchris
tagDiv Member

Use YOAST SEO. πŸ™‚

simchris
tagDiv Member

Make sure VC is disabled from plugin panel

Delete plugin folder via FTP

Clear cache

Use WP-optimize to clear ‘transients’

Reinstall Visual Composer via FTP

Enable via plugin panel

simchris
tagDiv Member

Google got really picky about the render blocking stuff on mobile, so by default it *is* about 20 points lower. That is “normal” unless you do some major hacking to WP.

Once you view my thread and do all you can, the last steps would be a bit complex for average user, which requires

a) unhooking loading Google fonts from the theme, and capturing the CSS from Google and putting that in your style.css file; or for fastest speed replace Google fonts with “web safe” font stack (requires unhooking Google fonts in theme main includes/function file AND search/replace main style.css to optimize fonts used by choosing web-safe font stacks)

b) un-enqueuing the style.css and loading in footer.php; then using criticalCSS generator to put above the fold CSS “inline” in the header.php file.

c) using wp-booster to move all JS to footer

What is “possible” ?

Well, the project I’m working on right now I have

Mobile = 98/100
Desktop = 99/100
UX = 100/100

This is without a caching plugin, using mod_pagespeed, with https, and with photo and user photo (loaded locally, not off gravatar.com)

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