Need to allocate more memory to WordPress in your wp-config.php file and perhaps in your hosting setup.

With BOTH Visual Composer AND WooCommerce, I’d suggest setting it to 96MB.

WordPress defaults to 40MB which is way too low.

See the WordPress.org CODEX/docs on how to edit the wp-config.php file for stuff like changing the default memory allocation.

This might not be your issue but the “allowed memory” thing is kind of a good pointer.

More info?
Theme does not control permalinks – that is done by WordPress.

If changing permalinks structure, be sure to do that with the default theme for WP, then install this theme once you have working site.

As with all WordPress themes with “design panels,” there are default styles, and then option to “over-ride” that. The BEST way to use custom fonts, is to actually edit the style.css file to search/replace the font stacks you want to use then load the @fonts info in the actual style sheet vs loading additional “override” styles.

At least that’s what I do 🙂

Sometimes it’s due to the lazy loading image feature; try disabling that.

Ideally your site should only serve one version and that should be the “default” — meaning if without www is how you have it setup in the WordPress settings, and perhaps also in wp-config.php, then that is the only version you should login to for admin stuff due to the way some permissions, ajax, font permissions, etc. work; also if you use any caching/CDN.

Technically

http://sitename.com
http://www.sitename.com
https://sitename.com

would be three different “domains” for some elements of web scripting, CDN, Google, etc.

So, whatever your “canonical” site name is, and whatever preference you have specified in your Google Search Console account — is what you should use for management of your site.

In other words, ideally your site should only “resolve” to either the non-WWW or the WWW version when typed into web browser and not both.

Often this can be setup with your hosting DNS where one is an A name record and the other is a C name record (ask your host about proper setup of which one version you want to “resolve” when typed into web browser).

A little confusing, but perhaps that might help.

Upshot: not theme related, but more DNS/domain related. 🙂

Hi, asked and answered. Much like ecommerce has special needs, so does an advertising management system. So, like there is WooCommerce for ecommerce, there are also “systems” to manage users/ads, ad types, expirations, etc.

e.g.,
https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/classifieds/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/another-wordpress-classifieds-plugin/

PLUGIN REPO
https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?type=term&q=classified+ad

((I don’t work here . . . )

Hope that helps! 🙂

• This reply was modified 10 years by simchris.

You’d have to get a plugin or “system” for that, as it requires all sorts of stuff like account management, possible payment options, expirations, etc.

You need to learn how to customize WordPress — theme support doesn’t include custom programming, only support for the built-in features of the theme.

You might try looking at the help on wordpress.org on how to create a new function for user_meta, to put in your functions.php file, which might then save that to the dbase.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_user_meta

Or, you might use something like ACF – advanced custom fields — maybe that will help.

Or, if you don’t know how to edit your functions.php to add new elements for working with WordPress data fields — hire a programmer.

(( I don’t work here — but have been using the theme for 2.5 years ))

• This reply was modified 10 years by simchris.

Which registration form ?

Um, no. It doesn’t. Stop talking about yourself!

Well, try looking there with your web hosting “file manager” to make sure it’s NOT there.

But yes, it should be in the same place as the wp-config.php file … usually, anyway.

You can of course simply upload a plain text file and set the write permissions to 775 or 777 depending on your host setup. Then you should be able to go to your WP admin settings and do “save permalinks” … if it saves them then it is writable, if it can’t write there, then change permission on the .htaccess file to 777.

Might also be worth revisiting the “install wordpress” docs on wordpress.org

Set your ftp software to show invisible or “.” files.

Yes, WordPress needs a .htaccess file in root folder to be able to set the permalinks/structure.

You also need it to optimize your caching,time to live, etc.

• This reply was modified 10 years by simchris.

Looks like you didn’t get a clean update.

Update via FTP, and remember to update plugins also.

Often you can clear cache, but then simply “resave” your menus, resave sidebars, resave home page.

This might or might not help
http://adambalee.com/search-wordpress-by-custom-fields-without-a-plugin/

Note that Google News is going through a re-indexing right now and will show bizarro results from some sites as they “respider” your content.

I know of several sites where things like the category tag above the headline was showing as part of headline on the results in GN; but wasn’t happening last month, or last year. Or, the author byline was the headline! Etc.

They are also picking up a lot of things like the pages where there is a “related” story at bottom or side, in lieu of the ‘actual’ page where the news is !

So – upshot it looks like they may be trying to phase out the old “scraper bot” or maybe the XML sitemap system is down, and it has “fallen back” to using the full page scraper.

We have also been seeing images being skipped for no good reason.

It’s not just you, but also not theme specific.

Upshot: GN ‘should’ be pulling from your Google News Sitemap — and if the data is messed up there then it will cause issue. If it’s NOT, then it means they are bypassing that and going with the pesky old scraperbot which tries to guess where headline is, even if it’s shown as the headline in the page source (duh!).

Not sure that helps. But we’ve been in GN since it was in beta 12 years ago, so have suffered most of the zigs and zags. I am guessing they are trying to figure out something to integrate AMP in some way, or maybe just they’re having some other transitional thing.

• This reply was modified 10 years by simchris.

Likely due to ad on right side being part of the sticky area that affixes near to top. Move the adsense ad to bottom of sidebar, below the fold for sticky content. Thats hiw we have ut on some of our sites with no issue. Or turn off the sticky sidebar entirely.

You need to create a sitemap first. ?

This is most often done with something like Yoast SEO.

• This reply was modified 10 years by simchris.

Usually a permission problem on ownership of the ‘directories’ (e.g., wp-content/)

Simplest answer is to upload via FTP.

REF:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html

If no icons are specified using a link element, the website root directory is searched for icons with the apple-touch-icon... prefix. For example, if the appropriate icon size for the device is 60 x 60, the system searches for filenames in the following order:

apple-touch-icon-76x76.png
apple-touch-icon.png

I believe the FB box counts how many people like your “FB page” — not how many people “like one article” — two different things.

Perhaps that isn’t what your issue was, but based on the screen shot that looks like the issue.

(( I don’t work here … ))

• This reply was modified 10 years by simchris.

Note this is common issue if using Photon/Jetpack.

Otherwise images look great on iPad Air and up (which is what I test our sites with).

Tip…
you don’t need to actually load the Apple icons in the meta data. Simply put them in the root folder of your domain and Apple devices will “look” for them automatically. Upshot, they do NOT need to be in the meta data *unless* you’re loading them from someplace OTHER than your domain root! 🙂

Not sure about Android devices, but guessing that works same way — might need to check with Google docs on that.

If those are loops you’ve setup you can specify the label on the block editor. But not sure how to do that ‘per post’ …

That should pickup the category your news is in, however I think that might be based on the first alphabetical catergory post is under, if in multiple posts.

YOAST SEO added nifty feature (I think it’s YOAST who added this … sorry out of it today) to specify which category is “primary” … theoretically you could edit the blocks to pull that “primary” category for the labels. But no idea how.

(( I don’t work here … ))