While waiting for tagdiv reply — I thought there was option to hide those in the panel someplace, maybe that was a dream 🙂

I know there have been many posts in past where simple method is simply to target the css classes and make them white (which then looks invisible but keeps the 1 pixel spacing for the layout/containers prroperly.

Might do a forum search for that while waiting on tagdiv reply.

You can view the page source to see the classes, also learn to use the ‘inspector’ in Chrome (F12) as that is super helpful in finding classes for specific elements.

Just a thought 🙂

Edit the theme files for the particular template you’re using. Look at the post template files in your theme folder, as there are (2) for each template: the outer template, and the loop template.

If you have a news portal, it’s worth it to start using AMP now, as some places on mobile in the Googleverse, ONLY the AMP-ready content might be shown.

Even if 20% of your content fails validation, that’s still 80% that does.

Hi, folks
I was only sharing the info for those who were not sure what was going to happen, what the cost would “actually” be and so forth.

I will say that for some users, they *should* pay for another 6 months of support if they can’t learn to read the WP user manual on WordPress.org, do a Google search, or learn how the internet works. Too many folks on Theme forums expect a theme developer to “train” them for free on how CSS, HTML, and WordPress works, which is outside the scope of the product.

Also, if the theme continues to be developed and updated based on suggestions — basically developing an entirely new theme — it’s not unreasonable to expect some monies coming back to the developer to do that work ($15) for an update that took hundreds of man hours, doesn’t seem unfair. Especially when a person who already built their site, decides to change it a year later then wants another 10 support topics worth of help to redo the site again — all for free.

That’s like coming back to a furniture store 5 years later and asking the furniture store to resand, repaint, and restore a used table (for free). I guess some furniture stores do that, but none that I’ve seen.

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You can make drop down menus into anything you want, name them and link to whatever you want on your website.

See the WordPress CODEX “docs” on how to make menus in WordPress!
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Menu_User_Guide

As a heads up to anybody moving to get AMP setup ..
the one major bugaboo seems to be Google not liking the obviously bad method WP has used for centered text all these years (which should have been a CSS class).

FYI, all the
<p align="center">Centered Text</p>

is going to show as an error in AMP validation (!).

Seems like a good time to remember how to do a search/replace via MySQL for the WP post meta.

( DOH ! )

If you prefer a plugin to do this — keeping in mind you BETTER make a backup of your MYSQL DBASE *first*, then this seems popular and recommended:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-search-replace/

Obviously making a class for centered text like

.centerboy {text-align: center;}

goal would be search replace to end up with

<p class="centerboy">Centered Text</p>

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Likely check for console errors as you have a lot of stuff running on page and some plugins and java break things, obviously.

Best to update theme via FTP, as the Envato updater breaks on a LOT of sites. Not fault of theme.

You can get the “latest” bundled version included with the theme license, from the “all files” download for the theme from ThemeForest, in the /plugins folder. You can’t update to “latest” release of the plugin automatically as you don’t have a license for the plugin, only the ‘bundled’ free license, which is updated with theme updates as it’s proven safe and fully compatible.

Hope that helps.

I’ve been side tracked on optimizing the AMP plugin for our sites, so have had to put this on backburner for my sites. Will get back to it eventually!

If you are asking about the code to confirm ownership of your website, simplest thing is to use the file option from google to put in the public root of yiur website.

Or, use yoast seo plugin which has boxes for google and bing ownership of site confirmation.

@Magistar
I don’t use a smushing plugin. I optimize my images prior to upload then change the compression level for thumbs per my tips in the first pages of the thread.

@virjik
if you’re using Jetpack, you have to remove the portion which turns off the XML-RPC stuff in the functions.php file, I believe. Also note that if using the Ajax counter, that might not work with some mobile devices if blocking certain javascript stuff. Dunno.

Pages support featured images
https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages_Add_New_Screen

Do you mean using them on an “index” someplace? Pages don’t normally appear on a “category” as they are not posts, but typically static elements like “about us.”

You might just need to toggle visibility of the option from top of page visibility tab to see the option to assign a featured image to the “page.”

You should fully optimize your site before worrying about the optional speedbooster plugin. That does not fix the server side issues, or stuff you need to do with image compression, caching/time to live, gzip/deflate, etc.

Test one of your posts at GTMetrix.com to see the work you need to do for your page score, regardless of theme used.

Not over here. In fact, most servers are prepping for upgrade to PHP 7 which is MUCH faster for WordPress.

You might look into the OWL Scroller if you’re unable to use the scrollers built into Visual Composer.

Hi
thanks for very kind words … gingerbread cookies accepted in my tip jar!

I have *not* had time to mess with the FB plugin as I’ve been embroiled mentally in working with something for our main business site using a custom theme setup, and integrating the YOURLS plugin with our system, the XT breadcrumbs plugin (which works better for us since the install is inside of a directory), and helping to debug some issues with the new AMP plugin from Automattic (one of my bug reports will likely be in the next update, which is the bug of not working when the wp-content directory is renamed). SO, been having to deal with all of *that* and this particular project doesn’t use any comments at all and never will, so….

I will circle back around to that eventually, but the AMP support has been far more important than comments right now on our main news sites, since Google rolled that out on Feb. 24. (See my other ‘thread of doom’ on that!)

Prior version not causing any weirdo stuff on my sites; but with 3.1 I am waiting for 3.1.1 as they *always* have some bug with new dot revisions (seriously, 5 fixes first week for 3.0).

If the prior version was working, deleting both (either); clear cache if using.

Run wp-optimize to clean dbase, and clear ‘transients’ —

do clean install of 3.07 (or whatever it was), then go to the basic/general setting page in Yoast and hit “save.”

Dumb as that sounds, I’ve had to do THAT process in the past.

(Sure hope that helps!)

Great, will make effort to NEVER help you on the forum.

For others less temperamental reading this thread, note you cannot generally block theme parts with htaccess rules as the http pages load those parts, e.g., (get header.php has to be able to be loaded by the single.php file, so blocking access to theme files, would not allow the page to render… )

So, when somebody (hacker, bot) is looking to read your pages and “pieces,” it will generate an error, as those individual pieces are calling functions, which may not work without the enqueued files (meaning a function being loaded a part of the header, for a menu, will generate error without the footer js, not being loaded).

So, errors are generated by folks accessing your theme pieces directly.

The best solution is to learn to block the people doing this, by their IP or IP range for repeat abuse, which is how you stop errors being generated.

For savvy folk, some hosts may be able to setup a directive to ‘ignore’ certain errors and not log them. Setting proper file permissions on your WP files can help for some things, and setting up proper htaccess rules to protect the important stuff should be job one. Links I included show how to accomplish this.

Not part of the theme, so good to learn how all of the elements of WordPress work, how the web works, how error log works, and how to harden your site for things which matter. Remember only YOU can manage and secure your site — it’s not the job of the theme developer to do that.

Cheers to all and to all a good night 🙂

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Right, well anybody can access files for “any” theme — that is how WordPress works.

That is not theme specific. Anybody can probe /wp-content/themes/*

This is also why we change the name of our wp-content folder, and the theme folder name for the default bot probes.

But glad you’re on top of stuff like that and are blocking IPs attacking your theme folders.

So, anybody can probe:
wp-content/themes/*/header.php

it’s a common WP file.

SO, those kind of pings are not theme specific.

You will have these sort of pings regardless of the THEME you use, so not sure why you expect the theme author to help you lock down your site?

But luckily they are very nice around here, and might offer some suggestions.

But that’s really up to you, not TagDiv.

Oh well, best of luck. Some good resources on this topic on the web already. Very old common issue with ALL WP sites.

Heh. There were a lot of bug fixes in the new Yoast 3.1, so there you go.

Find the ID for the category then add that as an exception to the module for latest posts.

E.g., if books were category ID 7, you might do -7 (this might have changed in latest version of the theme, but that was how i did it — couple versions behind).

You can get the category ID by hovering over the edit button in the WP admin > posts > categories menu. Cat ID really should be one of the columns there, and I’ve asked WP for that going on 10 years now (SIGH). I think there is a plugin for that now.

There are some really good articles online about “hardening” WordPress you should look into, as this is NOT a new issue. WordPress is so well entrenched on the web, that ALL sites which have any WordPress elements are easily “probed” for known vulnerabilities in certain plugins, themes, javsscript, php, xml-rpc, comments boxes, forms, forums, and sign-up/sign-in boxes.

WP codex – official docs on ‘hardening’ WP
http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

Good older article
https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-security-tips/

Even older (some might not work with WP4x)
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/11-vital-tips-and-hacks-to-protect-your-wordpress-admin-area/

topic thread
http://www.wpbeginner.com/tag/wordpress-security/

Periodic free scan of site with Securi advisable
https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/

(also sign up for their newsletter about breaking issues with WP core, plugins, etc.)

ALSO:
learn to use your server side ERROR LOG, and perhaps see if your web host can setup CSF/IPtables for you to auto-block probes to your IP.

In your http/web error log you should be able to see the error being generated and the IP the probes are coming from, then BLOCK that IP (we had to block all of Ukraine recently, for example for huge amount of attacks — and the ISPs don’t respond to/resolve issues after 60 days!).

Just food for thought.

I might wrangle this into a tutorial with some examples of the error log when I have a free brain cell 🙂

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That is how Google works, and has the past decade. If you have breadcrumbs they will show
website URL > breadcrumb > breadcrumb

they don’t show the permalink or the story title when breadcrumbs are in place.

The reasoning is that it makes it faster for somebody to navigate in SERPS

eg.,

The Story Title
www.site.ooo > books > science fiction '

so, on news/content sites, it would allow somebody to go to the two main “topics” the story is under, vs the direct link from the story title.

That is how Google has used breadcrumbs since they added them to SERPS (our main news site has been online 16 years, and Google has always done this since being able to “read” the breadcrumbs).

So, it’s a navigation aid. Also, typically the down arrow will note the story has been cached in case site is down temporarily or unreachable.

To only show the permalink, you can turn OFF the post breadcrumbs.

So it’s not an “issue” — it’s a “feature.” 🙂

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If you’re using a static page, Yoast doesn’t “know” that is actually your home page while editing and so the URL shown is “the actual URL” which is the name of the “page” you created.

However, Yoast doesn’t control THAT URL, WordPress does when setting the static page as your home page.

SO, you only have to worry about the other blocks on the static page which actually get “printed” in the meta data.

Good idea to learn to look at “page source” for your home page in browser to SEE what is actually being printed on the live page in the “actual” HTML.

Hope that helped 🙂

(If that was not the question, apologies – I don’t work here …)