You should post new thread with your question, not post same thing on multiple threads, please.

In my version, it’s the same place you would have installed your demo(s) for testing.

It used to be

main theme panel

import predefined styles > go to import > “Factory Restore” …

might have moved in your version, but it’s on one of the content import screens.

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actually ….
In the latest version it now has the demo options
https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-installing-demos/

Uninstall a demo

If you decide to change the demo or uninstall it, the import system will make sure that you website is clean: no additional sidebars, menus or content. It will leave you website just like it was before you installed the demo.

To uninstall a demo go to Newsmag > Install demos section. Click on the Uninstall button.

Simplest way is to use the reset function in the theme panel.

@newsblaze
Alan… hey, just realized we know each other ! 🙂

Didn’t catch that when I replied to tail end of your first post in forum in Dec.

Long time no talk, buddy!

🙂

Chris S. / Calif. USA

Note, technically it’s only loaded once, if at all, as most web browsers actually have that “cached” from visiting other sites with that .js — also the browser usually caches first instance and does not fetch the identical file multiple times unless URL is different.

If you do a page scan with something like pingdom etc. you should see from the waterfall it’s really only being fetched once, if at all depending on browser model (e.g., Chrome has it cached on Google cloud, it doesn’t reload it every time).

Not as big an issue as you might think, except perhaps in ancient browsers which should not be used by anybody like IE7/8/9 or ooooold FF stuff.

If the image works with the default image, but not with your version, it may be that the file you’re uploading to replace the original image is malformed in some way, or that the caching is not letting go of the cached file.

You might try this
assuming the file permissions of the files you’re uploading via FTP actually have the correct CHMOD setting … perhaps try using different image editor in case file corrupt in some way …

a) get it working with default placeholder image
b) make sure the /path/to/placeholder works by loading it in web browser based on what prints on page
c) refresh all caching, etc., turn off lazy loading, make sure if using CDN image is actually in ALL places content is being loaded or being redirected from
d) if using https, make sure you have your site properly setup to ONLY load https and NOT both http and https
e) try deleting the placeholder image, not over-write; upload your image, clear all caching again, then reload page and see if new image is there
f) if not, then try using a different image editing program

sorry … might not help, just food for thought

You need to edit your pagespeed.conf file to be optimized for your site, caching module, CDN loading, etc.

Are you running mod_pagespeed on your server /VPN, or are you doing that via Cloudflare ?

We have our own dedicated high end server here, so we manage our own stuff and don’t need CDN, so my suggested settings only address the ideal setting AFTER you setup the pagespeed.conf file properly with the Apache module (see the Google docs on how that works).

For instance, if you are running the module on your own server/VPN, and loading stuff off CDN, you have to actually tell mod_pagespeed where those CDN resources *are* — for our test we setup a subdomain as cdn.oursite.ooo which was a CNAME for the CDN bucket.

But again, not theme specific, so likely best to talk to Cloudflare and explain your use of mod_pagespeed and how best to connect. 🙂

see:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/problem-with-apache-mod-pagespeed-and-style-css/

You can find my example mod page speed settings I believe in my long winded tutorial, or someplace in the forum history as we fully enabled this — using WP and Newspaper — back in Jan. 2014.

Note the mod_pagespeed settings should be optimized for WordPress; they are not “theme” specific. There are numerous tutorials online re setting up mod_pagespeed to work with WordPress you may want to look at, going back to late 2013, and mostly in 2014. There is some trial and error.

Upshot, it’s not theme related, but WordPress related.

For example, you should NOT use lazy load, not use minification other than comment removal and spaces removal, and ideally not use things that move scripts to bottom or top of page as theme already does that, as does WP.

Point being there is not one ideal “snapshot” of a config file for every server, and setup.

For example, you may want to put the path to a static folder location. Read docs on how to do that.

You may want to hook mod_pagespeed to connect to caching module on server, but you would need to actually work with your hosting provider to set that up properly.

Using mod_pagespeed with external resources is also tricky, such as CDN, where you need to put in lines to specify how that connects — if using cloudflare they should be able to help you with that.

Again, mod_pagespeed is *not* theme specific, but WordPress and Cloudflare setup should be addressed to the Cloudflare folk.

Re: security,
We use “limit login attempts” for one layer of security, remove access to XML-RPC, and change default admin super user to another name, change the default WordPress dbase table from wp_ to something else, and “harden” access to the wp-config.php file, among other things.

Weird. Page loads for me as fully https in Chrome/Win10 with no images loaded via http.

But you are correct when you click the link, the ajax loads the additional info as http vs https and throws error.

Also, you have missing font issue on the page, as a console error, it looks like from initial page load.

We use AdRotate over here for many years.

See the theme docs >> right side of page >> and look under tutorials, DIY, and best of forums

Sorry. Guess my point was the counter *is* working on thousands of sites “right now” without issue.

So, this typically means something on YOUR site(s) has a conflict with the simple “hit counter” which is just a dumb counter that increments +1 each time page is loaded/viewed.

Some plugins might conflict with this “function” — some caching setups won’t count the increment, hence the ajax method, and “hits” may go down if fewer “bots” are pinging the page (which hare false “reads”). “Hits” can also go down if you get less spammer attempts by live spam farms and spam bots.

On one site we were getting 4,000 views first day for some posts; when we blocked the Ukraine spam farms, it went down to 850 views.

Just some feedback, not trying to play down the issue you’re having 🙂

Check the status page in WooCommerce to see if the Newspaper woocommerce files are up to date with the latest version of WooCommerce.

Likely best to get things back to “normal” with the default placeholder image that worked originally. And then go from there. It does work with the default placeholder image, so if you get that working then we can go from there, is my thinking.

If using Yoast SEO, be sure to disable the “remove stop words” option, as that sometimes causes problems with rewrites of your page URLs.

See theme docs > right side of page under “tutorialls” and DIY, and “best of forums”

Best place to edit it is actually in the style.css file, but that is just my opinion.

Depends on which one you want to show up in search results. Categories is most common as these would be your main indexes like “books” and “music” — while tags might be things like “rap music” and “scifi books” … the reason to NOT do both is if you had tags called new books, and category called books, which is redundant.

We use both as we have main semantic categories for news, then we use tags for things like — using books as example — fiction ,nonfiction, book author, book publisher, book topic — which would make categories a nightmare.

So, we *do* want the TAG index to show up for the book “publisher” if we have content about multiple books from the same publishers, but we don’t want to make a category out of it.

So, books => all books written about
while tag > book publisher => all books written about ONE publisher

See how that works? That is the ideal use case for categories and tags.

There is your definitive answer. That is how we’ve been using them for 16 years and works pretty darn well for us 🙂

Tip:
look at your page source, see what the “printed” image link is.

Open that link in browser, is the image actually there?

http://yoursite.iii/wp-content/themes/Newsmag/images/no-thumb/td_sizehere.png ?

If using child theme, did you replace in the child theme location as well ?

Disable any minification tools you may be running for testing.

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Using the theme for over 2 years and social links have gone UP for us, not down.

I highly doubt the “theme” impacts people on Facebook clicking a link to your website. How would they see your site prior to visiting it — that doesn’t make sense, unless I’m missing your point.

It’s not rocket science.

For all marketing efforts, why not simply go back to another theme and see how your page views are doing?

Also, note that the best way to measure site views is actually at the server level “above” the web pages, as this precludes issues with caching and javacript disabled, adblockers, etc.

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You can try adding the free “thumbnail upscale” plugin which will allow your smaller images to be enlarged to fit the theme sizes 🙂 You may need to run regenerate thumbnails plugin after you add the upscale one to fix existing images —

hope that helped!

You can turn ‘OFF’ lazy loading of images in the theme panel. Look for that setting and switch it to OFF.

Did you regenerate your thumbnails per theme docs?