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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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Look at your page source in web browser, to see the “actual” open graph (OG) tags being printed in the HTML above the body tag. This is what FB “reads” to utilize your content. if it’s missing or blank, then it doesn’t work right.

You need to use a plugin like YOAST SEO, where you set all your info, and then it prints that in your page.

In Yoast I believe you can specify a type, but it’s usually “article”

See YOAST SEO docs.

This may be relevant also
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-change-ogtype-its-wordpress-seo-by-yoast?replies=5

simchris
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Hi
I think the way we got around this was

a) leave “use featured image” active
b) set “default” template to no image
c) existing content uses the no image template
d) new content can use template that loads featured image into layout

Not sure that works with latest version of theme, as I’m not yet on the newest version.

simchris
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a) make sure you have the FB app ID setup in your settings
b) FB may be overloaded due to US superbowl shenanigans

simchris
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See the theme docs for replacing the ad units for that spot with your own custom code ….

basically you have to insert the three div sizes which wrap your link and image HTML

alternately you could use a plugin like AdRotate to insert into the theme template and then load your “ad” graphics randomly for that spot (which is what I do) 🙂

simchris
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If it were me I would wait for TagDiv to possibly point you at the font loader php file where you could add in all those fonts with help of a devoloper if you would not be able to, which would add the fonts “hard coded” into the includes file, so that those fonts are loaded as menu options, and then hard code the font calls into the style.css to “always load” that family.

This way you “load the family” manually, but can select font “assignments” from the theme panel which are then applied to the specific classes.

Seems like that might work.

Or, hack the function file to give more font import locations from 3 to 9.

simchris
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This is what is called a ‘false positive’ — it’s not actually a phishing application.

It may think that because the social counter has to “connect” to the social sites to get data to put into the widget (like number of subscribers).

simchris
tagDiv Member

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

see the walk through tutorials and explanation of how it all works, is best place to start.

simchris
tagDiv Member

Once your site is live, see the theme docs in the tutorials/DIY, and ‘best of forums’ for some great tips/guides on how to properly optimize any WordPress site for best performance with complex themes like Newspaper.

simchris
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Try the tutorials on font squirrel which describe simple ways to load custom font libs. Theme cannot import libs… There is no script to do that in any theme ive seen the past decade. You basically add the font loading to your style sheet and replace the default font calls.

simchris
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Theme is responsive, WP-Touch can cause issues with sites which are already responsive and mobile ready.

Also try disabling the loading of visual composer on all pages/posts except for home page — this is also covered in my long-winded optimization post in the tutororials/DIY/best of forum section.

Ad Rotate Pro *not* an issue. We use it here and have for years.

Newspaper adds share buttons top/bottom of each post – from post settings; but not ALL sharing buttons, just the main popular ones. I use a plugin that is super lightweight “simple sharing buttons” but doesn’t do the “numbers” just the buttons. That is usually not the issue.

Jetpack can slow down site as you’re loading all those elements externally and adding to overhead.

To be honest, I suspect it’s the WP-Touch and possibly your server is setup like ours was, where traffic spikes would kill the site — in our case it was the related posts, mega-menu, and loading visual composer. Disabling those solved it for us.

simchris
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Try clearing your cache, or restore your backup copy of site.
Try re-saving the menu settings in WP admin panel.

simchris
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Glad to help … it’s one of those “duh” things when you go back and look at it again 🙂

simchris
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From that example, looks like the FB comments plugin is too wide breaking your layout ?

simchris
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I think that is from accessing certain elements of the control panel when you are logged in to your FB site.

simchris
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Remember to put in the FULL url to Facebook with https://facebook.com/yourpage

simchris
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Might be with a plugin. Not part of theme as searches are done by WordPress script, not theme.

Might check plugins in the wordpress.org repository.

simchris
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I think you turn that on from the “post settings” in the theme panel 🙂

simchris
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Make sure you actually have WORKING open graph (OG) tags in your HTML. You need to use a plugin like YOAST SEO, to ensure you have proper “tags” for both FB and Twitter.

You can look at your “page source” for post in web browser to see WHAT is actually printed in the HTML above the body tag in the tags section.

You can also press F12 in modern browsers like Chrome / Edge — in Chrome you can use the ‘console’ tab to see errors on page breaking it.

Likely getting OG tags setup best first step, if not already done — as this is the most common “oops!” item 🙂

simchris
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This theme does not include that plugin, it’s a separate thing. Good idea to post questions on the support page/forum for that plugin for faster help in debugging problems with it.

Make sure you only use ONE type of caching plugin. Make sure you have enough memory allocated to WordPress before doing so. Make sure you read the tutorial in the TagDiv theme docs on “suggestions” on how to setup a caching plugin to best work with theme — deactivate ALL plugins except for Visual Composer as one step in debugging problems with caching plugin.

I’m sure TagDiv will offer some advice but they are closed weekends their local time.

Did you define the path to /wp-super-cache/ in your wp-config.php file?

If it’s totally borked, you might have to remove the plugin via FTP, then remove the lines it might have added to your htaccess or wp-config.php file, then start over, perhaps using different caching plugin if not compatible with your setup.

Some folks here have had success using various caching plugins including zencache, etc.

simchris
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We use a plugin which has a little slide up notice from bottom of page. See the wordpress.org plugins repository as there are numerous items for this which have been available for free for the past couple of years.

Always a great place to start for help adding on things to a theme not part of theme, or that you don’t have programming ability for … :

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=cookie+notice

Hope that helped! 🙂

simchris
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@Lewis
if you’re in a hurry you likely want to go to stackexchange or another forum; asking people for help here on how to do stuff unrelated to the theme might be a long wait for a kind soul to impart wisdom based on their own experience assuming they have time to do so.

Just did google search:
how to make a mobile app from wordpress site

top result: https://apppresser.com/

have you looked at that? We are looking at this plus a number of other things.

wpmu article
https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/5-plugins-to-turn-wordpress-into-a-mobile-app/

(etc.)

simchris
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I think you can switch to a demo “style” but make sure you do NOT import any sample content, just the “styles.” And make sure you make a full BACKUP *before* you do ANY changes, obviously!

simchris
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Dude - reply

Hi, not my theme … but basically, no — again, the entire site loads ONE set of styles such as “travel.”

If you want ONE category to load entirely different set of styles, like “sports,” you would likely need to create a custom template for the category you want to use the different “style” — eg. category-sports.php and then edit that to load the styles from the CSS folder for “sports” instead of “classic blog” …

If that makes no sense, you’d likely need to hire a developer 🙂

TagDiv may have better “official” answer, but that’s how most themes like this work with pre-built style “sets.”

simchris
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Sometimes re-saving your permalinks helps.

simchris
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Dude - reply

I don’t think so, dude. The “themes” included are one big style sheet (CSS) with all the sizes, colors, etc.

In theory, you could create a custom template for a single category per the docs on wordpress.org, and then have that single theme load the OTHER style sheets.

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