As with most modern themes, to use shortcodes, go to a temp page, save as draft.

In the post box, switch to HTML editor vs text editor tab.

Click on the shortcode button to see possible shortcodes…. drop one onto the draft page, then preview to see what it looks like …

at least, that’s how I do it 🙂

See the theme docs (link right side of page >>>>>> )

See how to import “demo” designs, like travel, etc.

Generally you import the “design” and NOT the dummy content!

Nope. There is no virus in theme files properly purchased and downloaded from TF. It’s a “false positive.”

Virus on your site might be something else.

All files uploaded to ThemeForest are carefully pre-scanned; and then ThemeForest also scans files before you’re allowed to download them.

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More likely caching issue. Clear cache entirely. Re-save permalinks.

Google is great place to look up this stuff which is not theme related

I don’t appear to be putting trailing slash on my sites in the wp admin > settings > general

don’t remember where the setting is in Yoast SEO — maybe try the permalinks area ?

This filter added to functions.php changes default WordPress jpeg compression from “90” to “50” … so, all those little thumbnails built by WP for blocks/modules are better compressed

add_filter( ‘jpeg_quality’, create_function(”, ‘return 50;’ ) );

the ’50’ in there refers to compression level, but not actually 50% — just the quality factor level on a scale of 1-10 as determined by WordPress — which uses GDlib/imagemagick to render new image files from what you upload.

Note the sticky post top of the forum about the bug in WP 4.41.

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(oops … ignore me … here … )

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The trick with visual composer is to do your site layout, try to see if Radu’s beta “shim” works with latest version of Newspaper; then disable VC. Use the custom code to in functions remove VC loading anywhere except home page, make sure you have a lot of RAM allocated to a big site (I use 768MB for mine … but I’ve got dedicated box; 256MB for smaller sites). Limit number of queries in sidebar, don’t use the fancy “related post / more from author” (I use a simple text based related post plugin which prints 5 related stories below story above author box, and then THAT is cached with the post by the plugin!).

This kind of “tuning” can help with a very complex theme like Newspaper. Obviously a simpler “lean” theme will use less resources, due to having fewer bells and whistles. Trick is to trim some of the bells, and only use couple of whistles.

At least that was my experience.

If using Yoast, check the option under links to [x] uncheck the option to enforce trailing slash…. many folks check that on when not really needed. Also, check what URL you actually have entered on the WP admin > settings > general

The add filter function only changes the default WordPress compression for thumbnails created from the main file you upload, and any enlarged/smaller version — it will not optimize the original image you upload. That is best done prior to upload using something like Photoshop, GIMP, or any other image application — or compression tool. Ideally best to “create” your original images as optimized — e.g., in Photoshop, start with “save as web” quality factor of 22 with a blur of .01 — for any image with a lot of red you need to do quality factor in PSHOP as 52. Some images with people you can get away with 32.

Best to optimize the original jpeg you upload when created/sized — problem with many “reprocessors” (including mod_paghespeed) is that a same-size jpeg of a jpeg increases the artifacts of compression.

Not sure that helps … but food for thought 🙂

What I do:
* original images > optimized/sized when first uploaded
* WP compression level set to 50 – as per functions.php fix, and this makes great thumbs for desktop/iOS
* With thumbnail upscale plugin, with some minor enlargements (e.g., 500x to 600x), perfectly fine.

Avoid the Jetpack image thing — totally sucks !

🙂

Just choose one of the modules/blocks that has an image with it.

see- https://forum.tagdiv.com/theme-thumbs/

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Sorry i dont … I’m on another forum right now begging for somebody to give me the hook for stupid Yoast SEO breadcrumbs for when a WP is in sub directory of a larger site, to add the home > subdir > cat > post properly … (sigh)…

TagDiv may have some help. But for custom coding you might have to do the google quest of doom … 🙂

Post views impacted by caching, connection to FB, or whatever you’re using (jetpack, native, plugin…). No idea.

Works for me. Some plugins needed updating, but that is expected.

Also check the animated GIF in something like photoshop to ensure it’s actually set to rotate forever vs just one time. That is usually set in the meta data of the gif file itself.

Each page on your site needs to have unique “title” … so, this means no duplicate articles, categories, or posts with same “name” — then use a plugin like YOAST SEO, which will append the page numbers to the title tags for things like category pages 2,3,4….

Sorry I didn’t have more helpful answer …. I don’t use cloudflare …. so, not much help on this one.

Perhaps somebody else will have better answer — lots of folks DO use cloudflare. Caching shouldn’t impact things unless the tracker you’re using can’t parse out cached visits or something thus impacting the CTR.

Try with just the visual composer plugin and no other plugins installed/active (e.g., no reason to use a woocommerce plugin if not usinf WC). Try not using child theme. Make sure you have at least 64MB allocated to WP. Make sure the paths are correct for WP to find itself.

More and more people are using adblockers … especially now in ipad and mobile devices and new web browsers with built-in ad blocking.

If your CTR dropped dramatically by changing to cloudflare, then it may be related to that.

Simple way to test, go back to how you had your setup originally to see if it goes back up by NOT using cloudflare.

<PREV NEXT>
are based on when the post created and NOT by topic/category or tag.

This is a normal WordPress feature.

I think if you want to do a prev/next by current “main” category (or first alpha category more typical), you might need a plugin or custom code.

Case in point, plugin was updated TODAY.

No reason for theme folk to make their own version when the de-facto best solution for WP exists right now.

New version today has major updates for the AMP standard, and also new customization options.

It works with the theme. Doesn’t need to be bundled; as it’s easily downloaded for those who know what it is.

Upshot – use it ! 🙂

Usually problem if the block dimensions are larger than image being uploaded as WP cannot ‘enlarge’ thumbs without help of plugin. Might not be your issue, but this is the most common one.

ref
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/wordpress-4-4-1-pagination-new-fix/

See the ‘sticky’ post top of the forum menu.
Bug introduced by WordPress 4.1.1 — newest theme update has fix for this, or you can hack the one file.