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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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See the theme docs under tutorials and best of forum for how to optimize website.

simchris
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See the theme docs under tutorials and best of forum stuff for help with this.

simchris
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Admin – it would be helpful to include that in the “changed files” list when you do the single file security patches as this is second or third time recently where the “what file was changed” was actually *not* noted in the changes (e.g., changed_files_6.6.2_6.6.4.html).

Thanks ๐Ÿ™‚

simchris
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Well, first you want to figure out which “account” is giving you that message. Is it coming from a plugin like JetPack ? Is it coming from social plugin ? If it’s not from your hosting provider, then you’d need to check your error log, or audit your plugins to see if your “account” for that particular plugin has given you that error. Usually in your “account” there would be a message about it, and generally some way to upgrade whatever that account happens to be.

If you site won’t load, and you’re seeing that message — then it seems like that would be from your hosting account. If they say that isn’t coming from them, I’d kind of suggest you get a better host (!).

However, you can
a) make sure you have enough memory allocated to WordPress in both wp-config.php and php.ini (google how to do this)
b) limit number of modules and image sizes used (tune that so you’re using same size modules on each sidebar/footer, for instance — not three different; consider NOT using fly-out suggested and the related posts modules)
c) when you get that message, go right to your server error log to see WHAT caused that
d) get a better host

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simchris
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I use one called Auto Post Thumbnail PRO from CodeCanyon/Envato/Themeforest. Cheap, works. Sets first photo/image in post as featured. We use this as we have news network, where some sites pull from the mothership, and the image in the post is actually loading from the mothership not the local syndicated site, so no featured image — this solves it.

A lot of older themes used to use a deprecated (retired) plugin to automatically do it. But almost no modern theme has “auto” function to make first image in post as featured.

simchris
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We also use a custom version of AdRotate here as it’s very very simple to use.

simchris
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Normally this is in the changelog you get when downloading the files from Themeforest (admin please add this to docs in the FAQs ?)

Open the Newspaper_tf folder to see the two change files … e.g.,

[ Version 6.6.4 ]
– fix: homepage pagination issue with wordpress 4.4.1

[ Version 6.6.3 ]
– new: visual composer was updated to the latest version 4.9
– new: revolution slider was updated to the latest version 5.1.5
– fix: modified structured data to comply with Google’s new requirements

[ Version 6.6.2 ]
– fix: pagination was not working on categories with big grid disabled on WordPress 4.4

[ Version 6.6.1 ]
– new social counter version. Facebook requiers now an API key, read more here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-social-counter-tutorial/

simchris
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You might be able to do somehting like top-margin=-1px … I had to do something like that with a theme wchich put one line at bottom of every page which was super annoying…

simchris
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table - reply

You can’t use styles on the page, only classes. So you have to define the CSS, then put into the custom CSS box in theme panel, then apply the class to the table and elements. Make sure you do tables with HTML5 formatting.

For most stuff you can just apply the table class to your table
<table class="table">
<tbody>
<tr>....

simchris
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I think there is some help in the docs on how to setup cache with theme properly; most importantly disable any/all “minification” features, if applicable as that usually breaks javascript.

simchris
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Create a CSS class, then put the class in the custom CSS box in panel, then use that class for the text in the template where inserting the – advertisement – text; that’s what I did.

simchris
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I think you have to specify at height in pixels for the iframe height as not all web browsers support percent or “auto” — common issue. I think you can try auto — see the HTML5 docs for iframes online as good starting point.

simchris
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I think you add a “widgetized” sidebar; then use normal sidebar element for the widget under WP admin > appearance > widgets …

might be wrong …

simchris
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Well, did you “disable” the comments in the WP panel ?

You also disable them in the theme panel ?

Most FB comments plugins have directions on how to do this, as far as I know.

If they still show on a post, you might need to use a plugin which completely hides the existing comments; or perhaps more simply just remove the comment block from the post template you happen to be using and then only the plugin would show there, inserted at the end of the post text area.

If you don’t know how to do that, TagDiv support can provide a pointer to do that.

simchris
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If you look at the license included with your purchase, it’s limited to one (1) website/domain per license.

simchris
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I think the theme docs show the modules and which blocks make up each module .. much easier to see that first (I printed it out!) ๐Ÿ™‚

simchris
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What we did was open the main style sheet and then search/replace the font familiies to the one we wanted (e.g., open sans throughout …). This is likely simplest way — that way your desired font is the default, and you can just set everything in theme panel to default ๐Ÿ™‚

simchris
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Theme is not responsible for issues with Facebook sharing. This happens with all themes on both FB and G+ from time to time, regardless of theme used. You’re not paying FB to share content, so they don’t respond to support tickets. I just had this issue with one of my stories on a site not running WordPress, not using this theme, where every story shared perfectly, except the last one … all I got was box with the URL in it.

Welcome to Facebook sharing! ๐Ÿ™‚

simchris
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a) not my theme
b) this issue has to do with ALL sites sharing to FB — nothing to do with the theme, as stated previously.

I have this issue all the time, but then I have a wide variety of news portals I manage and am sharing content every day of the week for many years now.

Welcome to WordPress! ๐Ÿ™‚

simchris
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You would have to delete manually, or download to PC and use some software or scriptlet to search/destroy. Or, remove all except logos, then regenerate all images on server once you reset your optimized thumbnail settings in the theme panel and WP media setting.

simchris
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Worked for me ….

simchris
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Worthwhile to actually go to Facebook and read up on their “requirements” for sharing content.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices

simchris
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This is an issue with FB; they don’t always grab the image due to either filename, size, dimensions, format, or their system overloaded. You can often use the down arrow toggle from the post itself on FB by clicking the “time since” posted link, then down arrow, then “refresh attachment.”

You cannot “enforce” that FB always grabs the photo. It’s impossible. However with proper file/image, unique file name, right size (not too small), and OG tags, they will get it “most” of the time unless your page also generating a lot of HTML errors.

(admin: I nominate you add this topic to a FAQs page — as it’s been 2 years of same question……)

simchris
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no index works too ๐Ÿ™‚
depending on the XML sitemap plugin you’re using, you may be able to also “not include” attachment pages.

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