No. All titles on home page should not be H1. a) they change continuously as news or article items and b) the H1 for a “page” should match the title tag in the META data — usually specific to that ONE page (e.g., the front page). Titles on front page would normally be h2 for section heads on page if desired, and h3 for news item titles. h2 for news titles and h3 for widgets also very common. But semantically, all they refer to is a level of importance or sizes relative to other content.

On posts the “title” is an H1 tag (do view source to see your actual content).

While HTML5 technically supports multiple H1 tags and mutliple <article></article> sections; for SEO there should be just *one* H1 tags on any page, post, index, archive, etc., which for Google guidelines should generally be the same thing as the <title></title> on that matching page.

I’ve been doing SEO for 20 years (21 come March 2016), so I do know a little about it and not just positing an opinion here 🙂

Likely need to try them out to see what works for you.

Did you have an example of one you’re looking at?

I think it might NOT be a theme issue. Might be a plugin conflict with Ajax, or something else.

Theme update does NOT appear to have anything to do with this issue.

Often clearing your cache in your web browser — and also if you’re using any caching plugin or CDN plugins for your site — are necessary after WP updates. With Chrome, in particular, you often have to clear the history to get cache to actually clear vs doing f5 refresh.

Changelog files are usually in the all files download zip (newspaper-tf) and always have been. 🙂

=== note files “update_log.txt” and “changed_files.html”
(granted they have forgotten to update these couple of times; but almost *all* theme developers that don’t suck include changelog with download, as do most plugin authors worth their salt)

REF;

[ Version 2.3.3]
– fix: pagination was not working on categories with big grid disabled on WordPress 4.4

[ Version 2.3.2 ]
– new social counter version. Facebook requiers now an API key, read more here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-social-counter-tutorial/

[ Version 2.3.1 ]
– new: added http channel test status in the system status panel. You can now check if the theme is able to get the tweet count, like count etc from your host.
– improvement: added the new google ads sizes to the panel
– fix: sorting bug on custom page loops
– fix: removed unused code from the theme + theme panel. We shipped the weather widget code by mistake. The widget is not ready yet.
– fix: the documentation url for demos was wrong in wp-admin
– fix: error that was showing up in logs when the theme panel was saved
– fix: we updated the ads links to point to the right documentation

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Heh. Yeah. This is why I don’t use child themes. Makes extra work for most themes now due to all the major changes to WordPress the past year.

Best to make changes to the main files then keep track of that, and just don’t use child theme at all. Don’t even upload it.

This is only my opinion. i don’t work here.

New version of Newsmag out today might address this?

Right
so make an H1 tag for your home page.

Make a text block someplace on page, wrap it in h1 and do something like short description of your site for SEO. This is what we do. Google/Bing have no trouble reading it.

Dunno. I only use ads below menu above the fold of content and then in sidebars. Putting them in content lowered page views for our news sites, so we stopped doing that even though AdSense keeps “recommending” we put them there 🙂

See the link to theme docs, right side of page.

best way is via FTP.

Theme has nothing to do with updating WordPress. Best way to do that is manually via FTP. See WordPress.org on how to update WordPress.

New version of Newspaper out today addresses couple of issues with WP 4.4 (nothing to do with “updating” WP).

Oh! Hey, that’s a good idea 🙂

Less “cluttering” than making it sticky. That way you can put “breaking alert” stuff as a sticky, such as a “top 5 issues with WP 4.4” — whichi would make a much better sticky.

Happy holidays!

Chris

Likely hire a programmer to build an “app” from your website. Many simple apps are basically shells with logo and pull in the content via RSS. Not too complicated.

No recommendation, however we’re looking to do the same thing … so also interested if anybody has already done this on the cheap 🙂

Yes, exactly so. We use the responsive ad unit, which then “auto fills” the spaces into which we put it. Works for us (your mileage may vary, of course!) 🙂

FYI – help/support for PHOTON (not part of theme):
https://jetpack.me/support/photon/

Try not using the PHOTON option … it sucks 🙂

Our copies of Newsmag working perfectly post 4.4 update — just as some feedback to all.

Your setup will vary.

Chris

You get the updates by logging into your account at Themeforest, and then the updates will be on your “downloads” tab (link top right of page with account on TF).

Usually it is from using the crap optimization from Jetpack… but might not be your issue.

For our site we just use the “responsive” code and then fit into a div wide enough for leaderboard and it always loads one.

Not really part of the theme — really a WordPress and web server issue …

you might need to explore more options online which have previously covered the topic, like here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28825419/hide-php-extension-from-sub-directories-file-by-htaccess-file

Oh, and here is link to the JS COMPRESSOR that I use ::

(quoted from my optimization thread of dooooom)

CLOSURE COMPILER FOR JS
Google has started recommending a program (Closure Compiler) to manually minify js files which uses “latest methodologies”

https://developers.google.com/speed/articles/compressing-javascript

and the online UI:
http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/home

Likely want to make this a STICKY on both forums!!

Google+ has problems capturing images regardless of the OG tags; usually if there are too many images “before” the main image in the post (e.g., mega menu), if the only image is a giant “outside the post” image format, and/or if the only image in post is too small (e.g., smaller than 300px).

Not much you can do about it, unfortunately.

Best solution is to use a pro level ad manager which is inserted into ad spots and has if/then checks for exlude category by ID, skip placement as part of post page, etc.

Hard for the theme to have a “one for all” complex ad solution.

Some pretty good ad management systems out there now.

So, where are the cookies ? (kidding)

Glad that helped 🙂

Happy holidays!