Theme has no infections. We’ve been using it for 2 years on multiple sites and we check system consistently for any issues including Google search console, dedicated server scanning, Securi, PCI-DSS etc.

You need to have your site checked carefully for malware, change passwords, reinstall all plugins from clean copies; remove any old themes and plugins not in use; scan your site with SECURI (free), and if your host has a security scanning service have them also check for rootkits and other nonsense.

Only YOU can fix your site if its been compromised. Note that some older versions of plugins, WordPress itself, are hackable, so these need to be up to date. Many older plugins prior to 2015 and not updated may have the cross-site vulnerability, comment injection vulnerabilities, etc.

To reset plugin directory, via FTP:
a) rename plugins folder to xplugins
b) go to login
c) then go back to FTP and rename plugins folder back to plugins

this is the official WordPress method to reset plugins folder and what I use.

While there you might also fully DELETE the js-compposer folder for VC.

Do “view source” on your post page, and look at all the twitter elements to make sure none are broken. That’s what I usually do, since that is exactly what twitter is “scanning” when you go to submit.

Note also if you’re using multiple social sharing plugins at once, this can also cause hiccup.

You can also try Twitter’s developer tool to check your post to see if it works or not; and also submit for a twitter card — which is also what I usually do.

Good places to start.

Make sure you have proper open graph and twitter tags setup in your head meta data; this is the usual culprit.

Additionally, Twitter does *not* support #tags in post headlines.

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Usually this is due to not having open graph (OG) tags properly setup via YOAST or similar. Might not be your issue. Facebook currently going through changes this month, including autocollection of multiple images in post to let you choose one you want, etc.

Good to update to latest version but also remember to update the included plugins too!

We’ve used it here.
Basically if you Google the topic on optimizing Varnish on server for WordPress then it will work well.

Not theme specific 🙂

The envato plugin never works right for me.
Better to update manually via FTP to ensure all the files actually there. 🙂

One trick we did that really helps when we moved a site to all-https, was also adding the site URL to the wp-config.php file. Helped a lot with resolving some of the default internal stuff with https.

There is no “special configuration” for YOAST with the theme. Basically just go through all the options in YOAST and re-save, and make changes as needed for your setup.

3.03 seems to work, finally. Be sure to DELETE the old YOAST plugin folder, not over-write it. Then clear caching, etc. including browser cache.

Ajax issue in latest versions of WordPress. We’ve seen this in different themes.

Make sure you increased the default memory allocated to WP in your config.php file. Seems to help. Make sure you’re not using any plugins which reload jquery when it’s already being loaded.

Facebook does not *always* grab images; there is nothing you can do to control this.

Hi
a great resource to learn WordPress basic functions is the “codex” (docs” on the WordPress.org website.

Basically when you post as yourself, you are the author.

However, you need to setup a “user” for each author on your site under the “users” section of the main WP admin panel.

Then when you create a post, you can choose that user/author from the authors selector on the post page (where you create the article/post).

See the codex on how to use the “post” panel in WP:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Posts

Setting authors is part of WP, and not the theme.

Hope that helped! 🙂

If you’re allowing “guest posts” — there are various plugins which allow this. This allows an “author” to be assigned without that person having an “account.” But have not used any of those to recommend. This would likely need customization for how to manage the author box bottom of each post.

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In older version there used to be a “require once” in the main style.css and/or main functions file inside the booster folder in theme. No idea where that is now.

In an earlier version I was able to simply remove the require once statements to just not load that stuff at all.

Sadly, I have not had a chance to revisit that on latest version.

TagDiv back on Monday.

What URL ? Where ?

that looks like your caching or similar

Make sure you’re using proper open graph (OG) tags.

That is not part of the theme; it’s a built in function of WordPress — unfortunately, it’s almost impossible to hide that unless you do some major “hacking” of WP, which if you’re asking this, you might not be up to.

You should google “hiding wp-admin folder” and similar.

What some folks do is use a posting plugin, which builds separate form, outside of the WP admin system -then folks fill out their post in THAT system — such as custom page, which has post form, which when entered then goes to review to be a live post.

A bit complex — but again, not part of the theme.

If you have people login to your site to post, they are “running” the wp-admin script inside the wp-admin folder — that is WHERE the add-post.php script lives.

That might not have helped — or it might be food for thought. 🙂

Are you using a captcha plugin which is hidden?
“empty answer” implies a Q&A left blank.

If using a captcha of some kind, likely need to edit the post template to add the element so folks can actually answer, or turn that off.

Might not be your issue, but very common one.

Admin –
likely need to add this one to a FAQ/tutorial page too as it will keep coming up.

🙂

Maybe retry saving your permalinks…
check your htaccess file for any bizarre redirects.

Make sure you don’t have a funky /slug/ replacing /tags/ in the permalinks setup.

Check the default template for tags, and resave in theme panel.

Just ideas …

Your site error logs via your hosting panel might be good starting point.

Only reason wholesale settings would be lost if they were over-written by dbase changes, or if your host crashed dbases, didn’t tell you, and went back to their own backup (!). However, that isn’t very likely either. Obviously changing your passwords, etc., good idea, too.

You can find the bundled plugins in the Newspaper-tf/plugins/ folder. 🙂

Good idea to turn OFF automatic updates on WordPress.

Good idea to make regular backups so you can easily restore site if something odd happens.

Good idea to backup theme settings from the export option in theme panel.

If you’re using a caching service or plugin, you might try deactivating that in case the service you’re using crashed.

Not much help at this point, I know, but all of the above are good ideas.

Obviously nobody can help you put things back how they were, but disabling automatic updates, removing unused themes and plugins, check for issues with plugins before updating (like YOAST had major bugs with new 3.0 update), etc.

TagDiv will likely have some thoughts, but the theme cannot magically kill itself in the middle of the night — only a plugin, core update, cache/service change, host crash, or hack can do that.

WordPress supports just placing link to YouTube video into any post …

it’s a built in feature of WordPress and not theme related:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds

For example: 
Check out this cool video:

http://www .youtube .com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

That was a cool video.

WordPress will automatically turn the URL into a YouTube embed and provide a live preview in the visual editor. 

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