No difference for SEO, technically; benefit of category is that page will auto-populate with stories. With “page” you have to do it manually unless you make custom page.

In some cases page might be very slightly better for seo, if you are not removing the /category/ slug from your links.

E.g.,

yoursite.vvv/bunny-food

might be better in some ways to

yoursite.vvv/category/bunny-food

but Google smart enough to “ignore” the /category/ directory — which is why you often see that as /…/ in SERPS.

You should also be saving the contents of your custom CSS box into separate text file as backup.

Did you also update the theme plugins as well ?

Likely need to add that custom field to the templates where you want it to appear, as the theme uses the default WordPress author field.

Be sure to also update the plugins as well in addition to theme.

Depends on how you moved the setup from your PC work system to the hosting system. Did you export your settings from the local version and import them on the host. Did you use a tool like Duplicator which does full size/system move. Did you properly move your dbase from local and import it via PHP on your host.

You might need to be more specific !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TagDiv support back on Monday for official help. The rest of us would need more specific info to provide any help as users.

Generally a license should be tied to one “domain folder” which in your case is the root domain — so I think you are fine.

If you were setting up client sites in different sub-directores like client1.mysite.zzz then you WOULD need additional licenses.

“Technically” the license refers to ONE “install” — (see the license on Themeforest included with your purchase, btw — good idea to look at THAT) — but almost everybody considers it fair use to install on one website.

For example on our main company site, we use static pages (not WP) with our service info; we have custom CMS for our news system in one sub-folder; we have blog running with TagDiv theme in another folder. I would not personally pay for another license to also use the same theme on same site but to setup my ecom system in another folder on the same domain for same site. Theme still being used for ONE website, just due to the site structure I can’t use theme for everything as site predates WP existing by 6 years.

So, point being — generally I don’t think you would have problem creating alt version of the site in sub-folders as long as it’s the same content.

If you were creating completely DIFFERENT websites with different content, different images, etc., then that probably WOULD need a new license.

I don’t work here — just feedback while I’m on my first cup of coffee 🙂

(admin … seems like the “how to fix image sizes” tutorial is hard to find on the Newspaper docs or didn’t survive latest round of updates to docs …. )

Did you regenerate your thumbnails ?

Used to be an item in the docs about that but I don’t see it.

Basically you need the thumbnails generated on older images to fit those box sizes; where new thumbs are sized and cropped to fit those dimensions.

I use the “regenerate thumbnails” plugin; but some people have odd or different server setups from mine (Apache/Linux/Plesk); those folks have ended up having to use one called “force regenerate plugins”.

Also note that WP cannot enlarge images to fit any size, so in those cases you would want to added the “thumbnail upscale” plugin.

All of those are free in the WordPress.org repository.

this is probably a total guess on my part,
I have a hunch that is intended to test whether the data “channels” such as to/from social media, perhaps even Jetpack, actually are functional via some kind of API ping.

I could be wrongo-reindeer on that as one of my employees used to say. 🙂

You might want to just save some money and read the book YOAST put out on SEO, vs getting scammed by somebody for something you can easily do yourself.

Categories are top level topics under which you will publish content —

Tags are relevant elements unique to posts —

You would not use both for the same SEO purpose and the content itself under each category, the post itself, is what is most critical for SEO ranking.

Meaning, a great category name won’t appear at top of search results if you don’t have great ORIGINAL content underneath each category.

I’ve been doing SEO for 20 years now, so this is just some friendly feedback. 🙂
(I am not available for hire, at this time, unfortunately.)

You can update the social counter from the file included with your theme download, in the plugins folder. Always best to do those manually via FTP.

Similarly always best to update theme via FTP as sometimes auto-update tools can timeout leaving elements incomplete.

Sometimes just resaving your menus, resaving your main widget on sidebar helps to reset stuff if your WP install got confused with transient settings.

Okay. When I was using Cloudfront I had to set CORS rules on the bucket, if memory serves. It’s been over a year since I messed with that, sorry.

If your buckets are not via S3 .. not sure how that works.

In our case :: The solution is to get CORS working with Amazon S3, then to get Cloudfront to forward the appropriate headers.

Old article if the docs did not help from Amazon….
http://www.holovaty.com/writing/cors-ie-cloudfront/

SORRY … I have not used Amazon hosting, so not sure how that works vs S3+cloudfront.

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One old method was to put a period in the permalinks page for the category name; does not seem to work anymore.

The Yoast SEO option seems to work, as do some of the plugins, but some folks report it only works if you have your permalinks set as post name plus something else like -storyID or .html or similar.

Some folks it only works if WP in a sub-directory vs root.

Seems to vary quite a bit.

I just went through this last weekend for a new install while also moving the wp-content directory to assets, and couple of other hacks.

On the other hand — if the YOAST method works with the default WP theme, but does NOT work with the Newspaper theme, then that WOULD be a minor bug.

Doing the ‘force rewrite’ option in YOAST might also be worth a try.

Unfortunately any method of hiding the /category/ slug is problematic and may or may not work. One of my sites it won’t work at all. Another one it does. On same server. Same theme. Can’t sort out why.

(I don’t work here; just some feedback.)

Sorry thought you were using Amazon cloud for hosting the content. My mistake 🙂

Likely they are minifying a js file somewhere and breaking that.
But that is just a total guess.

There is also a CORS setting you can add with Amazon CDN if memory serves.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/cors.html

Been using it for 2 years now with Newspaper.
Try disabling other plugins, except for visual composer.
Might be issue with the speedbooster, or your caching is not cleared.

Remember whenever you change anything related to permalinks/URLs, you need to fully clear/reset all caching, CDN copies, etc., so that the “new” locations are seen properly.

Probably good to check your plugin being used to built your sitemap. We use the YOAST SEO plugin around here as best all around solution, but the plugin you happen to be using likely has support options in the WP theme repository.

(I don’t work for TagDiv, just some feedback.)

Hi …
fyi, G+ having all sorts of sharing issues unrelated to any specific theme, website, or content.

I have noticed this month issues in sharing from Google Alerts, sharing directly from both WP and non-WP sites, — and from about a dozen very high-profile top 1000 web properties websites, where in some cases only a photo is captured and NO text data — and this is on both WP and non-WP sites.

For example today, sharing a story on our main site from Google alert would only grab photo; however sharing it from Google News captured photo and the headline, date, etc. (but not first paragraph).

I have seen almost *no* website able to populate the pargraph/excerpt box lately, so there is some fundamental issue with Google that is not theme or site or content specific.

Even the example I’d posited in this thread initially — using Canvas on one of our legacy sites (moving to Newsmag for 2016!) — also right will only grab photo and no other data.

SO — upshot, not sure there is any inherent “fix” for this issue as it seems Google has some oddity in this with their system which comes, goes, or will never be fixed.

It’s one of those things I think folks need to not stress over too greatly, as Google doesn’t seem to know what to do with G+ at this point.

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The license is spelled out on ThemeForest where you purchased theme; but yes, you need (1) license per website you use the theme on.

Go to the static page for your home page and edit the special YOAST SEO settings there for the “main” home page site description, custom title, etc.

Did you try to regenerate all your thumbs for new sizes ?