@meremetia
we’re using the theme across multiple news portals without those features which are very minor elements of the theme, frankly. However, the suggestion was there to help debug WHAT was causing CPU usage for that person — and what might have been causing that many versions back in June, vs October are two completely different animals. v6 of the theme is very different from v4, and also VC has been updated and tweaked quite a bit since then.

In your case – were you just commenting, or did you yourself actually have a CPU issue — you didn’t specify if the problem impacts you, or you were just editorializing.

Both Google+ and Google News both have issues with image and meta capture at times; in my own experience most often this has been with mega-menu active and “front loading” photos in front of the image in the actual post, even though the OG tag is properly specified, and even alt image tag separate from OG tag. Just seems to happen at odd times, then works fine next day.

Try the theme docs.
Create a new blank “page” which will be your future home page; then you use Visual Composer to create “rows” and “columns” in rows.

See:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-use-visual-composer/

Hey, no prob. Been there 😉

I’ve gotten lots of help in some forums over the years, so paying it forward, as they say.

Hi, not my theme – I don’t work here; just been using TagDiv themes for 2 years now! 🙂

DOCUMENTATION / TUTORIALS:
SEE the theme docs (see links, right side of page), which are super useful and include many step by step tutorials. You might explore those as they do include most how-to stuff for starting out 🙂

Also plenty of videos on YouTube…
https://www.youtube.com/user/tagdiv

You mean like these?

https://www.youtube.com/user/tagdiv

You might share screen shot of your ad panel, showing the setup for your article ads.

Also make sure you clear your site cache, any CDN caching you’re using, etc. — otherwise changes not seen.

You can control the excerpt for both modules and RSS from the aptly named ‘excerpt’ field at bottom of each post you do.

If you don’t want to do that you could use Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), create custom data field for RSS; then build a custom RSS feed based on “page” (Google how to build custom RSS for WP); then insert that ACF field in the description tag in your custom RSS.

Probably simpler to manually edit your excerpt field for each post — which is what I do when I have in-post sub-head or some kind of intro text which is not what I want showing in social media, modules and RSS. The excerpt field in WP posts is what populates the description field in your META data, RSS, etc.

Hope that helped!

Chris

make sure you delete the old js-composer folder in the plugins folder, and install the NEW version that comes with WP6/6.5. Hope that helps.

Be sure to clear all caching in both website, if used, and your web browser.

In our case, these also helped a lot:
a) limit login attempts plugin, help stop ping bots from hackers
b) turn off XMLRPC entirely

In our case these also helped
a) limit login attempts plugin, help stop ping bots from hackers
b) turn off XMLRPC entirely

TagdiV back on Monday.

On our site we actually turned off Visual Composer and using the beta ‘shim’ for homepage, and added function in functions.php to disable loading visual composer on post pages.

VC is a memory hog. On our server we were getting spikes going from .70 to 70 (!) — with quad Xeons 32GB RAM and gigabit switch.

You can also try some simple optimizations:
a) turn off the “related” posts “more by author” bottom of post pages (I am using separate smaller footprint text based related posts plugin where I can set length of time to query vs “everything forever”)
b) limit number of queries on home page – try to have no more than 10 blocks
c) try not using megamenu
d) try not using the flyout “you might like …”
e) on sidebars try using only one module type; try using module with text only vs thumbs.

All those things cut waaaaaaay back on queries.

Ha! Well, if I’m crazy, you might be too 😉

TagdiV back on Monday.

On our site we actually turned off Visual Composer and using the beta ‘shim’ for homepage, and added function in functions.php to disable loading visual composer on post pages.

VC is a memory hog. On our server we were getting spikes going from .70 to 70 (!) — with quad Xeons 32GB RAM and gigabit switch.

You can also try some simple optimizations:
a) turn off the “related” posts “more by author” bottom of post pages
b) limit number of queries on home page – try to have no more than 10 blocks
c) try not using megamenu
d) try not using the flyout “you might like …”
e) on sidebars try using only one module type; try using module with text only vs thumbs.

All those things cut waaaaaaay back on queries.

Are you sure it was not sent; or simply not received? Two different things.

With some WP setups you will need to use an SMTP email plugin to send email as a “user” vs “from php” via the default WP setup. Otherwise many receiving email systems, including @gmail will tag it as suspect spam. I had to do this for our new ecom/woocommerce setup last month.

Just as general note Google doesn’t “require” anyone to put the word “advertisement” before their ads, or they would be doing that themselves. We do add that on the sidebar ads on our site, but not the full width header ads since it’s self-evident it’s an ad.

However they do NOT allow text like “sponsors” or “sponsored by” or “click ad to support us” or stuff like that.

Andrei
the above examples you provided would be super cool to add to the theme docs for the ad modules since it comes up so often.

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You can simply go to ads panel and delete the text you put into the posts ad box; then save; you can also switch them to “off.” If using the demo, you need to do the same as part of removing all the demo content.

See the docs for how the ad system works 🙂

Hope that helped!

Hi, this may not help but:
Did you try the Newspaper theme panel where you can turn things on/off, set template style, etc. ?

Since ‘blogs’ is a ‘category’ — you can change options for that ‘category’ from the theme panel. There is no single file for that index as it’s dynamically generated from WP based on the category template, as set for the specific style chosen from theme panel.

To build a custom template, you would need to clone the default category template(s) then per WP customization procedures, create custom template for that ‘category’ by name or ID to over-ride default template(s).

Much easier to initially setup changes for the basic layout stuff from theme panel as starting point.

Sorry if that didn’t help. Just popped in for something else to check on so thought I share that.

Hmm. Does seem to be public, but must be logged in to respond. Weird.

Maybe they are changing things. Maybe error.

Google will pull the breadcrumbs if they deem them more useful than showing the URL in SERPS — they determine this based on algorithm system which looks at site structure. “How” Google shows your results in SERPS has no bearing on SEO — the breadcrumbs are actually good for SEO as they show semantic path to content and relation, such as /news/newspost vs /company/aboutus — etc. In SERPS these can actually be useful if they are linkable as it allows somebody to go “right to” a breadcrumb like /company/ index or /news/ index from the single SERP entry without having to go to page then “back up” to the higher level index.

Hope that made some kind of sense 🙂

We’ve been using breadcrumbs on our main business site for 15 years (!) and this has been very good for SEO in our case.

When you place images in your posts you need to make sure you use https on all image links, if your website is https everywhere.

It’s also a very good idea to set your URL explicitly to https in the wp-config.php file as this tells WP that everything it does based on URL should be https.

Any content on your site prior to switch to https does not automatically change; you would need to do dbase search via phpmyadmin or similar to update any placed images in posts (post-meta) to be https vs http.

If that is not your issue, you might need to be more specific and provide link to page where the issue is happening.

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theme works fine with mod_pagespeed …

you just need to setup a proper config file either at server level with dedicated box, or by manually specifying in htaccess file what to turn on explicitly — for example I found that CSS and JS minification does not work well — so it’s a “tuning” process for what is compatible with WordPress and what is not, a bit by trial and error, and also see my posts on this topic the past 18 months in forum as I have used it on our server since Jan. 2014 with TagDiv themes.

e.g.,

<IfModule pagespeed_module>
ModPagespeed on
ModPagespeedEnableFilters collapse_whitespace
ModPagespeedEnableFilters remove_comments
ModPagespeedEnableFilters rewrite_images
ModPagespeedEnableFilters insert_dns_prefetch
</IfModule>

see the docs for mod_pagespeed on which settings you may wish to activate other than the default “safe” batch of MPS settings.

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Hm. Weird. You should be able to go to your post template and choose a different custom sidebar.

Might be plugin conflict, or … Dunno.

I use the thumbnail upscale plugin.

Wait for tagdiv support …

typically if something “randomly” stops working, it’s not a theme issue as the theme doesn’t auto-magically change stuff — so, that usually means the code you’re using from Twitter is timing out, or unable to connect, or some other error.

Put another way – if there is no error on the page without the code, but adding the code causes error, generally means error with code, or conflict with some java or CSS being loaded by the code.

I’m sure you already know that — just commenting.

But if you posted link to example, I’m sure tagdiv folk will take a peek come Monday if you don’t solve by then. 🙂

Sorry no super duper awesome answer for this one!