Heh. If gtmetrix times out that is really bad, and might be first thing to check with your cdn. Try turning off all the plugins except vc, then solve that problem first. Turn off lazy load feature.

Go through my sticky post at top of forum, and be aware of stuff like upping default wp memory, expiration headers, default image optimization level, functions.php fixes, remove as much external stuff as possible like gravatars, limit ad spots, dont use google fonts, etc.

Heh. If gtmetrix times out that is really bad, and might be first thing to check with your cdn. Try turning off all the plugins except vc, then solve that problem first. Turn off lazy load feature.

Go through my sticky post at top of forum, and be aware of stuff like upping default wp memory, expiration headers, default image optimization level, functions.php fixes, remove as much external stuff as possible like gravatars, limit ad spots, dont use google fonts, etc.

Heh. If gtmetrix times out that is really bad, and might be first thing to check with your cdn. Try turning off all the plugins except vc, then solve that problem first. Turn off lazy load feature.

Go through my sticky post at top of forum, and be aware of stuff like upping default wp memory, expiration headers, default image optimization level, functions.php fixes, remove as much external stuff as possible like gravatars, limit ad spots, dont use google fonts, etc.

Heh. If gtmetrix times out that is really bad, and might be first thing to check with your cdn. Try turning off all the plugins except vc, then solve that problem first. Turn off lazy load feature.

Go through my sticky post at top of forum, and be aware of stuff like upping default wp memory, expiration headers, default image optimization level, functions.php fixes, remove as much external stuff as possible like gravatars, limit ad spots, dont use google fonts, etc.

Heh. If gtmetrix times out that is really bad, and might be first thing to check with your cdn. Try turning off all the plugins except vc, then solve that problem first. Turn off lazy load feature.

Go through my sticky post at top of forum, and be aware of stuff like upping default wp memory, expiration headers, default image optimization level, functions.php fixes, remove as much external stuff as possible like gravatars, limit ad spots, dont use google fonts, etc.

Heh. If gtmetrix times out that is really bad, and might be first thing to check with your cdn. Try turning off all the plugins except vc, then solve that problem first. Turn off lazy load feature.

Go through my sticky post at top of forum, and be aware of stuff like upping default wp memory, expiration headers, default image optimization level, functions.php fixes, remove as much external stuff as possible like gravatars, limit ad spots, dont use google fonts, etc.

Ask host to allow fopen …

This can happen when you try to disable the master /category/ in the wordpress default file structure. If using the setting in yoast seo try disabling it.

I have been playing with how best to do this. The dot method not always work, nor does the top level plugin. I have been playing with the mod to the core wp files as best working waybto do that.

Might not be your issue, but theme doesnt control categories or permalinks.

Normally one sets a “widget area sidebar” for the right column, then manage “actual” widgets for the sidebar under WP admin > appearance > widgets … did you try that?

@nateb2127
thanks for the kind words.

I am working on a nice cheap ebook via Amazon which does step by step instructions for optimizing all kinds of things for WordPress, including security, that most folk don’t know how to do properly, and as simply as possible. So, hope to have that done by end of year. 🙂

My buddy is using this one:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/

Use Yoast SEO or similar to add pagination elements to your title and description tags, canonical page, etc.

With (3) – you can set up rules in Yoast SEO to add pagination to title and description.

Also normally you don’t have pagination for home page unless doing blog format; as those would be duplicate pages competing with your post “categories.”

With (1) – you obviously need to create the “sub categories” to “states” for them to appear on the category page for “States” — if that is a page and not a category, you would need to create child pages of the parent page category, and then tagdiv would likely need to tell you how to add that template piece to a page template.

Did you try the new update to iPhone today?
Might fix that issue. I don’t have that with my site.
Could be the page reloading via CDN and having slight delay if you’re using anything like that.

@doucare1971
Yup, well unless you charge for access, ads are one of the only forms of revenue for some folks, even if they continue to be “diminished” due to ad blockers. 30% of ad shows is still better than no ad shows. Aside from programmatic content (paid content), affiliate links, tip jars, and whatnot, ads are still one of the only ways to pay for revenue from websites in publishing. So, while they are not as useful, they cannot be dismissed as pointless unless you’re donating your time to run your website for free and don’t have the overhead of servers, software, theme, labor, plugins, extensions, etc.

Sadly people don’t want to pay for content, don’t want to see ads, and then insult people when they make the content in the comments. Hilarious. I guess the folks who live with their parents and want their student loan dismissed really shouldn’t be anyone’s target audience, but sadly the millennials are taking over 🙂

(I am kind of kidding a little there … )

So, the functions.php method accepted as normal practice doesn’t work ?

And for those curious, good ol’ Newspaper 4.5 works with WP 4.3 🙂

Go to your downloads page on ThemeForest where it has the latest version to download.

Newspaper 4.5 works with WP 4.3 just fine, too. Yay!

For those curious, YES, I was able to update my funky “NewsMag v 1.7.1 + shim” setup to 4.3 without any trouble.

Are you using Safari on Windows? That is deprecated and not supported for 2+ years when Apple abandoned it. It only works with Mac OS and iOS. In case that matters to you.

If you’re using Safari on Mac, try clearing your cache completely as moving from one theme to another it may cache the CSS from the other version.

You can also view source in Safari to see WHAT is printing on the page for the HTML, to see if the image is there, malformed, or if you have some caching plugin, or CDN, linking to image not actually there. e.g., is the image link actually there in Safari?

Are you saying it doesn’t appear on Safari desktop, or does not appear on Safari iOS, or both?

Looks like you’re using some oddball right-mouse-click disable function, which serves no purpose since anybody can capture the HTML, all images, etc., easily enough. But disabling things with some kind of java layer or similar might cause issues with Safari.

This doesn’t really help you
<!– WP Content Copy Protection script by Rynaldo Stoltz Starts – http://yooplugins .com/ –>

I just copied all your content. So, that doesn’t work.

You might try disabling the lazy load image function, also.

Just some ideas (I don’t work here) 🙂

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You can check who/what/where your site is linking to by using tools like pingdom, chrome browser console (F12), etc.

You can typically remove link to gravatar — which is a function of wordpress, not the theme (easy to google this topic, btw), by simply disabling the gravatars in your WP theme panel. https://codex.wordpress.org/How_to_Use_Gravatars_in_WordPress

1.Log in as an administrator to your site
2. Navigate to Settings > Discussion and scroll down to the “Avatar” Section
3.The “Avatar” section presents you with several options: ◾Avatar Display: Toggle Gravatars on and off for your site.

I don’t think responsive design works that way in most cases meaning

if you have

[x][x][x]

then at smaller sizes you would see either

[x][x]
[x]

or more typically

[x]
[x]
[x]

so this is why one more often sees

[x][x][x][x]

which goes down to

[x][x]
[x][x]

and then

[x]
[x]
[x]
[x]

But wait for feedback from tagdiv to see if the old grid support that or not.

That’s a bit high… but yes, you found the article I was thinking of, more related to Google News.

Note that if you have stuff in your sitemap with redundant title and description tags, they will skip those. That is a big one to look out for.

What you can do is randomly check some of your posts to see if indexed in Google and if you find something missing carefully look at it to see why.

Oh …!
yes, there is a really good event plugin … kind of the WooCeommerce of event plugins and it escapes me at the moment …

this is literally re event “calendars”
http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/best-wordpress-event-and-calendars-plugins-reviewed/

but I think you want a custom post type like an “event post”
a friend is using this one I think
https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/

or he has one from WPMU where he has the “all you can eat” membership plan for their stuff.

Not sure any of that helps.