Ah! This is where the Google Search Console really helps as it will show “last time indexed,” or ‘unable to index due to robots.txt” and the like.

Changing servers, and DNS, can also temporarily impact this too.

But glad you figured that “hide from search engines” thing (!!) — that would surely impact anything! 🙂

@Gee95
check your search console on Google to see what errors if any your post might be causing them to not index, like “error on page,” or “content too short,” or whatever. They will not index some things like might skip a post with a link to YouTube video and nothing else, or a page with 8 adverts and one paragraph of text, etc.

Check your sitemaps from time to time to MAKE SURE THEY WORK. We’ve had issues with stupid YOAST SEO bugs from time to time breaking the sitemap function (seriously).

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I suppose as long as you’re not having your site appear in Google News, Bing news, etc., and you don’t mind throwing some portions of the time-space continuum out of whack …

You would likely need to create a custom field, then in the template you’re using create conditional statement that if the field populated show it, and then in that template over-ride the meta data, and not print the normal date field from the theme/wordpress post date field. Of course if Google indexes it on the 20th, they will still assign that “date” to “when indexed” even if you put a date in the future, like 2017 accidentally.

Might be a better answer out there, but this is truly “not normal” practice for posts in any normal way for publishing, search engines, etc.

I think in this case you can disable the warning in speed booster to not disable anything. (Search forum for “how” to do that, or wait for tagdiv reply.)

Also that plugin is actually based on this discussiohn:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-description-strips-html-tags

or put another way, this addition to your functions.php file may still work (not tested with latest version of WP):

foreach ( array( 'pre_term_description' ) as $filter ) {
    remove_filter( $filter, 'wp_filter_kses' );
}
 
foreach ( array( 'term_description' ) as $filter ) {
    remove_filter( $filter, 'wp_kses_data' );
}

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That has nothing to do with the optimization thread — Visual Composer is not part of the theme optimization topic; so please start a new thread please.

You need to download them — they are not part of the theme.

You might want to visit the WordPress.org plugin repository if you’re new to WordPress.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/

Google has been making changes to their algorithm and rolled out latest changes recently; this is an ongoing process. Sometimes changing your page structure, layout, placement of links, etc. can cause a change in indexing. Obviously good to check your Google Search Console (previously Webmaster Tools) for any crawl errors, drop in inbound links, rise in 404 errors if you changed permalinks, etc.

Also if your mobile friendly status changed, or PageSpeed dropped considerably, that can also have an impact.

We’ve been going through the same issue with our California news portal (10+ years old).

This seems to really be impacting sites in Google News due to how they “feature” news items for 7 days, but then seem to “whack” the organic results for awhile, then they come back.

We’ve not been able to sort out WHY this happens — one of our sites took huge traffic hit (using Canvas theme); while another took a huge jump switching from Canvas to Newsmag.

Hi, Lucian
thanks. Luckily I don’t use any weird 5 year old plugins or anything bizarre 🙂

Will give it a go and report back in case others are “stuck in the past” like me.

Been too busy with the main business stuff to even go anywhere near the latest updates the past 6 weeks.

Nothing to do with theme; FB periodically has trouble capturing both images and the excerpt.

They added several months ago a new item to fix this where once you share something, click the “time ago” at top of the post box, then click right arrow at right of box and in the drop down to “refresh attachment” — this will recapture the text *and* image.

This issue is most common in the morning when their system is overloaded from so much sharing and their system capturing images and crunching them to their local data format.

Not much else you can do about it — FB doesn’t charge you to share stuff, for your FB page, etc., so about the only thing you are able to do is use their debug tool to ensure your OG and other tags are properly set.

Welcome to the Internet!!
(and hope you never have a self-driving car powered by FB!) 😉

You need to use a plugin like Yoast SEO to specify the OG tags for the image to be shared, which would normally be pulled from the “featured” image. Otherwise sites will “scrape” the first large image on page, and not the one you want.

This is the purpose of the meta tags for OG tags and the image tag in meta data.

Perhaps take a look at my sticky post top of the forum on how to optimize your site.

Also, test one of your POST pages, using GTMetrix.com as that will tell you explicitly what still needs to be fixed, such as image optimization, time to live (expiration headers), minify main CSS file, regen thunmbs to serve unscaled images, remove “?” variables, limit loading elements from external sites (e.g., gravatars), etc.

More info on the php4 widget constructor deprecation change in WP 4.3 if curious:

https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/07/02/deprecating-php4-style-constructors-in-wordpress-4-3/

https://gist.github.com/chriscct7/d7d077afb01011b1839d

more info on this if curious
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/07/02/deprecating-php4-style-constructors-in-wordpress-4-3/

https://gist.github.com/chriscct7/d7d077afb01011b1839d

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Q: will the new WP 4.3 update break older versions like NM 1.7 or Newspaper 4?

Was aware of the deprecated widget constructor issue which was outlined early July on the WordPress.org site, but since we have PHP5x, my understanding was that is generally not a huge issue ? Mostly issue for stuff written for PHP4.

Also just double checking since I have no need to go past NM 1.7 + Shim at the moment for most things. And still running NP4 couple places.

Might need to clear all your caching from old site; make sure you have everything installed properly. The theme is responsive and mobile friendly from the get-go. 🙂

You have a jquery error, so likely you have some plugin loading that twice when it is already being loaded by theme. Check your site in Chrome and press F12 to view error in console.

Try clearing your caches, CDN expirations, etc.

Use the “regenerate thumbnails” plugin to create thumbs to fit this theme’s layout/sizes.

I don’t think all the photos from the demo are included as they may be royalty images which require a license; not sure.

Some info on how to do clips/masks – just follow the examples to experiment:
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/masking/adobe/

You may have a setting to adjust the visibility in your programmer tool.

For example in TextPad or BBEdit, or Dreamweaver, (Etc. etc.) we don’t see those markups. Most text editors let you toggle visibility of line breaks, tabs, etc.

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Great.
So this would be a good time to re-evaluate your procedures for backups, checking your site for updates, only using “trusted” plugins, using tools like “limit login attempts” and changing passwords regularly.

You should still likely install FRESH copies of all plugins and wordpress to ensure nothing else hidden away that you missed.

Thats the one i use too ?

It may be temporary problem with download server being overloaded. Try again later. And yes, you can edit the demos once installed.

Generally you will want to make sure you do *NOT* included all content from demo as this will mess with your existing content. You’re basically just wanted to get the “layout style” and not all the dummy content unless you have a blank website.

see:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/installing-demos/

Probably best to use something like Advanced Custom Fields and make a custom field set where you can paste in the articles you want to link to manually, then put the shortcode for that at bottom of the post template(s) you’re using.

There might be a plugin for this, but I have not seen one.

Securi site scan:
https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/

Then your site likely got hacked due to a zero day flaw where somebody hacked the site before you had applied the security patches of the past couple of months for WordPress and various plugins; and/or your host didn’t properly secure their server.

Best bet is to
disable all advertising systems entirely …

a) reinstall all plugins – check all plugins on WordPress.org FIRST to see if they are updated in 2015 for security; if not then don’t use them; don’t use any plugins from free websites, abandoned plugins from Envato, etc. — YOU need to audit all your plugins one by one; perhaps use Securi to scan your site first!
b) reinstall WordPress; delete all themes not being used; all third party themes; start with twenty-eleven
c) douhle check your htaccess and wp-config files to see that nothing odd was added
d) ask your hosting provider to do a security scan of your site for virus/malware

perhaps do these first:
e) double check your comments for spam you have not deleted; consider turning off all comments if you are not using security checks for comment spam
f) do a search on your site for the term “Viagra” to see if content injections are being done into your posts — this is sure sign you have been hacked and/or have malware plugin

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We’ve ALL been there 🙂

What I do is load the CSS only for home page, then disable it on the post/pages so it doesn’t load at all.

You could likely hack the plugin to not load the CSS, then add the CSS to the main style.css, but not sure that would work.