It’s very simple to use, but actually reading the docs, and then either importing pre-defined layouts, or custom building your home page by creating “rows” and then setting the content you want into those rows. Nobody can magically do that for you as there is no way for a theme to know what content you want where, pick your categories magically or similar.

If you can’t follow the theme docs (link right side of page); you can usually see the help info on Envato re getting a refund and then never using the theme without license.

I don’t work here, just been using the theme for almost 2 years now, so works great for us and thousands of others.

You might look through the theme docs before doing anything else. 🙂

I had that happen couple of times from copy/pasting from MS Word, from something I’d pasted from a website … somehow some bizarre encoded character or space got munched and then when I pasted into the “visual editor” that encoding stuck, and broke our RSS feed same way. Anyway— the feed validator great resource for that kind of bizarre gremlin 🙂

I believe you need to put the full URL to your twitter account into the user (author) panel, not just the @account.

If you’re doing that, sorry for the comment 🙂

The plugin is only intended for use with the TagDiv theme. You could likely find a similar plugin if using a different WP theme. Or, you’d have to find all the CSS and functions used by the plugin, and port to the other theme; which is fairly involved and you likely would not know how to do that if asking here.

Try turning OFF the lazy load option in theme panel.

I usually check my feeds here:
http://feedvalidator.org/

https://validator.w3.org/feed/

try retyping the characters indicated in case they have some bizarre encoding embedded into the doc — edit using the text editor, not visual editor for that posts.

Well obviously you have something mis-set as there should be http:// at front of all of those. SO, you should turn off all plugins except VC, and then double check anything in your settings where you have the URL input.

Maybe it defaults to one. Heck, I was guessing 😉

I think were using a plugin, something like simple local avatars, .. I thought i put that in my optimization sticky topic… On my ipad… Not great with this funky beta secure browser im testing… Makes ipad trick site into thinking on deskyop ?

Well “page loading time” is only one element of optimization; there is also Google’s PageSpeed which can impact ranking for mobile users and how well your site will be shown in SERPS. That is one of the main reasons to “optimize” a site — “speed loading” is one aspect while “speed rating” is another. So, obviously WP Rocket and Cloudflare help by re-writing pages for clients, but not everybody wants to pay for those services.

For example my business site has a UX score of 100/100. Desktop 97/100. Mobile 96/100. Avg. page load 1.2 sec with https and no CDN or caching plugin on top. That matters. While various solutions exist, DIY, outsource, or paid service to rewrite pages dynamically — one needs to do something.

So, obviously folks need to research what fits their needs the best.

All great info in the thread as I’m sure the newbies will find it of interest. 🙂

WordPress basics:
a) in wordpress settings panel > discussion, ‘use gravatars’ needs to be “on” — with no gravatar associated with user email, default image will be used (see your WP settings for options such as head, monster, etc.)
b) each user needs to have a photo setup on gravatar website, and that is pulled based on email account associated with that account (this is how WP works)
c) optionally you can use a plugin where you upload local images and assign those to each user

WordPress docs also useful:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Discussion_Screen

https://codex.wordpress.org/How_to_Use_Gravatars_in_WordPress

If you add a retina logo, that is likely the purpose of #3.

Good deal.
And for those who do want to DIY, my very explicit sticky topic at top of the forum, has the basic info everybody should be doing to get their baseline score to 80+ as starting point.

True, but it’s still good to learn how the functions.php file, .htaccess, and wp-config.php files work, as those are necessary for customizing any WP theme/install — and for things like WooCommerce where to make ANY customizations those have to be done in the functions.php file, not editing templates. Still, totally understand some folks don’t want to “touch stuff” and would rather pay others to do it. That’s why I am still in business doing tech work for clients and design/branding after 32 years 😉

I mostly added that comment for folks who might follow your thread and then think they need to hire somebody to do 90% of the legwork, which can be done in 10 minutes by editing 3 files. The trickier bits of massaging caching, mod_pagespeed, etc., is worth paying for if somebody else is truly experienced at it and not being paid to “learn by doing” on your behalf.

So, all good. Lots of options for folks to DIY or hire out.

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Not built in, but you could certainly modify the header file to embed something like that.
If it’s not found in the demo on themeforest, then it’s likely it’s not part of theme 😉

Also see the docs, right side of page under “ad modules” 🙂

screenshot broken when I try to look at it.

Check your theme settings in the WordPress “settings” panel to make sure you have the correct domain name set.

If you’re using YOAST, check the settings to make sure you don’t have the wrong setting for “prefer www” or similar.

If using external element like Jetpack, make sure you didn’t register the site as www/.

If you view the WordPress.org codex (docs) for the wp-config.php file, you can also set the “explicit” domain for your site in that which will tell WP it’s always “this way” (e.g., without www).

If you are entering info in widgets like RSS feed, make sure you put in the correct domain URL.

If you are using a CDN, make sure you have the right domain setting there.

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• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

The theme uses gravatars by default unless you’re using an author photo plugin.

You can update WP first — I’m still using Newspaper 3x on a site, and works fine with new WP.

You will need to redo some things after update as some modules for home page changed, and WP has bad habit of “deactivating” widgets for sidebars or moving them to wrong thing, which means some “clean up” and dragging stuff from the inactive blocks back to active sidebars. You will likely need to regenerate thumbnails.

Most of the transient and dbase stuff, like “colors” should remain; menus might need to be resaved if using mega menus. Might have to reselect which menu goes to what element, but menus would still be there.

Not too awful 🙂

Don’t change compression in the functions.php file; don’t use external optimization systems like Jetpack or paid services which alter the images. The default compression for images in WP is 90%. It only changes if you use some application or other setting which might change that.

Best way to keep images sharp on retina, as we do with the Newsmag theme for our sites (I use my iPad AIR and iPhone 6 to check everything we do), is to upload images “at size” for the layout template you’re actually using. On Newsmag, for example, we do all our images as 640xXX fully optimized in Photoshop, and then those scale perfectly as if I enlarge something (rarely) it gets a little softer; they scale down perfectly for retina as they become more “dense” when seen at 1/2 size so effectively have twice the density, which works perfectly for retina.

For retina/4K desktops, that is a whole different story.

You need one license per website you use the theme on, per the license which you can find on ThemeForest with your purchase info.

And of course you could have done a lot of it yourself for free following my helpful optimization guide 😉

btw, you can turn “off” plugins you’re not using until you need them, like regenerate thumbnails. If you’re using the optimization code in the functions.php file you might not need the EWWW plugin. You may not need retina 2x if you start with 640xXX images to begin with, since on mobile they are reduced, but denser, and so make “new version for retina” redundant. If you can live with built-in author box, consider not using the author box pro plugin and modify the file for built-in function.

You can streamline a bit more, probably. But good choices on the line-up 😉

I would have offered to help; but I charge minimum $500 for stuff, so figured you likely would not be interested — and I try not to “take jobs” from forums where I post stuff as it seems somehow crass or predatory. For whatever that’s worth. 🙂

I have some tips about this in my optimization guide …

but basically you would need to do search/replace in the main style.css file, then edit the /includes/ big function file to remove the lines related to google fonts, but also make sure none are selected in your theme panel (basically set everything to ‘default’).

That is the broad strokes.

a) change style.css to not use the fonts
b) remove use of the fonts loading in the page from Google in the functions file where that is added to page html

Note that some of the stuff in my functions.php list may not apply to you, for example if not using YOAST SEO plugin, you’d not need the code there. If you’re using Visual Composer for anything other than home page, you would likely not use the visual composer stuff at bottom.

Basic issues with editing functions.php are
a) edit with a true text editor, like textpad, BBEdit, or other programmer tool, *NOT* a word processor; and make sure if using Unix, you save with unix line breaks; with Windows server, you may need to save with Windows line breaks

b) make sure you don’t break end of the file — meaning, some functions.php files have a closing ?> bracket, some don’t — obviously you should put code INSIDE the closing php bracket if there is one, but *NOT* inside another query bracket — so good to make sure you’re putting it in the right place at the end of the file, but not outside a closing bracket for the file, but not inside closing bracket for another function.

c) make sure you don’t have a “service” which is trying to do the exact same things, through a dynamic re-write — meaning, if you have some kind of aggressive service re-writing your pages to remove the version numbers on end of files, my list might conflict.

My lineup of optimizations work perfectly with mod_pagespeed (e.g., comment removal and indent removal, etc.), Apache/Linux servers, current version of WP, tagdiv booster framework, YOAST SEO, and mod_SPDY.

Like anything — always keep backup, and revert back if any change to ANYTHING you do does not work as expected.

And use common sense — if you have “allow pingbacks” turned *on* in your WP admin panel — you shouldn’t use my function to turn that off on the backend 🙂