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Christopher is a long time WordPress user. Anything else you need to know is private ;-) I *do not* work for TagDiv, but I've been using their themes since late 2013.
simchris
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WordPress cannot upsize images … we use a free plugin called “thumbnail upscale” — also listed on my “what I use” list on the sticky optimization topic, if you want to read through that. 🙂

simchris
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Wordpress.

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CHECK YOUR SITE AND SOLUTIONS ALSO:
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.eswinoujscie.pl/uIPSqVOR

simchris
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So, why not fix it?

Check the theme docs on how to speed up your site, and also my sticky post at top of the forum — it’s a process, but only you can optimize your site 🙂

e.g.,
theme docs/tutorials – make site faster
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/

my sticky bitz:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/

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simchris
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Most themes do that now for the “custom CSS panel” in the theme — if they wrote that to a file like in the old days, then every time theme was updated people would lose all their custom CSS; so having it in the panel with the dbase means it can be saved/exported with the theme options (typically).

I’ve gotten in habit of saving stuff into a work folder along with ftp backup; and name the files things like snip-customcss.txt snip-functionshax.php etc.

simchris
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I don’t think there is a custom CSS file — custom CSS added to the theme panel goes into a field in the dbase, I believe. Always good to backup your custom CSS to a text file from time to time, as I do.

If you mean the main style.css, that is of course in the main /theme/ folder. There are other CSS files also found in the /includes/ folder.

But wait for tagdiv support to possibly provide a better answer.

simchris
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This has been covered dozens of time — sorry, have to do forum search or wait for tagdiv to be back in the saddle 🙂

simchris
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There are some really detailed “how to move your wordpress site” tutorials online, which is way outside the scope of the theme, since it’s not theme specific.

FYI, I use “DUPLICATOR” plugin to seamlessly move from one location to another, including updating URLs such as change of domain name. Really works!

simchris
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You’ll need to hack a couple of files …. this was covered recently, so you likely need to do search in forum.

ADMIN: this would be a nice tutorial to add, since this comes up a bit since the built-in WP search kind of sucks (not theme fault, of course). Maybe a “customize search” page with info on removing search box from bar, removing the ajax preview, and using CSE — since those are very common questions for both themes.

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simchris
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I think it might be under ‘templates’ .. don’t remember 🙂

simchris
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🙂

simchris
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Try disabling the lazy load option as first step.

simchris
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You likely need to provide a bit more detail “having problem with a post” isn’t very specific ?

simchris
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WordPress can’t automatically generate thumb from external image or apply to featured slot.

We use the cheap plugin “auto post thumbnail PRO” found on Envato.

simchris
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Theme does not include any flash files.

Those are most likely from all the ad units you have loading on your page! Try turning some of them OFF to see which ones loading all the Flash content.

You have way too many ad systems running. That likely violates AdSense rules, but not sure. From quick scan looks like you have something like 10 different ad systems on the one page … page file is HUGE (6.7MB are you crazy?).

This page would be epic fail for mobile users.

simchris
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Funnily enough this came up here the other day as well. A plugin to do this kind of thing would be awesome from TagDiv, or a paid add-on option for the themes (hint!). I’d be willing to pay $25 for an “add-on” to the Newsmag theme for this, which is cheapo I know, but if you had a lot of folks buy it, well, it’s worth it. 🙂

Right now, it seems the best way to do this might be:

a) custom post template; edit one of the existing to add some “sponsored post” elements to page; change header link to header-sponsored.php
b) clone header.php and remove the default header ad box elements
c) create custom sidebar which doesn’t have default ad units
d) not sure how to set an expiration date; our local CMS (house built, not WP) has this function, I see couple of plugins for this out there, one which stopped working with latest WP update — but seems like there should be function for this (WP still evolving as proper CMS, which is why my system built in 2005, updated 2007, can do it, and WP still does not by default .. duh). Probably needs a cron job from server.
e) likely need a custom category which can be excluded from things like Google News sitemap, possibly main sitemap, but still feed into RSS streams
f) likely a custom “bug” added to end of the excerpt based on the custom category lookup to identify SPONSORED CONTENT clearly in excerpt

We’re looking to do something like this with possibly a 30,60,90 day expiration window for “sponsored content.”

Feedback from anybody who has actually implemented something like this would be major groovy bitchin’ kewl, as we say here in California 😉

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simchris
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Stop using the bad plugin 🙂

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If you have a bad plugin, you can often “reset” by renaming the /wp-content/plugins folder to something like xplugins temporarily.

simchris
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It also does not come up for me.

If it’s random, it might be a malformed ad unit which has incorrect dimensons (e.g., 3000×20 vs 300×200, or similar.

simchris
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They update the plugin with the theme update to ensure it’s compatible.

simchris
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Search is managed by wordpress not the theme. You might google how to improve search results.

simchris
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Rss feeds are built into wordpress, and automatically made by category, by simply tuping /feed/ at end of any topic, tag, etc.

So you could use text box to make links to selected rss feeds.

See the wordpress.org docs / codex for more info on how rss feeds work with wordpress.

simchris
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Seems to be working here — maybe clear your cache?

Which image(s) are only showing half, exactly?

If you have a black color applied to the menus area this will ‘cover’ any image at top of page (header).

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simchris
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You need to create a NEW user other than admin, make that the super user then delete the admin account.

How to use the wordpress “user” page (not part of the theme):
https://codex.wordpress.org/Users_Screen

simchris
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I think that comes from breadcrumbs.

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