Plugin updates come with theme updates to ensure new version is compatible.

Probably want to google this topic, as widely discussed online and not theme specific.

You may find this post useful!
https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-security-tips/

Check your site with Securi scanner;

make sure you delete old plugins which have not been updated since WP 4.2 for all the cross site scripting issues – and/or which are noted as insecure from the WordPress.org support pages for each plugin.

Change all your passwords.

Make sure you delete your admin account after making a new one which is NOT called “admin”.

Use things like “limit login attempts” to stop hacks.

Don’t allow people to create accounts on your site or upload files.

Make sure you use Akismet for comment spam.

Make sure you have clean backups of your dbase from the server.

Turn off all your plugins except VC and see if that issue remains!

OKay, try making a new “page” with just the row causing problem. Save. Then temporarily make that the active home page. See if error still there.

If not, then it means something ELSE on your home page causing the trouble and you’ll need to debug that.

Often caching issue on hosting and or in browser

Turn off all plugins except VC, perhaps as another tactic. Use the console in Chrome to see if errors being generated. Look at the demo to see if same problem exists.

Wait for TagDiv back on Monday 🙂

@thexcoder
Well, it’s a complex theme with modules, images, inserts, etc., designed for a “grid” — you cannot simply change one area of grid without also changing everything else. In theory you could change the template to more “columns” of the grid for post area, but then you’d run into issues with some items using sidebar unless you planned that carefully and/or changed all the modules you want to use in sidebar; image would not “fill the space” nor would things at bottom of page like comments or related posts, etc.

If you are familiar with Bootstrap, Foundation, 960, or other grid systems, they all work in this way. If you want to make 7/10 into 8/10 then right side becomes more narrow, and some elements designed to fit 7/10 won’t fit in 8/10 and might even break it due to offsets, padding, etc. Look at the CSS to see how it works. If none of that makes sense then you would likely not be able to tackle this yourself.

You can use the “full width” post layout and customize that.

You can also look at the TagDiv “Newspaper 6” theme which has many of the same features as Newsmag, but WIDER layout for the post area.

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Use the custom CSS box, but remember to put the !important element at end of you style class over-ride.

Follow the docs (link right side of page to “documentation”) on how to “upgrade” from v4 to v6 — it’s not an update, it’s an all-new theme. So, you’ll have to do the conversion script once upgraded, and you’ll have to redo some stuff since a number of things changed … no need to make child theme unless you plan to hack the templates; and even then easier to hack the main theme files anyway.

You will need to refresh your sidebar widgets — this is issue with WP when upgrading themes/changing themes. You may need to change some home page things as some modules changed.

Try resaving your home page blocks; clear cache, etc.

For me personally I find NOT using a child theme with the more advanced products like this, seems to work better since it’s not a theme on top of a framework on top of WordPress. This means if there is major core change, the child changes too, which defeats purpose.

I tried duplicator after the WP > tools > export and then > import totally died on about post 3500 out of 10000. And with 32GB RAM on dedicated server, quad XEONs, etc. So realized that “tools export” security blanket was NOT really a true blanket but definitely a safety net — as in full of holes 🙂

And you can see me at the TagDiv comedy club this weekend!

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Great, now you need to look at that to see what is crashing php —

or per Lucian, send tagdiv the info at:

make a copy and send it via email at contact@tagdiv.com along with your admin and ftp credentials

The DUPLICATOR plugin is a much better way to clone/backup a site entirely, as it also grabs the actual dbase, all settings, images, meta data, etc. Seriously, this is the only thing I’ve used in 10 years other than server side, which does a true “full clone” of the site — I used it recently to clone a site and change the domain name; really worked. 🙂

Also note that cloning “settings” from one theme install to another theme install also has some minor issues as some “backup” settings for the theme panel are managed by WP and not the theme, so those may not be carried over if you clone “the settings” alone.

For a true ‘clone’ of a site in toto (not the band), use DUPLICATOR. 🙂

Man I need a vacation — I meant to say maybe it’s Jetpack?

Or maybe TagDiv *are* adding this to the “video template” and forgot about that ?

I will shut up now 🙂

I wonder if wpengine is adding those?

I didn’t think WordPress created automatic categories by “day” — only by “date” …

e.g.,

http://caucusevents.com/2015/08/06/

oh — I see you’re creating custom day directories in addition to the default WP ones:
http://caucusevents.com/thursday/

the posts are there, they are just “featured” at top of the template; they don’t get duplicated in BOTH the feature boxes at top AND in the list area below — it’s either or. So, you might try changing the template setting for that “category” to remove the top boxes/gric so they just line up as normal archive view.

So, put another way if you only have 5 posts in that category, they will populate the grid first, then item 6 would be under the grid, as you have with this
http://caucusevents.com/saturday/

If that’s not what you’re asking, sorry no help.

See the support info for your hosting account — there should be an error log for your site, which helps to determine WHY something crashed, etc. — useful if you have an “attack” from a specific IP, a plugin or process crashing site, etc.

Good idea to look at your error log, if not done so already.

You don’t lose the settings in the admin panel (and you can export those at any time for safe keeping). YOu might have to reset the sidebars sometimes but that’s an issue with WP, and not the theme.

a) disable option in Yoast SEO to remove /category/
b) try resaving your permalinks, make sure your htaccess file is writable
c) try putting in the implicit path to your website and theme folder in wp-config.php (see the codex docs on wordpress.org for how to do that; I think I also have example in my sticky post on site optimization)
d) remove any old themes and plugins you no longer use

Theme doesn’t control user levels; you need to use a plugin for that — this is a ‘user role’ function.

ref
https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

this plugin is fairly popular as just one example
https://wordpress.org/plugins/capability-manager-enhanced/

Typically you would edit the template you’re using for your posts, like template 4 or whatever. There are two templates in the theme root, one for the loop, one for the layout, for each template type. So, you can usually test this by opening one of them and putting some text like TEST TEXT HERE in a div, then look at that online to see where it shows up.

You may need to go in and resave your menu and possibly tweak it, as V6 is NEW theme from v4, and not an update.

Be sure to clear your caching first and any CDN reset — I had the broken search box thing where it either drops on to new line or doesn’t work, due to browser cache. Cleared both server cache and browser cache, then it worked. So be sure to do that FIRST.

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