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BASIC SEO TIPS:

Note that Google rolled out new version of PANDA recently. They continue to refine placement, and are putting emphasis on mobile friendly, ORIGINAL CONTENT, “answers to questions,” https capability, pagespeed insights, sitemaps, and the usual stuff still relevant:
a) inbound links from organic sites, not paid text links or text ads, help placement
b) blocking bad links from “bad sites” such as low quality scrapers – you can disavow bad sites (we do this with sites like ‘searchnaked’ which had thousands of links to us)
c) proper schema markup
d) limit junk posts (e.g., youtube video and one sentence — is not original content)
e) limit content you “steal” from other sites then link to them as source — write your own version, get your own photo; that helps your ranking
f) site structure matters; good navigation, prioritize the POST over categories, tags, etc.
g) don’t sell text links, avoid popups, interstitials that block content loading for Google bot
h) READ the free Google guide to best practices for SEO
i) write original headlines – check your headline to see if it already exists; do something different!
j) posts should have at least 5 paragraphs so it looks like original post and not excerpt of another post
k) don’t use “next page” for home page; conflicts with your category indexes
l) update site regularly — updates every 6 weeks shows lack of new content
m) create your own images where possible, vs copying somebody else’s
n) learn to use your Google webmaster tools (now “console”) properly
o) don’t overload pages with too many ad modules from adsense, amazon, other ad system, etc. — too many ads pollutes your pages
p) use h tags for your relevant subheads in your posts, not just bold sub heads — couch your subheads as answers to questions people might ask “The right way to boil spaghetti” … etc.
q) make sure guest posts are not also being posted on other sites (!!)
r) share the heck out of your posts to social media, but use the social media worth sharing to and ignore the stuff nobody uses anymore (sorry, delicious, diigo, Technorati, etc.)
s) don’t use sock puppets for clicking your ads; paid likes on social media; or similar
t) answer comments on your posts to create dialog
u) make backups of your site often and carefully (!) — if your system crashes, and you’re off the web for prolonged period of time — very bad for SEO after xx days
v) do you have a backup plan if your host goes out of business, or GoDaddy DNS crashes again and your site is down?
w) consider spending a small amount on Google ads to promote your best posts or site on the topic you most want to be found under, like “horse breeding” or whatever
x) make sure your site is verified with all the top search engines
y) ignore stupid things like so called “ranking sites” like Alexa which are completely wrong on traffic, including their inability to track shortcode use
z) check your site regularly to ensure it’s secure ! Make sure you have security plan. Make sure you have privacy policy on your site.

Share and enjoy! 🙂

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TIP: To optimize the image thumbnail sizes you need and skip generation of sizes you won’t be using, do this

a) audit the modules you are actually using, make a list, and the sizes used by those modules (theme docs shows the modules and the sizes)
b) set those as ‘on’ in the theme panel; turn others off [using the toggle switches]
c) in the WP admin/ media, set the three default sizes to the ones you use most often which are smaller than what you normally upload (small/medium/large)
d) in some theme versions, no “right size” thumb was being added for the “related posts” area below posts, and I posted somewhere here how to add that “size” to the main theme functions file inside of the /theme/includes/ folder.
e) use the “regenerate thumbnails” plugin to regen thumbs, and from now on with new posts you should have fewer thumbs made, based on the sizes you actually use on layouts.

Useful to be consistent with category, tag, author, search, archive templates to use same layout/size for better optimization and caching.

Hope that helps 🙂

TIP: To optimize the image thumbnail sizes you need and skip generation of sizes you won’t be using, do this

a) audit the modules you are actually using, make a list, and the sizes used by those modules (theme docs shows the modules and the sizes)
b) set those as ‘on’ in the theme panel; turn others off [using the toggle switches]
c) in the WP admin/ media, set the three default sizes to the ones you use most often which are smaller than what you normally upload (small/medium/large)
d) in some theme versions, no “right size” thumb was being added for the “related posts” area below posts, and I posted somewhere here how to add that “size” to the main theme functions file inside of the /theme/includes/ folder.
e) use the “regenerate thumbnails” plugin to regen thumbs, and from now on with new posts you should have fewer thumbs made, based on the sizes you actually use on layouts.

Useful to be consistent with category, tag, author, search, archive templates to use same layout/size for better optimization and caching.

Hope that helps 🙂

Simply add the code to the header template found in /wp-content/themes/Newsmag/

You can also use a plugin, as there are several available for free in the wordpress.org repository for the vast number of folks in Europe this impacts.

A couple have also been already recommended in the forum, so doing search might help with that, perhaps not.

You need to make the changes to any files you have modified… Yes. You dont have to redo most settings in theme panel like custom css. You might have to refresh menus and widgets, as with all theme updates.

V6 is entirely new theme, be sure to follow uograde instructions from the docs .. See links right side of page.

I think you are delusional,
First, how can you make money on links to social media,
Second, tagdiv has never inserted paid links in any theme.

Perhaps you can show example of this crazy concept…
You may have an infected computer injecting prospetent into your broswer via malware.

You should immediately download and run malwarebytes anti malware pro to disinfect your system, and perhaps setup a security strategy for your systems.

Check my sticky post top of the forum, too. Be sure to turn off all your caching stuff before using the regenerate thumbnails plugin. Also be sure the thumbs are turned on for the sizes you are using in the theme panel.

a) did you re-generate your thumbnails to fit this theme ? This is noted in the docs
b) did you clear all your caching/CDN reset to serve up all the new content

try those and you should see huge improvement! 🙂

Also, check out my sticky topic on optimizations I’ve been using with the TagDiv themes the past 2 years, based on stuff I’ve been doing with WordPress since 2005.

Hope that helped vs annoyed 🙂

Roney
Your example doesnt match the one alin provided.

I have worked with numerous themes and foundries where major updates change core features. Even things like canvas, and others have had this same issue. And of course tagdiv is one of the few foundries that evolves theme based on cluent feature requests. So, if they add 10 features, obviously the core files have to change to support the new functionality. So, a trade off.

Simple to place in templates via shortcode and widgets in sidebar.

Did you try optimizing the site per my sticky post?

There isn’t much point. It’s generally a dumb idea. Main reason to use one is to make “alternate” versions of a theme based on the parent.

I don’t believe in them, and stopped using them years ago. But it’s a “standard” practice with WordPress.

For our network, we edit the main files and keep track of the files and the edits; then re-apply to major theme updates as needed.

Other downside to child theme is that it’s a CSS redirect.

Others will *strongly* disagree with me, but I personally don’t use child themes for exactly the issue you just ran into. 🙂

You will need to edit this section with the new code you wish to use …
http://screencast.com/t/yTLsitvpdaoU

if anybody else has done this, sharing a tutorial would be super cool!

As a general tip, it’s almost impossible to style the “pop over” search results for Google custom search (CSE). We’re using it on our main site (not running WP), and ended up just doing a basic search that feeds to Google’s server.

Google looks like they are finally updating the hideous old docs for GSE, but still a mess.

Upshot — it’s basically up to you to figure it out, hire somebody to do that, or hope some kind soul who has already done it might share.

You might search forum archive as it’s an old topic that has come up before.

Due to your caching plugins/CDN settings.

To clarify, two things at work with increasing memory limit on a hosting account

a) memory limit allocated to PHP on the server, set at server level such as php.ini — any hosting company that allows WordPress should allow up to 64MB for php — with a VPN or dedicated server you may need to make that setting yourself by changing the defaults to higher than (in some cases default as low as 16MB!)

b) WordPress limit — WP defaults to 40MB max, even if you change the default on server. So, the setting in wp-config.php will raise the default max RAM for WordPress. 40MB is too low to use Visual Composer and all the modern plugins. 64MB is better, 96MB advisable; higher depends on your hosting account/setup “allowance.” (e.g., if you have VPN or dedicated server, 256MB is advisable; very high traffic sites, perhaps more).

Not sure anybody “needed” to know that, but easy to get confused on these. 🙂

🙂
be sure to raise the default memory for WP in your wp-functions.php file if you had not already done so. Default is 40MB, and should be at least 96MB (I do 256MB).

That’s how WordPress works — theme doesn’t manage main part of WP.
If you google this, you’ll see it’s a common issue.

No reason for anybody to go to that URL.

It may pop up temporarily in your webmaster google account, but you can ignore it; will happen when switching/updating themes.

That’s not a public location so it’s not supposed to show anything.

I would be more worried about things like this where you have an open directory… I can see this folder on the web
http://kecodoc.com/wp-admin/css/

interesting discussion — simple to google this topic

http://haydenjames.io/mysql-query-cache-size-performance/

try category names without high ascii characters — just normal “plain” letters … might work.

Also, category pages live inside of a sub-directory, like

/category/catname

and not

site/catname

this is how WordPress defaults and you would need to hack WP to change that — not part of the theme.

recheck your permalink structure; turn off anything in YOAST SEO or other plugin which tries to “hide” the category sub folder – obviously doesn’t work 🙂

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Did you try to disable the cache ?

Try putting your CSS at bottom of the style.css so it loads AFTER and replaces the default CSS, but inline with the CSS loading. At least that is what I do.

And be sure to clear all your caching once you make this change including browser cache (which you have to do manually in Chrome to ‘really’ clear it).

Note that Google rolled out new version of PANDA recently. They continue to refine placement, and are putting emphasis on mobile friendly, ORIGINAL CONTENT, “answers to questions,” https capability, pagespeed insights, sitemaps, and the usual stuff still relevant:
a) inbound links from organic sites, not paid text links or text ads, help placement
b) blocking bad links from “bad sites” such as low quality scrapers – you can disavow bad sites (we do this with sites like ‘searchnaked’ which had thousands of links to us)
c) proper schema markup
d) limit junk posts (e.g., youtube video and one sentence — is not original content)
e) limit content you “steal” from other sites then link to them as source — write your own version, get your own photo; that helps your ranking
f) site structure matters; good navigation, prioritize the POST over categories, tags, etc.
g) don’t sell text links, avoid popups, interstitials that block content loading for Google bot
h) READ the free Google guide to best practices for SEO
i) write original headlines – check your headline to see if it already exists; do something different!
j) posts should have at least 5 paragraphs so it looks like original post and not excerpt of another post
k) don’t use “next page” for home page; conflicts with your category indexes
l) update site regularly — updates every 6 weeks shows lack of new content
m) create your own images where possible, vs copying somebody else’s
n) learn to use your Google webmaster tools (now “console”) properly
o) don’t overload pages with too many ad modules from adsense, amazon, other ad system, etc. — too many ads pollutes your pages
p) use h tags for your relevant subheads in your posts, not just bold sub heads — couch your subheads as answers to questions people might ask “The right way to boil spaghetti” … etc.
q) make sure guest posts are not also being posted on other sites (!!)
r) share the heck out of your posts to social media, but use the social media worth sharing to and ignore the stuff nobody uses anymore (sorry, delicious, diigo, Technorati, etc.)
s) don’t use sock puppets for clicking your ads; paid likes on social media; or similar
t) answer comments on your posts to create dialog
u) make backups of your site often and carefully (!) — if your system crashes, and you’re off the web for prolonged period of time — very bad for SEO after xx days
v) do you have a backup plan if your host goes out of business, or GoDaddy DNS crashes again and your site is down?
w) consider spending a small amount on Google ads to promote your best posts or site on the topic you most want to be found under, like “horse breeding” or whatever
x) make sure your site is verified with all the top search engines
y) ignore stupid things like so called “ranking sites” like Alexa which are completely wrong on traffic, including their inability to track shortcode use
z) check your site regularly to ensure it’s secure ! Make sure you have security plan. Make sure you have privacy policy on your site.

Share and enjoy! 🙂

Copr. © Christopher Simmons
NOT FOR REPUBLICATION!