IE11 has problems with ajax related stuff … I end up using Chrome.

The new browser in Windows10 will supposedly be more like Chrome and Firefox, Safari, etc. in working with modern “web standards.”

Story titles on home page should not be H1, but you can add a “box” with some info about your site with H1 tags, by simply creating a text block on top/bottom, or sidebar on your home page to have a paragraph or title about your site.

H1 tags for stories on home page serve no purpose as they are temporary as your news changes and are intended to be related to a “title” for the page (comparable to the title tag in your meta data), and not headlines from stories.

Similarly story titles in blocks don’t need to be any specific H1 for semantic purposes, as any “H” implies a headline vs a paragraph.

Theme does not control the RSS; you might be able to do this with YOAST SEO or another plugin ? Not sure.

If you’re hosting your own videos should add them, as per here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Podcasting

I don’t know of a way of including external video (e.g., YouTube) in the RSS as a field, other than actually having the link “in” the text of the feed.

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That happened to me once where I had a whole bunch of crap in the htaccess file from former theme, and was driving me nuts. Glad you got that solved 🙂

make sure you turn off ALL plugins except VC

check your htaccess file to make sure it actually has all the data from wordpress; make sure there is nothing there from former theme, old caching plugin, etc.

If you create a NEW post does the post exist ?

Does wordpress work with default theme? (e.g., twenty-twelve)

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Yup.

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If you load a square into a rectangle, it has to be cropped into a rectangle shape … it cannot magically add white space to a bitmap to keep the original image centered and then magic whitespace on sides to fit rectangle. So, you kind of need to start with rectangle images to fit rectangle spaces. Everything works this way — try loading a square image into the top of your Facebook timeline cover for instance, it will do the same thing.

What *we* do for square images here in our news network, is in Photoshop drop them into a rectangle and then center the square image in the rectangle. For some stuff we knock out the backing and make it a light grey so that for our thumbs we have a “fill the space” image, meaning we don’t end up with a square image centered floating on white in a rectangle area, which also looks dumb.

Try it — make a rectangle in your image editing app, then drop that square image into middle; then upload and set as featured image and see how that works.

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Did you
a) clear your caching, reset CDN, if applicable
b) set your permalinks in the WP admin panel and resave?
c) make sure your .htaccess is writable to allow changing permalink structure
d) go to a demo post and click preview, and check the “slug” shows the link structure you want from post edit page?

On some servers you have to set it to 777, at least temporarily.

Hi
you can use FeedWordPress to pull in news from your other sites to a custom category, then load that category into a normal module “by category” — and you can exclude that category ID from other modules.

We do this for our sites which pull from our “mothership” hub.

As also allow other sites to pull our newswire content, if interested 🙂

If the plugin uses Flash, it will never work on any iOS device, or any browser where Flash is disabled.

You might try
a) check the console in web browser for java errors
b) try disabling plugins except VC
c) try on another site using the default WP theme (2012, etc)

If you’re using shortcode you might try implicit use in HTML editor:

<audio controls>
<source src="audiofile.ogg" type="audio/ogg">
<source src="audiofile.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio element
</audio>

Heh. I don’t work here (TagDiv), but was in my home office Sunday working on our new ecom system, trying valiantly to meet Aug 1 deadline (and doubtful at this moment). Was waiting for FTP stuff to update, so poked my head into the forum here and thought I’d share my thought on that AdSense shenanigans.

I don’t spend much time here anymore, but I have been poking head in re new version of NewsMag which I’ve not had time to upgrade to, so unaware of any new bugaboos and whatnot, hence my comment on a “known devil” … that devil called AdSense 😉

I don’t think there is a “compare” chart between the two themes. Primary diff is the Newspaper is “wide” and the NewsMag is more “narrow” … menu is different, some of the headers are different, pre-built style sets are different, modules are different due to the more narrow width. So on and so forth. Some of the juicy goodness of Newsmag has percolated over to Newspaper v6.

Seems like some stuff needs tweaking, like lazy loading and couple of other things, but it’s been working great based on the “last” version around here. So, “I have faith” 🙂

From time to time adsense ads break due to loading elements from sites which themselves may be hacked broken, etc.

This was so bad couple of years back, we switched to only serving text ads until they got their shite together.

You might try that temporarily.

You can also setup a local backup ad for your site for when and ad times out completely to avoid those pesky empty spot adds.

Yes, as I said — it’s random. When FB gets overloaded with too many “capture transactions” — their capture basically times out.

Super annoying, but not much anybody can do about it.

At least they know about the issue and FINALLY couple months back added the “refresh attachment” option. Even with this in the early a.m. on weekdays, I have to come back in 40 min and retry as the first couple retries still don’t work — either missing photo, or just a link to the sitename in the box with no headline/excerpt capture.

This is why @centennia can do it now, but then a day later it doesn’t work.

One note; once “anybody” has captured it, it will tend to work thereafter as it’s been cached/captured. So, future shares from other folk usually work once you have a single good capture from “anybody.”

Using shortcodes can also exacerbate this issue, as on our main site we use our own shortcodes for social click-through tracking.

FB often has issues capturing images, particularly in the a.m. Sometimes they may have an empty box with just your site name/URL, and nothing else.

Often you may need to share, then go to your timeline and use the “refresh attachment” option.

In some cases the image will appear automatically after sharing.

This is unrelated to your site or theme. FB just gets messed up at times as they are still a young tech company making it up as they go. Similarly their promote post system broken as they push people to use the new “ad manager” (trying to copy Twitter basically).

They are a web property still in development at all times. So, you cannot “control” what they do, only “give them hints” and hope it works.

I deal with this every day across our news network – some using different theme, some using Newsmag, some not even using WordPress and properly optimized.

It’s the nature of FB that sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. Sorry!

a) turn it on
b) read the docs (right side of page); if you need to further optimize.

For most folks just turning it on will do all you need.

May not work with certain things which also rewrite pages (e.g., move things from top to bottom of page)

Works for me. Great support from TagDiv for 2 years now for my needs.

They are closed weekends, but will be back Monday.

Perhaps try reviewing the install and setup documentation at right.

Do common sense things like turning off caches, clearing them, reset CDN, turn off all plugins prior to install, then only activate Visual Composer, then the theme. Regenerate thumbnails per the documentation, etc.

Yes, it is a beautiful theme!

Resized images don’t appear in library, only original images. WP also is unable to “enlarge and crop” images. You need to add the “thumbnail upscale” plugin, THEN regenerate thumbs 🙂

This is something you can control via custom modifications to WordPress. The theme doesn’t specifically control “user roles” or user levels, or category creation, management, etc.

You likely need to google the various user role plugins which limit who has access to publishing levels, and perhaps custom plugins which limit access to certain categories.

If no such plugin exists you would likely need to hire a custom programmer.

The theme doesn’t control the core publishing functions of WordPress such as user levels, category creation, permalinks, users/passwords, date/time, etc.

Info on user roles: https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

There are a few plugins out there (you have to use a plugin unless you learn to program WP yourself), like this one (not tested): https://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-categories/

Hey! For the categories:
You get the category ID by going to WP settings > categories > hover on edit category to see the ID #. That is part of WordPress.

Hi, no prob on the caps lock, doesn’t overly bother me, but some people it freaks them out as it sounds like SHOUTING 🙂

Try renaming your plugin folder via FTP to xplugins, then login via admin. You should be back to your website.

Delete the plugin which appears to conflict with something ELSE you’re using and not the theme.

Then try renaming the plugin folder back.

Try logging in again. Then DISABLE all plugins except Visual Composer; re-upload via FTP fresh copy of the tag div speed booster which comes with NP6 (LATEST VERSION); then activate speed booster plugin.

If site works, then turn on other plugins one by one to see which one is the problem.

If you’re using caching plugin, caching service, you have to turn those *OFF* whenever you do major updates to your site or turn on new plugins which “rewrite” page content.

YOU ALSO DON”T NEED TO TYPE ALL CAPS AS THAT CAN GET A BIT ANNOYING TO READ FOR FOLKS HERE.

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@sid
you can test one of your post pages here:
https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/

you can see all the data being extracted by google from schema.org “markup.”

There are some issues due to a major change to the testing tool and the next theme update will address that.

You have no control over WHAT Google actually shows in SERPS, you can only provide the data they crawl. They may change the elements actually shown and some data is not shown on desktop as Google continues to “think mobile first.”

I believe the next update to theme will address some issues with Google’s latest rich snippets testing tool.

I would likely first test one of your posts with the Google rich testing tool to see what the theme ALREADY puts in there for you.

Note there are issues with that plugin, which has not been updated in nearly a year.
https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/all-in-one-schemaorg-rich-snippets