photos working for me
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For those posting that an update is needed; it’s generally a good idea to indicate which version *you* are using, otherwise tech support cannot provide a useful reply without needless back and forth to determine if you actually are vulnerable or just need to update your old plugin to new one.
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if you read the old page you link to:
SOLUTION: Update the WordPress tagDiv Composer plugin to the latest available version (at least 4.4).
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You can use online tools to scan your site for unused CSS, then output new CSS file, then upload that to your site. We did this several years back. Worked very well. All themes thst offer a lot of choices for coding, have larger CSS files; these can be highly compressed via various tools, but the online tools to remove unused CSS are best choice.
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I don’t work here, but I’ve found over the years it’s always better to load the favicon in various sizes for Windows/Mac in the root of your domain, like where WordPress typically installed.

Tons of examples online, but this site is safe to read
https://mailchimp.com/resources/favicon-size/

One thing we do on our sites is disable the image preview for the search box. We modify one of the core templates, to comment out the element for the thumbnail. Speeds stuff up waaaay faster.
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Did you check the error logs for the website? You can enable that in your config.php file to write error log file to examine. Anyway, it’s what I usually do for gremlins. 🙂
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Trust me, we’ve all been there!
The reason I zero out the default thumbs is that we don’t use them for anything once we optimize the modules/blocks from the theme. Also, there is a function hook you can add to your functions file or custom plug to disable the stupid thing WP added couple versions back, where they add -01 to every file.
mynewimage-joesmith-800×600.jpg
becomes
mynewimage-joesmith-800×600.jpg
mynewimage-joesmith-800×600-01.jpg
mynewimage-joesmith-400×300-01.jpg
mynewimage-joesmith-200×150-01.jpg

Freakin annoying.

• This reply was modified 2 years by simchris.
• This reply was modified 2 years by simchris.

Sorry, I thought this was kinda clear:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-theme-thumbs/

When you decide to post content on your website, the theme automatically generates thumbnails from the featured image to display the content on your pages in an attractive way. This process creates 17 different thumbnail sizes. To make you website faster, you can control which thumbnail is generated. To do this, go to Theme Panel > Block Settings > Thumbs on modules & blocks, and disable the unused ones to save space on your server:

block settings –> thumbs
see link right side of forum for newsmag documentation 🔧🙂

You need to go into the theme settings for modules/images and turn off all the modules not being used. Also, in WP settings under media, zero out the three default image sizes.
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1) add recaptcha
2) add payment requirement
3) possibly add WordFence to block bad bots

Any free signup page will be hit by bots.

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Also note, some sites have specific guidelines for pulling in their content via RSS. For example, if you have a nude website, most news sites will block you from pulling their content. If you are selling stuff, and trying to use content from other sources is also usually a no-no. If you have a news or content site and want to pull in news content to “fill” space, and not be your only posts, there are services like Send2Press that has free news feeds, as here:
https://www.send2press.com/wire/rss-feeds-by-topic/

For example, a newspaper in Ohio might pull national news from the above source and publish on their “national” news page to add content to their site without having to create the national news. Again, using news content for making money on an affiliate site, or selling cannabis or whatever would not be acceptable.

Also remember Google guidelines are generally recommendations and not ‘gospel’– they keep trying to control the web, but their ad platform breaks all of their own guidelines, among other things that get abandoned (like so many of us leaving AMP as stupid idea for most sites). Grain of salt.

I don’t work here; but theme updates generally don’t change your htaccess file. Can’t you simply paste back in your blocked items?

You need to FTP the file to the ‘root’ of your hosting space. The same place usually the original install for WordPress and wpconfig.pho is located.
often something like
/httpdocs/public/.well-known

Ask your hosting provider. Nothing to do with the theme.
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i dont work here

different theme…. this is tagdiv newsmag now on v5…the theme you mention is different company, and apparently abandoned

maybe update to current version vs 5 year old version?
https://tagdiv.com/newsmag/

FYI: the robots.txt file is not theme specific
https://moz.com/learn/seo/robotstxt

Facebook sometimes has technical issues and does not capture image. If you have proper open graph tags in header of post, it “should work” but sometimes you need to revisit your post on FB and do “refresh attachment.” Nothing the theme or theme author can do about it as long as you have proper open graph tags and the image itself is not malformed (e.g., renaming a png to a jpg is not actually a jpg; or too small for FB to capture).
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obviously, change your passwords asap

i do not work here, but i think the license is shown on page where purchased and in the all files zip download

WordPress does not have a show all categories page by default. There are various plugins you can use for this, and then put shortcode on a new page called /category/. That is what I do anyway.

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some info
https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/best-ways-to-preload-images-using-javascript-css-and-html--cms-41329t
and
https://docs.wp-rocket.me/article/1494-preload-largest-contentful-paint-image