You have to fully clear/reset your CDN whenever you change themes. Otherwise you’re loading old and new CSS and JS mixed together. Ask your CDN provider for help or see the manual/docs on how to use the CDN service you have for how to clear/reset/refresh content.

Changing themes does not delete your posts; think of a demo “style” as a child theme for the main theme. Just don’t install demo CONTENT; only install demo STYLES. Two different things. Demo “styles” are CSS. Demo content is temp content for webdev work.

You will need to regen your thumbnails after upgrade, just like any theme change.

And of course you should be making both a dbase backup on server of your content periodically; and doing an export of your CONTENT periodically, anyway.

🙂

I can’t help you with that.

You can send a link to: contact@tagdiv.com
and reference this post URL, explain your problem.

Again, this assumes you checked for console errors and tried turning off the other plugins except VC. You need to debug those yourself first – it’s your site after all; and the theme folks don’t manage other folks plugins which may cause issues with your site.

a) make sure you do NOT use the “load more” ajax options in modules,
b) try turning off the related posts option in posts
c) try turning off the “suggested for you” flyout box
d) try NOT using mega-menu
e) make sure you increase the default memory in your wp-config.php file to at least 96MB (see my “sticky post” on optimization for how to do that).

ADMIN: should likely add the wp-config.php memory upgrade option as a “requirement” for pre-install notes!

Remember though, as with ALL WordPress sites, when naming author/user accounts, be sure to make the “nickname” the best SEO name, as the nickname is the URL, so

if you have
Joe
Smith
nickname ‘smittyjoe’
display as Joe Smith

the url for the author page would be /smityjoe/
and not /joe-smith/

Chris

As in the theme demo, an author page is created for any author with posts; so once you have posts for that author, there will be an author page/index for that author with list of posts and the bio info from their user account setup. Simple! 🙂

You can, of course, create a custom author page template as with all wordpress themes, but the basic author page works out of the box, as it were.

You should export your current settings, probably.

Changing the CSS will change the look and settings, that’s the purpose of using the styles/demos; they change the settings. To go back you would need to reset things. See the theme docs for more info.

It doesn’t wipe everything … e.g., WP settings.

But if you currently have font x at size x set for your post pages; changing to a demo changes the settings — that’s what you’re telling it to do, change all your “design” choices. Basic settings don’t change.

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So, no console errors ?
Plugins except VC disabled ?

Link would likely be helpful.

The plugin you reference is outdated and should not be used.

WP strips out HTML in the author/bio box (“sanitizes”). This has always been the case. On many sites users are allowed to register, and HTML in ‘bios’ would be additional spam on the ‘author page.’

You have to modify the code, typically with functions.php to enable such functionality. Not theme related, specifically.

Try adding something like this to your functions.php file
in your theme folder, at bottom

//disable WordPress sanitization to allow more than just $allowedtags from /wp-includes/kses.php
remove_filter('pre_user_description', 'wp_filter_kses');

//add sanitization for WordPress posts
add_filter( 'pre_user_description', 'wp_filter_post_kses');

After activating this snippet, the author bios can include p, br, and other HTML tags.

Warning

WordPress sanitizes user input for security reasons, not just to annoy you and make you go on a hunt to find this post to learn how to override the annoying setting.

If you’re considering disabling the WordPress sanitization, make sure you trust your users to not enter potentially harmful content into their profile bios. This includes iframes, forms, and more.

Welcome to WordPress! 🙂

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

If you updated from WP4 to WP6 you need to reset your home page by
a) importing old settings per the upgrade docs
b) some modules changed – it’s a NEW theme – so you need to change them.
c) remember to clear/reset all your cache/CDN/cloudflare whatever to be sure you’re loading the new CSS/JS properly.
e) check your console (F12) for errors in Chrome or IE to see problems from plugin conflicts or other.

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

1) bumps don’t do anything … stop it 😉

2) we use mailchimp here after testing various other things, and so far seems best for “it works,” and “it’s cheap/free” 🙂

Maybe go to post settings and turn off the author box ?

See the theme docs, right side of this page >>>>>>>>>>

or,
https://forum.tagdiv.com/general-settings/

Did you also increase the default RAM for WordPress ? You need to edit your wp-config.php file to increase the base memory (default in WP is 40MB, but 96MB minimum is needed for Visual Composer).

See:

define( ‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘128M’ );

https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP

Delete old plugin, install new one. Use new one.

As. 20 year webdev, 30 year designer, with numerous awards including one from Apple i can reaffirm it is not a ux mistake… Its only your particular preference on that. Fact is unless youre doing ecom, not many folks who surf in do searches, they find your site from search or social. But not to argue the point… Many sites with the largest traffic have adopted tap to search, its a ux standard methodology now, especially for mobile first design. But you can read up on this topic on various ux sites like smashing design, etc.

I was initally against it as well, as recently as late 2013, but i have now accepted it as viable … Its no worse the fly out mobile menu from left side, and in fact some folk are combining the flyout and putting search box in the flyout.

The really big sites are using search to trigger popup interstitial, then modal or search page with advert. Clever.

Anyway, just food for thought and disagree on the ux failing.

Although….
Now that i think about it, on one site we removed search from the menu bar and then just put widget search box top of sidebar. That was the simple fix for that.

Time.com, latimes.com, etc. require click to search. Very very common now.

You can try hacking the templates if you’re adept at CSS and HTML; if not you would likely need to hire a developer to modify the theme.

TagDiv also may be willing to give you some “tips” on doing that come Monday; but often it’s harder than it looks due to editing templates, CSS for viewports, etc.

Example link ?
Did you check error console (F12) in Chrome, etc., for java errors?

Folks on mobile can’t hover, hence why it’s a ‘tap’ — this is a very common user interface being used widely on the net now that more than half web traffic is mobile.

You can, of course hack the theme to change the behavior, but you might need to hire somebody to do that if you don’t know how.

TagDiv has provided suggestions on how to do this in past forum posts, however, so they might be kind enough to do so again come Monday when they’re back in the saddle.

Anything can be modified in the theme if you wish to spend the time learning to do that; but obviously the theme is sold with a specific UX setup, hence the demo on themeforest.

You can try doing search in forum for this topic over the past 18 months; as it’s been covered many times before; sorry I don’t have the link.

Make sure you upload the font folder in binary mode via FTP;
Make sure you have a CORS setting if loading the theme icon font via a CDN, Cloudflare, etc. and/or refresh/release/reset/clear any CDN type stuff (caching).

Or,
https://forum.tagdiv.com/installing-demos/

At bottom of the main theme admin panel, choose import styles.

Note the link to documentation for NP6 right side of this page >>>>>>>

Use a plugin like YOAST SEO to add all the OG tags; including tags for FB, Twitter, Pinterest.