You can turn off all the built-in sharing buttons from the theme admin panel under “post settings.”

For custom sharing buttons, try some of the great plugins out there …

https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-media-feather/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-media-widget/

(((( SORRY … just noticed you were talking about the SOCIAL sidebar plugin, not the social SHARING icons above/below posts …. doh. Time for me to go back to sleep …. !! )))

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Since there are hundreds of social media sites around the world and nobody needs the same things; it’s not practical for a theme to also include a comprehensive social media link manager and spend insane amount of time keeping that updated and working with all the sites and APIs that change frequently; often it’s best to use one of the dozen or so social media PLUG-INS commonly available and used by major websites … there are many choices that are one click drop-ins and work with theme instantly.

eg. 100,000* sites use this:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-media-feather/

200,000* have used this:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-media-widget/

If you’re unable to customize your site on your own, you might look at one of these beyond the popular AddThis and ShareThis stuff.

(*downloads)

@rk
not nonsense. When you change major themes where image sizes changes, old modules are deprecated, new modules added to FIT NEW LAYOUT, etc. — then guess what, you need to ADJUST things to new site layout.

I think you have VERY unrealistic expectations on how WordPress works, and how themes work.

If you move to a new theme, the NEW theme cannot make your new site work exactly like the old site — show me a video of a theme doing that for you, otherwise your comment is more nonsense than mine. Not to be argumentative, but perhaps when you get more experienced with WordPress you’ll know better.

Cheers. When you change to NEW THEME, which NP6 is, you will have to make adjustments.

They have done great job of helping make this as painless as technically possible.

A theme cannot regen all your images, a theme cannot create new modules on your homepage and change your layouts in VC automatically – not everybody is using 100% identical layout — that is why you can customize it. Custom means unique. When things change in the foundation of the code — with good programming — this means block/modules and custom layouts need to be adjusted as widths, grids, image sizes have changed.

Sorry that isn’t clear.

I’ll try not to provide you any help or assistance in future; as TagDiv is much more patient with insults than I am … so luckily I don’t work here nor speak for them.

Have a wonderful day!

Did you
a) turn off all plugins except visual composer
b) clear all your server caching if using that
c) reset your CDN if using that / cloudflare, etc.

Make sure you delete old TD plugins, old theme folder; upload NEW theme folder, new plugins (don’t ‘over write’).

Then go to your “page” for your home page and preview to see if works; if not, then try making new simple page with just list of stories, preview see if works.

Just thoughts on debugging your particular setup.

Did you run the dbase updater after install?

Then you will need to redo your homepage and possibly reset your sidebar widgets.

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Likely the same issue as with Yoast — the plugin you’re using is trying to “rewrite” the page and this may conflict with other things. You likely can’t use the speedbooster plugin at same time, would be my “guess.”

Keep in mind you will get a bunch of errors when changing ANY theme as your site is technically serving “pieces” of both themes at same time while Google may be looking at it. This is why some folks use a “maintenance” plugin while doing major changes.

So, I would likely clear all errors in webmaster tools, then check the next day.

I often run into this. Initial panic, then the ‘oh yeah’ moment. 🙂

Might not be what you’re seeing … but try that first.

DON’T PANIC!
You need to drag items from your appearance > widgets page back to the sidebars. This is common issue with doing major upgrade to themes — an issue with WordPress, not the theme. Most of your widgets should still be there, just “inactive” at bottom of the appearance > widgets page … try it ! (of course deprecated modules or old plugins will need to be reset with current items).

@Cagatay

it’s a huge change — see the changelog.

Lot has changed under the hood; new modules, new menus, new sidebar stuff, etc., etc.

We get it — you’re unhappy. You probably don’t need to keep saying that on every other post thread. Just roll back to the prior version if you’re so upset! You’re not obligated to use the all-new version. Just sayin.

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Yes, best to think of this as moving to new theme, where most settings may be retained, but some will not for things which have completely changed.

So, having backups is always a good idea, just as if you were moving to another theme, changed your mind, then wanted to go back. Need to approach it the same way.

Sorry no magic bullet or once click upgrade. Obviously if some modules no longer exist on home page; then you would need to pick the new ones you like. Not a big deal. Make a simple home page with latest items, make that live. Then work on your fancy new home page and when done switch that version on.

Make sure you upgrade per official docs:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/

Please see
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/

How to upgrade: (official)
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/

Right .. well it’s a new theme not a dot update; all the grids, layouts, images CHANGED.

You need to regenerate your thumbnails to fit new layout, hence all the resize image errors seen in the GTMetrix check. Also need to update any tagdiv plugins, clear server side cache if using one, etc.

Optimize that one image which is 23KB too large (see the report link for which one).

When you change themes you need to regenerate thumbnails to fit the new modules/layouts/sizes.

Theme can’t do that for you, unfortunately.

Also this may help: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/

https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/

We use opcache on server along with mod_pagespeed for our server and works very well.

Awesome so far !!! BRAVO!!! 🙂

Again, this is a major UPGRADE — this means new grid, new options, new code, new features, new options in panel for images, new tools for sticky sidebar. Hence the version number jump. It’s NOT an “update” to old version. It’s a brand NEW theme, so obviously some things won’t work moving to new version — note the “changelog” in the download — which you should *ALWAYS* read before updating ANY theme with WordPress.

For those who can’t find my “sticky” guide to updating, note at the TOP of the forum, there are couple of posts that “stick there” — including my little guide to WordPress optimization; as well as “how to move to another theme” — which is based on 9 years of suffering WP updates and is the “safe” way to do this process.

Again … this is a major UPGRADE … not a minor dot update. As with all MAJOR changes, you WILL need to make changes to your site to work with what is new. An old module that fit old layout won’t work with new layout as sizes are different, etc.

Give them a couple of days to shore up the documentation for new version.

You are under *no* obligation to update/upgrade your site — it’s not necessary ever — only do so if you want all the new features. Updating just for sake of there being an update doesn’t make sense unless you weigh the risks and benefits of doing so and have time to adjust site for what had CHANGED with NEW VERSION.

This may not help anybody, but just adding some input for those who might be totally freaking out right now 🙂

My site works awesome in Chrome !

start here
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/

Remember when updating to DELETE old theme and TD plugins, and upload NEW theme and plugins; including NEW child theme if you use one!

Try using my sticky upgrade guide or you may be sorry.

It’s a new version of theme; you may need to redo your home page for some modules, and reset sidebars.

It’s an UPGRADE not an update.

Remember when updating to DELETE old theme and TD plugins, and upload NEW theme and plugins; including NEW child theme if you use one!

Try using my sticky upgrade guide or you may be sorry.

It’s a new version of theme; you may need to redo your home page for some modules, and reset sidebars.

It’s an UPGRADE not an update.

Might not help … but … when in doubt …

Remember when updating/major upgrade .. to DELETE old theme and TD plugins, and upload NEW theme and plugins; including NEW child theme if you use one!

Try using my sticky upgrade guide or you may be sorry.

It’s a new version of theme; you may need to redo your home page for some modules, and reset sidebars.

It’s an UPGRADE not an update.

Remember when updating (UPGRADING) … to DELETE old theme and TD plugins, and upload NEW theme and plugins; including NEW child theme if you use one!

Try using my sticky upgrade guide or you may be sorry.

It’s a new version of theme; you may need to redo your home page for some modules, and reset sidebars.

It’s an UPGRADE not an update.

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