To show your past page views….

Also, note if you have an existing data field for page view counts, like we did on our site under a data field called “views” … you can change the default data field to use your EXISTING counts by editing this file:

/theme/includes/wp_booster/td_page_views.php

change this field name at line 3 to whatever your EXISTING reads/count field name is:
in our case we had existing counter for many years with field name of “views”

static $post_view_counter_key = 'views';

This will then show the OLD counts for your theme plus ALL new counts (which is what you want);
but NOT counts since activating theme from the default theme data field.

(Obviously if you didn’t have a prior data field / mechanism/ theme/ plugin / counting views, there is no way for this system to know your past reads. BY changing the field above the theme will now read/write from your existing data field, but you need to figure out WHAT that data field actually is!)

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You might be able to get older version of v.c. On request from tagdiv …

Need to clear your cache, both on server and in your web browser.

Basically your browser (and/or website) are loading the OLD CSS, which the new theme files don’t work with, so in effect no CSS loading.

Also remember you may need to update child theme also if using child theme (see changelog, depending on version you’re updating from). Try NOT using a child theme, unless you “must” do that for some oddball reason.

This is a normal caching problem, not an issue with theme, thankfully. 🙂

Well, the shim isn’t going to replace visual composer; it’s a stop gap for those having CPU death spirals. For VC general issues, try going back to the earlier version of VC on your site (e.g., 4.4.2), which you should have from older versions unless you are first time user.

Or, if you choose to use the shim, be aware it won’t work for some of the more oddball things in VC; and it’s not optimized for the Newspaper modules – as far as I know.

For example, working here just fine:
CaliforniaNewswire.com

I have slider, lots of modules on page, and they do work.

Only a few things I was using before do not work with the shim, and I’ve just worked around that.

Sort of too bad as VC had zero problems last year and it’s only been the newer versions causing issues this year (ironically with a ton of junk added people were demanding without knowing how it would impact their little VPNs and $10/month accounts….). All the hacks to WordPress for security this year likely haven’t helped either as obviously a lot of stuff got moved around.

In any case — I’d wait for an official “can I use this with Newspaper 4” answer, as my thinking would be “maybe.”

The version 1.5 changes;

note that some of the modules “changed” and so if you were using these ; they would need to be updated to the new names — or as we did on home page; just replace old item with new one. 🙂

[ Version 1.5 ]

The following shortcodes and widgets have been renamed:
* td_ad_box -> td_block_ad_box
* td_authors -> td_block_authors
* td_homepage_full_1 -> td_block_homepage_full_1
* td_popular_categories -> td_block_popular_categories
* td_video_vimeo -> td_block_video_vimeo
* td_video_youtube -> td_block_video_youtube
* td_text_with_title -> td_block_text_with_title
* td_slide -> td_block_slide
* td_social_counter -> td_block_social_counter
* Rename the short codes via SQL
* Please note that the renamed widgets have to be re added to each sidebar after this update. Make sure that you backup your database and if possible get the widget list from your sidebars.

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Nope.
That was only if you somehow wanted to automagically update that stuff …

I never did any phpadmin thing to my sites on updating Newsmag… ever!

That was a special case. For us, we just had to fix one block that changed, and that wss it; just updated that, resaved home page. Done.

I think the MySQL thing was for folks who had built massive custom pages, categories, etc., using Visual Composer — in our case we only used it for home page and nothing else.

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

@SAPeople

Hi,
check my sticky post on theme optimizations; I recommend using the Auto Post Thumbnail PRO plugin, which will create a featured image from first image in post, and assign as featured image. It’s cheap and works. I had same issue with 10 year old sites, and never used featured images on those sites. This solves it. 🙂

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Hi
you can upgrade right to 1.71 — just be aware some of the codes on front page changed with Visual Composer and tagdiv blocks. So, you pretty much just need to revisit your home page after update and update/change a couple of blocks if they no longer work. Not too painful. 🙂

Demo data is really just intended for creating a demo site, such as to show client for mockups; not for adding to existing content.

Ideally you should revert to backup of your live site and without the demo content imported!

If you delete a page and then it’s “back” — that is your caching. Not the theme. The demo content is a static file, it doesn’t suddenly keep publishing new content at set intervals.

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

If you can’t edit uploaded photos that is usually a caching issue, or conflict with a plugin interfering with the media editor; so a clean install of WP might be a good idea!

See YOAST SEO docs for how to set SEO data for your home page; which is done from the static “page” you create.

Hi, sorry, yeah, somebody else thought that continuing to use VC would “demolish tagdiv theme sales and they should switch to something else” — or something like that.

Of course, VC has a nice product, but the past six months it’s become a memory hog, and as you and I have experienced some core issue just whacks certain servers (and we have dual XEON CPUs and 32GB RAM on dedicated premium box … not a VPS or something ….).

Anyway…. try the version of VC you were using previously, for editing.

Well.. note that for a “lot” of folks they are not having this “CPU death” issue. But also a lot are. Also there were a lot of conflicts with VC 4.5 and Yoast SEO.

So, not everybody having this issue. I know Radu has been trading email with the Bakery folks to share this experiences (and my server data presumably).

From what I understand, and might not be accurate their plans are:
a) the shim provides a solution for those of us with the CPU spiral of doom, as stop gap – works fine with VC 4.42 on my box — no problem for short term use at all as long as I’m not getting huge traffic spike ( so I check my CPU usage before messing with it )
b) they want to push Newspaper 5 asap; which has the threads of things from Newsmag (sticky sidebar, more layout options for home page; control over the blocks/images, etc.); and presumably will include VC 4.5.4 or whatever.
c) Newsmag 5 would then be a dev track for possibly building their own page builder that does not use VC at all.

So, there isn’t going to be a “death of TagDiv” or themes not working. Mine are working just fine and no need to upgrade anything “right now” for me. So, only reason I upgraded to 1.71 from 1.6 was for security patches.

But try using your old version of Visual Composer — the issue is with VC not the theme, but there is some bizarre combination of things that our particular server does *not* like at all. So, in my case using the 4.4.2 for short periods does work just fine; quickly tweak, then switch off VC, and huzahhh! I won’t install any VC version newer than that. Period. Luckily I’m not using VC for posts or pages; only the HOME PAGE … so in my case unless home page getting whacked, usually not big issue. I also have the addition in my functions.php to NOT load VC code on post pages.

So, delete new version of VC you installed;
reinstall older version of VC (any 4.4x version should work in theory)
leave shim active
turn on VC, and edit your page/layout.

Obviously you should be deactivating any caching stuff while messing with VC changes.

Anyway… mine is working ….

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

You need open graph (OG) data in your headers, such as using plugin like YOAST SEO (or other plugin) which adds those.

If you “view source” in your post page, you should see meta data with OG tags… these tell Facebook which image and snippet to use when capturing your site posts.

FB docs:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices

Slow login can be all kinds of things … slow server, dbase overloaded, bad/rogue plugin (as I said).

You can try to increase the memory limit for php .. see my sticky topic on optimization, as I ran into this recently where I thought the server side settings were increasing memory for WP, but they were not. Basically, unless you manually increase the default memory from 40MB to 96MB or higher, WP still assumes you’re running a simple blog. So, try changing to 128MB or even 256MB if your hosting allows that.

@ShowbizCool

as noted in my posts; you need to activate the Visual Composer to “edit” your home page again or anything else using VC. The shim just provides the CSS for the TagDiv modules so they work — there is no other way to edit VC layouts except with VC.

So, you can leave the shim active, turn on VC, then go edit stuff, save, then turn off VC.

That is what I have been doing. Luckily you don’t generally need to keep changing your homepage layout all the time; just tweak stuff. And of course, a sidebar for home page can be edited from appearance > widgets without VC being active.

Hope that helped 🙂

TIP: use the VC version from January (e.g., that came with NewsMag 1.6; 4.4.2) if you have that, as that does allow me to edit stuff without crashing box. I am *not* using the latest VC on any of our sites for anything.

Likely a caching issue.

On our sites all photos show properly on my iPad Air, and both my Macs (one running Mavericks, one on Yosemite).

You might try turning off the lazy load option for images.

Make sure you have proper og tags setup in your meta data defining your featured image.

You can modify how images are “cropped” — but you will need to “hack” some settings; there is no consistent way to ensure all images are “cropped perfectly” as all are different — as are all photos. So, some might get top chopped off, some might get bottom chopped off. To have images be “perfect” for all shapes and sizes of thumbs you would likely need to create your original images very carefully to have appropriate spacing on all sides so you end up with a “safe area.”

For example you could edit the functions file in the tagdiv booster folder to change the default crop direction for a specific thumbnail size following the settings for WordPress, as found in the official docs … e.g., you could have “crop from top, left” or “crop from bottom, right” .. etc.

SEE:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_image_size

TagDiv can point you at the right file to edit in the theme folder, to experiment with.

Block settings are not included with the Newspaper theme; nor advertised to have them, nor shown in the demo; but will be supposedly coming in Newspaper v5. Obviously you can’t somehow “add” that admin panel from another theme to this one — doesn’t work that way. However, that feature most likely will be in Newspaper 5 coming next month (hopefully). Remember theme docs for Newsmag do *not* apply to Newspaper — two different themes!

Be sure you paste the link in via text editor, not visual editor, as WordPress (not the theme) may try to wrap it as a URL vs the normal oembed link — which is managed by WP not the theme.

I have had this issue in all themes, when pasting in from MS Word. So now if I pasted in story from Word, I don’t paste any YouTube URl, then add that later via the text editor for the post after doing a draft save.

Not a theme issue, sadly. It’s WordPress stupidly thinking it’s a link vs an ombed element.

Only other reason a video won’t work is if it’s restricted to certain countries for copyright reasons.

Logging in to the WordPress admin panel also managed by WP, not the theme, but if you have any plugins running which hook into the admin but load things externally (like some Jetpack stuff, etc., you might get delay for that). Often you can try disabling extra plugins to see what might be causing delay login.

Hope that helps 🙂

Also be aware there is no way to prevent people copying your content if it loads in a web browser; you can try to block some content being “scraped” — but this also means not having RSS feeds, and if Google can’t read the page, you will be doomed in SERPS. So, you obviously would want to “test” any such plugin and then in Google’s developer tools do the various “load as Google” to see HOW the bot sees your page — if Google can read it you should be fine; of course if Google’s bot can read the page so can others.

How extreme do you want to be ? Are you going to block archive.org ?

For many folks, having strong copyright notices, creative commons logo, and doing periodic searches online can help track down content pirates. There is nothing to stop somebody from rewriting your content, though. If you properly copyright your website (e.g., in the U.S. with the copyright office), you can file a DMCA complaint to have some pirates content removed from Google search results, which is huge deterrent obviously.

And of course, the biggest way to protect content is from a member site where people have to “log in” to view the story; perhaps having teaser for public, and members see the full site.

The ability to “protect” content is a bit of a myth. Disabling right-click doesn’t actually solve anything. For example, SnagIt can capture the full page as an image once it’s in the video buffer in the browser/on screen; Adobe Acrobat DC can capture an entire web page.

Not to scare you, just the facts after 20 years of doing web dev myself. Our company used to actually sell a content protection product called “Mindset Mprotect” for protecting images; and then IE added as “save page as HTML” feature which completely negated some of that. Remember again anything “rendered” in a web browser can be captured as it’s loaded into cache and/or “visible” on a remote device.

Rendering a page in FLASH has some protections, but then you lose most mobile users.

Upshot — be realistic in your goals on the “myth of content protection” with WordPress.

I dont think newspaper yet has all the options from newsmag theme.

I have found it best just to work with main theme. I would only use child theme if you have other choice due to some odd internal company policy or something.

My sites will all look very similar since they are part of one “news network” — but you might have already noticed that 🙂

e.g., CaliforniaNewswire.com

🙂

We’re not having this issue. But I don’t work here, so this is just feedback.

Did you try turning off any “minification” in your caching or optimization settings; try turning off any conflicting plugins that might be loading multiple versions of JavaScript ?