For the widgets;
Often that is issue with your caching (common with stuff like GoDaddy where you have to keep clearing with the clear cache button to get anything to save properly), or the ajax in your web browser isn’t really saving that. I run into this with IE on Windows sometimes and have to switch to Chrome. Seems to happen randomly with widgets, and only started with WP 4.2x.

Sometimes it’s another plugin you have running which is causing a conflict by possibly trying to load some other additional java element in the admin panel and two copies of jquery loading, etc. — might have to try disabling your other plugins to find which one causing that issue.

Welcome! 🙂

Yes, this topic has been raised several times; so you might take a look by doing a search here …there is no “portfolio” only because TagDiv folk don’t have time to constantly check such a list to see if the theme still in use on those sites.

But threads have been started several times, but then few actually participate, so they kind of end up dead ends. But typically 10-15 people do respond. 🙂

e.g.
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/showcase-of-sites-using-this-theme/

(I don’t work here; but our company “adopted” TagDiv themes for all our sites late 2013; and since I’ve been using WordPress for 9+ years, I sometimes pop in and share some “been there done that…” stuff; so keep in mind any of my comments in forum are mine only, and don’t reflect any policy or official answers from the TagDiv folk.)

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

The theme is already responsive, just like demo, meaning mobile users see different version of page than desktop users.

Perhaps you could be much more specific in describing what you hope to achieve?

Did you try to ‘regenerate’ your thumbnails ? This is often necessary when some elements of a theme change markedly and some modules/sizes change. Your site may have had temporary versions of the new sizes, and they no longer exist due to how your files are stored (e.g., CDN, Jetpack, etc.).

Try the “regenerate thumbnails” plugin. If your images need to be make larger, not supported by WP, add the “thumbnail upscale” plugin first; then run the regen plugin. (Both are free plugins, and essentials.)

If you’re using Photon from Jetpack this is common issue with theme updates and you need to refresh that. Theme has no control over how your images stored on Jetpack or other CDN cloud systems.

And of course qTranslate has been forked for new development here:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/qtranslate-x/

lots of great options for translation!

You can activate the “style” from the theme styles, but you still need to setup your home page however you want it to look and choose your content/categories to feature — no way for theme to know what categories you might have created.

Don’t use the “demo content” unless you’re just demo’ing for client; all that junk doesn’t help you with your own site content — just makes a mess of it.

Take a look at theme docs (link right side of page).

Normal practice would be:
1) install theme
2) use default style, or use the style import option
3) create blank page
4) build your page layout using Visual Composer; possibly create custom sidebar to use widgets on front page.
5) set your page as the static front page from WP settings
6) adjust page to tweak and fine tune

Fun to experiment. You can always do a working page, make that live. Then start new blank page and tweak that, then switch to that new version once completed the way you want it.

Not that difficult, but you do need to setup your own front page, obviously.

Hope that helped 🙂

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Somebody posted how to do this previously, and requires making some code edits.

For the sidebar, easy enough to just add a text box above the ad unit with
— advertisement —

which is what we do. We leave it off the full width banner below logo bars as it’s pretty darn obvious it’s an ad banner.

For having that in things like part of article or below post, you’ll have to hack the ad settings module/templates.

Try search in forum or wait for tagdiv to have pointers on that.

YOu need to create a custom sidebar (I call mine homesider).

Then in your home page layout create columns like

[row [wide column][sidebar] ]

then assign your custom homesider/sidebar to the sidebar element on homepage.

Clearing cache worked for me when that happened.

Be sure to clear cache on your server and/or CDN also, *and* the web browser. With Chrome you have to clear history, with IE you obviously need to clear cache; FF sometimes cache doesn’t clear properly.

If using mod_pagespeed you have to turn it OFF to clear cached copies of CSS files.

You can also try editing your menu and resaving it to “reset” it.

See the theme docs right side of page.

Basically you will need to
a) create a “page”
b) launch visual composer for the page, then add “rows” and “blocks” however you want your page done.
c) once you have it the way you want, you would then set that page as the one to show from the WP settings > reading – then it would replace default blog list.

Akismet sometimes has issues; sometimes not. Sometimes it’s a conflict with another plugin. Not all plugins “play nice” with each other.

Also, many newspapers which have multiple blogs are sub-sets of main site, and are using WP in the multisite mode, where each blog is treated as its own entity, and then on the main page, the “list of bloggers/editors” leads to the blog for each author, which is subset of main site. For multisite there are many plugins and solutions for doing those sorts of things (WPMU plugins for instance).

Try clearing your caches; turn off all plugins except Visual Composer.

If something “suddenly’ changes on your site, good idea to keep track of why, and possibly “go back” or turn off something you just updated.

Be sure to make backups of things prior to doing any updates.

As they said, you need to completely remove the version included with the theme; however the version included with the theme is a bundled version — so not everything in the paid version may work, but you can try it.

So, fully remove the bundle version from your site; then install the paid version.

Activate it; disable the tagspeed booster plugin; and see if everything works or not.

You don’t get all the “demos” choices switcher popup from left side … that is just to show different demos on themeforest — it’s not part of theme.

You can CHOOSE a theme style by going to theme panel, and import styles at bottom to choose the ONE style you want to use for your site. So, you can switch between styles to choose which *one* you want to use on your site — and even just go back to default.

See theme docs link right side of this page as good starting point! 🙂

You can edit ‘catgories’ names from the WordPress settings left side under posts>categories — basic WordPress settings.

You can change menu items from appearance > menus.

Note demo content is just there to help demo the site; normally you would NOT use the demo content and start from scratch and then choose a “style” like “Fashion” and then customize that, then add your own content for testing and customizations from theme panel.

Hope that helped 🙂

WordPress cannot enlarge thumbs; perhaps try adding the “thumbnail upscale” plugin which helps with WP for cropping to fit.

If that isn’t the question, wait for tagdiv support. 🙂

Well they should all fit, unless the image on front page is larger than the image you upload; WordPress cannot “enlarge” thumbnails … so, you will end up with blank space someplace with the image thumb if block image larger than original image as it will crop in one dimension only.

So, try using the “thumbnail upscale” (free) plugin which will help to scale up any image to fit a block when cropping it. It works both retroactively when regen thumbs, but also for future featured images.

It’s what I use. 🙂

Put it in the custom css panel, then refresh browser … nothing will blow up by trying it out 🙂

You can always remove anything you paste into the custom CSS box. It’s not permanent and doesn’t change anything … it’s just an “over ride” for the default styles/setup. 🙂

look at your source, find the CSS class for that item and adjust to fit, probably with some negative margin

e.g., add custom css

.theclassused{margin-top:-20px}

something like that; you will need to experiment obviously.

They will be adding that to next version they are working on now; which was delayed due to all the changes in the XSS security fixes, and also attempting to debug issues with latest Visual Composer versions.

They are hoping for end of May … but …. no true ETA … done when done 🙂

You need to “regenerate” your thumbnails to fit the sizes for this theme … try the “force regenerate” or “regenerate thumbnails” plugin.

This used to be in theme docs, not sure why that might not be.

Just use normal WordPress text box widget for simple ad placement such as external or local image ad.

Or use an ad manager plugin for managing ad rotation or mixed types of ad units.

Or if using custom ad box, or adsense, use the tagdiv ad widget then choose the location to show ad for. E.g., “place” the ad widget into sidebar, then choose the ad location “sidebar.”

See link to theme docs right side of page, also.

For the small/medium/large — set them to the module sizes you plan to use the most.

For the featured image in post, we’ve chosen to do everything 640xXX with 640×400 being typical, but for movie reviews, for instance with widescreen stuff those are 640×280.

Hey!
the shim is still in beta, but I have it working on our two busiest sites and have had zero CPU issues since. (YAY!)

Basically, according to Radu the way it works with the latest VC is that you leave both VC active and the shim “recognizes” that and disables it, but you can still edit pages, supposedly.

In our case I did this:
a) left both VC and shim on server (I’m actually using the January version of VC from 1.6)
b) turn on shim, turn off VC
c) most home page stuff works perfectly; however a few odd elements may NOT work and so you have to choose NOT to use those (not the blocks/modules, or ticker; but couple of the oddball things…)
d) then I turn VC on if I need to edit something on home page; save; then disable VC again.

So, we have VC in plugins folder – otherwise you can’t edit your home page anymore (!). BUT, it’s completely disabled with shim running.

I don’t have “latest” shim version if there is one, mine is still BETA 1.02 … but that works! Yes, it’s still in BETA mode, which is why there isn’t a help item or sticky for that yet, I would imagine. And not everyone needs it; not sure if it works with child themes, as I don’t use those EVER.

Hope that helped.

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just downloaded from link, version says:

Version: 1.0 beta 2

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Apologies.