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Christopher is a long time WordPress user. Anything else you need to know is private ;-) I *do not* work for TagDiv, but I've been using their themes since late 2013.
simchris
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Well obviously you cant have localhost… Images load off your website domain just like all images on your site…

Maybe a basic html book would be advisable.?

Basically you are uploading image to your site just like any image, the loading that image in your layout with normal img tag.

simchris
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simchris
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Likely need to use a translation plugin and then add the shortcode to the widget area used for social media icons.

Or somebody else may have better suggestion.

simchris
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You may need to also update your cache on your website, not just in your browser.

simchris
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Did you try the page name ….

“The-Awash-Post/1561451897477521”

simchris
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Not really worth it since it’s a temporary bug in WordPress – introduced with v 4.2x – nothing related to theme.

Hopefully WordPress will catch this and fix it in the next update.

simchris
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Some suggestions
a) don’t use child theme, as it’s a redirect
b) ensure you have caching running on server like opcache, etc.
c) be sure to use normal WP optimizations (as per my own optimization sticky) — enough memory allocated to php, and upgrade default RAM for WP in wp-config.php -etc.
d) limit queries on post pages — meaning, avoid “most popular 7 days” kinds of things, try one query of “latest 5 stories” vs having three sidebar queries of 3 latest posts from 3 categories; try not using mega-menu to query dbase for story elements .. limit queries in footer
e) remove CSS over-rides in theme panel, move to style.css
f) consider using things like mod_pagespeed and or mod_SPDY if you serve all pages via https
g) turn off image thumbnail sizes you don’t actually use; plan layouts to limit total number of sizes for thumbs to no more than 5 or 3 if really going for speed
h) check server response time — which has nothing to do with theme and needs server to be optimized (our pages respond in 0.31 secs on avg., regardless of theme with only minor optimizations)

And of course look at some of the theme docs for suggestions from TagDiv on speed/performance.

Food for thought ๐Ÿ™‚

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simchris
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Not a theme issue; likely best to Google how to do this.

Note, if you’re using the YOAST SEO plugin, there is a one-click option to add this.

Also note that if you have proper “canonical” URL tag in your meta data, this is a non issue since the canonical tag is specifically intended to fix this issue by specifying which URL is the right one.

So, doing a redirect but not having the correct element in the canonical tag would be shooting yourself in the foot if the canonical tag had no slash but that redirected to the URl with slash.

If you’re using the YOAST plugin, you can very easily fix this.

Also, fyi, you can also simply add a / to the end of your permalink setup in the default WordPress permalinks panel (try it) ๐Ÿ˜‰

simchris
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Ticker feature is one of the options for home page in the visual composer. Basically need to create new top “row” in layout, then put the ticker element there, then choose what options you want …

simchris
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it’s an issue with Facebook …

you can try to do a post, then go to the post element by clicking the date/time of when it was posted, then click the “refresh share attachment” option under drop down arrow on FB.

The theme doesn’t control how Facebook captures your “shares” — FB is “supposed” to read the OG data, but doesn’t always do that due to their own “overload/timeout” issues.

Welcome to the internet ๐Ÿ™‚

simchris
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Some of that you can change in the “translations” tab in the theme panel.

simchris
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Awesome! On all the sites menu style 8 works, but on ONE site we have short logo (“Ga-Ga”)… and so did the logo+ad style.

๐Ÿ™‚

simchris
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Try uploading the fonts folder via FTP in “binary” mode vs ASCII mode.

simchris
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You can change any of the styles however you wish with custom CSS.

Simply look at the page source for the widget on the page, or use the console (F12) in Chrome to highlight and inspect that element to reveal the CSS used.

Then simply put in the CSS styles you want for those elements in the custom CSS panel in the theme panel.

The tag cloud widget is part of the default WordPress widgets and not a theme widget. Some folks simple use a custom plugin for a tag cloud which gives you control over what items are shown, sizes, fonts, colors, etc.

If you have no idea how to write CSS, simplest thing is to look at many of the free plugins:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=tag+cloud&=Search+Plugins

A lot of folks on these forums (TagDiv) seem to be using this one:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/cool-tag-cloud/

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simchris
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Hi, didn’t this get covered previously in your prior question?

ref;
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/deactivate-the-responsive-on-user-request/

Basically you need to create different style sheet, then create a javascript button to load the different style sheet on click.

eg
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/stylesheetswitcher.htm

simchris
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Go to post settings in the theme panel, turn off option to show thumnails in post.

Good idea to explore the theme docs at some point – note link right side of page:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-hide-the-featured-image-on-post/

simchris
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1) choose header option without the banner
2) don’t put any ad banner element in the ad box for header
3) clear your caches

simchris
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Best place to do that is actually in the header.php file

simchris
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Best way is to build your custom layout in VisuaL Composer the way you want it; and choose the blocks and modules you want, and in each one specify the content to be shown.

Once you build that ‘page’ you select it as your static page from the main WP settings > general/reading setting. That is then shown as your home page.

See the theme docs for more info.

If that was not the right answer, apologies; and wait for official tagdiv support ๐Ÿ™‚

simchris
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CORRECTION TO BEST WAY TO SET CUSTOM TIME:

note I ran into issue with the previously suggested method for setting custom time stamp to print under headlines on posts, as it also changes the date used for things like archives by date pages and made the “day archive” post super funky — which came up when I put a calendar for month on one of my home pages.

So, better solution is:

I opened up single_template_2.php
and on/about line 30

added the time as so:

<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_date(false);?> <?php echo get_the_time(); ?>

Works perfectly.

Output on the post as (example):

By Terry Windall - May 5, 2015 12:47:18 -0400 EDT

for help on Linux ‘codes’ for setting date/time elements on WordPress admin panel and/or adding custom formats to above php code, see:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time

simchris
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Some additional optimizations for removing emoji code from WP 4.2x, removing the CSS for contact form 7 not used everywhere:

https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/more-speed-improvements-sharing-for-functions-php/

simchris
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@gfran5

hey … very cool, thanks!

At some point I need to revisit the thread I had with Radu back on v1.4 or was it 1.5 on removing some of the “add once” calls in the theme booster functions file, such as removing calls to woocommerce, bb forum, etc., if not actually using those to eliminate the CSS even being called at all.

On my to do list ๐Ÿ™‚

simchris
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If you’re using a CDN or some other external thing, you likely need to ensure that is setup properly and clear cache; make sure you actually have ‘featured’ images setup for all of those posts, etc.

Do the images actually exist on your site?
seems they do ?
http://dawgtime.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/3.31Practice18-100×75.jpg

I will say this — it’s really bad to have dots in file names … most systems need to identify the file extension after a . so some systems will stop at 3.whatisthisextension?

Ideally this should be

NO
3.31Practice18-100×75.jpg

YES
3-31Practice18-100×75.jpg

dumb as it sounds, but try changing the image file names?

———-
or wait for tagdiv support …. I’m just a bystander ….. ๐Ÿ™‚

simchris
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TIP:
simple way is to open up styles.css and search/replace the color(s) you want to change; works for a lot of stuff.

simchris
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Good idea to explore all the panel settings for theme…. and bring a cup of coffee (or wine) … it’s like going on a safari ! ๐Ÿ™‚

For some modules the thumbs are not “on” by default so that extra thumbs are not built for sizes people don’t actually use; and also allows you to turn off sizes you don’t use to save disk space, CPU cycles if doing lots of posts a day, etc.

So, if you have not yet “gone on safari….(and by that I mean a photo safari, as anybody who hunts big game should be shot) ….” try this:

theme panel >> block settings >> note top menu item is >> Thumbs on modules and blocks

on that panel you can set thumbs on/off as needed ๐Ÿ™‚

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