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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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With sidebar on RIGHT, the content will appear first.

[content][bar]
[footer . . .]

collapsed for responsive

[content]
[bar. . ]
[footer ]

simchris
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of course, the breadcrumbs should be ABOVE the headline TITLE for the page …, just as on other pages 🙂

playing with it …

you can see how this might make sense to change for future version of theme … meaning keep same format as the author page and tag page “title” for the page, vs the “pill button” style when you’re actually on the category index itself.

🙂

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simchris
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Not sure what all this stuff is …

Disallow: /*.css$

GOOGLE REF:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062608?hl=en&rd=1

simchris
tagDiv Member

Looks like added by hosting setup automatically … which is the thing I was talking about … looks like some of that other stuff added by your SEO plugin, and or advertising module(s) ?

If you didn’t add that stuff, might be good to look at who did and/or removing it unless you know *why* it’s there.

example — this could all be removed:

# remova os diretorios

Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /tags/
Disallow: /category/
Disallow: /author/

simchris
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For anybody else, also to fix the duplicate default WP issue with dupe label for “archives” … CSS would be “archive” not “archives” — as so:

.widget_categories label {
display: none;
}
.widget_archive label {
display: none;
}

simchris
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And anecdotal, halfway through regenerating 5,000 thumbnails (which I’d had to regen on Monday when going back to Woo Canvas temporarily) …

CPU
Last 1 minute 1.40
Last 5 minutes 1.28
Last 15 minutes 0.95

again — far cry from “32.0” with 1.71 + VC 4.4.4 this past Sunday!

SHIM O JOY! 🙂

simchris
tagDiv Member

O–M–G — it works! (!!)

Radu, your “shim” 1.0 BETA 2, worked wonderfully. Visual Composer not even on the domain (!).

CPU is “normal” SO FAR (I am double checking every 10 minutes; about to do NEW post to see what happens).

Sent you the long winded email (12:34pm PDT 5/6/15) with server info, and such; and the testing steps I did so far today with Newsmag 1.71B, SHIM 1.0 B2, speed booster on, mod_pagespeed OFF.

I am turning sidebars on/off, changing modules on sidebar to “mess” with it. Leaving home page as the “fancy” layout I already had as page from 2.5 weeks back when setup.

Only thing I’m doing slightly different at the moment is I have the built-in “related” posts OFF and using my long-time fallback “contextual related posts” plugin to just stick 3 text-only related item headlines bottom of each story (it checks content not just tags for last 365 days, and caches the output… nice).

Will update by email AND here, as I play with this more.

You have “rocked” my world today 🙂

Chris

============
SHIM active with 1.71B … 20 minutes and counting….

CPU usage
Last 1 minute 0.52
Last 5 minutes 0.55
Last 15 minutes 0.58

That’s a wee bit better than “32.0” methinks 🙂

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simchris
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So you tried adding your site title for home page, to the index.php template already?

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simchris
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normal uploads directory in wordpress is now /uploads/

not managed by theme in any way.

You can over-ride that location in your wp-config.php file.

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

Also from your hosting panel or FTP, make sure /uploads/ folder is there and writable. If you changed the name of it, change it back 🙂

simchris
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No point in having an H1 tag on home page unless it’s a static constant element such as “Micro Gaming News for the Tech Trade” — as Google doesn’t like “changing” H1 tags on static pages like a home page — a news headline should not have H1 tags on home page as those change hourly, daily, etc., and so have no relevance in SERPS.

So, you would need to edit the page template you’re using for home page or “page” template and add an “is_home” statement to put the desired H1 tag only on home page. Simple to do with Visual Composer, or if making a static page with loop.

eg
something like

<?php
if ( is_home() ) {
    // This is the home page index
    <h1>My Text Here</h1>
} else {
    // This is not the home PAGe index
    then get the normal page header
}
?>

just a thought. That likely not best solution, so pardon my butting in ….

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simchris
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Yes… you need to type in what you want in “SEO Title” in YOAST panel
… note the “SEO Title” box in the screen shot you just attached? Put the info you want THERE.

you may want to read the docs on how to use Yoast SEO.

You might also want to simply change the “site title” of your site from the normal WP settings panel … ?
https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_General_Screen

simchris
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Use Yoast SEO, on your “page” put in the META data in Yoast settings to control how home page is listed/named/indexed in Google.

simchris
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Awesome. That worked! 🙂

simchris
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Okay, this does work.

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

simchris
tagDiv Member

(Ha… well, to be fair … different time zones. I’m in U.S., and I often have little nuggets of time while “waiting” on various things to run/populate/spool, etc. here during the day …. so I pop around here, Facebook, news.com, etc. with little 5-7 minute windows where I can’t really do anything else but wait for the MAIN thing I’m doing to move to next step…. )

simchris
tagDiv Member

As a general rule, “most” SEO folk (including Joost over at Yoast, not that he’s always correct on things, I might add.. I can point to articles where he hands out advice and then Google guidelines the next day point out the fallacy of that advice …) … now only put in the robots.txt file couple of things

a) link to sitemap *if* a static site; not needed with WordPress unless you’re using something with static sitemap in your root and you want to ‘hint’ that — Google prefers you to submit via webmaster tools, as does Bing, Yandex, etc.

b) block anything you might have such as legacy /cgi-bin/ in root, or something like a /cache/ folder in root, or something like the duplicator plugin, /duplicator/

You should NOT block anything related to WordPress anymore in your robots.txt file, for best performance.

Some OLD server-installed copies of WP put a whole robots.txt blocking list, and I think that is what you’re running into now.

Fact is, you can pretty much empty your robots.txt file unless you know what you’re doing with that 🙂

simchris
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Hi,
from what I’ve been told, you can install more than one on the SAME domain, as long as it’s YOUR site and not building out client sites on sub-domains to sell.

So I think you’re fine.

I went through this with wanting to use theme for ecommerce on our main site *and* for our blog (main part of site not running WP), with Newspaper.

Hope that helped (I don’t work here, just feedback from my own experience).

simchris
tagDiv Member

Likely you need to fully clear your cache in IE….

YOUR SITE works perfectly fine for me in IE11/Win7-64.

If you’re using IE8 or 9, then chances are nothing is going to work right anywhere.

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simchris
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Also to clarify the panic and despair some folks have been hyped into worry and fear over … if you site doesn’t pass the mobile friendly test ALL THAT MEANS is that your site will not be shown/ranked highly for MOBILE searches — it does not impact your desktop searches at this time.

Logical idea – if a website won’t work on cellphone, why show link to a site in SERPS for mobile that won’t work on mobile.

It doesn’t mean your site is going to get kicked out or ‘punished’ — technically, merely not shown as well as it could for mobile.

During the break in period — they will typically still show sites, but they will remove a “mobile friendly” tag next to the site to identify it’s not mobile friendly.

Eventually they will start to hide those sites but not entirely “right now.” So, you have some time to shore up the flood gates 🙂

simchris
tagDiv Member

Perhaps check your robots.txt file first, as if you block part of your site without actual need to do so, then Google cannot load the proper CSS to build mobile version of page …

from the screenshot on the test page – you’re not getting the mobile layout … hence their warning about not blocking your wp-content folder with robots.txt …

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simchris
tagDiv Member

I think that is added by YouTube as option for your videos on your specific channel; might require xx number of viewers. Check the “sharing” options on YouTube for info on that widget.

Could be wrong .. but might be a plugin.

Not part of this theme.

simchris
tagDiv Member

try

http://www.gtmetrix.com as good starting point.

Some also like “pingdom” …

simchris
tagDiv Member

@EnkhbayarYu

Hi,
have not done this yet; been too busy; next thing on my to do list is actually working with Radu on testing a “shim” for our server to not use Visual Composer with Newsmag 1.7.1B, which crashed one of our sites and we had to remove. That’s the big deal right this moment.

For time …
likely going to try adding this to the single post template we’re using, after the date grab and before views eyeball:

<?php echo get_the_time(); ?>

ref
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_time

simchris
tagDiv Member

Note also, if using PHOTON for image thumbnails, this is known to create “crappy” thumbnails.

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