Thanks 🙂

Hi, sorry to poke my nose in, only because I’ve been adjusting this stuff across our news network sites this month to “dial in” the best setting for the baby sites vs the big ones. Oddly when setting the memory in php.ini to 512MB, WordPress was saying “you only have 40MB allocated” … which made no sense.

Stupidly, and there should be no real reason to do this, I went ahead and added the pokey line to top of wp-config.php after the first commented stuff,

define( 'WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M' );
define( 'WP_POST_REVISIONS', 3 );
define( 'AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL', 160 );

and shazam, now WP says “I have 256MB” — even though the WP codex specifically says if you set the memory in php if would use more memory if needed (e.g., if I go to my php settings in my hosting panel it *says* 256MB, and the server DEFAULT was set to 256MB per site … WP was still saying 40MB which is the WordPres BUILT-IN default).

So, for purposes of paranoia, I *do* recommend you add the 256M line to your wp-config.php *and* set the level in your php settings…

this will
a) on server allow 256MB to be used for php
b) editing config file for WP, tells WP, you have more memory to actually play with since it apparently cannot figure this out … (!)

ALSO … you don’t need to use them, but I also include the limit drafts item in my example above, since that also seems to work better at “top” of wp-config.php file than at bottom.

Food for thought anyway 🙂

Presuming you placed relative link to the logo in the theme panel, for both desktop and mobile logos?

Some of these things don’t always work in local environment, depending on how you have your paths setup, etc.

Not having this issue on any of my sites, but yours may be setup in some odd way. Kind of hard to check since your website not yet live to test.

Try deleting the logo file in the theme folder to see if you even have the paths correct. Check paths to where you’re placing the new logo to see if logo location resolves.

When you go back to theme panel does it show preview of your logo once you’ve selected it ? If not, paths likely wrong.

Just a thought. Usually a caching issue, however, hence my comment. (SOrry). 🙂

I didn’t know Newspaper theme had a news ticker ?

Clear cache!

You can roll back without losing most settings except some widget go wonky, and home page might need to be re-saved, or checked for module/shortcodes not found in an earlier iteration — I think some codes changed between 1.5 and 1.6 if memory serves. Likely might need to refresh/tweak home page (not big deal really), and might need to drag some widgets back from “disabled” to the right places.

I did a backtrack from 1.7 to 1.6 when 1.7 first released, as our server went up to something like 150 or about 100x normal load (!). Simple. Luckily WordPress “transient” settings and dbase allow you to switch between themes and most settings recover — again except sometimes the widgets, and the menus – might need to go back to the “choose locations” and that takes 2 clicks.

I am going to try Radu’s “test shim” with one of our lesser sites running 1.6 — one of the sites I was baby-stepping before tackling the BIG one. Basically the site which dies with 1.7 has about 50x the traffic of the smaller sites, and because it’s been online for a decade it has a LOT of content, images, etc.

One nice thing about the “related posts” plugin I’m using, is that it only checks the past 365 days, not the past 3,500 days — and caches the result — so a tad more efficient on that bit of query.

More later …. can you say “shenanigans” (my word for 2015 …)

HI, Emil
yes, had to go back to Canvas as 1.71 crashed the site yesterday.

See here:
http://enewschannels.com/news/banking_and_finance/

note the “name of category” (“Banking and Finance”) is a pill button ala Bootstrap
and not a proper “title” on page as here for tags:
http://enewschannels.com/tag/four-seasons-compassion-for-life/

see the difference?

The little “pill” label for the “category title” on page is too small and not well representing the “index” of the content.

Hi, Radu
got your emails; will address this once I deal with my client stuff today on the “A” side of the company; where this other stuff is the “B” side.

Other folk — 1.6 works “okay” on our “medium traffic” sites, although 1.5 was rock solid. Still, 1.71 (or 1.7) immediately took the CPU into a death spiral. (Well, technically I think it has to go to 170 to die completely, but going from 1.2 to 32 in 10 minutes from activating the theme …. pretty obvious….)

Although I suspect some other things might be “involved” in these issues, including WP 4.2x and Yoast SEO, and mix of plugins. We’re still getting php “hot spots” today, while running 1.6 on 3 other sites. Main one back to Canvas (yuck!).

I’ll work with Radu to play with this as I can likely mess with one of our less important sites to debug.

I wonder if siteorigin would work for home page layouts in place of vc…

Wow…. You know … That is really clever.

Tagdiv could almost make a new homepage version which is basically, a new category page, and add options in the theme panel … Just like managing, say any category is done now, but with all the latest posts.

I am going to try doing what you did here, as vc kills our system a s of 1.7, while 1.6 can spike a little bit on high traffic site with php going to yellow from green over and over.

Going to give this method a whirl…!

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Might try the visual composer and tempatara support forums?

I think they plan this as one of the features of “Newspaper 5.0” — coming soon, but no specific ETA. They are hoping for sometime this month. I think some of the changes to WP 4.2x and all the recent security flaps may have delayed things a bit.

You can’t.

Download theme from your Themforest account …

See links to documentation, right side of page …..

If it clicks save, might be a caching setup on the server. Meaning settings saved, but changes not being seen.

Ajax loading of queries on home page; or on post pages custom CSS over-riding default CSS. “Flash of unstyled text” … complex mega menu on slow server, etc.

Maybe try dropping the menu font text size 1px … doesn’t look like the search box would fit on there right now hwne using “search” text vs. the icon font.

If new icon font not working, and icon old font worked, try uploading the old font over the new one — ?

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Well, VC does work
— obviously if you delete the old folder, you need to upload a new fresh copy — assuming you did that ?

Start up without ANY other plugins running; turn off all caching.

Make sure your server is setup for php to have at least 256MB RAM allocated to it.

Clear the cache in your web browser.

Typically best to update WP, before updating theme, in future… just a thought. Seems to work better than way.

If above doesn’t work, perhaps try:

First clear/disable any server caching, turn off mod_pagespeed if using it.

a) switch to default theme
b) deactivate visual composer
c) deactivate all plugins
d) switch on visual composer
d) under appearance > preview theme for newsmag — if it won’t ‘preview’ at all; then you need to do CLEAN install of the theme, td plugins, and visual composer
e) once you can ‘preview’ the theme, then you can activate it and it will work.
f) then turn on plugins and if it dies, disable the bad plugin

Went through this issue last week, actually.

I think you can edit the excerpt lengths in the ‘excerpts’ settings in theme panel …

I was just editing this myself to ensure we’d see all 20 words in our headlines, vs some modules chopping at 12 or 15.

You can delete the js-composer folder in your wp-content/plugins/ folder via filezilla using the delete command ….
however, I run into this issue where it may “time out” and not finish…
this is a normal server issue with trying to delete too many files via ftp …

If you have a “filemanager” module in your web hosting account panel, it’s MUCH faster to navigate into your public docs folder (e.g., httpdocs or whatever), then go to that folder and check box, and click delete. Server can do it in one click.

FTP, you might have to open the stupid js-composer folder, select all, then click delete and might have to do that twice until folder empty.

Just went through that on 7 websites. The filemanager method MUCH quicker.

I have this issue with some browsers, and kind of inconsistent.
With IE11 it seems to come and go; with Chrome seems to work all the time (this is on Windows7).

There doesn’t seem to be a fix for the issue with ajax/visual composer in the admin panel, and or the admin panel/ajax working 100% of the time across all browsers.

With IE11, I can sometimes do the trick in the theme panel of ignoring the floating ‘save’ button, and instead scroll ALL THE WAY TO BOTTOM and then click the bottom “save” button, and then I more often get the checkbox success as saved.

This is not just theme related, btw. With the last couple of WP updates (4.2x), I’ve also been having issues SAVING WIDGETS with IE11, which has only happened before with a couple of versions of WordPress.

Upshot — Firefox has hiccups with java/ajax stuff; Chrome seems most stable for us these days, Safari on Mac “mostly” good, and IE11/Win7 is about 75% reliable with WP these days.

Probably doesn’t help.

Try fully clearing your browser cache/temp files — that does seem to help here.

FYI, I had nothing to do with the template, and don’t work here 🙂
I have just been using WordPress for 9 1/2 years and using TagDiv themese since Fall 2013.

So, just have some spare time while waiting on other stuff here to finish, and pop in to help out.

Built in function of WordPress …
go to WP settings > reading

Might be the popup script — mobile devices generally don’t like those.

For stuff nor related to theme, stackexchange also good place to get programming help 🙂