On some sites we turn off the theme counter, and use WP-PostViews — which we’ve used for years; on some sites we use the theme counter to show the count on pages, and manually change the theme counter setup file to change the field to “views” which is the datafield we’ve used for years and years (9?). Long time — I was younger then 😉

So, that way we use the existing field, keep old counts, and then theme counts “from now on.” If we turn off the theme for some reason, we switch WP-PostViews back on, which uses the “views” field, and no loss of tracking.

Anyway, that’s how I do it.

*addition:
we don’t use w3cache so, don’t need to use the “workaround” some folks are doing or the ajax counter. Since we have a dedicated server we’re running mod_pagespeed via opcache and I have 32GB of RAM to play with, not so necessary.

One annoying thing we have right now is somebody pinging our RSS feeds every 5 minutes and causing some kind of php thing to go from green to yellow EVERY 5 minutes, then every 10 minutes, then 20 minutes later; then exactly one hour later. Really weird. Can’t figure out where/what/when that is happening.

Always something 🙂

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You might check your hosting provider to see if there are any special requirements such as custom permissions.

You can see your “version” by going to the “dashboard” in WP, and/or going to the second menu item on left of WP … “updates” (drop down under “dashboard”) — it will tell you if you need to update or not.

Normally to update automatically, you will need to either
a) enter in your FTP password and IP (common when you installed it yourself)
b) click update – if the program was installed by hosting panel

if (b) applies to you an it won’t work, you might need to put in support ticket with your host.

Latest version of WordPress is 4.2.1 — most host panels will auto-update it if the host panel installed it in first place (e.g., if you didn’t manually install it yourself).

Heh… I should point out that even me being mr “smarty pants” I made that same exact error one time, and drove me nuts … then went “duh” when I saw it …. glad I could help 🙂

Too bad it doesn’t have async loading and doesn’t combine its js and CSS files or check to see if other js libs already are loaded … but I guess they are working on that for their next version to clean house. Too messy for my use, but interesting.

I find we actually get more comments from Disqus users and less spam pummeling our system via akismet, as many folks are used to Disqus on the “big sites” ..

but that’s why there is more than one brand of soda 😉

probably want to use

<div> vs <DIV> on that, also.

Likely need to read up on how to duplicate a metafield in the wordpress dbase; so you can duplicate and rename the field, then delete the old one.

Outside the scope of “how to use the theme,” and has more to do with how to use phpmyadmin to create the duplicate field — lots of tutorials online on how to do this sort of thing.

Some kind soul might be willing to spend the time to spell it out here – but you might want to research this, or post a query on stackexchange ?

Advanced Custom Fields plugin, then place the text shortcode into the template(s) where you want such code to appear; would be best way.

Note you can’t easily edit any of the ‘pre-defined” sidebar areas in the visual composer; you need to create new row, e.g.,
[ x x ] [ x ]

then assign home page side bar to either std widget or custom widget for home page, which you create from one of the edit category page; then add desired items to the sidebar.

If you are talking about regular sidebars under appearance > widgets

then likely a plugin conflict?

Not having that issue. Perhaps clear your cache, try different web browser?

Usually this is from the post doing a backup at same time … and you get that annoying red error note. I usually increase the delay between automated saves in my wp-config file to help stop this issue since default is something like every 60 seconds it saves a draft and you can’t upload image while it’s saving a draft (not super useful…)

Might not be related to what you’re seeing, though.

View my sticky post on optimization — all my recommendations are there 🙂

Then view the them docs on ‘page speed’ for additional help.

Yep … you don’t need them.

I think you need to turn off the top-border for that row or module — when you have “top border” set to on, it naturally puts some space above border so you’d have space when the preceeding module had no bottom border.

Look for a plugin that can do this:

a) wordpress.org plugin repository
b) envato wordpress plugins
c) google is your friend….
https://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+archive+plugin&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&ie=&oe=&rlz=1I7MXGB_enUS535&gws_rd=ssl

e.g.,
http://www.scratchinginfo.net/best-posts-archive-wordpress-plugins/

Not a theme issue. This is managed by WordPress … often if it doesn’t work on your site, you can setup a cron job for your server/hosting environment. Scheduled posts are managed by WP-cron (wp-includes/cron.php) which doesn’t work on all hosting setups.

For example with hostgator they have this help info:
https://support.hostgator.com/articles/specialized-help/technical/wordpress/how-to-replace-wordpress-cron-with-a-real-cron-job

Disqus works with comment counts on posts, but not on author page.
Disqus “writes” counts to WP datafield used by WP native comments; which is then read by theme.

HOWEVER – Disqus plugin has not been updated for WP 4.2x or the recent security changes to WP due to the major “comments” XSS vulnerability, so there may be some current “break” between what Disqus is doing and the WP backend — it’s NOT managed by theme in any way.

I usually just comment out the comment item on the author template, but works everywhere else.

I would guess there should be Disqus plugin update soon. Or, you can try one of the new alternate plugins which use Disqus API but add lazy loading and other cool things.

Make sure the %%placmeentname%% from yoast is correct in all your template settings, where you can place items like excerpt, sitename, etc. — some people paste those in and forget an opening/closing %%

Normally you would not have page 2.3,4 from home page anymore unless doing “blog post” style listings (e.g., doing a blog vs doing a magazine), since normally you would want people to go to the category indexes for more content where those pages are optimized for SEO and lead people to the news by topic and not just by date, which duplicates the date indexes. Just my thought anyway.

Ideally, at bottom of each module should be option to “read more” to go to a “category” index by I.D. (can be done with text block also, which is what we’ll be doing).

Sorry if that was random to the solution you were seeking 🙂

I don’t know answer but would love to see more info/examples on how you’re using theme without the visual composer add-on. Very curious about this. 🙂

It’s not in all categories; it’s only in the categories you chose.

You need to customize the blocks on home page to only show posts from specific categories like “sports” or whatever.

You might want to
a) look at how categories work in WordPress

– managing your categories
https://codex.wordpress.org/Manage_Categories_SubPanel

– creating posts
https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Posts

b) look at how to customize the home page from the theme docs (link right side of page)

Newsmag has a fixed width for a magazine layout – but is responsive to “collapse” to smaller units of the grid based on viewport, and the “grid” would have to be changed quite a bit to allow different widths as all the sizes, sub columns, short codes, etc., are based on the “grid” — as most responsive design is now done (e.g., bootstrap) etc.

You would need to do something like manually edit the CSS to make the post width one unit wider “in the grid” and then the sidbar one unit less “in the grid” — but then many of the modules might not fit any more, etc.

Not easy!

CSS option to have the ticker just change vs “fade” might be nice, as in previous version.

Note your site looks perfectly fine on my iPad Air running latest iOS 8x.

I’m assuming you’re using Safari on MAC, and not on Windows.

Safari Windows was discontinued in 2012 and nobody should be using that, and so any issues with that app should be ignored at this point as that was a “half-baked” thing anyway.

FYI
your home page looks fine here in IE11/Win7-64 (English/US), just as point of reference.

Funnily enough Google’s own G+ buttons on their Google Alert emails for news, clearly showing the headline, photo and first paragraph, won’t even grab first paragraph consistently.

I’m almost wondering if it’s placement of an “article” tag, not using an article tag at all, or applying an “ID” of “entry” to the entire post block similar to ID=”header” to the head area.

Playing with it more … we’ll be kings if we solve this ! But not going to stay up nights worrying about it.