email contact@tagdiv.com and include your purchase code
Ha.. most of that is so totally wrong, it’s not even funny.
Custom fields for thumbnails ?
Fopen — yes, used to grab content from external sites as some servers only way that works.
iframes — oh no! a basic web feature is evil !!!
base64 — omg — Base-64 encoding is a way of taking binary data and turning it into text so that it’s more easily transmitted in things like e-mail and HTML form data.
Sheesh. The sky is falling … run away run away!! Giant bunny on the loose.
Nothing to see here, move along, move along.
(humor provided at no extra cost …)
DOCS:
how to use ad system
https://forum.tagdiv.com/ads/
note the examples of inserting your own code, where the example uses the default demo tagdiv banners. 🙂
DOCS:
how to use ad system
https://forum.tagdiv.com/ads/
example of putting your own ad code in the header box
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DOCS:
how to use ad system
https://forum.tagdiv.com/ads/
example of putting your own ad code in the header box
<div class="td-visible-desktop">

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<div class="td-visible-tablet-l">

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<div class="td-visible-tablet-tp">

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Well… you realize that the purpose of that lineup in the robots.txt file and hence the words “disallow” are intended to tell Google and other bots what *not* to spider or look at (e.g., friendly blocking).
Anything you don’t want blocked shouldn’t be there.
Anything you do want blocked should be.
Some people have just taken to removing all that stuff for WordPress.
For instance my code in the examples from my optimization sticky effective disable trackbacks.
If you don’t have an affiliate (“aff” ?) folder — no need to block it.
If you don’t have a cgi-bin folder … why block it?
With “search” — I am not sure yes/no on whether that should be blocked since technically you do want Google to “discover” your search to add the new site search hinting.
For instance the Yoast site got rid of all of those items entirely.
So, upshot — unless you KNOW WHY you’re blocking something, why block it?
Some hosting companies have an old default robots.txt template that gets built “for you” which is how you might have ended up with that — but in most cases, really not needed now.
Those are only “guidelines” anyway — they don’t really block anything except those ‘bots that adhere to your “request” not to look in those folders. They are not actually “real” blocks against anybody.
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Maybe try this first
a) the theme docs on how to improve site speed
b) my “sticky” topic at top of forum on site optimization
Best of luck!
bumps don’t do anything ….
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User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /wp-content/upgrade
Disallow: /wp-content/backup-*
Disallow: /aff/
Disallow: /search/*/*
Disallow: /trackback
Disallow: */trackback
Disallow: /trackback/
um…
unblock the ones which are blocked from your errors?
eg
/wp-content/themes/
check your robots.txt file to see if you’re blocking something….
ideally you should not be blocking the main wordpress core folders …
COMMENT:
Always best to optimize yourself with built-in features of server, wordpress, htaccess, wp-config, where possible vs using a plugin which may or may not be supported, conflict with other plugins, etc. We don’t use WP-Rocket or WP Optimize, but obviously anybody would need to A/B test their setup from backups and probably not on a production environment.
In our case we made sure
a) using something like YOAST SEO which sets up all the OG Tags properly
b) always set featured image, which is what gets put into meta data for Google to grab in place of trying to scrape first image in text (which they may try to do anyway)
Again, wordpress docs good idea to learn to use it
built in widgets
https://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Widgets_Screen
creating pages, editing the URL, etc.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages
how to manage categories
https://codex.wordpress.org/Manage_Categories_SubPanel
Usually caching issue, or a plugin also using ajax in some way that is hooked into the WP admin and causing something to load twice like jquery… so, obviously if you also went back to older visual composer by completely deleting old folder and going back to prior version of VC, try turning off all the plugins EXCEPT for Visual Composer, and see if it works.
I have this issue “sometimes” even in Chrome. And I either
a) have to scroll down to bottom of page then click the save button at bottom so it’s not “floating” when I click it
b) save something ELSE then come back to it.
Stupid ajax!!!
You do need to have the GD Libraries or ImageMagick running on your server. But that is assumed otherwise you’d have no thumbnails at all.
Weird. Perhaps you have some caching turned on conflicting with that, and so serving up old version of image.
This image is pretty big
http://evolvehype.com/…ploads/2015/03/ehlprodivision-100×65.jpg
254 KB (260,690 bytes)
with a quality factor of “50” — and images re-generated
generally speaking the size would/should be roughly 3 KB
perhaps you have some aggressive caching turned on? YOu need to turn that OFF before running the regenerate-thumbnails …
also make sure your functions file has the RIGHT code to do that — check it against my optimization sticky at top of forum as my code from functions.php is also there.
It does work 🙂
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Several folks have done it, but you’d need to do a search in the forum to see what the gotcha with that happened to be … I think you can just use the custom ad box, but I’ve not tried that with DFP.
That’s what I did …. there is some wonky php issue in 1.7 and some oddity in both ajax stuff and queries, “causing a commotion…..”
I usually look at the support issues for the plugin before trying it at all …
doesn’t look very promising based on this … not updated since 2013 — also worrisome as anything pre WP 4.1 and new field updates in WP 4.2, might not be best choice for any caching/optimization duties …
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-widget-cache
I guess it depends on what kind of widget you’re caching …. probably a dbase query to load related posts wouldn’t work; nor would “latest posts” probably.
Not sure if WordPress caches any of that by default, e.g., checking for latest comments EVERY time page is loaded, or once per hour or what.
Good idea … not sure how to execute that …
this is kind of interesting and I have not yet had time to try this out — since you asked 🙂 :
http://generatewp.com/use-transients-speed-wordpress-widgets/
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For the endless loading of the theme panel, try different browser (I get endless loading often on IE11, but works great on Chrome), clear cache, and/or go back to v 1.6 to be safe – it works.
Right … so I can’t write your code for you…
if you look at *MY* example code, you can see I’ve added both “type” handlers to definte .js and font files and then added expirations for the font formats.
Try copying the code for fonts and js I have which you’re missing.
Chris
You can override that with custom CSS in the custom css box of the theme panel.
Try adding some negative margin (e.g., margin-bottom:-40px with an !important tag).
If you don’t know how to write CSS, wait for response from TagDiv support. 🙂
1.6 working on 3 websites; 1.7 on one website almost killed server (seriously!)
You likely already looked at my version of htaccess, but it’s here
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/