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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
tagDiv Member

email contact@tagdiv.com and include your purchase code

simchris
tagDiv Member

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 …)

simchris
tagDiv Member

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. 🙂

simchris
tagDiv Member

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">

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

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

</div>
<div class="td-visible-phone">

</div>

simchris
tagDiv Member

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">

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

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

</div>
<div class="td-visible-phone">

</div>

simchris
tagDiv Member

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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simchris
tagDiv Member

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!

simchris
tagDiv Member

bumps don’t do anything ….

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simchris
tagDiv Member

likely

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/

simchris
tagDiv Member

um…
unblock the ones which are blocked from your errors?

eg
/wp-content/themes/

simchris
tagDiv Member

check your robots.txt file to see if you’re blocking something….

ideally you should not be blocking the main wordpress core folders …

simchris
tagDiv Member

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.

simchris
tagDiv Member

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)

simchris
tagDiv Member

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

simchris
tagDiv Member

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!!!

simchris
tagDiv Member

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.

simchris
tagDiv Member

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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simchris
tagDiv Member

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.

simchris
tagDiv Member

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…..”

simchris
tagDiv Member

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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simchris
tagDiv Member

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.

simchris
tagDiv Member

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

simchris
tagDiv Member

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. 🙂

simchris
tagDiv Member

1.6 working on 3 websites; 1.7 on one website almost killed server (seriously!)

simchris
tagDiv Member

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/

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