Thanks, Emil
appreciate the how to. It’s working pretty well on my first upgraded site. Only one instance of waiting an extra second or two for a featured image to appear; seems okay on my iPhone 6 also.

Still, I know we did try using lazy load a year ago with mod_pagespeed, which has this as one of the inherent functions since it’s modifying and caching images on the fly, including webP format conversions where useful for mobile — and we got unpredictable results with some stories which had multiple images on page, where if you scrolled down, sometimes after xxx seconds the images below the fold might or might not appear … and it was up to about a 20% “might not load” situation.

So far I’m impressed I’m not seeing that on my first 1.7 site
http://enewschannels.com

( and yes, I bought another license this past week, too 😉 )

You might need to make a “STICKY” on the lazy load option, as I know with some weird combination of things, which I ran into last year, sometimes images just time out on the lazy load on long pages. But again, so far your implementation is rocking as far as I can tell. Good job folks!

Only bug for me so far is the one odd LI element thing in the WP default recent posts widget with double space at start of each item (or rather line break).

Well, the database does not store the image, just the info about the image.

So, typically it’s not huge overhead to have three sizes of images vs one size of image — since there still needs to be a data record OF the actual image someplace (otherwise the media manager would not work).

Often good idea to take a look at your dbase in something like phpMyAdmin, and read up on some of the online guides on cleaning house on your dbase for this kind of operation.

WP-Optimize really helps. I use it every day :_)

My update went perfectly.

@carelpedre
try to delete visual composer, tag div plugins folders, theme folder, and install the new versions from scratch; don’t use child theme; try using my upgrade guide.

It does work!

Database grows when you add new content, add new images, etc. Obviously using things like the 7 day popular stuff adds extra fields, so that could be avoided.

You can try using wp-optimize plugin to keep it optimized, and also if you have old plugins no longer being used which have left old tables and elements in the dbase you can certainly clean house on that. Plenty of tutorials online for cleaning up WP dbase.

I am not having this issue; I’m using latest Chrome on Win7/64, which for me seems to work best with the theme management in general. I just updated all my ad blocks with updated color schema from AdSense so the text ads would look better. No problem at all in v1.6 or v1.7 (so far).

Try clearing all your caches, on website *and* in your web browser. Stupid, I know, but that always seems to be the culprit (well, not always, but often…).

Disqus slows down the site a bit for some folks …. hahahahaha

Of course there is now a “lazy load Disqus” plugin which looks promising and uses the Disqus API, but not their plugin… will be testing soon.

big men need love too 🙂

Likely one of the plugins wasn’t updated for WP 4.1 or is doing something funky like re-loading jquery a second time, or using a style class used elsewhere.

Often checking the support forum for each plugin on wordpress.org is a good indicator if something amiss with the plugin.

I had a custom plugin to do related posts on sidebar — but it won’t work with any modern theme at all; works with Woo Canvas and some old stuff, but nothing current. So, obviously not a theme issue — but generally a plugin that doesn’t “play well” with others in how it does a query, like not resetting its query after doing one, etc.

Not sure if that helped – just a comment.

Call the waaaaaaahmbulance

no problems here so far ….

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oh… maybe this …

https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/no-predefined-content-section/

sorry don’t have better answer
I think the plugin link at end might be best choice?

let me know what solution you end up with … I need to still do this myself! Been too busy with fixing my logos and fonts …

There was a solution for this posted last week … it’s not something managed by theme, so you have to add a custom item to your functions.php file.

Do a quick search and you should find it; I don’t have link handy.

I was just here checking to see if anything blew up before I tried to do upgrade 😉

I won’t be posting anything else today unless I have some wonderful suggestion of some kind.

I will be trying the upgrade in a little while once I have some free time to make our various customization changes and then do the uploads via FTP.

On one site I recently did an “in place” upgrade where I had no users logged in, and was surprised it worked going from 1.4 to 1.6.

But will update my own upgrade (mis)adventure when I get there today for anybody interested. My usual issue with forgetting to turn OFF all the plugins, and turning off the mod_pagespeed FIRST ..

I personally don’t recommend child theme.

If you made changes to the core theme files, you need to make those changes again.

Updating won’t destroy your current settings, but obviously you SHOULD be keeping backups of your theme settings and your CSS customizations.

Follow my upgrade guide as best way; over-writing is not best method — you need to DELETE old theme folder, then upload NEW theme folder.

If the version of Visual Composer updated you need to completely delete that folder and upload new one. I will be doing this myself in a couple of hours.

Try my upgrade guide; as that has always worked for me on some our “peskier” sites.

Best way is to follow my upgrade guide from the sticky post.

You can set media uploads to be in date based folders from

WP settings > media

You can use the built-in media manager in WordPress.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Media_Library_Screen

You can also name your files in an intelligent way to keep track of them.

e.g., we often name our files based on story and author initials…

jsg-book-whitelines-640×320.jpg

cls-review-moogtar-500×375.jpg

Also, you can specify to upload files into date based folders, to be able to find things by month/day/year.

Not sure that helps. But images are actually managed by WordPress, not the theme 🙂

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Hi
my solution to this happening sometimes is to first “save” things on right side of the page you’re editing, then go to edit item with pencil, then save that change, then immediately save the main save button. Sometimes to add a new row I need to click add, then save main item, then edit it when it goes into spin of doom.

Seems to be an ajax memory thing. Comes and goes, oddly enough. Even in Chrome, which is usually better about that.

Install the Yoast SEO plugin to control the OG data for twitter and facebook.

probably edit one of the single templates in your /theme/Newspaper/ folder…

tag goes after first body tag

https://support.google.com/ds/answer/2478279?hl=en

The bundled version is updated when the theme is updated.
You can ignore the nag to update. You can’t update the VC plugin separate from the theme.

See theme docs for more info 🙂

Best bet is to create custom table styles and then apply that style “class” to your table.

e.g.,

.salztable .h3{text-align:center}

or just
.mycenter{text-align:center}

<td class="mycenter"><h3>Big Bad Bunny</h3></td>

You should also be using correct table syntax, with tbody tags, tr tags, th tag for header wrapped in thead tags, then td for cells. a th with header that crosses multiple cells also needs a colspan tag.

I usually do height:auto

Do you mean alt tags or title tags?

WordPress doesn’t use the title tags unless you modify how WordPress functions. Their philosophy is that garbled version of filename would not be good title and therefore useless for most people who don’t actually put anything in the title tag box.

For alt tags you need to put something in the alt tag box for each image when you upload it.

Is there an example page where you see this issue?

My site has the alt tags.