What I did, was this:
use console view in Chrome, and note down the specific most annoyingly smalle items (e.g., breadcrumbs, basic body text, tags/categories), and then put custom CSS in the WordPress appearance > Customizer.

e.g.,

.entry-crumbs {margin-bottom:18px;font-size:14px;color:#555555;}
.homeh1{font-size:20px;font-weight:700;text-align:center; border-bottom:1px #AAA solid; padding-bottom:24px;}
.td-post-content p a{text-decoration:underline!important;}
.entry-crumbs a:active{margin-bottom:18px;font-size:14px;color:#CC0000;}
.entry-crumbs a{margin-bottom:18px;font-size:14px;color:#CC0000;text-transform:uppercase;}
.td-tags{font-size:13px;}
.td-post-small-box{height:20px;line-height:24px;margin-bottom:5px;}
.td_module_mx2 .item-details {margin: 0 20px 20px 20px;display: block;min-height:60px;}
.meta-info{font-size:14px;color:#444;line-height:21px;margin-top:21px;margin-bottom:21px;}
.td-category{font-size:13px;}
.entry-category{height:20px;line-height:24px;margin-bottom:5px;}


What we do is just put note at bottom of post

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Updated 7.31.23 10:45 a.m. PDT

BTW; for our news portals what we have used for several years is ‘Contextual Related Posts’ (webberzone). We do a section bottom of each post “Related Stories” with just text headlines to recent relevant stories. You can set a time frame (we do two years), and even limit to same category, like food and wine, vs say, all stories from a city. We don’t use the thubnail feature, so very lightweight and doesn’t overload our server running on dozen sites.

Was impossible to post that properly due to all the encoding gremlins, but this page has correct codes as needed:

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F

Awesome, thanks 🙂

Not an admin, but probably best to post Newspaper questions in that forum vs the Newsmag forum? 🙂

Fyi, the DUPLICATOR plugin is useful for moving a website as you can set it to fix old URLs in dbase to the new one. (e.g., moving from muppetcandy.ooo to mupppetcandies.uuu)

Classic issue of trying to install the master zip file, vs the actual theme file *inside* the master zip file. This is also where you find the composer plugin needed to run the site. You need to unzip the “master all files” zip then the actual files, docs, plugins are inside of that. We’ve all done it 🙂

WP preview never looks correct as it doesn’t take into account theme panel settings. Might work better if you first activate the ‘td-composer’ plugin, THEN try preview. But most themes look like crap from the WP preview function. Seriously go try it on the WP main website with the public themes. Ugh.

Also to be clear; I did not delete old theme and plugin from the WP panel; I did it via FTP, which would not clear any WP settings or save states/cache.

Nope. All my settings were intact, as were the custom CSS I had in the WordPress panel. Of course, I had made backup of my dbase and existing files, so I could roll back if doom ensued.

I did this for one site way back in v3; basically much like editing the css to have the footer full width with black backing; I edited one of the theme templates to have the left column be responsive with a min and max width, and sidebar on right fixed width. It worked for my purposes, but I don’t have that code handy and would not apply to v5.

But that was the method I used. Bit of trial and error to ‘target’ the correct element. The Chrome inspector helps.

Downside is you have to replace the theme files with any update.

so, ended up with something like

[ header full width ]
[ <- content -> ] [sidebar -fixed]
[ footer full width ]

In my case I was not using a featured image; but inserting image into the template at a fixed size in centered div. SO I forget the template number, but it’s the one without any featured image in post.

Text would end up as

…………………..
…………………..
[ photo ]
…………………..
…………………..

etc.
It can be done but you need to understand how to edit CSS and keep log of changes, and then make note of what may need replacing each time you update theme (e.g, 5x to 5×1).

Hope that made sense.

• This reply was modified 3 years by simchris. Reason: typo :)

Tips: properly compress images prior to upload; test scores with ad networks *disabled* so you can see payload/impact of each as you add them. This gives you actual baseline. Setup proper cache and TTL policies for your website (not related to theme).

Support will post some links here I’m sure, but ideally disable *all* your ads and then retest for your baseline. Then look at the help/info from GTmetrix as starting point in optimization.

Well. How about that. I restarted Windows; set font size to 100%. Then reset to 125%, applied. Restarted Chrome. Went to page and the ‘issue’ now gone.

So, not sure why kind of funky caching on Windows or Chrome was happening, as hard clearing all the Chrome caching twice, didn’t clear the visible issue.

Now with the Windows font back to normal, then back to zoom. It now is fine.

Man, than was driving me nuts!

So, in case anybody else has this issue; definitely related to some kind of funky Windows 11 caching with accesibility > font size > “largerx%”

Whew! I think this one is solved.

Interesting. No zoom in browser (chrome = 100%).
I do have normal Windows accessibility setting to make fonts larger, at 125% but that should not affect the background gradient element.

Well, maybe a bug. YES! Increasing the font size to 125% on Windows (due to high dpi monitor), causes the ‘breakout’ of the gradient.

Try it 🙂

Not sure there is fix for that, such as fixed pixel width of gradient, but that is indeed the cause of the ‘issue.’ Doh.

Forgot screen shot 🙂

Ironically, I am redoing all my logos as svg now since all modern web browsers support it.

Many top themes don’t have dark mode — e.g. Elementor, Woo Commerce, etc.
Use a plugin, as there are many for this purpose now.
We use ‘WP Dark Mode’ by WPPOOL

Updating for anyone else who finds this super minor annoying …
the code you reference, unfortunately drops the css above the main <head> element sitewide, vs the admin panel. SO, I did minor tweak, and this does work:
/* HIDE NEWSMAG AMP NAG */
add_action('admin_head', 'bye_amp_nag');
function bye_amp_nag() {
echo '<style>
.td-amp-plugin-warning .notice { display: none; }
}
</style>';
}

Hi
just update for anybody else looking to remove the images from search box;
once I removed entirely the line from
echo $this->get_image($image_size …)

plugins/td-composer/legacy/Newsmag/includes/modules/td_module_mx2.php

I added this to our CSS
.td_module_mx2 .item-details {
margin: 0 20px 20px 20px;
display: block;
min-height: 60px;
}

Shazam! Works perfectly 🙂

Support will likely ask you what version of Newsmag you’re using, version of PHP (7.4, 8, 8.1), if using child theme, and what error you’re actually getting when trying to ‘activate’ td-composer plugin.

(I don’t work here; just in middle of updating from 3x to 5x over here for php 8.1 compatiblity)

I don’t work here; but did you try disabling any caching, other plugins; and enable the TagDiv td-composer plugin? I usually ftp the composer plugin manually vs activating from theme. Not sure that helps, but just some user feedback.

Awesome. Again not earth shattering issue, just annoying in minor OCD way 🙂

Thanks! 🙂

Hi
realized I could search forum for the old topic from 3xx days.

https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/remove-thumbs-entirely-from-menu-search/

However the old screen cap no longer valid, so having trouble finding comparable template file to mod in the booster plugin folders.

Changing the module being used for results from mx2 to m9.

It might be simpler to just completely remove the search box from the menu, which would appears we might be able to edit this:

/tdcomposer/legacy/newsmag/parts/header/headermenu.php
//<div class="td-search-wrapper">

Suggestions helpful. Luckily I only need help with this every 5 years 🙂
Thanks for your patience.

• This reply was modified 3 years by simchris.