Need to use Visual Composer to create the layout as I mentioned in your other post on the same topic. You can simply update the ongoing topic, you don’t need to keep starting new ones, btw. 🙂

You need to use visual composer.

You don’t need to keep posting the same topic over and over, btw.

Hi, Radu
thanks; was afraid of that. I don’t want to use visual composer for anything in posts/pages, but it might be okay for the home page. Not a big problem or anything. 🙂

After 20 years of web development I’ve come to NOT want to rely on any plugin or framework too much as things come/go then don’t work anymore, etc. So, for example I still have posts from early days of WordPress where the tags were inserted at bottom with [tags ] … well, when that changed, I now have couple of years of content with bracket tags at bottom of posts.

Visual Composer is not a bad thing to standardize on as a theme seller, however since I’ve got websites that have been around longer than 90% of the web, I’ve gotten a little jaded on things. I ended up standardizing on Bootstrap for a lot of things, as they did excactly what we were doing around here of having small batches of code we’d re-use for things like accordions and tabs, and whatnot; and they put it all together, so that was great for us since it was pre-packaged and had classes all set for use.

I also used shortcodes for buttons years back, theme dev went DOA with WP3, now all the buttons were [button] and don’t work. So, not going to trust that for anything tied to theme/or VC. Color me paranoid 🙂

Right now I would not want to use visual composer for posts in any way as if they go under, in 5 years, my sites would have 5 years of broken elements, and I’ve seen that happen too many times now to “rely” on that for anything other than, say, the homepage or category page tops — as you’re very nicely doing, hence my adoption of the theme(s) you’ve been doing.

For example, I would not use shortcodes to change colors, create tables, or anything like that in a post.

I’m not sure if WordPress has a built-in responsive table class, but if not, that would be something GOOD from Bootstrap 3 to keep in your own framework as it was a nice solution for having a table that couldn’t entirely collapse become a fake inline frame with horizontal scroll. I guess I should actually play around with it. 🙂

In any case if you have a cheat sheet for your icon font to be able to use in content, similar to FontAwesome spans, that would be super cool. 🙂

And yes, having a more flexible grid for the layouts than how bootstrap does it, is great for the borders, and boxes, and all that. Nice job!

Chris

sidebar has to be part of the “row”

in other words it works better to do it this way

[row [col one ] [ col sidebar ] ]
[col one modules]
[col one modules]

[row [widecol] ]

etc.

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Works for me.

Not theme releated. soundcloud is embedded with oembed via wordpress.

You need to insert the code where width is 100%, or iframe, and not fixed width as you have it.

e.g. if you have it inserted like so, the fixed width doesn’t scale as it’s NOT a photo.
<p><iframe width="640" height="400" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?visual=true&url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F139414902&show_artwork=true&maxwidth=640&maxheight=960"></iframe></p>

Check the embed options and Soundcloud help for how to embed a responsive player into WordPress.

That’s what the web is for 😉

For example if you follow the docs on WordPress for soundcloud, pretty simple:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/audio/soundcloud-audio-player/

while that is for wordpress.com also works for self hosted.

Note how if you resize the web browser on above page, the player window resizes also? Yup. Ya gotta do it right for it to work !

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Thanks! For most things it’s great to have both, but in one case where I’m testing it, we have a syndicated category where the items are identical due to not enough tags.

Love you guys!

I was looking to disable more from author, not hide it with css. That doesnt disable the media queries, based on that solution.

Since those are really must mods to the visual composer modules, you could certainly do those yourself, also. 🙂

We use a product called FeedWordPress.

You can also syndicate our news if you wish with this URL:
https://www.send2press.com/XML/s2p-news1.xml

+1 on option to use one/other or both

Ha, yeah, stupid me. Removing the function to insert http or https would have been smart.

BTW; that fixed it. 🙂

I’m guessing that function doesn’t work for roboto for some reason when used in the admin panel, even when loaded via https; so on page or post the “not all files secure” pops up. Super annoying on the visual editor stuff as you have to accept all to get stuff to load properly then it saves a draft of that.

So, minor fix for next time around.

I warned you I’d be acid-testing the WooCommerce stuff! (Sorry!) 🙂

Facebook is a free service and their capture system is inconsistent.

You can often spot the copycat/cloners, as they will put out 10 themes in a month, never any prior to that, and all the themes look very much like other MAJOR “best selling” commercial themes.

Thanks will try this today 🙂

Thanks, Radu
this is primarily for the ecommerce setup I’m working on for my main business site (pays all my bills!), which similarly I plan to put in place then not change for 6 months+ either, so timing will work well.

Chris

Wow, aside from the similarity of the use of Visual Composer, it’s awfully close. I’d even be tempted to suspect the dev is a former TagDiv staffer, or just very nicely “inspired” by Tagdiv’s work. But I see a LOT of that on ThemeForest … still, it’s a fairly common layout in the basic sense. (Kind of nice, actually.)

But … yeah.

Hi everyone
On the topic of “PageSpeed,” I have already answered the same questions 50-100 times the past year and they are all covered in the “sticky” thread found in the Newspaper forum.

I am no longer providing any help with PageSpeed issues, as this is all covered in the sticky topic for advanced users; and for newbies, the settings/docs provided by TagDiv for the theme docs (link right side of page) will get you to the 80+ stage right away. If your score is below that then you *did not* follow the theme docs or this topic on the basics for speeding up your WORDPRESS install.

WordPress optimization is widely covered on the net – it’s not theme specific.

You need to have
a) fast hosting; $3/month accounts or “free” hosting are crap.
b) have gzip/deflate running on server
c) you need to set expiration headers in your htaccess (noted in docs)
d) you need to have an image optimization strategy (noted in docs); either via plugin and/or changing optimization setting in functions.php (covered in the sticky topic.. why not READ through it??)
e) you need to optimize your dbase regularly (wp-optimize plugin)
f) you need to limit use of things which call CSS, JS, fonts, ads, counters from OTHER SITES.
g) you need to test/explore refine some kind of caching system on the server or from a WP plugin (noted in docs)
h) high quality hosting will add mod_pagespeed
i) you need to look at manual minification of main style.css file
j) limit number of ad networks
k) limit number of plugins wherever possible
j) limit total number of images/thumbs loaded on post pages to something like 10 total; not 30+
k) use fewer module types to limit number of image sizes/thumbs; use text modules also.

When testing site with something like GTMetrix.com *READ* the information provided with examples and solutions. Only YOU can fix your own website, why ignore the info provided as so many on this forum(s) seem to do?

Advanced users:
a) local caching/loading of gravatars (I provide solution in the sticky thread)
b) mod_pagspeeed and mod_spdy if site loading via https (I offer help on that in the sticky thread and other discussion on mod_pagespeed; search forum)
c) optimization of font loading, hack theme to remove calls from headers/footers to Google and load via style.css; -or- use ONLY web-safe fonts and no Google fonts. (I also describe how to do this in sticky thread; although might need update based on current location of font calls with theme evolution/updates)
d) manual minification of other files, such as main theme functions files
e) optimization of wp-config.php file with comment removal, add paths to base URL/directory and theme directory by name (I show example in sticky thread)
f) add expiration type/ttl for custom icon font loaded by theme (betcha forgot that one!)

etc.

Learning to optimize your WordPress site is UP TO YOU TO LEARN. It’s not part of the theme. The theme supports very good speed rating IF YOU DO THE REST. The theme cannot fix your server, optimize your htaccess file, speed up time, or transport you off this rock. Google is a great resource to FIND hundreds of articles from the past decade on optimizing WordPress. You’re not the first person to do it.

Chris out.

(I am adding this here, as many don’t look at the sticky thread and/or folks in the Newsmag forum never saw that. Even so, most posting “my score is 40” clearly did NOT follow the basics found in theme docs.)

#1 TIP: don’t worry about render blocking elements until EVERYTHING ELSE is done. Those last items really only impact your last couple of points. I have 95 score with Newsmag without full optimization of the fonts or minification. It’s doable!

Hi everyone
I have already answered the same questions 50 times the past year and they are all covered in this thread.

I am no longer providing any help with PageSpeed issues, as this is all covered in this sticky topic for advanced users, and for newbies, the settings/docs provided by TagDiv for the theme docs (link right side of page) will get you to the 80+ stage right away. If your score is below that then you *did not* follow the theme docs or this topic on the basics for speeding up your WORDPRESS install.

WordPress optimization is widely covered on the net – it’s not theme specific.

You need to have
a) fast hosting; $3/month accounts or “free” hosting are crap.
b) have gzip/deflate running on server
c) you need to set expiration headers in your htaccess (noted in docs)
d) you need to have an image optimization strategy (noted in docs); either via plugin and/or changing optimization setting in functions.php (covered in this sticky topic.. why not READ through it??)
e) you need to optimize your dbase regularly (wp-optimize plugin)
f) you need to limit use of things which call CSS, JS, fonts, ads, counters from OTHER SITES.
g) you need to test/explore refine some kind of caching system on the server or from a WP plugin (noted in docs)
h) high quality hosting will add mod_pagespeed
i) you need to look at manual minification of main style.css file
j) limit number of ad networks
k) limit number of plugins wherever possible
j) limit total number of images/thumbs loaded on post pages to something like 10 total; not 30+
k) use fewer module types to limit number of image sizes/thumbs; use text modules also.

Advanced users:
a) local caching/loading of gravatars
b) mod_pagspeeed and mod_spdy if site loading via https
c) optimization of font loading, hack theme to remove calls from headers/footers to Google and load via style.css; -or- use ONLY web-safe fonts and no Google fonts.
d) manual minification of other files, such as main theme functions files
e) optimization of wp-config.php file with comment removal, add paths to base URL/directory and theme directory by name
f) add expiration type/ttl for custom icon font loaded by theme

etc.

Learning to optimize your WordPress site is UP TO YOU TO LEARN. It’s not part of the theme. The theme supports very good speed rating IF YOU DO THE REST. The theme cannot fix your server, optimize your htaccess file, speed up time, or transport you off this rock. Google is a great resource to FIND hundreds of articles from the past decade on optimizing WordPress. You’re not the first person to do it.

Chris out.

No prob 🙂

Why not look at your robots.txt file and edit it ?

Do you have a robots.txt file? The theme doesn’t create or manage that.

You can manage it with Yoast WordPress SEO, if it’s “writable.”

Verified it’s a theme call, as I switched to Woo Canvas + Visual Composer, went to edit a page/post, and did NOT get the https warning.

If you could let me know which file might have that call for the admin section, so I can fix, would appreciate.

THIS ONLY IMPACTS ADMIN SCREENS, PAGES, POSTS, PRODUCTS … not live pages on web.

Thank you! 🙂

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Well, that last bit I obviously can’t remove as it crashes the theme.

But curious about the rest?

Well, I don’t work here, so frankly, I’m sorry to say you’re lucky I bothered to help at all. So, guess I’ll bow out. Good luck with that.

Obviously if something broke on the install, migration, content won’t work properly.

But go ahead and either try clean install to fix the problems which “suddenly” appeared with WordPress, the theme and possible bad plugins, or broken cache settings, etc.

FYI: TagDiv support back Monday:
Support Hours (GMT+2)
Monday – Friday:
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Sorry to have bothered. Have a nice day. 🙂