You can make it visible from the ‘screen options’ tab, top right of WordPress when logged in. Built-in function of WP to hide/show some boxes/features if not being used.

Also, the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin is pretty cool for showing a preview of how the excerpt will look in Google, which can sometimes really help if you want something to appear a certain way in search results (SERPS).

WordPress REALLY should make their documentation built in to the dashboard 🙂

See: http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Screens#Screen_Options

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Yeah.. there is some plugin we had, too, where it had simply named CSS, vs “unique” named CSS, and it conflicted with the VC plugin. SO, two different things were loading same time.

This is why “good” plugins will NOT load jquery AGAIN if already loaded by theme, and will ONLY use custom variables like “td_bunny-font” vs “bunny-font” 🙂

Always a fun time!!

It should.

And of course you should always keep backups of the original installers for WooCommerce and not just rely on the WP updater. This allows you to “go back” a version if something it terribly wrong.

Seems to work for me … but I’m still in the setup phase with putting in the products, options, testing extensions/plugins for stuff like custom tabs and turning off the review function, etc.

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I don’t work here, so my advice has been voluntary. I can’t fix your issue, sorry.

Google will show adsense ads to fit the “space” as large as possible with the responsive code, based on my own experience.

It does work with the sidebar, meaning if you say 200×200 for vertical iPad view that does work with the responsive adsense code.

What code are you using?

You can paste that here and obfuscate your ID #s. 🙂

Well, if it started 3-4 days… likely a server issue, bad plugin, etc.

The theme cannot “suddenly” change your content without you knowing it.

I’m not having this issue on ANY of my websites.
e.g.,

http://publishersnewswire.com/2014/12/12/PNW3358_195052.php/new-book-buyers-sellers-youre-busted-dick-lee/

http://advertisingindustrynewswire.com/2014/12/16/3243_142605.php/product-launch-secugen-hamster-pro-duocl-contactless-smart-card-fap-20-piv-fingerprint-reader/

I have that problem with stupid Internet Explorer 11 on Win7/64 … have to switch over to Chrome and stuff all works.

Might not be the cause of your issue, but it does work. It’s always one of these

1) stupid Internet Explorer 😉
2) caching issue
3) bad plugin conflicting with Visual Composer

It’s always one of those. Trick is figuring out which! 🙂

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Note: even with Chrome I did recently have issue where going to save a new row or something didn’t stick and realized if I did anything notable I needed to press the “save” on right side to make sure that step “stuck” — then went to next thing to mess with. Pressing “Save” seemed to clear it from it’s “lost in thought” moment.

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Did you add the items to your htaccess file ? Doesn’t look like it.

You need to do EVERYTHING ELSE before messing with the speedbooster plugin customizations, which are optional and entirely up to you.

You need to take care of ALL the other issues EXCEPT for “render blocking CSS/javascript” first or the latter will do nothing for your site. That step is done LAST to get the last couple of points, not the 25-30 points you’re down right now due to all the other issues that ONLY YOU can manage.

Web server optimization is up to you, and is related to optimizing WORDPRESS, not the theme. Tech support here is for the THEME, and not to teach you how to manage your web server … folks here are helping on that as time permits, but you have to take the initiative to LEARN how to do that — WordPress has been around 10 years — lots of tutorials on the web. “How to optimize WordPress for best Pagespeed” … simple search in Google, for example.

And all the links in this thread — SHOW YOU a number of things you should do, but you need to do that.

Nobody ignoring you — you need to fix your own house, that is YOUR job to tackle.

You’ve read the docs … well, now you need to actually *do* some of the guidelines or they won’t work.

Fix your htaccess file; make sure you have compression running, and expiration headers; optimize your images; minimize external elements loading on your site; etc. — ONLY YOU can do that stuff. If it means nothing to you, then you likely will need to hire a developer to help you.

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Might be your web server doesn’t have the right image processing modules installed. You should have ImageMagick running for best results.

I’ve never seen the issue you’re having with this theme after a year of using it, or with any WordPress site. No idea HOW you’re getting that to happen, frankly.

I suspect some oddity of your server, or a bad plugin, or the setting for compression is too high. Or, you’re using some kind of hosting platform that re-saves files and compresses them a second time — some web hosts do this, and you have to turn that off.

I would go back to the default WP theme and see if you can sort it out with only the twenty-fifteen theme running.

Read the theme docs, links right side of page. Good place to start. 🙂

Wordpress reduces the image quality for the web — not much you can do about that. A high res image that is 1MB would slow down the page, but look great. Ideally images should never be more than 100kb, and preferably no more than 50kb for page speed.

You can of course just re-upload your images from your backup, too.

Based on your image, it looks like the picture is being converted to a GIF or PNG from the original jpeg. If you’re using PNG files to begin with that might be the problem.

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I think you have to use the shortcode with VC, where you insert the specific ad unit [shortcode] into one of the code boxes; as there would have to be a VC module for AdRotate pro to show as it’s own element in VC.

Try this:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/how-to-guide-to-moving-from-newspaper-to-newsmag/

I was using the bullet code in place of un ordered list for the woocommerce setup using newsmag, then discovered with WC running, the bullets were visible in un-ordered lists; they don’t indent properly (no indent on second/third lines of text), but at least the bullets are visible.

I am going to blame this behavior on the custom code modifying the display of the visual editor, as I don’t have issue with lists on Newspaper where the customization of the divider line and whatnot are not part of the theme mods to post pages.

Hoping this works better in next version of theme. My one “peeve” with Newsmag right now as this whole thing with post pages is “intrusive” and not helpful.

most of those errors look related to wp-optimize plugin … so that is separate problem.

Also looks like some kind of permissions issue on the /js/ folder.

Oddly they seemed to work when I did some in the visual editor, but not in the text editor. But then later on they did work.

So, Newsmag stock = bullets don’t work for me.

Newsmag running WooCommerce, bullets work.

Really bizarre.

You can try simply using & bull; temporarily …. (no space after the ampersand)

This forum has the same encoding issue as the theme, ironically. If I put the ascii code for bullet in the code box, it converts it into an ISO element, and prints in in the text box. Argh.

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You need to turn off the “show featured image in posts” setting on the admin panel > posts settings page.

You might try one of the plugin profilers to see which plugin is using the most resources. This is what I’ve often done to debug a “runaway” plugin. I had a related posts plugin which was causing major headaches once upon a time; a bad version of Yoast SEO was causing issues; people trying to hack something caused overloads.

I also recommend using things like Limit Login Attempts to stop bots from running guessing games on your login 10,000 times in a row which can kill the server right there. I also disable pingbacks completely here for same reason.

All modern themes use the built-in WordPress image thumbnailer which relies on the “featured” image to create thumbnails. Older themes used things like Timthumb to make thumbs on the fly.

We had the same issue, and found a plugin on envato called “Auto Post Thumbnail PRO” which will generate a featured image from the first image in the post and assign it as featured image so that all the thumbnails used by this theme (or most themes now, including those included with WP base install) will work.

It’s cheap and it works. To enlarge images if needed we also run “thumbnail upscale” plugin.

The combination does what we need on some of our 10 year old sites where, as you, we didn’t use ‘featured image’ as that wasn’t necessary or it didn’t yet exist.

Hope that helps!

You can ignore the notice as noted in the theme docs
https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/

How to Update Visual Composer plugin (WPBakery)

•The theme includes a license for this plugin so you don’t have to buy it.
•You don’t have to activate the plugin license, it’s already activated.
•You can’t update the plugin directly from the it’s producer.
•You don’t have to worry about the plugin update warnings.

I had to fully un-install my licensed version; then use the one included with the theme since it’s tested compatible and I think has some custom modules and whatnot.

I “think” some of the custom stuff is tied to the bundled version, license wise.

However, I could be completely wrong on that — but I know my version this past Spring did *not* work with Newspaper, so I’m going to say likely the same with Newsmag.

Adding unrelated items to a thread may not help you get support quicker.

Best to open a new thread with *your* issue.

@planetaim
your website comes up as blocked by my anti-malware software.

Yes, that is normal. The size of the font used in the admin panel is not the same as you might have on the website, and the theme is responsive, so the “actual” width will vary as far as word-wrap.

Again, the visual editor is not a “what you see is what you get” editor like you have in print publishing; it’s an “approximation” … it’s not “pixel accurate” … partially because the WordPress admin uses CSS from WordPress, while the actual page uses CSS from the theme.

So, the value in the visual editor is in doing elements like alignment, pre-viewing photos and videos, or MP3 audio, bolds, italics and other “presentation formatting” … but it is *not* a 1:1 view of the actual page. This is true of WordPress and always has been.

So, in your last example, it’s working correctly. You cannot manage exactly where line breaks are, or word-wrapping as the font and kerning, and so forth may vary based on the device being used.

So, on one device you might have 7 words, another 6 words and the 7th word goes to next line due to letter spacing, kerning, and the space between letters (not to date myself here, but I went to Compugraphic Typesetting school in 1985… so kind of savvy on font issues).

Upshot; based on your screen shots above… you’re just fine. 🙂

I think the tagdiv speed booster plugin helps with this in theory by putting all the css and js at bottom of page, but that can also cause some things to load in odd order since sometimes a menu might use jquery …. one of those things you kind of have to experiment with.

Probably need to put link to an example post page so the TagDiv admin folks can take a peek just to see whassup.

First thing they always look for is console errors (F12 in Chrome or IE11), and often that can reveal the culprit, if any.

Last week any of my pages with a YouTube video loading would slow down part of the page, when Google was having major hiccups. This would then slow down AddThis … since I had the video and Addthis loading in order last on page … the whole page would render except blank video box and blank addthis box … (not using this theme, but a home-brew thing). That worked as expected …. except that I wanted to share stuff via addthis and it was taking 60 second for video to load. Annoying.

Anyway… I digress 😉