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simchris
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OH… I think it’s here

theme panel > block settings > category tag on modules/blocks > Big grid module used on td block big grid

It’s like a “safari” looing for stuff sometimes 🙂

simchris
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Have not been able to determine what is loading via http when switching to visual editor on post or product pages. Everything on the site uses forced 301 redirect for any http requests, so nothing can load via http on our domain; however the admin panel is loading

Oddly Newspaper theme running in different folder on same domain, doesn’t throw any error when editing post in visual mode.

Might be a WooCommerce thing. I will have to try that next.

🙂

simchris
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Figured out how to work around the line breaks issue since the <br> tag is ignored in text edit.

Basically have to do:

Some text here is really awesome.

 & nbsp;

» Click here to learn more.

Since this will not work

Some text here is really awesome.<br>
» Click here to learn more.
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simchris
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Be sure that the folder is viewable by the public. You may need to change (CHMOD) folder permissions for those files/folder.

simchris
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I recommend using the little tutorial I came up with which is a sticky post top of the forum index; while the title says for moving from newspaper to newsmag, it’s really the same process when moving to new version of theme, also. 🙂

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

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simchris
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I think it’s in the functions.php or the functions file inside the theme/speed booster folder.

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simchris
tagDiv Member

Hi, my Ga-Ga.com site is running “NEWSMAG” theme from TagDiv and NOT running “NEWSPAPER” theme – smaller width layout, is the difference between the themes, while Newspaper 4x is more widescreen for all modern responsive layouts.

You can place images in your posts at any size and they are not cropped. Only the thumbnails used with featured image on various layouts are cropped to fit that layout/module. So, if a module has a 300×250 image to fit that layout, and you use a 300×300 feaured image, it is cropped to 300×250 for the module, otherwise if you had three images different size, they would not line up. 🙂

simchris
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We use the ‘limit login attempts plugin,’ which is very helpful. Also make sure you delete your admin account for WP and change the super user to a different name.

You might try this solution to add to functions.php

// Simple Query String Login page protection
function example_simple_query_string_protection_for_login_page() {
$QS = '?mySecretString=foobar';
$theRequest = 'http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . '/' . 'wp-login.php' . '?'. $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];

// these are for testing
// echo $theRequest . '<br>';
// echo site_url('/wp-login.php').$QS.'<br>';

if ( site_url('/wp-login.php').$QS == $theRequest ) {
echo 'Query string matches';
} else {
header( 'Location: http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . '/' );
}
}
add_action('login_head', 'example_simple_query_string_protection_for_login_page');

I believe you change foobar to whatever you want to be your login location and any query to wp-admin directly would go to home page.

Don’t do stuff like this unless you know what you’re doing.
e.g., make backup of functions.php first, and know how to FTP this, and then how to remove it if you are unable to login.

simchris
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You have to put in a request to Themeforest…. this happens on their end from time to time. It’s only happened to me once in the past 12 months, and I had to email them from the page where that message is, and tell them to reset it. It’s kind of a bug in their system where they are looking at IP groupings vs your particular account downloads, which is dumb. It’s to thwart piracy, which is good, but super annoying when you set aside time to fix something.

They fixed it by the next morning in my case. But super annoying.

Nothing to do with you or the TagDiv folk! 🙂

simchris
tagDiv Member

Hi
see theme docs, link right side of page

and also

https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/how-to-update-visual-composer-2/

simchris
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Yes, I do 🙂

What I often do, is open two windows on my PC

one folder is the new theme update, one window is old theme update;
I do “sort by date” which pushes the modified files to top.

Then I open the old one, and then the new one and make changes to match.

I also make backup for my custom CSS each time, do a full FTP backup, and do tools > export, each time, out of general paranoia.

simchris
tagDiv Member

I think you set the font sizes and what not for the menu as per usual via the theme panel. Smaller font = smaller height. Larger font = larger height, etc. And of course with custom CSS you can change any of the divs to a height you want.

simchris
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Taking a look at that so far, I would say it should do what is may say it does, but also some problems noted in the comments from users where people can still detect things, so may have limited value. It seems cheap enough, and if you’re more interested in that vs theme features, why not buy it and try it.

Also note if you’re using Visual Composer, you would likely not be able to hide that fully, and I see some issues from their support with things like contact forms.

I’m also doubtful that the tagdiv speed booster will work with that plugin.

What we do to hide a lot of WP stuff is using Yoast to hide some stuff, but then we run mod_pagspeed which hides all comments, we hide the versioning via functions.php, and we remove the pingback script. In most cases we also move the uploads folder. So, you might hide all the other stuff and people could still search for sites with xmlrpc.php or license.txt — did you remove that already? How about readme.html ? Is that still on your site?

There is also some bbpress style sheet data and woocommerce code you likely would need to manually remove from the functions and td booster functions.

There is no “one click” or “one plugin” way to fully hide WordPress. People who want to hack your site could likely figure it out through various methods. However, it’s better to concentrate on other security measures and only use highly validated plugins and code, vs trying to fully hide use of WP. With all the VIP sites now running WP (time magazine!), etc., there are much bigger fish in the sea than there used to be.

I would advise “caution” on a live site.

On a test site, why not just try it out ?

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simchris
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I think there is an option for that someplace. Mine doesn’t show the little tags by default either. Maybe it’s on the category tab of the theme panel …. hmm… looking …. odd. It is checked as “on” by default on each of the category tabs. In my case all the stuff on my grid are in sub categories, so maybe that is it…. odd.

simchris
tagDiv Member

Use the import style option bottom of the main theme panel.

simchris
tagDiv Member

I just have a cheat sheet of the files I edit each time.
I have to do this anyway since we have a pre existing read counter field as “views” and so have to change that manually each time. Couple of other small tweaks we do each time, and some stuff we paste at end of functions.php. Not too time consuming and I know it will work! 🙂

simchris
tagDiv Member

this worked for me, using the video format template (select from the template element below the post window); then put the video into the featured video boxes right side
https://forum.tagdiv.com/featured-image-featured-video/

simchris
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Might be one of your plugins conflicting with it.
Child theme if often the main culprit for Ajax gremlins, which is why I refuse to use them anymore; also a CSS redirect which Google suggests NOT doing.

simchris
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Depends on old theme vs new theme ….. obviously.

If you look at a snapshot of your old theme post page layout, count how many queries are being done for each section of the page. Do the same with the new theme.

For example on one of our sites, we changed the sidebar module to NOT show thumbnails with each item on the “latest items” list. We chose not to use megamenu. Etc.

Themes are not apples to apples unless identical layout and number of queries per page.

Visual Composer does add some overhead, sadly. But caching and mod_pagespeed, etc. help with that.

Not sure if that helped in any way, just some food for thought 🙂

simchris
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We’re using a mailchimp plugin with our woocommerce setup, but don’t remember which one.

Any mailchimp plugin should be theme agnostic, so you might look to see if mailchimp has an “official” wordpress plugin already.

simchris
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simchris
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Hey…
They gave me a fix for this issue with the gtmetrix scan for images not having the smaller size…

Look for the post i did a week or so ago for my ga-ga.com site, as they gave me the code that worked.

simchris
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Google doesnt allow ads to load in iframe.

But a normal iframe should work.

Can you post link to a sample page?

simchris
tagDiv Member

Did you fully clear your server cache before and after switching themes?

We have our own dedicated server with caching, and mod_pagespeed, and with couple of sites we need to “clear” everything to get one site to load files properly, as some of the old code/theme stuff was cached and so the images were, in effect, doing some kind of redirect, almost like a loop.

Couple of good clean house cleaning on the server cache and a full server reboot and it all worked again.

Not saying it will help … but I’m running couple of image heavy sites and stuff loads fairly quick.

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