They work for me, as here: ga-ga.com … just make sure you toggle the on/off buttons in the ad panel for each size; e.g., desktop “on” for banner “off” for mobile – for top of page ads; sidebar “on” for desktop “on/off” for mobile as you prefer.

Forum is sans-serif by default (if you’re talking about THIS forum).
You can also set the default fonts in your web browser.

Note if you’re using an ooooold web browser, like IE8 you should update to something newer like Chrome.
If you’re using Safari on Windows; that was abandoned by Apple 2.5 years ago and not likely going to work well with much of anything.

If you’re running WindowsXP, you’re going to see some funny gremlins on the web at this point :-0

You would need to use a facebook commenting plugin to do that.

oh… work in progress you can look at ….. ga-ga.com

I switched out Disqus for normal comments last weekend 🙂

I think there is a simple CSS to hide the search on the pages, but you’d need to do a search in the forum as it’s been shared quite often. Don’t have it off top of my head, though.

I think that is going to be quite complicated since you’d also need to setup the thumbnail sizes.

I think you can create your own custom Visual Composer layouts, but that is not part of the theme and might be addressed to VC support as modifying Visual Composer layouts is related to the plugin and not the theme directly.

So you can EDIT the code to create your own block from scratch (support can’t do that for you) …

basically you would create your own code, shortcode, and then add the custom shortcode to the system …

there are some mentions of this in the forum for newspaper and newsmag such as this which might give you starting point:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/visual-composer-how-to-add-custom-moduleblock/

But generally you need to wait until support has a free moment to help you “hack” the theme outside of normal support and how it was designed. Hacking the theme isn’t normal support, but as available support, so please allow them a little time to figure out whether what you’re asking is doable or not without breaking the theme.

Do you know how to create the new shortcode, new VC code, and ready to create new thumbnail sizes and put that in functions files, etc.? It’s not a simple answer.

So, if you do have the edited code already to go which you’ve built, just hang on a bit and they will get back to you as soon as they can 🙂

Groovy bitchin’ cool ! ….. as we say here in California 😉

Coincidentally I will be working on implementing this for Newsmag (buysellads pro), and will post any anecdotal things I run across from that adventure … coming soon 🙂

Nope. Slows down site just a little due to loading external data from their system, but otherwise works great.

We were using it, but have since decided to just use the built-in comment system with Akismet, since the Akismet CSS is smaller payload than Disqus.

I think so; I think you basically need to do the old “hack” for that which added the additional fields.

Well it “should” work for the ad widget area unless it’s a non-responsive ad, and in that case you might need to use the ‘Simple ad code’ box … since this is a responsive theme, the ad system is designed to run responsive ads.

I believe the ‘Simple ad code’ boxes are intended to use custom ad sizes and code, so you might try that. (I have not done that, but will soon be trying it with our adRotator in house ad widget… )

Not saying it isn’t a bug…. maybe paste the ad code you’re trying to use here without your ID cod in there (I usually put xxxxx when I paste my own ad codes here for support help from TagDiv folk…).

Well, all those images coming off wp.com need to be optimized.

The ads from ‘juice’ and ‘4wnet’ are not well optimized.

Try looking at one of your post pages with gtmetrix.com as that will give you better help and guidance on what you need to fix. Note that anything loaded from external source, like ad networks, images, etc., all slow your site down. So, you need to work out tradeoffs on limiting ads for mobile, like only showing ONE ad on mobile devices not 4-5, etc.

eg
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.rnbjunk.com/wCNJFip9

Well, I would start off initially *not* using Google Analytics, and concentrate *ONLY* on Google Webmaster Tools(GWT) — (two separate things).

1) did you ‘verify’ your site with Google in your GWT account? If not, what error did you get, and did you then put in a ticket with your hosting co to find out why Google could not access your domain?

2) if you look at GWT, does it show your XML sitemap being loaded properly?

3) if you do ‘fetch as Google’ what errors does it give you?

I would start with the above before you do anything else, as this is directly related to your original question.

Basically turn your caching OFF, or make sure you clear cache before making change, then after making change to site, clear cache again (this refers to caching on your server/domain).

Double check your settings in the ad manager to make sure sizes and things like “show on desktop” are switched on.

If you’re switching from responsive code to a fixed size, make sure you’re putting the fixed side code in right box for the right ad type (e.g., sidebar); which it looks like you have been doing.

You might even try just putting the code into a text widget on sidebar to see if the ad loads properly.

So, then look at your page and see if you’re getting any errors (press F12 in Chrome to see rendering errors); view page source to see if the code is in fact on the page.

It is possible it’s NOT any of the above, however 99% of the time when you update something and then it’s not on the page, it’s from caching.

Caching is awesome for speed, but not for doing updates 🙂

The ads work perfectly on our sites. So, this means it’s either a plugin conflict, or a caching issue. All the theme is doing is inserted the AdSense code into the template in the right place, so as long as you put the right code into the box, and the page is updated and visible online, then the new code will pull the new ad format.

I betcha it’s caching! 😉

Not a “problem” with Varnish; we just had the other caching options pre-installed with our setup and just needed to implement them, and no reverse proxy stuff. Also mod_pagespeed already had a function to connect to memcache for speedup, so it made the most sense than experiment with Varnish.

Lots of folks do use it however.

re: Memcached:
Websites using Memecached:
Wikipedia
Flickr
Twitter
Youtube
Digg
WordPress.com
Craigslist

Websites using Varnish:
BBC Wired Vimeo Zappos MorningStar Business Insider Thinkgeek

old article I’m quoting fyi, on “who uses”….
http://www.neonrain.com/blog/web-cache-apc-vs-memecached-vs-varnish

I should also mention we’re using the memory based caching because we have 32GB RAM on our dedicated server 😉

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We’re using APC/opcache/memcache and mod_pagespeed on our Centos 6.5/final Apache setup and no issue.

Chose not to use Varnish due to tricky setup and mod_pagespeed had hooks into memcache already. 🙂

Have you installed and tested the plugin/extension for Visual Composer you want to use?

@tagdivfan

yes! you need to delete that cache whenever you do major changes to your site .. since “caching” basically makes snapshots of your pages to load them faster, and so it means the old pages are still being served until you reset that, so that the NEW pages get cached.

See the help docs for your web hosting on how to use the caching function.

I helped a client with his site hosted at GoDaddy and I had to clear that damn cache twice for any major updates like changing some widgets, or the CSS, or ad modules, etc. No way to turn it off either!

It works for me …. see: ga-ga.com ….

be sure you did a “clean” install of theme, and deleted old folder and uploaded new folder (don’t “over write”).

Also if using child theme, a LOT of things changed, so you may need to update child theme files if you didn’t do that.

Likely a javascript error. Just tried to add stuff to cart, but then cart says empty.

Be sure to test product page with Chrome developer F12, or the equiv. in IE.

I don’t work here, just tried it out since I was popping in here. 🙂

You need to be sure to clear all your cache both on server and your web browser.

Be sure you followed my “moving from one to the other” instructions for the migration, also 🙂

For example this demo post is obviously running Newspaper and *not* Newsmag, as it’s “widescrenn” — with wider layout with no borders:
http://lordreamrichard.com/2015/01/td_d_slug_45/

So, that page is clearly *not* running Newsmag theme.

Generally WordPress cannot “enlarge” images; only make them smaller. This may not apply to your use case, but we use the “enlarge thumbnails” plugin to over-write WordPress disabling the enlarge function of image magick used by WP running on server back-end.

So, perhaps try using that plugin then regen thumbs and see if it works 🙂

AHA!!
Thanks, Luician…

once again I forget to look for hidden data fields 🙂

Chris

I think the “popular posts” is “all time” and not just past 7 days; at least the last time I used it — it’s how popular ANY post has been over the last week, not posts created in the last week.

There is no simple way to import the old reads; in our case luckily we were using a counter for “hits/reads” which already was writing to a custom user meta field.

So, in our case we just went into the booster folder and edited the “reads” php file, to load from our existing “views” data field vs the newly created “post_views_count” field.

So, if you have an existing field like “views” or “read_views” or whatever, really simple to simply change which field that the site reads/writes to/from. Only downside is having to make that change with each theme upgrade.

To import from another plugin with a hidden dbase field, you’d likely need to use some kind of data migration tool or hire developer if the above field name change suggestion is not applicable.