Weird. It should “not” be a theme, issue but I just reproduced this by pasting the URL with open new window code into a post on my ga-ga.com site running the theme, then on my californianewswire.com site running Woo Canvas (shortly to be running Newsmag once the new update drops next Monday-ish).

The link works on my CANW site but NOT the Ga-Ga site.

So, you are indeed correct sir!

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

I have been popping in to check on release of new version with fix for the bug affecting review ratings in Google SERPS/snippets in the NEWSMAG theme (not Newspaper).

So, throwing my two cents in from time to time when I see something in forum I might be able to help with a moment of my time.

Glad to help!

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WHEW!!! Glad you folk got it sorted. I always do the updates via FTP now… it always works, while the WP panel installer is sometimes hit/miss.

I really need to restart my web dev blog ….. (!)

(I know, folks keep asking …. been super busy ….)

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I think you need to turn on the “crop” function for thumbnails somewhere, and then also do regenerate thumbnails. It’s not normal for the theme to “distort” the images you upload. Normally it should make smaller versions and crop to fit that size, losing some of the aspect just like going from a widescreen TV to a square TV, or comparable.

Also remember WP cannot make larger images than what you upload, so you would need to use a plugin like ‘thumbnail upscale’ for featured images on home page or categories larger than what you upload.

FYI, I always test my site using Win7/64 with IE11 and have had no such issues.

Have you tried running the theme with *only* the Visual Composer plugin activated and all other plugins off? Then checking to see what errors you might be getting? Then if none, slowly turn on each other plugin to see what happens? This is best way to debug the problem, and figure out WHAT is causing overload.

I’ve had no such problems with the theme over here, beyond the normal hiccup doing updates (see my sticky post on migrating theme).

colon is not a proper character for URLs…
you may need to encode that such as :

Theme and WordPress generally do not “rewrite” URLs placed in posts.

Not a theme issue. Basic HTML to change entities in URLs, such as & symbol to HTML entities.

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I think you can choose not to show the categories on top of posts from the post settings panel in the theme control panel, if I recall correctly.

To import a “stack” go to bottom of the main theme panel page, and then go to the import styles, then choose the style you want like “sports.”

Don’t import demo content. Just import the style — this basically loads the custom CSS styles to over-ride the standard CSS for the theme. And you can switch or go back if you don’t like how it looks. 🙂

See part (2) of the theme docs here:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/installing-the-demo-data/

Well, you can certainly edit the built-in functionality. I was going to do that and then found that really simple plugin which kind of does the same thing. And I didn’t have time to hack the built-in theme file. Sooo… the one I am testing is pretty lightweight. I could probably take it out of the plugin and just put it into the functions.php and add the CSS to the style.css and viola!

I personally would rather not have the SEO stuff tied to the theme, as I’ve changed themes all over the place the past 10 years using WordPress, and there is no guarantee a theme will be updated for new SEO tech/requirements. With YOAST SEO, they now have a business model to sell premium versions and also sell the Google News plugin (which I use with 20 site license). I can swap themes if need be, without losing settings or foobar the sitemap.

Adding additional functions might be nice for the native system, but as long as there is an option to disable it all, I’d be fine with that.

The old Yoast was merely a collection of things we used to do with functions.php frankly, and custom headers. But now, it’s evolved quite well and works well “most of the time.” But it’s kind of like saying “why not build in Visual Composer features and stop using that plugin” … well, a whole separate dev team work on that, and they make money on each license, so it continues to evolve.

I’ve used themes in past that tried to do it all, and they end up being neglected, one month delay to fix something simple, etc.

SO, for me, I’d rather let Radu and folk make sure the theme functions with WordPress properly, supports a wide variety of WP standards, and then leave the “extensions” to others. Just my thought.

I used to build my own themes, and it’s a pain in the arse (hence how I ended up here).

But as many have said, this a forum, so discussion and exchange of ideas is all good. 🙂

(and how about browser and forum designers turning off freakin’ auto correct … changing build to built… it’s not possible for me to mis-type a b next to a t on the keyboard! Argh!)

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🙂
try installing just the

Newspaper-tf/plugins/js_composer.zip

or, what works best is to unzip that folder, then FTP the entire folder to

/yoursite/wp-content/plugins/js_composer

If you’re trying to use the Envato tools plugin, punch yourself right now and stop (kidding). That has never worked right for us anywhere, anytime, even in an eggnog fueled dream haze (also kidding). 🙂

Also note you need to turn off any caching and CDN shenanigans before installing plugins, and you also need to fully eradicate any pre-existing js_composer folder, and *not* upload over the existing folder.

Maybe that helps somebody…. again, this is WordPress 101 folks.

Sorry if I sound like a crank. Worked most of the holiday and starting to sound like a bozo, I suppose.

Well, yes, YOAST SEO has had some on/off issues, including a security issue. Which is why I normally don’t jump on the “update” until reviewing the changelog, and then waiting for a dot revision. There was one period where they were adding all the Google analytics stuff and that caused issues, and they did five revisions in 2 days (!). But it never hampered publishing.

The issue we *did* have with publishing was the “remove stop words” function, causing some links to not work right. But we could still publish stuff.

Also had issue with trying to hide the /category/ in front of /category/catname/ to have one less path – that didn’t work well as we use a lot of sub-cats for easier navigation (e.g., book reviews, fiction, and poetry might all be under “reads” to separate from movies/tv and music).

Still, some YOAST functions do require you to actually go through each screen and tweak.

ALSO: when updating the plugin, sometimes the settings get wonked, and your sitemap suddenly doesn’t work (!). I had that happen recently.

So…. usually if I update Yoast WordPress SEO, I go through the settings and resave just to make sure the dbase entries are correct/updated for the plugin.

YOU MIGHT TRY THAT… just go through and resave settings, double check social media stuff, resave sitemap stuff (I sometimes change from 1000 per page to 999 per page to “force” refresh that). Stupid stuff like that. Couldn’t hurt 🙂

But generally (sorry to keep using that word so often) … there is no conflict between the basic functions of WordPress SEO and the theme. And none of the problems were theme related, but due to plugin problems, which might be addressed on the support page for the plugin also.

I don’t think you can do that since it would require loading two sets of CSS, with custom CSS per template.

I believe somebody else asked about this previously, so you might do a search in the forum as to what they came up with 🙂

You don’t install plugins by uploading the entire theme, fyi
Installing Plugin from uploaded file: themeforest-5489609-newspaper-wordpress_theme.zip

You install plugins by installing the actual plugin zip files found in the Newspaper theme folder under /plugins/ or in the similar folder found from download the “all files” option from ThemeForest.

So, if you upload the zip file and install each plugin one by one, it works.

If you unpack and upload the plugins individually by FTP (the best way to do it), guess what – it works.

It’s really up to you to learn how to manage your own WordPress site, and properly learn to install packages, zip files, or learn to upload individual folders via FTP.

“RTFM” on the WordPress.org codex to learn how WP works in detail.

But, really up to you if you want to blame the theme devs for not teaching you how WP works. Which is kind of crazy, in my opinion.

TagDiv should probably start offering a $20 install option for those who are unable to properly install Visual Composer.

Likely need to Google how to modify WordPress, as not a theme function, if you want to redirect all author pages to contact page.

For the templates, you would likely need to edit the “author” element in the templates to replace the default link to author template to the contact us page.

So, to hack the theme, you would likely start by looking at the single post template you’re using, then find the block which pulls the author name, and then edit from there.

Some theme docs in Spanish have been made by a kind user here
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/videotutoriales-newspaper-en-espanol/#post-32581

You can learn how to use the Revolution Slider on the official website; it’s not created by the theme developer:

Google is great place to find stuff, too:
http://revolution.themepunch.com/

Video guides
http://revolution.themepunch.com/video-guides/

admin – you may want to add links to the video tutorial page in docs here.

Not a theme issue; possibly a conflicting plugin or caching issue.

I use Yoast SEO with the theme and have been doing so for over 12 months, and no problems publishing.

Basically nobody should be trying to access your theme directly via that URL… might be a hacker, hence the 500 error.

This also happens “once” when switching themes or updating theme.

For example I updated my theme on the 29th of Dec. got one 500 error. None since.

Technically it’s a WordPress issue, not a theme issue; since what happens when installing or updating theme, is that for a few minutes something is trying to be cached from the location of theme when it might not be there.

If you get a ton of errors, it’s somebody trying to access your theme folder, which is not normal … it’s like somebody trying to access your wp-includes folder; not a normal link anywhere on the site.

Not sure if this applies, but I ran into all sorts of weird issues with the Yoast SEO setting to “remove stop words” — which I do *not* recommend.

Also avoid the setting to hide the /category/ name above the category pages as this also breaks things.

e.g., changing

mysite/category/catname

to
mysite/catname

by messing with the WP use of a category slug ahead of category name,
will cause problems.

Really!

Note you can also use “thumbnail upscale” plugin to make smaller pix larger for home page; which is what I do 🙂

It basically just adds the code which WordPress omits to allow the built-in server image system (Image Magick) do the resize “up” and not just “down.”

WP folks (Automattic) “stupidly” believe upscaling is “wrong” as it makes images more fuzzy. Dumb, but that is their philosophy.

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You probably need to be more specific as to what you mean exactly?

Well, responsive design is designed to resize images “to fit” … hence the name. Not all phones and tablets have the same resolution, so technically impossible to have all the sizes for every phone. Unless you know how to do that?

So, if you happen to use that size yourself, you may want to add that specific size to your functions.php file for the image thumb sizes, and/or make sure that size is enabled in the theme panel if it’s a standard size, and/or make that specific size the medium size in your wordpress > media > small/medium/large sizes to force enable that size.

*then* regenerate thumbnails so you have that size for your specific phone.

🙂