Revolution Slider is a slider. You can Google that for all the info.
http://revolution.themepunch.com/

td-speed-booster helps to speed up/optimize the theme elements being loaded such as CSS and JS code.

Usually a caching issue.

fyi,
you should avoid inline HTML/CSS in posts, and instead create a custom style, then apply the style class to the span or div, as applicable.

Some upcoming security settings may cause browsers to ignore inline CSS altogether (meaning in the body, not inline CSS specified in the head as classes).

so,
For the following post, the editor used direct html code for font size (<span style=”font-size: 24pt;”>)

better to create class,
.ourcustomfs24{font-size:24px; line-height:1.5em}

then do
<span class="outcustomfs24">Our special headline without semantic meaning</span>

We do this for custom sidebar text block in some stories for an info box, and also for custom blockquote, etc.

This also would allow you to create a custom @media query for mobile, just for that style class; such as making the class 16px for the mobile media size.

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Not a theme problem.

Theme doesn’t control the default functions of WordPress from the WP panel such as “edit post” meaning, it cannot suddenly make your dbase disappear … if the post cannot be found, that means either the server/domain has “gone away” and can’t be found, or php has been overloaded and so the dbase on the server cannot be connected to and it basically dies.

You can often look at the php error log for your hosting account, to see what the actual error is from such activity.

You can also try using one of the plugins which tells you what plugins/resources are overloading your domain/site, as some web hosts cram so many domains onto a server, that all it takes if for x number of people to overload something temporarily, or something on the server being updated, and boom your pages are temporarily gone.

WordPress cannot enlarge thumbnails, only make them smaller.

A HD retina phone has twice the resolution of desktop, if not more, so making copy of an image, makes it blurrier, and then it’s half as sharp due to high-res phone/tablet (e.g., retina, etc.).

Always best to start with larger images where possible.

If you need to enlarge images for the theme, use “thumbnail upscale” plugin which works very well.

If you’re using “Photon” in JetPack to resize images, that has always sucked for our purposes, but your mileage may vary.

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Best way to actually do that is to edit the style.css file to reflect your new font families, doing a search/replace. MUCH simpler, and more efficient, and gets rid of possible flash of unstyled text (FOUT) issues.

Thanks 🙂

Heh. Well, moving hosting is not that hard, lots of guides in the WP Codex on that, I think. Since you can use the “tools” function to export your basic dbase, then import all of that at new location to your blank new dbase not big thing. I had more free brain cells that week I did the upgrade thing, and it was topical to me since I did move from Newspaper to Newsmag for ga-ga.com, and I did crash my site 🙂 (doh!)

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Ha. Yeah. We are looking to abandon AddThis entirely since we don’t use their stats package for anything.

Actually been testing this as simple replacement:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-share-buttons-adder/

Kind of finding the [xxx shares] stuff kind of stupid, personally. Who cares if other people are sharing it – why would that make ME want to share it? I go back and forth on that. And the cookies and tracking that goes with the XXX buttons is not really something I care for, much. So CLEAN simple share buttons that all load locally and don’t add tracking elements to my URLs, etc. …. nice. 🙂

But some folks love the whole mashable style share thing.

I’ve liked AddThis as it generally has worked well “most” of the time, folks know what it is, and you had lots of simple choices for “I just want one button” or “I just want a square” or whatever.

We’re kind of leaning back to more simplicity. People who share stuff regularly know what a Pinterest button does.
a) doesn’t need to say “Pinterest” AND
b) doesn’t need a share counter,
etc.

Sorry. Getting off the soapbox now 😉

I got note from AddThis support over on the WordPress.org support topics, and they say today (Jan. 5, 2015) they are working on fix which should push out soon.

For those who noticed this issue 🙂

Google sometimes takes time to adjust to page layout, ad spots.

Also sometimes has hiccups.

I had issue last week where the two sidebar boxes were empty and only an adchoices button appeared.

I was able to determine that Google was loading the image asset from third party location which times out, and hence blank space.

Only seems to happen with random image based ads, and not text based ads.

You can also check your home page for javascript errors in the Chrome or IE error consoler (F12) to see if something is breaking the javascript used by AdSense.

Responsive is good, since it makes the site more “available” for mobile devices, and will also pass Google’s new “mobile compatible” program, where they will start putting a label on search results to identify which sites work with mobile and which do not.

Ad placement should, of course, be massaged for each device type (or viewport), for best placement/visibility.

It’s a process 🙂

Nope. This is a “responsive” theme.

Ah, so you have tried the instructions provided by the Visual Composer folks – since shortcodes *do* work in visual composer if done properly, and also tried the various raw HTML, and coding boxes found in the site builder when setting up home page?

Perhaps problem with the shortcode conflicting with something.

Oh well, maybe official tech support might be able to help sort it for you.

Cheers!

Did you
1) clear all cache on server and CDN as applicable before doing update
2) did you change theme before update to default
3) did you turn off all plugins prior to update
4) did you fully delete old plugin folder
5) did you fully delete old js_cmposer folder (for VC plugin)
6) did you then install new version of theme, and plugin(s)
7) then turn on ONLY new visual composer, then new theme
8) check visual composer works
9) then turn on your other plugins?

If updated correctly, it works perfectly.

Maybe create a sidebar, and put a text box in there with the shortcode?

Use the pure HTML/code option box in Visual Composer?

Or,
perhaps try using Google – great resource for learning WordPress?

SEARCH:
how to use shortcodes in visual composer

http://vc.wpbakery.com/video-academy/add-shortcodes-visual-composer-wordpress/

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Well, been using the theme for 12 months now, and we don’t have the issue you refer to, beyond what I’ve already stated. We’ve seen random behavior using 10 different themes across 20 different websites since G+ launched.

So, it may be something unique to your setup, a plugin, java conflict, etc.

1) try checking for errors in Chrome (F12)
2) try “fetch as Google” from your webmaster tools account to see exactly what Google’s bot sees, along with any errors.

Not much else you can do.

Yup. Theme does not control the look of Google’s advertising.

Did you switch on the setting in the theme settings for posts, which expressly allows the featured image to be used in the posts vs the original placed images?

There is setting there to control whether you end up with duplicate images or not.

see
https://forum.tagdiv.com/post-templates-and-settings/

I’m inclined to make an empty directory called /admin/ and then put in a htaccess file in there with 301 redirect to home page. Hmmm…..

You are very correct, sir. It’s an annoying thing!

Rude.

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Might be the posts being checked for child category but not parent category. Or from disabling the category names on the post pages.

Also not sure if making a post called admin would work or not, and not going to try that on live site.

Right…
Well, you can try adding this to top of your htaccess file

RewriteRule ^secret/?$ /wp-login.php [QSA,L]

And change word secret to the word you want to use to login with, which will change your login url to
Yoursite/secret

Or look at plugins in the wordpress repository to change login location.

Secret should be lowercase and not same as any page, post, admin, plugin, or category name.

Weird thing is thar /admin is not normal login for wordpress, but i have same issue. Possibly simply adding a 301 redirect for /admin to index.php might work, too.

I can also recommend the limit login attempts plugin for security.

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Might want to google that as not theme related.

🙂
Been there myself!