Hi —
noticing in the latest v5 we are loading dozen .js files — do we really need all of these for a rendered page? underscore, thickbox, etc.

Seems like a lot of these should be able to be toggled off if not used on public facing rendered page. Or, adding directive to functions or code plugin to stop loading?

I mean, it is a *lot* of .js for fairly simple pages/posts.

• This reply was modified 10 months by simchris.

Hi
okay, we sorted the issue with php 8 and htaccess.

Couple of things – in our case with apache and plesk and nginx, the serve proxy checkbox needed to be toggled.

Second, some of the ‘recommended’ security directives to block access to certain wordpress folders seemed to break redirects on one site.

Finally, one additional unexpected issue was the sunsetting of apache pagespeed as of April 2025. So, the directives we had at top of the htaccess for that were generating errors, since does not work at all with php8.

The image redirects with htaccess now working, but man that hurt with Google image search getting 10,000 404 newsmag pages loaded. Doh.

As with anything these days, folks moving to php 8 should totally revisit their htaccess file if using one, or if using multiple in different folders, sub domains or whatever.

okay… having the server hosting company look into this as the htaccess directives all work on PHP 7.4x and do not on 8.3x, which is bizarro. Apparently the settings not fully inherited from 7 to 8.

Guessing it’s a AllowOverride All directive missing.

One general support note — while we have our own server, it looks like some hosting companies are starting to deprecate use of the .htaccess file, but then suggest using plugins that are insecure to fix things like redirect missing images to a default.

I only mention as this might be a good ‘option’ you could fairly simply add to both Newsmag and Newspaper as a useful function feature. Basically allowing a default image to be used when a post main, featured image and/or thumbnail deleted.

Will let you know the final result once I hear back from hosting provider. With my new PC here, I don’t currently have an SSH client installed to get into the server core stuff preferring to work with the Plesk panel.

#wheeeeee 🙂

Thanks. Testing ongoing. Will post the result. This same issue seems to have gotten the site content not being updated in Google News, as well past 2 months since theme updated. So kinda major W-T-HECK going on right now.

Hi
there is some fundamental issue with the current theme install where htaccess directives seem to be entirely ignored, such as redirects and stuff like pagespeed = on kind of things.

Going to have to try default theme to debug, as disabling all plugins had not effect.

Trying to use WP-STAGING plugin, but their pesky platform does not support external uploads locations (e.g., /root/uploads/ vs /root/wp-content/uploads/ … ) which breaks the image links ((sigh)).

Having one of those months over here.

I forget — these days, does Newsmag lose all its settings if I temporarily switch themes and turn off td-composer ?

okay…. even weirder, Apache Pagespeed not working either on sites running current two versions of Newsmag.

Going to have to try moving one of the sites affected to default theme and see if it’s sorted or not.

Very very very bizarre.

Yikes. None of that works either. And Yoast SEO also has media pages deactivated as ever.

Augh.

Thanks will give it a go.

ugh… reminds me I need to get on the migration from CentOS also. Doh.

FYI, I am using safely with latest 8.3x version of PHP without issues. PHP 8.4 is the “next step” for PHP, but does a bunch of notable changes that may break all kinds of WordPress elements, so not recommended yet. Any web host with PHP 8.4 still supports 8.3x as it’s more common safe to use version in the 8x thread.

And yes, placing this ABOVE the #wordpress section for pretty permalinks.

To clarify, I am not doing a single 301 redirect, I am doing a wholesale blanket “if the image no longer exists load this generic image.”

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpe?g|png|bmp) /CALIF/default-CAnewswire-800x600.jpg [NC,L]
</IfModule>

Generally you can only purchase via Themeforest (part of Envato); so just login to your account there and your past purchases are shown, and option to download installer files and license file.

• This reply was modified 11 months by simchris.

I can recommend this plugin for SMTP with WP
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/

Did you open all the other zip files. The ‘theme’ itself is not including all the photoshop files, etc., but the installable theme folder alone. All the extras, and supporting info is in the other folders. Look at the total folder size once you unzip *all* the zips inside the all files download. That is the total theme package payload, not the installable theme by itself.

(I don’t work here.)

This may or may not help
https://woocommerce.com/posts/customize-checkout-fields-woocommerce/

(I don’t work here)

I think they are mostly on summer vacation at this very moment, so probably check back in week or so.

I’m not having this issue on our sites.
You might try
a) via FTP, delete theme folder; upload new copy (do not over write old)
b) delete TD composer plugin; upload new copy (do not overwrite old)

Login and make sure both activated. Test a page edit.

If using something like Pagespeed that compresses js files, consider disabling to debug.

(I don’t work here.)

Should work with PHP 8.3x.

Funnily enough we have the same issue with one of our websites, where we deleted the old http version and amp links, and site dropped out of google news, too. Google seems to understand they cocked things up (this site has been online 15 years). They have added a new wildcard “domain property” that covers all iterations of the domain including any subdomain, and requires adding a name record at registrar or on server to validate.

So, “it’s not just you…” they have done some weirdo messing things up while trying to implement their AI nonsense.

Make sure you have the new “domain property” setup and validated; this would be separate from the ‘https’ property you likely already have in GSC (Google Search Console.)

did you install the classic widgets plugin?

Most people don’t use custom graphics for ‘search’, choosing to have page load faster with modern CSS buttons, with such built in to the theme.

Asking for help better than ranting, typically. Asking for help on specific thing, and including a screen shot likely better for the support team to figure out what you actually need support with.
(I don’t work here.)

I’ve been using the theme for about 6 years, and no more complex than any other ‘full featured’ platform.

Basic docs:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-theme-documentation/

We are using 8.3 here; just avoid 8.4x for now.
8.3 is kinda the modern “final” version of PHP 8 vs the earlier development versions. So, 8.3 will kinda be the standard php version for some time. Also, 7.4x still works, WP is just trying to push people to update due to 7.4 being a bit like Windows 10 now.

However: some ooooold plugins might not work with php 8. So, be aware of that potential issue, and perhaps go check on any third party plugins being compatible with php 8.

(I don’t work here.)

I don’t work here, but suggestions:
a) make sure you have stuff disabled that get pinged by bots all day long (XMLRPC etc.)
b) make sure not running [2] hit counters at once, as you instantly double all “hits.” (Easy to test, go to page, and hit reload, see if you get 2 hits or just 1, on an older page.) Check the custom fields for a post, to see if more than one data field setup for ‘hits’ like from old plugin and new one/theme.

Did you put in your license code?
(Sorry, don’t work here; but that was an issue I had in dev setup.)

I also found that installing uncompressed files via FTP, vs installing zip via WP panel works best. And, make sure not using PHP 8.4x (8.3x max).