And of course you need to use regenerate thumbnails plugin to rebuild all your thumbs with a new crop setting.
You will of course need to experiment with this.

I believe you can set the crop position in WordPress as of v3.9 so for tall images where you want them to all crop from top vs center out, you have various options

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_image_size#Crop_Mode

There is no cropping control within the theme itself, but you can add the type of crop to always use in the functions.php file based on the above reference.

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris. Reason: image cropping, crop settings, codex, functions.php

As noted previously if you’re missing functions of the actual theme, including the “Newsmag Default” sidebar, then you likely have one of the two cases:
1) conflicting plugin
2) theme not updated properly.

for 1) try turning off all plugins except VC, clearing all caches
for 2) delete existing theme folder; install clean version of theme

Only reason something part of the theme is “not there” is
a) something blocking loading elements in admin panel, typically plugin with bad behavior
b) theme missing components due to incomplete install.
c) broken cache loading old files not seeing new files (common with some cache plugins, or CDNs)

Simple as that. 🙂

Happy Holidays!

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

I think somebody asked about this last week, not sure if they tagged their post for easy search, but there was solution to do site wide, or just for posts with custom CSS override.

Might do quick search for that solution.

@Kvr28
nice site 🙂

Note that one fix I’ve found is also adding the explicit website URL to the wp-config.php file in the root directory of WordPress. This basically tells WordPress that the site is defacto:
http://yoursite/
and not
http://yoursite/directory/

See the WordPress docs (“codex”) on how to do this, but essentially you add this to bottom of the wp-config.php file (always make backup of this also!).

define('WP_HOME', 'http://yourwebsite.com');
define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://yourwebsite.com');

Isn’t it awesome how TagDiv folk help solve issues unrelated to the theme!
Happy Holidays!! 🙂

Hi @dean
nice site … er … yeah.

You might want to make notation “adult content” when posting links to your site, as some folk are more easily offended by such materials (I’m sure not one of them, but I could see some folks might be).

Best to fully delete js composer folder via ftp from plugins folder and then uplaod new version via ftp.

The guide i did for moving from newspaper to newsmag also can be used for updating theme version and visual composer.

See my guide on moving from newspaper to newsmag… This same process works for updating to new version of theme and visual composer.

You likely need to clear site cache, cdn cache if using them.

Try reinstalling the theme and visual composer.

Theme works with all browsers.

Wordpress 4.1 broke visual composer, hence theme update with updated vc version.

Remember you need to fully delete old version of vc before updating it.

If site not loading and you cannot fix, why not switch to default theme?

Read through the PageSpeed sticky topic for various solutions to things like optimizing your CSS by minification, image compression, local saving of avatars vs loading gravatars dynamically, etc.

Also remember score will be lower with adsense ads running and social media buttons that show counts, as well as thinkgs like disqus. To get your real score you need to NOT run any ads from google as they penalize their own content for purposes of score.

YSLOW only improves using CDN.

Buy if you follow the suggestions I’ve posted in the PageSpeed topic, as needed modified for your setup, and then follow the suggestions/solutions from GTMetrix, a “90” score or above for desktop is the “target” to shoot for.

For the CDN, you can try to setup a CORS file setting for the fonts to allow the icons font to be loaded off the origin domain; see the CDN for info about setting up a CORS setting.

@Aedin84
site looks great!

Chris

Good choice 🙂

I have a little cheat sheet I keep with my mods to four files, style.css, and functions.php

and I just change those each update vs dealing with the unpredictable child theme stuff.

Note it can also be issue with testing locally as that sometimes works differently than running on a real web server.

Unfortunately, this is how the CSS works with WordPress.

When using child theme

a) child theme CSS loads
b) redirects to main theme CSS
c) custom CSS loaded in head of document

the delay is unavoidable on some servers.

Not using child theme can help with issue, but best bet is to mods to the main style.css and just do that with each update. Worth doing for removing the flash of unstyled text (“FOUT”) issue.

Quick and dirty method is just paste your custom CSS at bottom of the style.css file. You’re loading some things twice, but it can cut down on the perception due to ONE file loading both CSS (try it!). I’ve done this during development sometimes. Works pretty well. 🙂

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

I should also say that the TagDiv folks have been incredibly patient with a lot of people who don’t bother to read the users guide for WordPress then want support on “why don’t my comments box work” (um, turn it on in your WordPress panel?), kind of things.

They are way more patient than I would be with “RTFM” kinds of things.

I’m also astounded they will often help people write CSS for a plugin to use with the theme, when it’s not a theme related issue in any way (e.g., Google AdSense search box), or similar things where folks want to hack the theme but don’t want to learn ANY CSS at all, and just expect free coding work. For $50 some people have very unrealistic expectations on hand holding and not learning the stuff on their own that every WordPress user should learn BEFORE they buy a theme.

But I digress….. put another way, TagDiv folk have given some clients $500 worth of tech support on a $50 theme, which blows my mind.

THAT speaks a lot to their commitment to their clients; very few theme devs would do that much work. Even clients who change their site 3 months later, then want more help after throwing out all the stuff they got help on the first time.

Just a deep thought for the day 🙂

Somebody just posted a suggested plugin that worked perfectly over in the Newsmag theme forum yesterday; might be worth a peek at that for something that doesn’t require you to hack your templates 🙂

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

They usually give great support; keeping in mind it’s the holidays many places this week; and also time difference as they are in Eastern Europe, I believe (I’m in Calif.). I also believe they are one person short as of December, and dealing with that change.

Of course, in this particular instance, not really a theme issue.

But anyway…. I’m just poking my nose in as I use their stuff, and also in midst of a huge dbase ecommerce migration ,blah blah thing this month and have to do these hurry up and wait, then watch one of my screens to see if something breaks, and then stop and fix, but then I have 10 minute blips where I can’t really get too involved with too much as then I cant’ watch the automated stuff… and so, wasting some time here helping others since I have the little bits of time to “waste” right now.

But also to give back for the TONS of support I needed back in the day with WordPress, and so know what it’s like when stuff just makes no darn sense! :_)

There is no virus or malware in the theme.

You have some kind of weird interstitial popup which tries to load and obscures your home page with a grey backing.

Likely you need to disable plugins to determine which one is causing problems. You may have infected/bad plugin.

You should also check to see if your copy of Revolution Slider is newer than version 4.14 or remove it entirely if not using it.

Update the plugin from the files included with the theme download.

See the docs right side of page “Documentation > Newspaper” which provides info on how to update the plugin. 🙂

Well, if the image isn’t loading in the web browser directly, the image isn’t there. If the folders are still there, but all the images are removed, that is not normal and should never happen unless those files were put there by some plugin which removed its stuff when plugin disabled – also not normal.

A theme cannot “delete” all your image files as it would need to run a script to delete all files inside a folder. And that’s particularly difficult with date based images.

Not my theme. Just helping out as I’ve been using the theme for a year now.

SO, again this image being “gone” from the folder, is a separate unrelated issue to setting up the theme.

If this folder is still there
http://dance.land/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/

but the images are gone from inside of it; that’s huge issue.

Of course, simply upload your backup of all the image folders into /uploads/ and would be fine.

Well, it might have been a temporary problem with your sitemap, too.

One thing you can do is select all and mark “fixed” in your webmaster tools account, and then see if the issue reappears.

This is all a bit off topic to the thread for the person having an issue, but I used to write a monthly column for Digital Imaging magazine back in the day on web development, and my articles were also published by the Graphic Artists Guild in their newspaper; however all those articles are now terribly out of date since they pre-dated CSS3, responsive design, WordPress, Boostrap, mod_pagespeed, mod_spdy, etc.

I have in mind relaunching a site to post all my whacky fonts of wisdom or nonsense on the topic of webdev, but frankly I’m just too busy right now actually redoing my main business sites which pay the bills, then fooling around with some other things as kind of a hobby (e.g., ga-ga.com), etc.

Lots of great sites with tutorials and such. And for SEO, Google has their own free document download which tells you what you should have for your website. PageSpeed is important, original content most important, https will be important in coming years but not critical just yet; luckily with WordPress there are dozens of good sites out there with basic tutorials on the “simple stuff” and also the official WP docs are good to read, and it seems many folks buying themes on ThemeForest don’t bother to do that (“how do I set permalinks…” ?) …

Anyway……. I ended up in TagDiv land a year ago as we were building our own WP theme again, and I just decided I didn’t want to deal with that. Trouble was finding folks who even knew what PageSpeed was (!), so Radu and Co. caught my eye, and I like their philosophy of what they’re doing, so we decided to try their themes. So far so good.

But I need to get back to work! 🙂