Groovy. Thanks for the double double check on that. :_)

Theme cannot break image location or remove items from your media lists/folder.

You should regenerate thumbnails to fit news sizes used in theme.

If you check your media/uploads folder via FTP, you might be able to check on the permissions for that folder. If you accidentally deleted that, it would not be recoverable; hopefully you backed up your site prior to making major changes.

An example image link, like so – does appear missing:
http://dance.land/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/nathan-barnatts-curious-dances.jpg

However installing the theme does not delete your /uploads/ folder unless you did that manually. If you deleted the /uploads/ folder, or the /wp-content/ folder for some reason, then that would have deleted the images folder.

Ideally you should double check with your hosting provider in case they have some bizarre setting which impacts that folder in some way.

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Well… two things:
1) Google killed their author ranking/verified author setup this Summer. That was one thing, no longer matters.

2) Having author data for an “article” is important as it identifies it is, in fact, an article and not a press release, “about us” page or advertising content. This doesn’t appear in SERPS anymore, but can help Google tie things together, and should be included if bothering with micro data.

However the error might also occur with the author field being empty in a sitemap, or having an empty meta field like
<meta name="author" content="">
vs
<meta name="author" content="Christopher Simmons">

Obviously having the first iteration above would be a bad idea in general.

I think somebody else asked about this couple of weeks back, so there might be a solution in the forum doing a search. Perhaps not if no tags were added. But worth a look.

Best bet is to check your page source, meta data to see if there is actually an author tag there listing the author name.

if not, try using a plugin like Yoast WordPress SEO or similar which is what I use to put all that stuff in there properly (and it sticks across themes, which is totally awesome).

For some odd reason it looks like your sidebar got trashed if you created a custom sidebar. If no default sidebars for the theme are shown, it may mean the theme didn’t get updated properly.

Simply deactivate theme, delete old theme folder, re-upload theme, then activate again. I’ve had this happen to me also. Fun with WordPress 😉 (oh wait, it’s *not* fun!)

You might need to go back to the appearance > widgets page and “resave” the widget/sidebar.

This happens sometimes with a theme update and if caching wasn’t disabled, and sometimes from disabling the theme to update it.

This happened to me with latest update where my home page custom sidebar was missing many of its widgets and had to drag them back on and reset. In my case it was also because I replaced some plugins and didn’t have them “on” when I switched the new theme back on, so the widgets got disabled for missing plugin. Doh.

Might not be your issue, but worth a try. 🙂

Thanks Emil,
I sure did try to debug this one 🙂

My next test was going to be to replicate your sidebar to see if it was a module there as nothing else appeared to be the cause.

Thanks so much for sorting that out!
Look forward to update for this one.

Chris

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Make sure your posts actually have author name assigned to them vs the admin account; most common issue.

Messed with this some more, and still cant get it to work.
Hopefully somebody else can take on the issue.

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Check that the plugin has been fully updated for WordPress 4.0 and higher. A lot of “older” plugins don’t work with WP 4x.

They usually do one update per month, based on past experience, or “as needed” as was case with the WordPress 4.1 breaking VC. No need to update every time the VC gets updated as the updated stuff might not even work with the theme, hence the time delay.

This is common problem with all WordPress themes. This is a variant of what is called a “flash of unstyled text” — or where the default CSS is loading first, and then the “over ride” in your custom CSS is then loading. This can also impact font loading in some cases, where the font changes after a moment from default to custom font. Same issue, just different flavor.

The *only* surefire way to avoid this 100% of the time is to put your custom CSS changes at bottom of your style.css file.

Issue is also more noticeable with child themes usage since that is effectively a CSS redirect, and slows down the site (which is why Google doesn’t like child themes, but WordPress folk do).

Inherent issue with how WordPress works, and with the fact you’re loading two sets of CSS for the same classes. With a super fast page/server, it’s not very noticeable. With slower servers (e.g., slower than .05 seconds) or with child themes, more moticeable.

Adding your custom changes to bottom – or revising the actual classes in – style.css is *only* way to fix this for all users, sadly.

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris. Reason: custom css, fout, flash of unstyled text

Be sure to clear all your caching and reload page if it “suddenly” stopped working.

Also note the CSS provided looks like it applied to a post number specifically and not all pages/posts, .page-id-30 — so you obviously need to look at that for the actual page/post ID you just published. If your post you just published had ID of 76, then I don’t think the page id 30 would work.

Unless I’m mistaken on that 🙂

If you’re using some kind of image management plugin, it may be the culprit (e.g., JetPack Photo, etc.).

I’ve never seen this happen on ANY WordPress website before.

You might try
1) clear all caching; reset CDN if using one.
2) disable any image modification plugins.
3) perhaps try regenerate thumbnails plugin.

The theme doesn’t do that, so it’s likely something funky you’re running on your site which is doing that someplace. Often you need to clear cache, turn off all plugins except Visual Composer, then check your pages again. Then go from there.

Tech support only open Monday – Friday.
They should be able to help tonight / tomorrow local time in Europe.

Somebody else asked about removing the categories under menu, so you might do search for that in the forum to find that from about a week ago.

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Yes; just add to the custom CSS box in the theme panel 🙂

Visual Composer was updated with theme 1.31 the other day; it updated the version of Visual Composer which broke due to WordPress 4.1 update.

The plugin is updated separate from the theme, as it’s a plugin. So you have to delete old plugin, and install the newer version.

Newsmag 1.31 just updates the plugin, which can be installed alone if you already have Newsmag 1.3.

The updated version of Visual Composer (changelog):
19.12.2014 - ver 4.3.5
- Compatibility with WP 4.1

For images, make sure you have regenerated thumbnails for the theme sizes.

640×480 likely safe. That is what im doing now.

You dont need to activate license. See the theme docs … Link right side of this page for more info.

To activate the plugin, you furst install it, then activate from the plugins page.

This theme does not support full width. You should look at tagdiv’s Newspaper theme for a full width layout.

Wordpress 4.1 broke existing version of visual composer. That is the reason for update.

Switch to default wordpress theme
Turn off all plugins
Delete old vc plugin completely
Install new plugin
Turn on vc plugin
Rest theme
Test, then turn on other plugins.

You should turn off all caching before doing any updates.

Hope that helped.

If youre referring to the headlines at top block, you need to regenerate your thumbnails to fit size of the boxes.

Use the regenerate thumbnails plugin.

I could not get the ticker to work on post pages either; a later reply from admin said it wasn’t designed to do that, and might not work at all on single post pages.