Admin/TagDiv will post updated theme files tonight on ThemeForest (TF); TF will automatically email you once it’s available if you checked the box on the download page for your account. (Good time to check your download page on TF!) 🙂

“WP Auto update” doesn’t work, as the plugin is “bundled version” which comes with the theme, and not the separate licensed version you’d have to pay for separately.

I would assume Lucian/Marius et al will post an update note here someplace when that happens.

I have not yet tested/debugged this personally as waiting for the dot revision to theme to coincide with WordPress 4.1 update, and VC update. Once all that in sync, hopefully for Saturday, I’ll take a stab at debugging my own install by starting with only VC and theme running and all other shenanigans turned off, then go from there.

In case anybody following this somewhat important topic for those of us doing reviews 🙂

You need to enable “fopen” on your server; contact your hosting provider to fix that.

They would normally add this to php.ini file for your domain; alternately some hosts allow setting that to on from htaccess, but should be done at server level.

Not a theme issue.

Note the plugin I use to make thumbs “larger” than what I originally uploaded is “thumbnail upscale” as WordPress can only make thumbs smaller than the uploaded image(s). 🙂

See the reply posted by admin in reply to my note about the problem with WordPress 4.1; they will be posting update tonight.

There is no issue with Newspaper and VC 4.3x; the issue is with WordPress 4.1 update which added new front end editor features for those creating web editing panels without VC. This new functionality partially breaks what VC does.

You need to regenerate your thumbnails to fit those thumbnail sizes.

We’re running Apache/CentOS; but just as an FYI, if WordPress works on your NGINX setup, the theme will work; as a theme is only a collection of style sheets that extend the built-in functions of WordPress.

Typically most developers optimize their site for NGINX using the default theme (e.g., twenty-fourteen), such as issues for Google PageSpeed; then worry about the design as secondary process once the initial WP setup is fully functional.

Have no idea. You should contact your hosting provider and make sure you have the gzip/deflate or comparable running as well as figure out how to add expiration headers. There is some help for that on the GTMetrix site. My only experience the past 20 years has been with Apache based Linux systems, so can’t help with Windows setup at all.

You might look online for some help on how to optimize a Windows server platform for WordPress, as your issues are with WordPress optimization in general and NOT with the theme. Meaning, you need to spend the time to educate yourself on optimizing your system for running WordPress at all before you even worry about the theme setup or design issues.

I think you can do something like that with the gallery features, but I have not actually done that yet … on my ‘to do’ list to try 🙂

12 seconds is awful. Best bet is to test one of your post pages with GTMetrix.com and pay close attention to the “server” section on stuff you need to address on server side.

see test
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.movzio.com/MPeo0Lff

Page load time: 10.61s
Total page size: 2.59MB
Total number of requests: 151

You need to do the things mentioned in the pagespeed sticky topic here, such as setup browser caching/expiration headers. You need to setup gzip/deflate on your server.

That’s covered in the pagspeed topics in this forum. You will need to contact your service provider to ask them how to setup your site properly. Nothing to do with the theme.

You have numerous elements loading with missing images (!).

Lots and lots of problems. Look at above report and start fixing them.

Link to page showing the error would be helpful for the tech support folk 🙂

Yes, I am seeing the same issue, however note I am not YET running the latest version of theme; I do have the tagdiv speed booster plugin running, 3 adsense spots, and am running mod_pagespeed … however I can also confirm the rich snippets were verified working with Newspaper theme. I had not yet gotten to testing this element, frankly, with Newsmag. But, I can confirm I have the same issue as looking at a review page in Gogole SERPS does NOT show the rating. Oddly the rich testing tool is also saying my Google+ page is not a publisher, even though the sites are properly linked and the Google+ publisher page is correct; so there *is* some oddball thing there someplace.

(I suspect the Google+ publisher thing may be due to the phase out of the author element; however since the page is properly linked from the +NeotropeNet/posts G+ page in the meta source; not sure why that shows up.)

The only plugins I’m using are Yoast SEO, two image plugins for resizing, wp-optimize, auto hyperlinks/external links no-follow, and nothing I can see which would impact the snippets. However, I will revisit this once I update the theme to latest version. I was actually waiting to see if there was any dot-revision to the 1.3 iteration before I did that 🙂

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Welll… seems I’m the only who posted my website here … hence why these topics never seem to go anywhere 🙂

@ricky86
I have not yet updated my theme to the latest version; I think it’s still 1.1, so likely my site isn’t best choice for checking snippets at the moment.

But you are correct, this page also doesn’t pass the validation, which it did with the Newspaper theme:
http://ga-ga.com/2018/book-review-what-you-dont-know-about-politics-would-fill-a-book/

Chris

You know. I think I get the stupid prize (face palm!).

For some reason I thought you were trying to implement Google’s custom search for YOUR site, and not the adsense affiliate search box.

Doh. Two totally different things entirely, even though your title for support CLEARLY says that.

Wow, that’s twice this week I was clueless on the reply. Definitely time for a vacation.

Sorry about that …. I have no clue how to style the affiliate/adsense box, as that loads from javascript provided by Google. Only way to do that with your own CSS is to view the page source, grab the rendered code and then hack that, and then place that on your page in place of their javascript.

Or, do what you were trying to do with the CSS you’ve found. Hitting F12 in Chrome and then looking at that code and styles might help you track that stupid box code down too.

Sorry I have my dunce cap on. I am really multi-tasking and popping in here while doing two things at once on two big 24-inch Apple LED Cinema displays.

Anyway… hope I at least stimulated the neurons, even if my solutions were completely unrelated to what you’re doing, other than being goofy Googleverse CSS.

You’re welcome 🙂

I don’t work here (with all my replies this month, you might think I do…. been actually implementing our site with Newsmag, so popping in to see if any issues I NEED TO KNOW about … while also dealing with a bunch of hurry up and wait stuff, so bit of a time waster here vs poking friends on Facebook.)

Yeah on the bbPress idea, though. I tried it awhile back.

Ended up going with Disqus just because most of the sites I tend to visit had started to use it, with couple of exceptions. It’s got a decent level of trust, and it also cut down on 99% of the spam comments and junk traffic we were getting even with akismet running. Seriously, it made a huge difference on some of our news portals. Obviously we also turn off comments on things like a fiction book serial as not relevant. But with news or reviews, comments are useful sometimes for visitor interaction.

bbPress is great if you want to have a LOT of comment interaction in a kind of “forum” setup. Great for traffic and SEO unless you have to deal with the troll culture.

In any case, we just ended up going with Disqus as the best sort of “it works” solution; much like some sites we use AddThis for the same reason. It’s so well entrenched on so many sites, it works very well.

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What is the “error” you’re getting exactly?

Revolution Slider is an optional install. The zip version of plugin file, revslider.zip, is found in the main “all files” download from ThemeForest for NEWSMAG.

e.g., on your hard drive:
Newsmag-tf/plugins/revslider.zip

(or I guess technically on a PC: Newsmag-tf\plugins\revslider.zip )

From the “only install theme” file, it is found in

/Newsmag/includes/plugins/revslider.zip

The version of Revolution Slider included with NEWSMAG 1.3 is: Version 4.6.5 SkyWood (02nd December 2014)

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Newsmag works great for us: http://ga-ga.com – switched from Newspaper because we *did* want the narrower layout for this particular project (still under construction). But, still using Newspaper on couple of sites where the wider layout works great. Nice to have a choice between two different themes in the same “family.”

You might need to ensure that loads “last” at bottom of page after everything else.
I think you can “add” that to the tagdiv speedbooster plugin if you’re using that.

Dunno. Think this is going to be a question for the real tech support folk! 🙂

I don’t think WordPress has built-in Emoji support.
this may help you:
http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-add-emoji-support-to-your-wordpress-blog/

Works great for most people.

Can you be more specific?

Did you install Visual Composer following the theme documentation? (see link right side of page).

Technically all themes have bbPress support, as Automattic has said they spent a lot of time the past year making bbPress so that it would work with all WP 4.x compliant themes. Meaning, they claim they’ve taken the hardship of theme developers out of the loop in worrying about compatibility, and made that their mission to manage – which is pretty cool.

So, generally “it should work” out of the box with any modern well crafted theme – it does not require special handling anymore by the theme creator (supposedly).

You may wish to spend some time on the bbPress site:

bbPress 2.x plugin for WordPress has built-in theme support. All required elements such as front-end editing are included. This means that all functionality will work, even when a theme has no specific bbPress templates or code included with it.

To get started customizing bbPress see Theme Compatibility:
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

Slight correction to how I wrote that — if you’re using versions NEWER than 4.14 then you are fine.

NEWSMAG users are fine.

(man I need a vacation …)

Slight correction to how I wrote that — if you’re using versions NEWER than 4.14 then you are fine.

I think the new version of theme released today may have the option to disable that, based on the changelog info; but I have not yet installed it (busy messing with our ecom system and rebuilding indexes, and sitting here watching dbases convert for all of our client data from 2010-2015 … hence why I’ve had so much time to be a busy body around here lately …. ) 🙂