Anybody know how to do this on post style 4 also ?

For some reason I’m not able to sort these couple of styles out properly when looking at the source code. For style 4, there is no .template4-header div, for example.

Hi, glad that helped 🙂

You can go into the functions.pho file and comment out the “sizes” you don’t plan to use in your layouts. I think the v5 version of theme will let you turn off thumbnails not being used, also.

Another trick is to make the small/medium/large images in the wordpress media settings page (not theme panel) match the three sizes you use the most.

You can find some of my other ideas for optimization in the “page speed” sticky topic. 🙂

You need to install the Visual Composer plugin for the theme to work properly.
See the theme docs (link right side of this page), to ensure you install properly.

Hi, Lucian
thanks. I set the ticker to “random” for the moment, and that works too. Also figured I could do an offset but obviously then it still hides the stories by topic “on the front page” with image/excerpt. Random solved the issue I was having for now (cool feature; didn’t even see that at first). 🙂

Thanks on (2). I think we decided not to do that for now, although it would be nice to think about in future for “latest” items. Obviously it won’t work on style 6 posts and things like that very well.

Thanks Alin
I thought I’d tried that iteration, but obviously I was brain dead last night while trying to do that — which does happen from time to time, even to me (aka “mr smarty pants”) 🙂

If you search forum you will see the posts i have done related to this issue. Versions of the plugin from summer 2014 onward included with the theme are fine. Versions from a year ago are not. I think all versions after 414 are okay, but you can search this forum for the posts where i confirm which versions are and are not at risk.

See…

https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/hacking-issues-with-rev-slider/

The version included with current version of theme is safe.

You can delete all versions from your plugins folder on your site.

You can get current version from the all files theme download from your theme forest account.

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I don’t think the “page navi plugin” will work with the home page when “blocks” are used, as it doesn’t use the latest story “loop” (blog style “latest posts” loop), so it can’t figure out what stories to show on second page.

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I think you need to remove the @media queries from the style.css … since this is a “responsive” theme, it’s designed to work on desktop, tablet, and phone. Removing the @media queries would basically stop the other sizes from loading. You’d likely want to then also trim out the menu elements designed for mobile devices from the header file(s).

Not “easy” but you could do it if you wish to “hack” the theme for that.

Sorry thought you mean page navigation, which usually refers to the menu to “navigate” (“navi”) the website.

You meant the next/previous page navigation at bottom of home page, which you did actually refer to. Sorry.

Did you try disabling plugins not included with the theme to see which one might be the culprit? This is most often the problem.

Oh well, tech support will be back on Monday.

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Works for me.

See the theme docs under “page speed,” as well as the sticky topic at top of the forum.

Turn off all plugins,
switch back to default theme twenty-fourteen or whatever;
try to create a page.

If you can create a page,
turn on Visual Composer and no other plugin.

Turn on the theme again.

Turn on your plugins one by one to find the one breaking the site.

Likely you should use the method of adding the compression change line to your functions.php file, turn off smush-it, and then do regenerate thumbnails.

You can find the compression setting in my posts in the pagespeed topic but here it is:

add_filter( 'jpeg_quality', create_function( '', 'return 60;' ) );

Add that to bottom of your functions.php file in the theme folder. Then do regenerate thumbnails. You can also set that to “50” if all the files are being reduced in size from your original images; if any images are being enlarged while also using thumbnail upscale plugin, leave it at 60.

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Adding more bloat and features I/we (our company) don’t need slows down the theme and adds more complexity of code. When speaking of “our” I am speaking for our news network (we have a 32 year old publishing/information business NEOTROPE®). So we have news portals appearing in Google news since it launched in beta; and sites online 10-15 years. “Our” refers to “our company,” not me personally.

For example to make the theme full width requires additional @media classes to resize things to fit the viewport. This adds more CSS, and/or more JS to the theme elements loaded for every page load, even if cached.

Newspaper got a little complicated with the 200 feature requests, mostly for things we didn’t need around here like WooCommerce support, and various other things which bloated the code a bit (generally a “newspaper” isn’t a “store”); but many folks loved the theme and kept piling on “hey can we do this?” and the team kept adding things, and still do so, which is awesome. But it’s got a lot more code than it did a year ago. Not a bad thing, just a little further away from a pure “newspaper” solution, which was its original intent, and hence our original purchase, and support.

Just my thought. Your mileage may vary.

You can certainly modify the theme to change the CSS, or hire a developer, but I doubt they will add “full width” capability, just as they removed the “fixed width” capability from Newspaper (and upset some people); this theme was answer to having a fixed width theme for those who want it. Just an observation, and possibly completely incorrect 🙂

I don’t speak for the company in any way, although quite a bit of my feedback and expertise as a 10-year WordPress user have made their way into some elements of themes and the docs, which is great to help contribute to since we (our company) use both TagDiv themes.

I DO AGREE ON HOME PAGE:
I do agree that it would be cool having the top image bar element full width as an option, although you’d get some issues with the images having to be responsive and both the images and the VC “block” would need to be set to fill the divs, and this means the images used would never be their “actual size” and hence you’d get a warning from PageSpeed about the images being resized (not an issue for us since we use mod_pagespeed to cache “resized” images based on the resized format) – which some people obsessed with pagespeed score might not like. But yeah…. I’d love to see that particular module you’ve identified have a full width option – many sites like news.com, and other have similar element.
So, I do agree on home page; disagree on post pages.

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Right. You cannot auto-update the “bundled” version of the Visual Composer plugin which comes free with the theme vs spending $20 additional. The bundled version is only updated when the theme itself is updated, and is tested to be compatible with the theme.

1) you don’t need to put in a license key if you use the bundled version of VC that comes with theme
2) you cannot “auto update” the bundled version, as it’s not provided by the folks who make VC. Setting on the Visual Composer plugin can be ignored as they don’t apply in this instance – those settings would only apply if you bought a license to the plugin, so you can simply ignore them. 🙂

Kind of confusing, but this is how all the theme developers who “bundle” a version of VC with the theme do it.

Plus to that you save having to buy a license, and you can be assured that 99% of the time the version included with the theme will actually work.

The theme uses Gravatar for author image, as most modern WordPress themes do. They should likely put something about that in the docs for those new to WordPress or those switching from the older themes which required/offered upload of an author image.

Its almost impossible to solve render blocking issue with complex wordpress themes… You can still get a 90+ score by following all the suggestions in the theme docs.

@Stefan
yes, so have you looked at your server error log to see what is overloading your site?

Have you installed one of the plugins which diagnose which plugins are the most system hogs, so you can possibly dial that one back or remove it?

I swear the theme can’t break your site randomly. Your setup can do that. You need to debug what’s wrong with your mix of plugins and server setup. Nobody can solve that for you remotely, magically or for free.

So, you should perhaps try my suggestions.

Or, just let it keep happening. Or wait for some similar comment from Marius or Lucian, and perhaps they will be nice enough to check for you. You’re the one managing your site, so you should try debugging what is causing the issue for you. It’s not happening on our end across multiple sites with either Newspaper or Newsmag running, with some high volume stuff.

Did you try using the smush-it plugin?

You can download it here
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/

If that was not your question – can you be more specific?

You can also change the default compression by adding a line to your functions.php file (see my notes in the pagespeed sticky topic).

You don’t need to create a support topic pointing to an existing support topic.

Did you setup your menus under the appearance > menus settings for WordPress ?

Do the pages you have in your menu actually exist?

I just tried the menu links and the appear to work just fine. So, looks like you solved it !

You don’t need a license key for this theme.
You may find it useful to peruse the “documentation” for the theme.

See the links on right side of this page “Documentation > Newsmag” for more help.

Specifically, this help doc will answer your questions on licensing:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/

You cannot “auto update” the version of Visual Composer which is “bundled” with the theme, as it’s a bulk license, not an individual license per user. The only way to update it is to wait for next theme update, which will have the tested/approved bundled/licensed version with it.

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I think they are intending “Newspaper” to be the full width theme, and “Newsmag” to be the fixed width theme. For our use, we’re hoping they don’t add full width options, but that’s just me. Obviously you have different needs, and often the awesome tagdiv folk *do* have solutions, which is why we keep using their stuff (sorry if I sounded like a tool or anything) 🙂

TIP: most of the function files not found in functions.php are in the /Newspaper/includes/ folder and many are in /Newspaper/includes/wp_booster/

so if you look in there, an obvious choice might be “td_video_support.php”

and if you look at that file, you’ll see this at the top

/*  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    tagDiv video support
    - downloads the video thumbnail and puts it asa a featured image to the post
 */

Pretty good idea to “explore” the folders for the theme you’ve installed to see what files are there, as that is often a way to see what does what or find things on your own vs waiting for somebody else to locate it or for tech support to answer on a weekend. 🙂

Generally all featured images are put into your media folder based on the settings you have for WordPress, such as /uploads/12/13/2014/

In my case I found it was better to simply have all images load into a folder called /images/ without the date/time stamp stuff as you end up with a needless number of sub-directories.

Hope that helped.

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You would need to edit the visual composer modules as those control the home module layouts. Not sure why you bought a “fixed layout” theme if you wanted a “full width layout” …. but Lucian or Marius will be back Monday for tech support so may have more cogent answer than my rambling 🙂