Not from the the theme… You would need to use an ad management system.

You may want to install one of the plugins which checks overall system usage; meaning telling you which plugins are slowing down the site or using up all your resources.

Also check your site error log (see your hosting provider info on that).

Typically if something won’t load it’s due to php being overloaded, either locally for your site, or the entire server being overloaded by somebody else, and they will likely end up with their site disabled. Downside to shared hosting vs VPS or dedicated box.

The theme can’t secretly turn features on and off for your site. So, you need to debug which of your plugins is causing your php overload/timeout, which would be the reason something like VC won’t work.

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WordPress creates thumbnails for the theme based on the sizes set for the theme, so that all those little photos on indexes and home pages actually show up, based on the image you choose for featured image. When WP does this, it adds the sizes for each new version which is logical vs item1, item2, item3, etc. The sizes are added to end of the thumbnail to show which size it is and also so WP knows which image to use for the specific “featured” image sizes when loaded by theme.

Put another way if you have, say 150×50 thumbnails on the site, as part of theme design and upload a 600×350 image, WordPress will then make a yourfilename-150×50.jpg so that the thumbnail is used on home page and not your big image resized to fit, which would slow the page wayyyyy down. This is how WordPress works with images.

See the WordPress codex for more info on how WordPress builds images.

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Bumps don’t do anything.

The theme cannot suddenly cause something to stop working.

1) did you update something else recently that might have broken Visual Composer?

2) did you try removing the visual composer plugin (js_composer) from your plugins folder, then reinstall the version which comes with the theme?

YOU SHOULD BE USING THE VERSION WHICH IS INCLUDED WITH THE THEME FOR SITE TO WORK PROPERLY AND IT DOES NOT NEED A LICENSE. REMOVE YOUR LICENSED VERSION AND USE THE ONE INCLUDED WITH THE THEME, WHICH NEEDS NO LICENSE KEY.

See the theme docs for more info on using Visual Composer with the theme and licensing information:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/

If something “suddenly” stops working, this is due to action on your part or something you have installed, updated, or modified. The theme isn’t secretly changing things behind your back to turn things on and off. It’s not technically possible.

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Not a theme issue. Permalinks are managed by WordPress on the permalink settings page and written to the htaccess file or similar. Make sure your htaccess file is “writable” which WordPress will tell you when changing your permalink settings.

Hi, simply edit your menu and put the extra categories into the drop down menu. This is covered very well in the WordPress documentation, (aka “codex”)

Note the section “creating multi-level menus” … really simple.

I just did this myself, actually
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Menu_User_Guide

Quick note for those who have read all my posts the past 12 months (time flies!) for my optimization on using NEWSPAPER theme. Note for any links to my ga-ga.com I’ve put in my posts, I have moved that site to now using NEWSMAG, also from TagDiv, as for this particular project site (launching finally Jan 2015!), I found NewsMag fit the project better. So, obviously it’s under construction again, and not fully optimized so testing any of my example page links will be different in pagespeed scores, than what they were up until a month ago.

Only mentioning this, as it came up in another thread.

happy holidays 2014 ! 🙂

+1 on this option 🙂

Note that the post views only counts the “views” of the pages on YOUR website. It uses a data field, which appears with the post meta (e.g., if you open a post, look at custom fields and you can see the number there).

If you were previously using another counter system, with an existing datafield, you would need to edit a file in the theme by hand to change the datafield used by the theme to your existing datafield — which is likely shown in the list of custom fields for your posts when you open any existing post.

You would change the data field used by the theme to your existing counter data field, by editing
/themes/newsmag/includes/wp_booster/td_page_views.php

and then edit this element at top of file — in this case I’ve changed the field name to my own existing data field so that the pages now show my historical counts, not just the counts since I installed theme:
static $post_view_counter_key = 'views';

Chrome is a great replacement for Safari on Windows, which is what I switched to back when Apple abandoned Safari/Windows.

Yes, we switched Ga-ga.com to Newsmag … and still playing with it in my “spare time” … I have not fully optimized the new theme/site combo, so the old scores and such are not yet “up to speed” as it were.

For the site, we found that it worked a little better to have more of a “magazine” style layout (borders) than the newspaper layout, partly because we have some long form book serials/fiction, and .. well, anyway, YES… Ga-Ga.com is now running on NEWSMAG from the savvy folk at TagDiv. So, Newsmag was the right choice for this particular site, hence the switcheroo.

I have not yet
1) optimized the gravatar local caching
2) optimized fonts
3) minified the main CSS file manually
4) finished the home page; and menus.
5) fixed the logos, as I’m playing with changing logo design since it’s not technically a “done” website; the content there now is “mostly” stuff we’re rescuing from some older sites which are being retired and we’re keeping the good stuff for the new site, which will launch Jan.2015.
6) various other minor tweaks

Work in progress as of 12/12/14. 🙂

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Yes, you need to optimize your server and site to get a decent score. The theme is optimized, but it can’t fix your web server or edit your site files for you.

Read through the GTMetrix info to see what you need to fix.

Read through the speed help info to see what you need to implement.

Do you have gzip/deflate enabled on your server?
Do you have expiration headers set properly from htaccess or similar?
Do you have optimized images and thumbnails?

…why is sidebar located after content part on mobile phones?

this is how responsive design works. The grid, such as with Bootstrap, is designed so that “columns” fold under each other to fit the width, vs being off the page or so tiny you can’t see them.

SO in responsive design a layout might look like

for desktop
[———–][—–]

for mobile
[———]
[———]

You set the author image on the user setup page in the WordPress settings for users, not in the theme panel. Typically this is done automatically by using email address for each user, based on the “gravatar” setup for that user (see gravatar.com) …

To upload user images manually, you would need to use a plugin for that, of which there are many available.

Best bet is to render page then figure out what the div class is for the form and then add some padding to that div class from the theme custom css box. I had to do this for disqus comments which had same problem with 1.0 version of Newsmag.

Media upload is managed by user roles and WordPress, not the theme. “Contributors” don’t have access to upload files unless you edit the user roles functions in WordPress — not the theme.

You may wish to spend some time reviewing all the docs on how WordPress works.

see
http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

capabilities of contributor:
Contributor
◾delete_posts
◾edit_posts
◾read

@masbay93
did you try to re-render the fonts as per the possible solution provided?

This theme comes with its own bundled version if visual composer, which does not require a license, as noted in the theme docs.

<LOL>
pesky programmer!!!! 🙂

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It’s a little quirky, but the nice thing is you can experiment, hit preview, go “nah” than go back and try something else. Pretty cool.

I mentioned this quite some time back if you want to search the forum (kind of hard to find as I didn’t used to put in tags!). Basically the version of the slider that came with Newspaper last December (a year ago) had the exploit.

The developer fixed that vulnerability as of version 4.6.

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

I assume you mean the width, not the length/height? Simplest way would be to have a 2-column wide boxed area below the two content columns, and above the footer area.

I’d love to see this added as another ad space at some point, actually.

Obviously you can’t widen the post area to that width, as it would break the layout unless you use a full width layout without a sidebar.

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Go to add a new “page” and then select blank page from right side, as noted in theme docs, then you can choose from pre-built layouts to setup custom home page. Try it, it’s fun 🙂

You need to setup your home page the way you want, as found in the theme documentation here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/installing-the-demo-data/

You don’t need to install the demo content; simply choose to “import a pre-defined” style at bottom of the theme admin panel such as “sports” or “fashion.”

Or, go to create a new “page” and then choose a layout style as found here:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/page-templates-newsmag/

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You can try to reinstall visual composer by deleting the old version from wp-content/plugins/ then reinstall visual composer.