Scroll back through this sticky topic to read all my advice and solutions for optimizing page speed, including functions.php, htaccess, avatar caching, etc. — some of that has now been added to theme docs, but not all.

You don’t need to post this in both forums unless you’re asking how to do something in two different themes, as they do behave differently.

Tech support will be back tonight/Monday.

Okay… that was too obvious that maybe one of the font files was bad and thus not loading for those particular browsers using the broken font, while “most” folks are likely loading the woff file, one might presume that one was fine. So, possibly eot file. Good idea on the re-render of the fonts (!). (and I hereby facepalm myself …)

That is something Radu may want to look at since enough people are having an issue with this, it has in fact become a real issue, and not imaginary or plugin related, cache related, etc.

Anecdotally, the icons do show up in
* Firefox 18.0.2 on Windows XP (!); and site works too… which is pretty damn impressive.
* In IE 8.0.06001.18702 on Windows XP the icons do show up. Site is horribly slow, likely as the Google ads seem unable to sort out what to do with IE8/WinXP these days. Actually, I can see in bottom browser window it’s downloading the .eot fonts from Google, also slowed page down quite a bit. Argument for loading that stuff locally, if you care about WinXP and IE8 🙂

Good workaround. I’d rather not have to add yet another funky plugin; and simply have this work the same way it does in Newspaper and for style 6 here, but not for style 4 and 5. I do have the “make thumbs” settings “on” in the theme panel thumbnail sizes:

1021 X 580 [ on ]
This thumb size is used for:
Post style 4, 5, 8

Point was that with post style 4 and 5 and “use featured image” OFF, the post style 4 and 5 won’t load the large featured image at top of page, with featured image selected from the post page as per usual.

“Expected” behavior is as with post style 6, where it does work, while post style 4 and 5 it does not.

okay, this “might” be the issue, might not…

in looking at the /includes/less_files/font-icons.less

I did find this …

@font-face {
font-family: 'newsmag';
src: url('@{td_css_path}images/icons/newsmag.eot?6');
src: url('@{td_css_path}images/icons/newsmag.eot?6#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('@{td_css_path}images/icons/newsmag.woff?6') format('woff'),
url('@{td_css_path}images/icons/newsmag.ttf?6') format('truetype'),
url('@{td_css_path}images/icons/newsmag.svg?6#newsmag') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}

While on the “face” of it (typography pun 🙂 ) … that “should” work, and follows modern practice … the ?# might be breaking somewhere, but doubtful.

e.g.,
normal use:
@font-face {
font-family: 'MyWebFont';
src: url('webfont.eot'); /* IE9 Compat Modes */
src: url('webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), /* IE6-IE8 */
url('webfont.woff2') format('woff2'), /* Super Modern Browsers */
url('webfont.woff') format('woff'), /* Pretty Modern Browsers */
url('webfont.ttf') format('truetype'), /* Safari, Android, iOS */
url('webfont.svg#svgFontName') format('svg'); /* Legacy iOS */
}

By contrast this is how I load the Font Awesome font on our main business site at bottom of the main minified CSS file:
(un-minified for easy read .. without the FA style classes….)
@font-face{font-family:'FontAwesome';
src:url('/assets/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.eot');
src:url('/assets/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.eot?#iefix&v=4.1.0') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('/assets/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('/assets/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('/assets/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.svg#fontawesomeregular') format('svg');font-weight:normal;font-style:normal}

Putting it at bottom of our main style.css worked best for us as it wasn’t being loaded through a separate load/include function.

So, if somebody – who can’t see the icons on their own website – wants to try putting the CSS for the font at bottom of their style.css file, have at it, then re-testing their website to see if the fonts work. Not sure where the less file is being called from … possibly the speed booster master file or functions.php.

I can’t test as I am not having the “I don’t see icons” issue.

Don’t put an advert code in the header ad box ?

Choose different header layout from the theme panel ?

Perhaps be more specific.

Welcome….
This is newspaper forum, separate forum for newsmag…

But nope. Jetpack optional. I dont use it. Resource hog. 🙂

For those using chrome, and not seeing icons… What error are you seeing in the console?

Showing a different theme is irrelevant as its not using the same font unless both are using font awesome or bootstrap 3 framework default icon font.

Very very strange.

You edit that on a custom page… Look under pages, unless im mistaken. There should be a custom home page which has all the blocks.

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

You can build your own home page using the visual composer … see the docs on how you can create a “page” and then choose the “blocks” you want to use for your home page — such as by rows, and or columns, and you can choose blocks without images.

In the theme panel under “block settings” …

You don’t need to use the plugin; you can simply add the code to your functions.php file as I’ve noted in my posts. 🙂

And i did do regen thumbs and am using thumbnail upscale … As you might expect.

Doesn’t adversely impact anything.
You’re just having the theme read/write to the existing data field.

Best way to do it in case you ever change themes again, you can always go back to WP Post Views without any problem.

For speed, best bet is to start with this info:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/page-speed-guide/

(admin – feel free to add all of this to the docs; since folks seem to keep asking about this one!) -cs

You need to add the variables for the format you want inside the () like in the example on the codex page:

<?php the_modified_time( $d ); ?>

You can look up the letter abbreviations for server time online.

eg.
Year yy 2 digit year 04
yyyy 4 digit year 2004
Month MMMM Full month name January
MMM Short month name Jan
MM Month number (zero padded) 01
M Month number 1
Weekday wwww Full weekday name Tuesday
www Short weekday name Tue
Day ddd Ornate day of month 2nd
dd Day of month (zero padded) 02
d Day of month 2
24 Hour HH Hour of day (24h, zero padded) 03
H Hour of day (24h) 3
12 Hour hh Hour of day (12h, zero padded) 04
h Hour of day (12h) 4
tt AM or PM AM
t AM or PM (short form) A
Minute mm Minute of hour (zero padded) 05
m Minute of hour 5
Second ss Second of minute (zero padded) 06
s Second of minute 6
Epoch epoch Seconds since epoch (1970) 1062201058

Just as an additional comment, we’ve had good success with the smtp mail plugin, as we had similar issue testing woocommerce on one of our sites here and nobody was getting the email sent via the wordpress/php/sendmail function.

Basically what the smtp plugin does, is login to your domain mail system as a mail account user for the domain (not a user of the wordpress install), with password and authentication, then the email is sent as the email account user vs being sent as “the web server” — this ensures it has “better headers” for the receiving mail system to validate.

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

I would go with the larger then let theme make smaller version as needed. Or, use smaller version and use plugin like thumbnail upscale to create larger version. Quality would be better going from large to small, though.

Again. Weird. I can see the icons on http://ladgeneration.com/ perfectly fine in ALL browsers, Mac (Mavericks, and new Yosemite), PC (Win7/64, IE11 and Chrome), iOS across three systems, and iPad Air/iOS 7 latest.

I am not using Firefox, however, as I hate it.

Firefox *does* have some issues with CSS, which we ran into with our ecommerce system which *no* other browser has, but I didn’t test the icons with latest version. I think I have that on the Mac system with Mavericks, so I will check that when I have time juuuuuuust because I’m curious.

There is no good reason NOT for the icon font to load properly.

But obviously enough people are NOT seeing the icon font for it to be more than a “non issue.”

You need to read the docs on how to optimize the site for pagespeed as you have numerous issues with the server setup, image optimization, etc. Please see the docs for the theme from the forum navigation bar on how to optimize your site for “speed.”

Two totally different modules being used.

Not sure if you can have one module on desktop and totally different module on mobile.

But Marius or Lucian will have more cogent reply.

Site is responsive it updates all versions together as the “content” has nothing to do with “how it looks.”

Likely you need to clear your desktop web browser cache to see the changes. With some installs you also need to clear the site cache (e.g., GoDaddy) every time you do major updates to site.

Looks like
1) you have issue with your media section if you can’t see thumbnails (not seen in the screen shot you provided); try changing back to twenty-twelve theme and look at your media section to see if thumbs are showing.

2) you didn’t install the theme properly.
You did turn off caching prior to install, correct?
Clear cache after switch to new theme?
Did turn off any plugins which came with prior theme prior to theme switch?

If you can’t see widgets, or the widget areas, it means something isn’t installed properly.