On our site when we were having issues with the icon fonts as well as Open Sans loaded locally, we added this to our htaccess for stupid web browsers

# Add correct content-type for fonts
AddType application/vnd.ms-fontobject .eot
AddType application/x-font-ttf .ttf
AddType application/x-font-opentype .otf
AddType application/x-font-woff .woff
AddType image/svg+xml .svg

This is likely *not* needed, but somebody who can’t see the icons on their own site could try adding that for laughs and see what happens.

CDN SHENANIGANS:

For those on CDNs, this was the code we added to htaccess in addition to CORS rule at CDN to allow fonts to load at all off CDN vs local domain

<FilesMatch "\.(ttf|otf|eot|woff|svg)$">
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
</IfModule>
</FilesMatch>

and of course this applies to Apache server; if running something else can’t help ya.

I know for running the Font Awesome font on our main business page I went through this in the springtime, where FA 3 would randomly not load in IE from Amazon’s CDN even with the CORS in place, all the additions for file types added to htaccess for fonts, etc. (actually I didn’t try adding the font type to htaccess… hm….), and finally gave up and loaded from our own domain.

In our case, we put the call to the FA icon font at bottom of our style.css but loaded before the external Google fonts.

I know some browsers do have issue loading too many fonts, and that can “time out” on the page rendering (or so I’ve been told).

I will need to look at the style sheet or the files to see WHERE exactly the icon font is being loaded, and possibly move to bottom of the style.css if not there already, as that *might* resolve the inconsistent issues as it did for me on our main website (not running WordPress btw).

It was super annoying and I wasted many an hour back in April or May suffering through that. FA4 didn’t matter … was “when” the icon font was loading in the “stream of things.”

LUCIAN … if you’re monitoring this at all,
can you tell me WHERE the icon font is being loaded… is it coming from style.css, or from a dependent file being loaded on the fly ?

Best bet is to turn off the plugins, except for Visual Composer, and then check page, then switch each back on to find culprit. Often it’s a conflicting social media widget of some kind, or something loading jquery again, or something trying to over-ride the themes’ built in mobile layout.

Hm. Maybe in Chrome run one of the tools to find the external elements being loaded.

Or perhaps run a test of the order things are being loaded in browser.

A QUICK TEST …..

What is REALLY interesting is running test in GTMetrix for this page
http://demo.tagdiv.com/newsmag/td-post-the-oriental-experience-chew-pan-asia-cafe/

if I look at the screen shot, of rendered page, I see the icons (!)
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/demo.tagdiv.com/bprBn5yY
( AND MAN DO THOSE EXTERNAL ELEMENTS KILL THE PAGE SPEED!! )

HOWEVER: running the home page for demo, I do not see the icons loading in the screen cap:
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/demo.tagdiv.com/NrOC7oWs

For those tests, the engine is emulating:
Test Server Region: Vancouver, Canada
Using: Firefox (Desktop) 25.0.1

Note you cannot put “sponsored link” above Google ads, as that is a violation of their ad policy. They *will* give you warning and disable your payments if you do so.

You can put - advertisement - or similar, however. I traded some email with Radu about possibly adding this in future.

For sidebar, pretty easy, just put the text in a text widget, wrapped in a div tag with class named “adheaderzx” or similar. Add the following to your custom CSS box in the theme panel.

.adheaderzx{margin-bottom:-20px; font-size:10px; color:#BBB; text-align:center; padding-top:8px}

Note – if you really want to “debug” this you would need to

1) specify which OS version you’re using on your computer, the browser version, what anti-virus or anti-malware you’re using (both Avast and Symantec have wonky issues from time to time) – try turning them off to see if that causes the issue. Don’t use “branded” versions of web browser provided by an ISP like TimeWarner, etc. Use the un-branded versions of web browser.

Turn off ANY “ad blocking” software.

2) be sure to run a full anti-virus scan, clear temp files from your Windows system if running Windows, fully clear the cache in your web browser(s).

Check the theme forest demo of the theme, check the thread where somebody is again suggesting “post your sites here” to see different sites, and see if icons appear or not.

If several people post their setups here, one might be able to determine the commonality of the culprit as to why “a few” people are having this issue while the majority do not. I don’t think anybody would be buying these themes if all the icons were broken in the demo, for example.

That’s about all I can think of at this point.

Simplest solution is to use the YOAST SEO plugin where you can manage the meta description for OG tags properly.

I know of no way of doing that.

Welll … Dunno what to tell you. Maybe its outside usa? All my staff across usa with different isps can see icons from the site on our server in texas. So you are saying you cant see icons on the theme forest demo either. Wow. If they wotk on 10 devices i own on mac, windows and ios and work for all my staff not worried sbout it.

Maybe you are running something that is blocking the font on your computers.

Or… It could be some other issue nobody has seen before.

Weiiiiirrrrrrrdddddddd!

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Not my template (I don’t work here … although it might seem so this month as I’m poking my nose in while working on my two 24-inch cinema displays, and waiting for stuff to “happen” on one, while wasting time on the other … more twitter posts lately than in years!).

As I said, it’s an issue with Facebook, varies from time of day, time of post, post content, if it’s already been indexed by Facebook by somebody else, issue with conflicting plugin — did you try the debug tool on YOUR site, as suggested?

Point was, even in perfect setup – you will get random issues of FB not working. I posted 6 things to our company page today, one would not populate had to do it manually out of annoyance – but I’ve learned to work around their stupid timeout issues.

Enjoy!

They work fine in IE11 and Chrome on my Win7/64 machine/desktop; iPad Air in Safari and Chrome; no AdBlocker software when visiting the site. They work fine on my website and the demo site…. so….. perhaps you folks need to seriously clear your cache? Dunno. I hate those funky gremlins. If I can see them on his site it’s not a CORS issue as they would not work for anybody at all. Since they work for “many but not some” this implies some site specific issue -or- a browser specific issue.

Talkin’ bout’
http://www.anim-arte.com/

For reference, my pesky beta site, launching Jan 1:
http://www.ga-ga.com (YES! it’s a work in progress; home page not setup !!! Switched from Newspaper last week and didn’t get any further due to this other stupid deadline thing I have …. )

Common recurring problems with Facebook. Nothing to do with your site or theme, or at least the theme.

You can use the Facebook developer debug tool to check the page you’re trying to share.

We have this ongoing issue across our network of sites going on several years now.

Facebook cannot always populate the data, timing out on their end or your end. In those instances you have to manually paste in the headline and first paragraph, and then manually upload photo, then drop in URL last then save. Saves as photo post, but at least it’s really there. Otherwise you randomly get the annoying box with nothing but the site URL, which is stupid useless.

So, you’re not crazy. Nothing anybody can do about it.

There is no built-in quiz program. You’d likely need to find a plugin or commercial solution for that.

Search your site for that text and remove it.

Don’t insert or put text ads on your pages.

If your site has been hacked, make sure you have updated vulnerable plugins, and updated WordPress from 3.9 to 4.1, etc.

If using a CDN, you may need to setup a CORS entry with your CDN to allow the icon font to load from your CDN. Or, create exception at CDN to not load fonts from your domain, and load the icon font(s) for theme locally on the domain itself.

Did you choose the “sport” layout from the theme admin panel?

Yup. Been there. 🙂

The CORS file thing is not commonly known by most, but once you run into it, kind of a pain. But not too hard to fix once done. Just one of those “what the heck” moments.

Facebook often generates error. Nothing to do with you or your site, but you can test your site page with the facebook debug developer tool they offer on their website.

You can create simple vertical menu using built in widgets that come with wordpress, such as list of categories, or pages.

Yay! 80 is more typical starting point before the more extreme stuff. 25 was just way the heck out of whack someplace 🙂

I think you can comment that out in the module/block file.

I comment out the breadcrumbs in the search module for example.

Lucian should have better answer if that’s not enough to point you to a starting point.

The patch files over-ride/replace the existing files of the same name in the main theme folder.

Easier to follow the update docs here
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-theme/

Where it gets really confusing is that HTML5 actually suggested using more than one h1 on a page, such as having containers (think a parallax page for example), to denote the primary heading for a section inside a semantic container, such as the primary headline for a section on one page about the company, versus how to contact company. However, Google/Bing have said they prefer *one* H1 on page which is the defacto “title” for page, and is used with the meta title in SERPS. h2 can be used as “big section headers” on a page multiple times, h3 then used a subordinate headers for anything which is not a “major” section. h4 and h5 often used for tiny things, but are less common though semantically correct to use in place of a bold/strong tag for some things. Again, think of it as an identifier that it’s a “header” versus something offset in bold for effect.

It’s always an adventure 🙂

I know, me too 🙂

Do you mean you cannot create pages?

To make a home page you need to create a “page” then apply the layouts you want from the page builder.

Once you do that, you select the page name from the WP settings > reading > set static page

If that was not your issue, sorry.

Perhaps you can be much more specific, in order to get some help?