My custom functions.php mods, for those who care about such and sundry…. use at your own risk.
/*CHRISTOPHER'S CUSTOM MODS - 10.4.14. rev2 */
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_generator' ) ;
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wlwmanifest_link' ) ;
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'rsd_link' ) ;
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'feed_links', 2 );
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'feed_links_extra', 3 );
add_filter( 'pre_comment_content', 'wp_specialchars' );
function no_errors_please(){
return 'GET OFF MY LAWN !! RIGHT NOW !!';
}
add_filter( 'login_errors', 'no_errors_please' );
/* Disable YOAST SEO Admin Bar. */
function mytheme_admin_bar_render() {
global $wp_admin_bar;
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('wpseo-menu');
}
// and we hook our function via
add_action( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'mytheme_admin_bar_render' );
function delete_enclosure(){
return '';
}
add_filter( 'get_enclosed', 'delete_enclosure' );
add_filter( 'rss_enclosure', 'delete_enclosure' );
add_filter( 'atom_enclosure', 'delete_enclosure' );
function remove_cssjs_ver( $src ) {
if( strpos( $src, '?ver=' ) )
$src = remove_query_arg( 'ver', $src );
return $src;
}
add_filter( 'style_loader_src', 'remove_cssjs_ver', 10, 2 );
add_filter( 'script_loader_src', 'remove_cssjs_ver', 10, 2 );
add_filter( 'jpeg_quality', create_function( '', 'return 50;' ) );
function remove_pingback_url( $output, $show ) {
if ( $show == 'pingback_url' ) $output = '';
return $output;
}
add_filter( 'bloginfo_url', 'remove_pingback_url', 10, 2 );
add_action('init', 'myoverride', 100);
function myoverride() {
remove_action('wp_head', array(visual_composer(), 'addMetaData'));
}
Normally we convert ALL fonts to Open Sans (with Newspaper, anyway); so typically we would open the style.css, search/replace all fonts to what we want, then edit the functions.php … but now would edit the td_fonts.php to REMOVE all the google fonts not being used; this ensures they don’t “print” in the head/foot of the posts online.
I have not yet done this for the fonts.
For our sites we have to do the following each update
1) update the hook for the post views to “views” from existing field
2) edit the search file to remove breadcrumbs (I don’t need those on indexes for each story)
3) edit functions.php to put various elements for us at bottom, such as changing default compression for images/thumbs, adding note to poke hackers trying the lost password function, turn off XMLRPC elements in header, remove Yoast from menu bar in admin, hide header elements like versions, hide use of visual composer, etc. — many common “optimizations” for WordPress sites.
4) edit header to remove the section for video thumbnails and this stupid thing
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo( 'pingback_url' ); ?>" />
5) optimize the fonts, by doing the aforementioned house cleaning on style css file, and removing the extra google font calls.
Your mileage may vary 🙂
Actually … I think this is setup differently from Newspaper; in doing quick looksee, in the /includes/wp_booster/
I think one would *actually* edit the td_fonts.php
look at line 902
if(!in_array('g_438', $td_user_fonts_list)) {//'g_438', //Open Sans
wp_enqueue_style('google-font-opensans', td_global::$http_or_https . '://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300,400,600,700&subset=latin,cyrillic-ext,greek-ext,greek,vietnamese,latin-ext,cyrillic'); //used on menus/small text
I think you would need to edit that to add in both the italic and the 200 font.
Wait for Lucian or Marius with official help, though. This was just me doing quick look-see. (I have not yet actually done this with NEWSMAG…!)
You can use your own videos with all WordPress themes, as you likely know, by simply uploading them from a post page or from the media manager
http://codex.wordpress.org/Uploading_Files
supported formats in WP:
Video
◾ .mp4, .m4v (MPEG-4)
◾ .mov (QuickTime)
◾ .wmv (Windows Media Video)
◾ .avi
◾ .mpg
◾ .ogv (Ogg)
◾ .3gp (3GPP)
◾ .3g2 (3GPP2)
Normally you can embed video into any WP page or post using shortcode, or just the full URL to the video on your site, CDN, etc. as so:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Video_Shortcode
With the theme, I think in a post you can choose “Style 8” for a featured video, then put in the URL to your video (try it).
I have no idea if the “video playlist” supports locally hosted videos, as I’ve not yet tried that.
Not sure if that was what you wanted, but hope it helps.
If you mean, how do you switch from the default list of latest posts to a custom home page; you need to build that using the page builder, by creating a blank “page,” then adding the modules you want to do your layout, then selecting that page as a static page under WP settings > reading.
For a walk through on setting up the home page customized with the content you want in sections, sliders, etc., see the theme documentation which has a nice walk through:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/homepage-newsmag/
Then to get into the more complicated stuff:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/page-templates-newsmag/
Or, start from the section here called “homepage”
https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-documentation/
Hope that helped!
Wordpress cannot make images larger, only smaller. To have images larger than what you upload, you need to use a plugin for that. I use the plugin, THUMBNAIL UPSCALE by Stanislav Khromov, which works wonderfully.
There is a full-width image layout for posts, if you look at a post edit page, check out styles 4, 5 and 6. However, unless the original image you upload is large enough, it won’t fill the space as WP doesn’t do image enlargement.
So, you would likely want to install the plugin, and possibly regenerate thumbnails with the REGENERATE THUMBNAILS plugin, in order to get images larger to fit theme sizes, which is normal practice when moving to a new theme with different size thumbs and featured images.
Hope that helped!
