Theme support folk will be back tonight tomorrow; but again, you’re asking to modify the theme outside of how it was designed; this usually means you need to hire a developer to “hack” the theme to do something it was not setup to do, and is not advertised to support when offered for sale. Just sayin’.

Look for Marius and Lucian to follow up once they are back in the office so to speak. They are closed weekends.

I’m only providing some feedback as long time client of theirs, and also was installing Newsmag this weekend myself so popping in here for any issues I might have missed, and helping out a little bit. Sorry if not very helpful, in your case. 🙂

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Simple Press supposedly will have update very soon for WordPress 4.1, so I’d likely wait for that to stress too much, as a lot of plugins are having problems with the “strict” requirements in WP 4.1.

For those reading this thread later on, please note the following from the theme admin, panel:

Smart sidebar
From here you can enable and disable the smart sidebar on all the templates. The smart sidebar is an affix (sticky) sidebar that has auto resize and it scrolls with the content. The smart sidebar reverts back to a normal sidebar on iOS (iPad) and on mobile devices. The following widgets are not supported in the smart sidebar:
◦[tagDiv] Block 14
◦[tagDiv] Block 15
◦[tagDiv] Slide

Turn off all plugins; change to default theme.
Clear cache on server/CDN as applicable; clear browser cache; restart browser.

Login, activate visual composer (using the version included with this theme only);
switch on this theme.

Under WP settings, reading, set static page back to latest posts.

Check pages work at all.

FYI

HTTP Error 413 Request entity too large
The Web server (running the Web site) thinks that the HTTP data stream sent by the client (e.g. your Web browser) was simply too large i.e. too many bytes. What constitutes ‘too many bytes’ depends partly upon the operation being attempted. For example a request to upload a very large file (via the HTTP PUT method) may encounter a ceiling on upload file size set by the Web server.

It works for me. I would suggest it’s very likely a caching issue, where you need to clear the cache used for your site and/or update/refresh the pull from a CDN if using one, and fully clear the cache in your web browser.

Do you have link to your post page to see the error?

Both themes load super fast with high Google PageSpeed Insights rating if your site and server are properly optimized, which I can confirm from using the Newspaper theme for one year now. BOTH themes great with both server side and plug-in based caching. W3 Total Cache is recommended cache.

See: https://forum.tagdiv.com/page-speed-guide/

Yup. Just pointing out that sticky bar doesn’t work on an iPad on the DEMO when you use it online, so technically it’s not offered to work that way at the outset. I fully tested it on my iPad before buying so I would know how it actually works on an iPad. So, it’s not a “bug” or something to be “corrected” as an error. Would be nice to be added as feature request.

YES! It would be a nice feature to add to a future version at some point. Totally agree 🙂

Theme loads very fast if you optimize your web server and optimize WordPress, which has nothing to do with the theme. There are many tutorials online with info on how to optimize your site for WP faster loading.

Once your system is properly optimized for speed, you can also add extra features such as caching, and consider using the included WP Speed Booster (may conflict with some oddly coded plugins).

You may find the theme documentation very useful for speeding up the theme on your particular system here:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/page-speed-guide/

Scroll to BOTTOM of the above page for info on using W3 Total Cache with this theme, specifically 🙂

Hope that helps!

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• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

That’s the Newspaper theme, not the Newsmag theme, you’re linking to.

Newsmag has a border around all sides, as seen in the demo, which is part of the design element. I didn’t see any demo pages with “full width bottom” … this theme isn’t designed that way; it’s more of a magazine boxed layout, than a bootstrap “everything touches all sides” layout.

You would likely need to do your own custom mods to the footer to make it “full width” by adding a container outside the main grid. You can, of course, hack any theme to modify it to your tastes, but generally most theme developers don’t provide support on custom programming outside of the “design” they are offering; hence the full demo of the site on ThemeForest.

I don’t work here; this is just an opinion. And I apologize if that’s only annoying. 🙂

Hi, @fernandofloresf3
Can you be more specific on the problem?

I am thinking of using their USP PRO version, and so curious what issue you’re having.

Do you have a link to a “page’ where you embedded a form, that is not working? Is the form admin panel not working? What is the actual “problem,” as without specifics I’m not sure how anybody would be able to address that or help?

Make sure you upload only the main theme files; don’t install the “all files” zip from ThemeForest… that has docs, psd files, plugins, etc.

You want to install the smaller of the two files on Themeforest, if you’re installing via theme panel with .zip.

BEST WAY TO INSTALL WP THEMES:
Ideal way is still to
1) unzip theme folder “Newsmag” on your HD
2) upload via FTP/SFTP to your /wp-content/themes/ folder
3) upload the plugins unzipped to /wp-content/plugins/
4) switch to default theme from your old theme
5) turn off *all* running plugins
6) clear your cache(s), turn off caching (!),
7) activate the Visual Composer plugin
8) activate the new Newsmag theme
9) launch the theme panel
10) reactivate only the plugins you 100% need to make sure they work (some plugins WILL NOT WORK properly with WP 4.01 until you update the plugins!).

Clear the cache in your WEB BROWSER FULLY and restart web browser; this clears any CSS/Java used by your previous theme admin, and theme, so that you see the new CSS/JS properly (seriously, this is cause for huge number of “my new theme doesn’t load right” or “admin panel doesn’t have any boxes!” errors).

If you’re running WordPress older than 4.0 be aware there is a very serious cross-site scripting vulnerability (e.g., WP 3.9.2). You should be running WP 4.0+ to use this theme properly.

This is standard practice for switching to a brand new theme and good habit to get into doing it this way to ensure you clear cobwebs on old, and cleanly move to new.

Hope that helps! 🙂

Chris

HI, just as a quick note, the theme is responsive; the sticky “sidebar” option has nothing to with responsive, which refers to the site changing to fit the viewport which it does really well.

A sticky element is a usability feature. The sticky sidebar doesn’t work on the iPad on the demo, so always a good idea to fully test a theme by playing with the demo on your desired device — not sure why it’s a “bug” if the demo doesn’t show that feature, then likely the version you install won’t either. Not a criticism or defending the theme, just clarifying for anyone who sees a similar “problem” or searches this forum on this topic.

I actually like the way the sticky menu bar works on the iPad …. where it hides, but then reappears when you start to scroll back up on the page.

However, I do *agree* it would be NICE to have the “sticky sidebar” work also on the iPad while in portrait mode. I would add this to a “request” for future updates. Not a hyper critical thing, but would be nice usability feature 🙂

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Make sure you upload only the main theme files; don’t install the “all files” zip from ThemeForest… that has docs, psd files, plugins, etc.

You want to install the smaller of the two files on Themeforest, if you’re installing via theme panel with .zip.

BEST WAY TO INSTALL WP THEMES:
Ideal way is still to
1) unzip theme folder “Newsmag” on your HD
2) upload via FTP/SFTP to your /wp-content/themes/ folder
3) upload the plugins unzipped to /wp-content/plugins/
4) switch to default theme from your old theme
5) turn off *all* running plugins
6) clear your cache(s), turn off caching (!),
7) activate the Visual Composer plugin
8) activate the new Newsmag theme
9) launch the theme panel
10) reactivate only the plugins you 100% need to make sure they work (some plugins WILL NOT WORK properly with WP 4.01 until you update the plugins!).

Clear the cache in your WEB BROWSER FULLY and restart web browser; this clears any CSS/Java used by your previous theme admin, and theme, so that you see the new CSS/JS properly (seriously, this is cause for huge number of “my new theme doesn’t load right” or “admin panel doesn’t have any boxes!” errors).

If you’re running WordPress older than 4.0 be aware there is a very serious cross-site scripting vulnerability (e.g., WP 3.9.2). You should be running WP 4.0+ to use this theme properly.

This is standard practice for switching to a brand new theme and good habit to get into doing it this way to ensure you clear cobwebs on old, and cleanly move to new.

Hope that helps! 🙂

Chris

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Theme documentation good place to start
https://forum.tagdiv.com/installing-the-demo-data/

Theme documentation is super useful
https://forum.tagdiv.com/smart-sidebar/

Exactly what we needed for the Neotrope® News Network sites.
Anxiously awaiting this in ThemeForest; ready to buy 🙂

GREAT JOB TEAM TAGDIV!

Yup. That is correct plugin for regenerating thumbnails – works for me 🙂

also found in the them documentation here:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-fix-strange-thumbnails/

No problem using Contact Form 7, it’s simply another thing which adds more code to the site. I had mentioned if NOT using it you could turn it off. Some people install and activate all the “recommended” plugins for the theme (e.g., Jetpack, ContactForm 7, Revolution Slider). If NOT using any of those they should NOT be turned on, was my point.

Anyway, for best optimization be sure to add my line of code to your functions.php file to set a better compression level for your site for all thumbnails created from featured images (found in the sticky category in this forum for pagespeed).

Try changing the logo image used for retina displays under the theme panel, header, logo, retina logo… might help.

Double check you don’t have a bad high ascii character in the username; make sure you choose the “display” setting for the user correctly.

For example, if the author username is “munira” but it’s being displayed as Muni Buni then the author link would actually be something like

site/author/munibuni/

We’re not having that issue here. If it just “suddenly” happened, check the plugins which you might have updated lately; and try looking at your page in Chrome developer tools (F12) as it will tell you what errors are being generated (I used to be annoyed when people would tell me to do that, this year I actually started paying attention to that … it does work in helping to figure this kind of gremlin out ….!)

Hmmm…
Hi, did you run regenerate thumbnails plugin when switching to theme to make the thumbs needed for existing stories? The theme doesn’t make thumbnails for existing stories, only new ones. So, your 2002 and 2003 images that are giving you that error should be fixed by the regenerate thumbnails plugin.

(I’d recommend adding my suggested WP image optimization element to your functions.php file before running the script — see my notes in the pagespeed sticky top of forum; go backwards from the end to find my stuff more quickly…. this will cut your thumbnail sizes by 30% without having to do anything else!)

Also remember that the theme / WP won’t enlarge images, only create smaller ones.

We don’t need to use the jpeg mini or smush-it, or similar as we actually run our own webserver using imagemagick and mod_pagespeed; we also optimize our images in Photoshop prior to upload and set the default compression in WP from 90 to 60 for better “built in” compression of images generated by WordPress automatically, and by the theme (see the pagespeed sticky in the forum for more on my tips for image optimization if curious).

You have some issues you can fix like a bad favicon link, load CC logo locally, turn off the aweber tracking pixel, turn off contact form 7 if not using it, etc.

I betcha running the regenerate thumbnails plugin will fix the issue you were mainly having, though 🙂

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Well, I was suggesting GTMetrix to help debug WHY your pages are not loading properly. It allows you to test from different locations and browser types and is also good at identifying issue by topic like “server” related issues that might be causing timeout issue.

The tagdiv speedbooster plugin helps with optimizing the theme CSS and JS.

I had nothing but problems with lazy loading myself, but ideally something like mod_pagespeed running at server level does that, and I think there are some plugins you could try on the WordPress.org plugin repository. Can’t recommend one, as I don’t use that. It’s more useful for long pages with lots of images below the fold. Won’t help with your page timing out on first load!

Might be from a plugin you’re using which resizes the featured image vs using the theme thumbnails. Dunno. Without seeing the report or the post on which the image is loading, have no idea.

Tech support folks will be back tonight/Monday. 🙂