Well, you cant combine scripts loading from external websites, so obviously the trick is use fewer things that load external from your local website.

“flash of unstyled” text issue is related to the way the stylesheet is loaded prior to the css over-rides in the pages themselves. Only REAL way to fix that on any wordpress themed site with customizations panel, is to actually put your custom CSS at bottom of your style.css file, so they are loaded with the main styles. Anyway, that’s what we do. 🙂

Lucian,
I’m about to update my site; any ETA on latest theme version?
Since I have to replicate various hacks for styles, and functions and module change for hit counter, would prefer to use newer version. Possibly Monday-ish? Meaning I don’t want to change everything, update, and then the next day have the new version out.

If no set ETA, no worries. Just looking for hint on that on “imminent” versus “another week”.

THANKS!

Looks like the CSS isn’t loading for your site. Be sure to possibly upload the theme via FTP to ensure all the files are actually up on the server. I personally have a lot of problems with *all* themes installing via ZIP method. FTP ensures all files are uploaded individually from your hard drive to your website. I don’t use child theme, so generally best to start with activating the MAIN version of the theme.

If using any caching — including in your web browser — you may have the old style.css “cached” and so not loading the new styles in your browser.

Try using the Facebook debug tool to check you have entered the data correctly.
Obviously the plugin works properly, so it may be the syntax of the ID you’re entering.

Might be due to uploading the wrong zip file — meaning, there is zip with just the theme, and there is zip with all the docs, psd file, etc. — using the ‘big’ file it won’t work. But I don’t think it gives that error.

Typically turning off all plugins when activating theme, but making sure you clear all caches, and CDN elements before activation makes the difference. I personally also usually do the ‘preview’ of a theme before activation, just to see if it’s borked or not.

Often uploading manually via FTP, is good option, too, to ensure the right files get up there and completed.

That might not help, just food for thought 🙂

You cannot change anything hosted on Google’s servers.

On several of our news site, we actually use a plugin:
Contextual Related Posts
https://wordpress.org/plugins/contextual-related-posts/
addon
https://wordpress.org/plugins/crp-taxonomy/

We’ve been using this for couple of years (longer?). Continues to work well for us.

I think we’re using an unordered list with a custom CSS class called ‘relatedjunk’

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Yup. Been using our (hacked to add our branding) version of AdRotate for years. Just keeps on working. Dead simple to use, and compatible with everything.

Good choice 😉

@anna1986
you may find this useful
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/

generally you don’t want to use ANY of the minify functions of W3, as it will break things.

You can use Google’s “responsive” ad codes in the sidebar text box. We do that here 🙂

And YES, you are correct, it is useful to segment not only “position” for ROS, but specific category ad units. We do that on some of our sites (one of which was launched in 1999), to segregate music and books unit pages/categories.

The text box works fine with Google’s new “responsive ad unit” …

Marius or Lucian may have “official” answer on how to possibly do ad boxes by category, which I would assume might be done by creating more ad unit elements from your functions.php file to load into the admin panel.

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Not sure the question. You can show excerpts for each module by choosing a module in your layout which has excerpts, and you can control length of excerpts in various ways. Likely you’d need to be more specific?

I think you can create custom sidebars for different categories and drop in ads like banners that way.

For AdSense, they serve ads based on the user being tracked; so YOU cannot specify unique ads yourself per category of page… (as you can with Amazon, for example); they serve ads dynamically. So, if somebody likes music and is on your music index, chances are good they will see music-related ads.

Well, since something is missing from the visual composer plugin folder; I’d likely try uploading manually via FTP, since if something isn’t “all there” (sometimes happens if trying to auto install the plugin via the theme or WordPress panel). I always do this myself since I always trace these kinds of gremlins to a missing or corrupt file from unzipping on the server. Betcha it will work … as there is not anything wrong with version of VC included with v4.5 of theme; unless the zip file or install goes awry.

Make sure you use the version of VC which comes with the theme, and make sure you delete old version prior to uploading/installing the new version.

You don’t need to use WP Touch with the theme since it is responsive by design, meaning mobile users already see a mobile-friendly version. You should check with the WP Touch plugin developer for compatibility.

There is no real reason to add both the Jetpack mobile feature, a mobile plugin, when the theme already serves a mobile version. That plugin is primarily for “old” sites which don’t have responsible mobile ready designs.

Often you can Google a topic like this, such as:

embed pdf flipbook in wordpress post

Lots of solid choices on page one of results from above search.

Generally you would use a “full width” layout, and then use the plugin or shortcode of choice.

Often with ANY plugin for WordPress, you try several of them to see what works best for you, much like test driving a new car from different makes/models. Only YOU will know which one is easiest to use for your particular needs.

What is URL of one of your post pages?

Looks like caching issue or CDN problem.

We all have our own opinions. The Newspaper theme works perfectly for me for our newspaper sites, but then we’re not using it for things unrelated to news publishing, like some folk. 31 year old publishing company. Very happy. 🙂

“Force SSL” can cause loop issues.

Ideally you should set redirect option in your .htaccess file if running Apache

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

Google wants ALL pages on a website to load via https, not just home page, as post pages are what mobile users follow from social media shares/links, and more likely found in SERPS, etc.

For the near term, Google is expecting a “transition period” … so, you will be fine if
a) you have changed your default wordpress structure to https (e.g,. via wp-config.php)
b) *all* your canonical links now say https://yoursite.xyz
c) you have SSL cert or pages loaded from CDN with SSL, so lock engages in browser; Chrome will do better job of warning about insecure pieces than Internet Explorer
d) you update your sitemaps with Google
e) setup 301 redirect schema from http to https (as in my example, or similar)
f) you put in a “site change of address” with Google to TELL THEM that the site is officially now https://yoursite.xyz and no longer http://yoursite.xyz

One of their bugs recently refused to grab anything; so I ended up manually pasting in headline, first paragraph, then uploading the photo, then pasting in the URL …. that was a terrible week!

At this point, I’m no longer surprised with whether it works or not. 🙂

Nothing to do with theme. It’s an issue with Facebook. You can use the FB debug tool to check your META data. The OG tags are there expressly for Facebook.

FB had an outage just a little while ago, btw.

Facebook has intermittent issues where some days they won’t grab image; some days they grab image, and an hour later you have an empty box, some days they don’t grab image right away, and then it pops in 10 minutes later. Nature of the beast. I deal with this on a dozen of our sites every day, and a royal pain.

Upshot – learn to work around it, or try again later when sharing. Post direct link vs using share button, or paste in the headline and URL, the nit might grab stuff. It’s really inconsistent long term.

But, check your meta data in your page source to make sure you have all the correct OG tags in place; then run the Facebook debug tool on your post page to see if anything major. If not, then it’s just their twisted universe spinning out of control.

Funnily enough most of the remaining issues with the Newspaper theme are a result of people asking for NEW features and functions not part of the original theme. Always a chore to add new things, tweak existing stuff, and keep it all sane. Just insane good deal that my license still works since version 1.0 of the theme, and it has just evolved beautifully. LOVE IT! Will buy new one, too. 🙂