Try putting ‘Open Sans’ in single quotes, since it’s a ‘named font’, and not a web-safe font. Might not be the issue.

Also common to use “font stacks” like

font-family:'Open Sans',Arial,sans-serif;

See the codex; you can have more than one WordPress install use the same database, you simply assign a different “prefix” in your wp-config.php file. You need one child theme folder PER WordPress/theme install.

You really may wish to review the WordPress official docs, as this kind of info, and *many* other things are covered in detail:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs

Please see the sticky post on maximizing your site for PageSpeed. You can manually minify your CSS and JS main files. Browser cache settings can be specified in htaccess file if running Apache (I posted the how to on that in the sticky category of forum).

YOu may find it useful to test one of your post pages using GTMetrix in place of Google, as it will also give you better examples of how to optimize your page, tell you what needs to be fixed, and often give you minified versions of CSS/JS files you can grab. Free.

Hi, the link https://forum.tagdiv.com/ads/
works for me, as it has video and help on using ads with lots of images and whatnot. The entire page at that link is the visual manual on how to setup the ads including custom ads.

Been there 😉

Choose a “module” for the categories, and then they show only excerpts.

To change for all categories

theme panel > templates > categories > choose module for layout (e.g., M9)

OR: custom layout per category
go to theme panel > categories > choose category, set the module layout you want

Like so, (one of my test sites; still under construction …)
http://ga-ga.com/gogaga/books/

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Best bet is to remove all demo content — demo content is just intended to jumpstart development and not intended for live sites. Go through your “all posts” index from your WordPress admin panel, and jump to –> last page; then work backward to delete posts which are not actual live content.

Similarly, go to your WP admin and look at categories under > Posts > Categories, and remove any categories from the demo content you’re not using.

Only you can fix issues with content which is on your website. Any content which is not “hidden” at the per post level will show up in your sitemap, and be read by Google. Any category which has content attached to it, will also show up in your sitemap, and be indexed by Google.

Removing the content, then clearing all your caches, CDN cache, etc., then resubmitting your sitemap to Google via your Webmaster Tools account will help clean that up.

child themes always point to their parent; basically they are a way to “over ride” the parent theme with templates, CSS, etc., but don’t directly change the dbase per se. But, yes, they share the same database as they are only a clever way to make customizations and then redirect to the main parent theme for everything else. The parent theme controls the dbase login/connections from the wp-config.php file.

For info on how WordPress works, always always always a great place to start is the massive online WordPress official “codex” like here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

TIP: Google search anything WordPress related with coded on the end.

e.g., child themes codex

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From the theme documentation

https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/

Hi, best bet … don’t use demo content. Also don’t recommend using child theme until you’re more experienced.

With the Newspaper theme activated, go to bottom of the main admin panel for the theme, and note the section “import pre-defined styles” …. choose the “style” you like from the demo site, then activate that; and basically it loads all the CSS/fonts/layout choices from the demo “tech” … you then customize THAT version however you wish.

Hope that helped 🙂

Searching forum is always helpful …

here is my note about this topic from August:
———-
(QUOTE)

Adding BuddyPress – reply

#18224

Aug 12, 2014 at 2:09 am

Likely best to review the support info on the Buddypress website as their goal is to make it compatible with all themes and take the burden of theme developers out of the mix, at least that is what they are saying on their site 🙂

So, technically all themes are compatible with Buddypress – and that compatibility is managed by Buddypress folk. As long as the site works with WP 3.9 and is not a horrible mess, it should work just fine.

http://buddypress.org/extend/themes/

However worth noting this theme is primarily setup for a “newspaper” site and not a social network portal (hence the name); two totally different things.

Best bet .. try it! 🙂

Simple way to add text to your homepage is make separate sidebar for the homepage, and just put a text box in the sidebar describing “About this site” … with a paragraph, and <h3> tag for your keyword, then link to the full about us page. A “hidden” H1 is bad for SEO, as is ALL hidden text – period, full stop. Alt tag on your logo with your keyword good idea, a descriptive text box at bottom of home page, in widget on footer, on sidebar, etc., are all great places to add that kind of thing unobtrusively but still have the text on the page. And of course make sure your description tag for your home “page” is setup in Yoast, which you do from the PAGE you create for static home page with PageBuilder.

Ah yes… Sorry 🙂

Also for anybody who follows proper journalism standards, you never use full quotes in story titles, only single quotes, such as

New book rocks the world, ‘My Little Pony’

Not relevant to the HTML encoding issue, but worth noting in case anybody cares 🙂

Use the Facebook debug tool to check your page where installed, as that will typically tell you if something is messed up. Might not help, but won’t hurt to check.

We’re leaning toward getting license for BuySellAds(PRO), to let cat outta the bag on that 😉

All should work fine …. Newspaper is designed to work with all “correctly coded” plugins. Or put another way, any plugin which is WP 4.0 compatible should work just fine. Anything not updated for WP 4.0x might have issues, and/or if it’s just badly written. But luckily those suggestions are all doable, you just need to see which one might fit best with what you’re doing. We basically took older iteration of AdRotate and customized for clients with our branding, and some minor tweaks…. we still use it after 4 years? No issues with theme or WP 4.0 since it’s pretty simple stuff. Obviously these systems are designed to go into widget areas or shortcodes in normal WP locations, and maybe not in visual composer shenanigans, or inside the Newspaper ad spots … but that’s the fun to be had 😉

and here is older post …. 🙂

QUOTE——————

Hi, I can’t recommend any one specifically; however a couple of the commercial ones are quite good. We have an in house system that does rotation and uses simple widget areas, so easy to plop on sidebars, and custom sidebars if needed.

Often you can install one of or more and see which you like, and then delete the ones you dislike.

If you have a large site with big traffic,
Google DFP is popular.

Simple Ads Manager is popular, and free.

BuySellAds(PRO) is being used by a friend of mine and is quite happy. We looked at that, but we had simpler needs.

OIO Publisher is being used by several WordPress “how to use WordPress” sites like WPBeginner.

AdRotate is the stepchild of the same code we use for our own in house system, which is effectively a simple rotation system with shortcode support and widget support for ad “spaces” with unlimited number of ad units and types “per space.”

I’d start by looking at those. 🙂

Hi
I had posted something previously about various ad systems to use with the theme; but I don’t have the link to that handy. Likely a search of the forum might locate my pithy comments on the topic 🙂

php.ini file is not part of wordpress or the theme, it’s part of your web hosting account; you may need to put in support ticket with your hosting provider if you don’t have the ability to manage your php settings from your hosting control panel (e.g., cPanel, Plesk/Parallels, etc).

If your hosting account uses cPanel, this doc may be helpful – or see the docs for your particular hosting provider:
http://support.hostgator.com/articles/what-is-php-ini

Lucian
I think he wasn’t clear — issue is NOT with *his* forum, but with the *this* the NEWSPAPER FORUM; here where we are posting.

e.g.,
if I go to my profile in THIS forum, https://forum.tagdiv.com/users/MYACCOUNT/

and then click any of the page 2 links

it gives me “page not found”
https://forum.tagdiv.com/users/MYACCOUNT/page/2/
“Menu & MegaMenu”

I think he meant to make it more clear he’s reporting an issue in getting to the pagination in this support forum since the revamp a few days ago.

Am I on the payroll yet ? 😉

FYI…
the only way to get a “perfect” score with PageSpeed Insights is to custom build a lean layout with few photos and css custom loading in steps for a) above the fold, b) after load; this is very complex and not suitable for sites with complex if/then/else customization front ends or page builder apps due to all the bloated code necessary for serving different masters. Any site which loads most of the CSS and related styles to get the page to render properly will end up getting an optimization warning, because the page is not custom built to render above the fold before the lower content. If you can hit 90+ on your desktop score and 85+ on mobile, you can live a happy life and not stress over it.

You will have to disable the og tag for author… If using an seo plugin to add that you would need to see support forum for that plugin.

Yup; well almost 10,000 installs of this theme later, works for most people. Your mileage may vary. I’m sure they will give you a refund if you can’t sort out what is going wrong. In fact, they often offer to help you install it, if you’re completely stuck. As long as you’re uploading the correct zip file, and have the php settings properly setup (BOTH OF THEM: did you also adjust post_max_size ?), should work first time out.

Obviously nothing works for everyone. Wait for reply from Marius or Lucian.

Oh well, good luck with that. If you can’t learn how to setup your website to work properly with WordPress, you will most likely have a tough road ahead. Being able to communicate to your hosting provider to update the two settings for PHP, isn’t terribly difficult, and most people need to do this to run WP with certain hosting setups.

I’m sure the tech support folk at Tagdiv will be happy to help you out, however you go with this theme. We love it and have been using it for a year now.