I’m assuming you’ve got to the wordpress settings > reading and set your ‘page’ with the layout you want to use as the ‘static page’ to use in place of default blog setup?

Well, you can setup as many blogs or sites “inside” of your WordPress install as you want.

Often folks who have a magazine AND a blog, or company AND a blog, simply create a new “category” called …. wait for it …. “blog” 😉

How to use widgets
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Widgets

To use a gravatar in the author box, you simply use an email address for the user which has a gravatar photo uploaded at gravatar.com for that author/email address.

No issues so far, but then I’m not doing any weird stuff and not using jetpack, or megamenu…. so…… you can always “roll back” if the new version has any hiccups for you 🙂

I had a bazillion problems with Facebook comment box, but some folks use it just fine. Likely somebody else would need to chime in on that. You could use the console error function built into many of the web browsers now to see if it tells you what the heck is going on.

That’s what I do for anything I want “featured” … obviously for anecdotal images, like a book jacket or something in a review, doesn’t need to be the “big cover image” … but yeah, basically upload good quality image, less than 40kb, and then let WP and the theme settings make all the smaller bits. For larger images than that, you still need a plugin (I use ‘thumbnail upscale’ – which basically adds the hook into imagemagick on the server to allow for upscaling which WP should allow but they have asinine mindset “it makes photos look fuzzy…” BAH!!!!!!). Extra exclamation points: (!!!!!!) 😉

I’m sure you’ve already done so, but always good to ‘view source’ for your post page and look at all the meta data carefully to make sure it’s all properly structured and no “wrong thing in wrong slot” kind of stuff.

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My impression off top of my head is that those who adore adblocker will use it no matter what, and a nag popup will likely only cause more “ire” and lower likelihood of return to site. On the other hand, a reminder that the site can only exist from ad revenue would likely be a good thing, although having that along with the “stories you might like” flyout might be too much flying for some.

Nothing to do with you … it’s Facebook….
I’ve had the same issue where an image pops in then disappears, then they use that image on right side of page for an ad box saying “would you like to promote your post here” … come back an hour later big empty white box for the post on FB. No issue with debugger either. Next day post something, no problem at all. Next day, empty box, try to promote post and they say “disallowed too much text in image” even though nobody can see the image. So, don’t stress over it. FB is cocked up on images in general.

Tell me if you can see photo here, for example? 500×375 image,
https://www.facebook.com/Send2PressNewswire/posts/563242230444266

IN above instance proper og tags are in place, including extended tags for image format, dimensions, and alt https link for image. (!)

It’s not you … 🙂

You may find the docs for this theme useful:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/sidebars/

Go to theme panel > catgeories > choose a category,
on the category page, create a new sidebar (click select sidebar, enter name of new sidebar)

That sidebar can then be selected elsewhere.

I posted a list of popular ad management systems in another post today, so you will want to look at that.

WordPress cannot make “larger” images without a plugin. So if you upload your image as 326×235, no 326×406 or 745×473 image, etc. would be made.

I think you have some kind of Java conflict with the FB plugin above the author box, or something else on page. When I highlight your bio text in the author box, it actually hides it like it’s being erased or has a link style applied to the whole bio, which isn’t normal.

@monicacortes
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. 🙂

Bottom of the theme admin panel, first tab “welcome” at bottom:
“Import predefined styles”

The way I did it wasn’t easy, but if you want to hurt your brain you can read about that in the pagespeed sticky 🙂

All should work – as long as listed compatible with WordPress 4.0+, as they are designed to work with WordPress, which the theme is designed to work with. With a CPM platform, you basically would drop in custom code from the plugin/platform into the respective ad spot, or use the widget from the plugin to put into sidebar, etc.

If you’re using Google’s AdSense, then the theme is pre-set up for using their “responsive” ad units.

Hope that helped 🙂

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Yuuuuuup! Caching …. caching …. caching … causes crashing … crashing … crashing …. (sing along!) 😉

UPDATE ON MY MOD_SPDY PLUS MOD_PAGESPEED ADVENTURE

for those of you doing the more arcane stuff with mod_pagespeed and perhaps looking to use mod_SPDY to speed up your site if moving to https, here is what we found over past 2 weeks of testing.
1) connecting mod_pagespeed to mod_SPDY caused Apache to stop/start every 3-5 hours. Not good.
2) using relative paths to static file directories in mod_pagespeed .conf file was the way to go; this allows pagespeed to load the files via /relative/paths/ vs sorting out what to load via http or https (via spdy)
3) running mod_SPDY without pagespeed connection seems to work quite well. (so far)

Anybody not doing any of the above can simply IGNORE this post as it won’t relate to you.

Just a tip:
be sure to

a) backup your site, export dbase and theme settings
b) turn off any caching plugin
c) turn off any special things like mod_pagespeed
d) deactivate all plugins

1) delete old theme folder
2) replace with new theme version (don’t overwrite; which mixes old code with new)
3) delete old VC plugin if updated
4) upload new VC plugin if updated
5) clear browser cache several times
6) reset/expire any CDN content to refresh with new theme content/CSS

The above resolves 90% of the oddball “my theme panel doesn’t work” issues.

You can also use an ad management plugin for more complex layouts, since ad management platforms for WordPress support placing ads in all widget locations, doing rotation, tracking, etc.; and you can add any additional widgets by specifying those in the functions.php file and dropping the widget location into your template(s).

<LOL>
hackers don’t use WinXP to get into your site, they use vulnerabilities on the server, the plugins and issues with WordPress. XP doesn’t have any special power to bypass server security tech.

Likely you would go into the loop file for the template you’re using;

e.g., loop-single1.php

comment out or remove this

<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_date(false);?>

Not sure if that is what you want …

docs:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/installation/