HI, Bran
and welcome!

You may find it super useful to read through the docs (see link top right of forum); and you can find the various sizes for all the blocks here:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/modules-and-blocks/

Did you try starting your ul inside of a new div
or try putting a   between your sub head and the first <ul><li>

e.g.,

<h3>My Sub Head</h3>
&nbsp;
<ul>
<li>text</li>
<li>text</li>
</ul>

or

<div>
<ul>
<li>text</li>
<li>text</li>
</ul>
</div>

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<LOL>
welcome to my world; I did the same thing!

I might switch it back on at some point, but right now I found with good optimizations, mod_pagespeed, and decent speed server, the CDN caused more problems. My fave was the CSS not loading for FontAwesome in IE11/Win7-64 totally randomly. (sigh)

Some people have great success with using a CDN, though. It gets even tricker when going to https, which we’re doing now, where you need SSL cert for CDN, wildcard SSL cert for your domain to use a subdomain like cdn.mysite.xyz with A/C name record, and then sharding and/or domain origin mapping with mod_pagespeed …. ouch!

(for those tuning in …. not responsible for your head exploding reading that last paragraph! 🙂 )

Obviously best place to check on a new theme from TagDiv is on their themeforest page 😉

Also note Google rolled out Panda 4.1 this past month, and started changing some of the ways they show items in SERPS. You can specify how you wish your snippets to appear in Yoast SEO with preview function, but as is well known Google may change that to their own format regardless of what you do.

First step would be to install YOAST SEO< and check the preview function for SERPS then adjust your custom permalink meta data for titles and descriptions.

This theme supports micro format data, such as proper meta data for post title, breadcrumbs, ratings, etc., which your prior theme might not. This theme is setup the *correct* way to feed snippets to Google for SERPS.

But, the YOAST SEO plugin can help *you* dial that in a bit better on a case by case basis, such as home page, about pages, and posts.

You can always view your page *source* to see WHAT is actually in there.

And, of course, you can always switch back to another theme if none of that makes sense.

Review the docs on mod_pagespeed and your CDN.

The theme creates the thumbnails when *not* using CDN wiht mod_pagespeed; the theme creates thumbnails when using mod_pagespeed, so I’d suspect you have an issue where you’re creating thumbs not locally but perhaps on your CDN and then the theme doesn’t know where they are. Or, your setup isn’t configured as to where to create thumbs, and then mod_pagespeed doesn’t know where they are to optimize them, etc.

Seems like you need to go through the steps of researching

theme assets -> CDN/thumbnails
mod_pagespeed <- CDN/thumbnails

Makes sense. I do that sometimes to check things are all working, by going to the twenty-fourteen theme. 🙂

Also, asking for tech support for using another theme should probably be done in the support forum for the other company’s theme.

You can’t use the codes and elements from Newspaper in other themes, as you likely have discovered.

The codes, Visual Composer, etc., included with this theme are designed to work with this theme. Custom Shortcodes built into this theme won’t work with a different theme.

However “standard” blocks which are part of Visual Composer should work in different theme provided you have a licensed copy of Visual Composer…..

Be sure to deactivate the visual composer that came with this theme, delete it, then install the version from your new theme or the version you have purchased.

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* Did you setup mod_pagespeed to work with your CDN ?

You have to setup sharding or origin domain settings for mod_pagespeed to work with a CDN.
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/domains#mapping_origin

* Also, check to see if the thumbnails are actually being written in your images directory.

Did you regenerate all your thumbnails for the theme when switching to it, so that the thumbnails are actually there?

Either of those would be my first suggestion.

For 3)
use the phpmyadmin on server — or other tool to search the table for your posts, to replace http://yoursite.com/uploads/* with https://yoursite.com/uploads/* or similar. You will need to find other help on HOW to do that specifically, as I don’t have the proper instructions handy now. (sorry)

4 …

good idea to read the WordPress docs/codex on setting up the wp-config.php file and optimizations, like removing the comments (!), and setting /paths/to/theme/folder explicitly on the server

see: – advanced options section
http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php

define('WP_HOME', 'https://www.SITE.com');
define('WP_SITEURL', 'https://www.SITE.com');

define('TEMPLATEPATH', '/var/www/vhosts/SITE.com/httpdocs/wp-content/themes/Newspaper');
define('STYLESHEETPATH', '/var/www/vhosts/SITE.com/httpdocs/wp-content/themes/Newspaper');

define( 'FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true );

adjust paths for your server …

anyway… that’s what I did 🙂

@mrpb
make sure you experiment with the best mod_pagespeed settings, perhaps using some of my own settings for apache based servers from the page speed sticky at top of forum.

The theme has no settings for mod_pagspeed — that is managed by you via your htaccess file and the server config file.

Only stuff I’ve had to deal with are:

1) setting site URL in the WP settings to https
2) reset logos in panel to https://
3) search/replace dbase to set any “placed” images to https vs http (e.g., if you place an image in middle of post using media manager, it is “in the text” as http … that’s part of the body post, and doesn’t update
4) consider setting /paths/to/ in the wp-config.php to optimize that

Any placed local ads or graphics in widgets also need https: obviously

You will neef to adjust your settings to possibly turn off combining js or lazy loading, etc.

Try disabling items one at a time related to css and js…

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Well, the author page works for me and I run YOAST SEO ….

You should double check your settings in YOAST, resave your “permalinks” from the main WP settings, clear all your cache.

Issues with YOAST…

1) have had some issues with the “force transport”
2) have had some issues with “remove stop words” from slugs

Maybe that helps, maybe not.

You can also backup your theme settings from the admin panel for safekeeping, I believe.

Lucian, you will likely want to add this to the documentation at some point.

Likely an issue with Google; theme doesn’t control loading of the ads; only places the code on the page. Usually such outtages clear up over time. And sometimes their system just times out.

Issues seem to happen end/first of month, when Google starts messing with their universe 🙂

You can also check your account to see if any messages about your site, such as violation of anything, although they usually email you about that.

Do a search on the forum as this is common problem with “some” server setups when trying to use the visual composer; where you might need to increase a setting for php on your domain account.

This is a little old but has some suggestions on fighting bot spam / signnups

http://www.wpkube.com/wordpress-plugins-to-stop-registration-spam/

We used to use the bad behavior plugin; but have not used it for awhile

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bad-behavior/

Yes, very bizarre. Must be an issue with Italian sites and Google in Europe, perhaps due to some odd translation issue, or just an idiot at Google who doesn’t actually know what he/she is talking about. A “class name” can’t impact an image loading in Google News. Google cannot specify what classes are used by websites, and “thumb” is a common term used for any image. Since Google “scrapes” the actual image ON THE PAGE, it only looks for an image, and the style “class” used for responsive design to set percentage widths for mobile resize, would not make any sense whatsoever.

However, if Google News is TELLING you that, then you should do what they say apparently.

Truly bizarre!

Sorry I wasn’t able to give better help previously on that, as it made no sense in context of the past decade we’ve been in Google news since it launched in BETA. Our sites were among the first in the world to have images loaded into Google News. SO, I’m not just guessing on anything … this note from them on the “class” name really doesn’t make sense from our own experience. Weird.

Contact your web hosting provider to run a scan of your site;
login to your site and change passwords for admin;
delete the revolution slider if it’s an old version (not updated with theme 4.2 or higher); the old version that came with Newspaper 3.92 was hackable.

Theme doesn’t get hacked; poor quality plugins get hacked; bad passwords get hacked; somebody on insecure web server from other domain can hack if server not patched, etc.

Check the version of Revolution Slider you have as first step; remove any “plugins” you didn’t get with theme or which were not downloaded from the main wordpress.org repository (any commercial plugins); turn off any membership plugins.

Start there.

Okay. Well, if you can’t show the code you’re having an issue with hard to help. And image class is just normal CSS .. one can call a CSS class anything and has no impact on Google News or anything else. You can call a CSS class class=”dumbbunnyshoes” and it works just fine.

If you need to, you would have to change the CSS in both the style sheet and all templates that call the CSS class, which is not normal and nobody else is having this issue in Google news that I am aware of (including my own sites).

An example of the actual code (view source from your page, copy/paste, then apply ‘code’ style in this forum thread) to SHOW what code you’re referring to.

Or, wait for Lucian or Marius to try to figure out what you’re doing. I need to see an example of the code on YOUR post page where you’re having this problem code to offer any guidance. Will check back tomorrow.

Where in your page source is that located… can you post an exmple of the code from your post page which has “thumb” used for something other than a CSS class name? A CSS class name can be named anything and has no impact on Google News grabbing an image from the first image in the post proper. Google News does tend to “scan” the content on the post vs loading the og tags, sadly, but curious what in your post code is showing as “thumb.”

Could you share that?

Curious.

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