What we do is have five custom sidebars, spec’d out for stuff like “entertainment” and then “political” and then “business” and then “technology” and then “opinion” … and then for each post we can choose which sidebar and custom widget setup we wish to use per post. This is simplest way to achieve a wide variety of custom layouts.

SO, for a category like books, music, film/tv, we can use the “entertainment” sidebar. We don’t need to create four sidebars for each “category” which might be grouped in some way with “entertainment.” Same with business, and technology, etc.

Often you can create a “map” on paper or in a planning tool, which determines how you might group various categories into larger master categories, and then create a limited number of master sidebars which can be used by all the sub categories within that master category. And then perhaps a “general” sidebar (“Default”) for when you don’t have a need to slot a post into a custom category sidebar.

Anyway … that’s how we do it to make it more manageable. 🙂

Not sure this helps; but one tip I often recommend for webdevs, is to setup a sub domain for your main business site, like wpdev14.mysite.xyz and make sure your WP install is set to not ping the pingomatic service, and also hidden from search engines from the WP setting. This allows you to install any number of themes and plugins on an actual live host running server grade php/MySQL with all the “actual” elements of working site, which don’t always work with local dev box on PC or Mac (I gave up on that due to wonky gremlins with WP and whatnot …).

Some services with social media do IP checks back to the server for DNS and geolocation checks and may not work at all off a local ISP owned IP, or a machine without DNS registry (e.g., ns1.sitenap.xyz), etc. This is a VERY COMMON issue with any local hosted apps not being loaded off “real” server with reverse IP lookups, traceable DNS, etc. – with various APIs, due to folks like Twitter and FB dealing with huge bandwidth and very savvy network admins.

Your mileage may vary, but this is how we do it to ensure “what we see” will be what a client sees, and can also be very helpful in testing collisions/conflicts, and avoiding the “it works on my PC, why doesn’t it work on client server?” — and can save huge amount of headaches at deployment.

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@OuweAap
4.2.2 works awesomely on our sites with no issues impacting the sites …. couple of minor CSS changes we did, but that’s common to any customization. Nothing really disastrous or ultra painful in 4.2.2.

I will be extensively testing all our sites for the regular iPhone 6 once we have it (backordered….); finally upgrading from iPhone 4S. I normally check all our stuff on iPad AIR, where the theme looks absolutely AWESOME. 🙂

Technically the iPhone 6 plus should behave similarly to a comparable sized Galaxy tab on android, one would think.

@thisisanfield
once you have the next IOS8 update which will fix various bugs with IOS8 1.0 and the new phones, maybe figure out how to take photo of the screen oddities, or screen cap if you have app for that (is there one?). This might be good to know, since I don’t plan on buying a “PLUS” phone. 🙂

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Plan from WordPress codex on what to do if site has been hacked:

http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked

Talk to your web hosting provider to determine what you have in place to allow spam. Are you allowing people to sign up for accounts? Do you have some kind of contact form which sends reply emails? Have you checked the WordPress.org forum for any plugins not included with the theme to see if they have been compromised? Have you double checked any plugin which is a commercial plugin from Envato, which may be compromised?

The theme by itself cannot generate spam, so you should deactivate anything not included with the theme as a starting point.

Check your contact form — allowing people to post messages with a reply to email sent automatically is instant spam as people can fill out a form, then use somebody else’s email account as the copy for auto reply.

ANY form somebody can fill out on your website should be checked.

nice solution 🙂

We had good luck with Amazon’s CDN; but in our case we have a very powerful brand new web server, dedicated switch in class A datacenter, so we’re finding a “balance” of what to use the CDN for. In our case, in process of migrating everything to https/SSL so right now we’re loading everything locally.

Obviously, for any website, it’s very much a trial and error process. 🙂

You need to contact your web hosting provider as the php.ini file sits “above” your account; meaning it’s not part of the public root which is normally seen via FTP. Depending on your web hosting account type, you may be able to change that setting under your web hosting control panel. See the help info for your hosting account on how to edit hosting settings; it’s generally on the same screen where you would set things like an SSL cert, memory limit, and the like. It’s not part of WordPress or the theme.

You can use the garavatar caching solutions i mentioned, unless using disqus

You can optimize delivery of google fonts by loading css from your style sheet

Check site with gtmetrix to see what server elements you have not addressed, since you should have at least. 80 if you have setup server side compression and htaccess elements, etc.

Tagdiv speedbooster plugin helps with the js,css stuff.

I posted how to do this recently, but don’t have the link, unfortunately. Perhaps do a quick forum search.

Remember, too, to search/replace the calls to Google fonts in the style.css file, too. And ensure you turn off your cache if using one, prior to making changes.

Also note some folks have trouble doing this when using child theme, if the child them css calls the fonts or a fuctions over ride file calls them.

I think you need to remove the whole section in 4.2x in functions.php which if I recall was lines 41 to 84 … you’re basically removing that “function” ….

This has been covered in detail by several folks who sorted out how to do this; try doing a search in the forum for the how-to. I don’t have the link, sadly.

You basically need to edit the loop files to uncomment the author name, and comment the comments count.

You can’t do anything about javascript hosted on other people’s websites, like Google, unfortunately. This is why Google lists this as “suggestion” and not “critical”…

Some people do deferred loading, or async mode where it’s available, but generally you have little control over content hosted from other people’s sites being loaded onto your own site.

@salocharly
Note you can manually link to any of your high CPC articles, simply by putting the photo from your media gallery, flush left, with the headline to the story next to it; at bottom of any post. We do this to highlight a special story related to the current one which we want people to go to next before anything else. Try it, might work for you 🙂

We use a subhead like “recommended for you.”

So, when you go to create a “page” you don’t see option to use Visual Composer once you choose a template from right side of new page creation page?

Visual Composer appears when you create a page, NOT in the theme panel. You can’t create content with the VC in the theme control panel, only on a page where you add content.

Like here
https://forum.tagdiv.com/page-templates/

Perhaps I’m missing what the problem is?

Marius, Lucian, et al will be back online Monday; I’m just trying to be helpful but I do not work here 🙂

with a name like “account killer” … it’s got to be good ….

I guess for the moment, go back to earlier version to keep “fixed” layout option.

Hm. I thought there was still a “fixed” layout option someplace. But that was me “guessing” … I’m waiting for 4.3.1 to move from 4.2.2 …. so, not yet feeling the torment on this issue. ( face palm )

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

Yeah, I ended up doing it that way since I was manually putting in a copyright notice for the author’s work (e.g., for a fiction piece, or book serial), as well as link to the author’s page to “read more by this author” …); and sometimes link back to “read chapter one” … just made it the simplest solution vs “wrangling” custom stuff.

Advanced Custom Fields is cool way to do it too, but I’m already doing too many hacks per theme update, and skipping every couple of theme updates (waiting on 4.3.1 now!), so one more thing to drop into templates was a bit much, so the manual way kind of worked since I can put the dates on the copyright more easily than trying to do query, and doesn’t add yet another data field to dbase, etc.

I think in an environment where you have multiple authors posting their own stuff, a custom field is great because you could make it “required” so that it’s always there, and remind people it needs to there, etc.

you have two / in the URL, which might be the problem ?

Newspaper/images//meetup_logo_200_black_1.png’

I think per the docs if you just add a background color it makes a boxed layout without the responsiveness? Could be wrong. Responsiveness good for SEO and for different users to see best size of content, but your needs are different, it seems.

I think next version of theme is rumoured to bring back some kind of panel explaining the responsive options.

Best way is to edit the style.css file to create custom setup for your most desired font. Also note that segoe is typically part of a font stack, where there is a fall back to something like arial,sans-serif, since seqoe/segoe ui are not supported by all web browsers (about 74% of Windows users), and not supported by Mac OS/OSX at all.

Eg., normal usage would be like so:
font-family: "Segoe UI", Frutiger, "Frutiger Linotype", "Dejavu Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;

If using the version included with the theme, you don’t need to put in a license as it’s a “bundled version” of the plugin which works with the theme.
https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/

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