Testing avatar caching plugin on my personal blog to see how it works; feedback appreciated by anybody else using this or similar solution?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/fv-gravatar-cache/

Likely today best fix might be to try new theme v4.2.2 and see if that solves it for your particular install.

@marki
see the theme docs, as it shows you how to do the update:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-documentation/

You might try downloading files again. Also don’t use FTP tool to unzip as I have had nothing but problems there, same goes for unzipping on the server.

I was able to decompress the file with no issue using WinRAR on my local PC, so file is good.

Changelog shows version: 19.08.2014 – ver 4.3.3

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Well, if it’s an issue with old version of theme, best bet is to install today’s update and see if it changes. Also make sure you hack the header.php file to remove the section which inserts duplicate og:image tag, as that might also be issue.

My point generally was that Google is inconsistent regardless of theme, website, or meta data on properly grabbing all the data. And may have nothing to do with the theme, which you could easily test by backing up your settings, then temporarily switching to twenty-fourteen theme, then doing a save to see difference. Simple way to debug if specific to your “site” and images, or the “theme.” 🙂

Awesome. I haven’t built my own themes since 2011 and getting very rusty on some of the queries. Thanks for that! 🙂

Issues can usually be traced to one of the following:
1) robots.txt file blocking access to uploads folder or custom image folder
2) images too large for featured image; sometimes social media systems hiccup on very large images; especially if over 25kb
3) googlebot using scrape method vs meta data for image (very common); but cannot determine best image when featured image is background element such as full-width image; this is why you sometimes see author photo or local hosted ad banner as selected image; this is why “wrong image” is shown; Google is grabbing from a related image on the page, which is not the featured image. This is because the “classic” Google parser went for the first image in the post body 100% of the time and ignored the meta data which hints the right image to use. I’ve theorized that from time to time they fallback to that system and ignore all image meta data. This is still used by Google News, for example — scraping and not using the meta data pointer to image to use.
4) google image bank overloaded; deferred; try again next day or later
5) google having hiccups parsing page unrelated to theme; issue with only grabbing photo and URL; or no image at all, or wrong image
6) facebook image grabber sometimes blocked due to their annoying ping of your web server to do geolocation and many systems like CSF will start blocking the IPs that Facebook uses, hence why you get no populated elements at all on sharing to FB; host / server needs to clear temp firewall blocks to clear up

Be aware Google has been doing massive changes to their network in August, due to phasing out author image and G+ data in SERPS, finally updating some things like the Google alerts page which was 5 years old, now updated; and long line of things changing post Panda 4.0 and Google changing their priorities for G+. How many G+ hangouts have you heard about lately? (None.)

We deal with couple dozen websites, mostly news portals updated daily with image and original news items, and run into all sorts of bizarro things with G+ lately. This usually clears up. Note that I more often see the problem with WordPress sites than non-WP sites, which is an indication there is some inherent issue which is unrelated to any specific theme, but not quite sure what it is.

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I have never seen that before except if a page was deleted and then version online is cached. the other thing i have seen is if you login with non admin account you would not see something at higher user level. You might trying going to pages the doing a search for the page… Also check the wp settings to see if page still selected as static home page. All that comes to mind right now.

Hi, godaddy does support mod pagespeed and some filters, but you have to turn on via htaccess… See their help info on that… Which yiu are likely already reading

You should always do periodic backups of your site, esp after creating new pages. you should also check your site is secure if a page was deleted from your pages menu, as nothing should delete your pages.

Try disabling your cache temporarily and make sure its not caching your admin pages.

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Removing that code from the header file does indeed remove the duplicate og:image tag, for those who care about that.

And so Mr. Kronos is not crazy after all … 😉

See: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/duplicate-ogimage-tag-due-to-fb-video-fix-update/

Well, the new update fixes bugs and customer requests for the theme framework which has nothing to do with VC. But of course you can look at the changelog to see what changed.

I believe the hold up on new version is the various requests folks have made for things related to VC specifically which need to be tested, as well as overall compatibility with WP 4.0 which will be out any day now.

HI, I figured out what I needed.

You may consider this topic RESOLVED. 🙂

Yes. That is how WordPress themes work. That’s how you have all those smaller size images for your sidebar, homepage, categories, related items bottom of post, recommended fly out, etc. — where did you think all those thumbnails came from? They are created by WP and the theme when you upload an image.

If you wish to remove the sizes you don’t use — meaning, if you don’t use certain modules, you can comment out those sizes in the functions.php file, I believe, and also a trick I’ve advised the past 10 months on the forum has been to choose the three sizes in the WP settings > media setting (not theme panel), to the three sizes you use the most (matching modules you’re using), to not make extra sizes.

You can see the sizes created to match each module in the documentation, which is highly recommended to read, here:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/modules-and-blocks/

Without any theme at all, WP will always create three additional thumbnails. With each theme, thumbs are created to match the sizes you might possibly choose to use for the specific theme layout or module.

You can search the forum for tips and help on removing image sizes you don’t use, also.

Hope that helped.

@nero9111
hopefully you’ll excuse our sort of hijacking your thread; hopefully you may find some of this discussion relevant to your issue 🙂

Yeah. Big deal in the SEO world, of which I’m a part, having started doing that in 1995. 🙂 I built my first website when there were less than 27,000 registered domain names worldwide (!). Now I feel old.

Supposedly authorship won’t be seen in search results as of this past week officially when they announced it (after starting removal awhile ago); and, they will no longer show number of G+ likes or friends like or not in results.

They issued a statement about it here:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JohnMueller/posts/HZf3KDP1Dm8

One article this week stated that Google authorship is dead, but Author Rank will live on, which you can read here:
http://searchengineland.com/google-authorship-dead-author-rank-202254

Sadly, I have to keep up on this stuff on a daily basis for my day job. 🙂

I think the rewrite images from my code in the pagespeed topic thread does it as part of the bundle. Meaning mod_pagespeed uses “levels” of control settings, where the top level (they call “group filter”) setting includes the 10 features below that.

I use this on Apache:
ModPagespeedEnableFilters rewrite_images

See:
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/filter-image-optimize

Actually there is top level group filter command (which I’m using), sub level group command, and then base commands (my terms not theirs); so a sub level group command like
ModPagespeedEnableFilters recompress_images

includes a number of base filters.

QUOTE:
This filter attempts to recompress image data and strip unnecessary metadata such as thumbnails. This is also a group filter, and is equivalent to enabling: convert_gif_to_png, convert_jpeg_to_progressive, convert_jpeg_to_webp, jpeg_subsampling, recompress_jpeg, recompress_png, recompress_webp, strip_image_color_profile, and strip_image_meta_data.

Again, these filters may be enabled or disabled individually:
ModPagespeedEnableFilters convert_jpeg_to_progressive

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I post from 10 news portal sites a day to G+, and the image problem comes and goes. Google “sometimes” reads the tags, sometimes they “scrape” image from the page when they read it. It’s not theme related as we are using multiple themes in our aging network. We have this same issue with Google News when there are 2 images in a story; they sometimes grab the primary which is the one in the meta data, but most of the time they grab the second image in the story, which means they are still scraping the page.

So, Google “scraping” content vs using tags is an old on/off/on issue. Just like sometimes they grab featured image, and then don’t grab headline and summary, and drop in only the URL.

In your case, this is likely a glitch due to Google unhooking all the author stuff out of the search results, and the G+ stuff out of search results this month. I betcha it will clear up after the holiday 🙂

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HI, I was posting a reply yesterday (Sat. 8/30) when I could no longer reach the forum via my ISP for some reason, or the site went down. Basically I hit submit and could no longer reach website all day night!

I had replied as the site died for me, that
” I used mod_pagespeed to make all our thumbs progressive. “

So, you’re saying that when you view your page source the OG tags show link to your logo and not to the featured image? That is very weird.

In the latest version I’m seeing two OG image tags, both with my featured image link, and one twitter tag with featured image link — not sure why there is duplicate there, unless theme inserting one as well as YOAST, or yet another (sigh) bug in Yoast’s SEO plugin (when you put out a plugin, then issue 2 patches the same day for bugs, shows a lack of testing on Yoast’s part, sadly).

Note that G+, and Facebook don’t “always” grab the correct image. If you see the proper OG and twitter tags in your meta data doing “view source” it’s not a meta data problem, but an issue with Google.

Do you mean the thumbnails ? All themes create thumbnails at different sizes for use in the layout; this is how the small images come to be when you don’t upload them.

If you’re talking about a different issue, I’ve not seen this happen on any WP theme including latest version of Newspaper on my three installs.

I’m actually moving my old “article” area on our main business site from 15 year old static shtml pages to a blog/article area on the site with wordpress + newspaper, and will be doing the 301 redirects in this particular scenario myself. I already did this on our site for some duplicate content, where we had some stuff in /services/ and then in /writing_services/ and now everything is in services. Pain. But Google is smart enough to know the site is still there the page is still there, it’s just moved, thanks to the 301 function.

Always my pleasure. I won’t have as much time starting in Sept., but recently I’ve had some spare time to hang out here while “waiting for stuff to happen” on my other monitor, which I have to keep an eye on (web server updates, site backups, test of moving to SPDY framework for speedup of https, test of https speed, blah blah).

Glad to be able to help. 🙂

It’s found in the folder when you download all the files from Themeforest. 🙂

They really should add a note about this in the documentation, as it’s standard practice to include version info with file downloads. However most folks new to webdev would not know that.

Note the files:
*changed_files_4.2_4.2.14.2.1.html
*update_log.txt

[ V 4.2.1 ]
– fix categories display in Theme panel -> Categories
– fix Revolution Slider z-index issue with menu behind
– fixed footer copyright text problem with some characters
– fixed social counter + twitter
– social counter – added no follow on links
– classic blog – text logo fix
– classic blog – menu colors fix
– classic blog – boxed version fix
– fixed sidebar bug on template + loop

—————-

Newspaper theme

Here is a list of all the changes between v 4.2 and v 4.2.14.2.1

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•page-homepage-bg-loop.php
•page-homepage-loop.php
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