Thanks, Lucian
what class should I change if I want to keep my “theme color” but change the backing color for the sidebar widgets (e.g., #333399 for main theme color, but #333333 for the sidebar elements)? This would be great option to add to the theme panel, as often folks want a brighter theme color, but something toned down for the sidebar.

Yay! Thanks for feedback RADU O!

I think the main takeaway from the announcement is to ensure the hit-and-run theme authors stick around to actually provide support. This should help curtail some of the copycat developers who (seem to) steal the CSS from one company then do their own version of it (seriously, there are like 20 versions of the same menu layout, footer layout, etc. on there for some theme “types”).

Now, maybe Envato should stop pushing their updater on folks until it works correctly 😉 (do they even still do that?).

I think this was asked before, and they don’t have a psd of logo available. Note the “style” in Photoshop of the background on the lettering is not part of the text. So, you’d likely need to find a similar looking sans-serif font. Looking at the sans-serif free Google fonts is a great place to start along with the major type foundries like Adobe, etc.

Note that dates are usually found in your XML sitemap also, as date of creation and last time updated. And Google likely adds a date added to their index.

@congchi1
Hi, forgot to get back to you sorry; and Marius answered already. thumbnail-upscale is the one that I use. Works perfectly with Newspaper 🙂

I also use Auto Post Thumbnail PRO, which automatically creates a featured image/thumbnail for older posts which only have an image “placed” into the posts.

Learn something new every day! I was wondering about the width thing the other day on my own project, so good to know. I knew about the CSS nowrap feature as I use that with a news “ticker” on one of my sites to keep it from “busting out” — but didn’t even think about that for the drop down menus in Newspaper! 🙂

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The VC license is built into the theme, so as long as you’re using the version which ships with the theme and have installed it from the download folder “plugins” into the wp-content/plugins/ folder and activated it; it will work. There is no license code for the “bundled” version. It works as long as you are using the Newspaper theme.

Some things never work “locally” believe it or not, which is why I gave up on that for WordPress dev, and now always test things on a live server, even if a test domain, or sub domain (not always possible with client, of course).

Not sure that will help.

Note tagdiv doesn’t provide phone support for the theme, as far as I know.

If the plugin is not activating from the WP theme panel > plugins > activate plugin – then it likely means the plugin wasn’t setup properly, such as decompression from zip error (corrupted file). If a plugin won’t activate that usually means either file(s) corrupted, or wordpress not installed properly, or the “paths” to its own folders is not correct.

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Hi, this has been covered before (search forum), for this exact same question. This is usually due to a delay in the color over-ride loading so you see a flash of the default color; more noticeable if using a child theme due to the CSS redirect. I think the main “right” solution is to specify some colors in the styles.css file if you know how to do that.

Marius will have better answer, but you can search forum as this identical question has been asked before 🙂

Be sure to deactivate child theme when upgrading and select main theme as working; then upgrade files; then go back and activate child theme. At least that seems to be the way to do that. And of course clear cache on server/CDN, and your web browser – often what happens is that something is loading the old styles, and so browser ends up loading mix of old and new. Might not be your issue, but worth a try. 4.2 does work, but I haven’t used it with child theme myself as I prefer to change core files and use custom CSS to avoid such weirdo issues with child themes, and I’m a believer in NOT using the CSS redirect from child to parent.

Yup. That implies file corruption, permissions issue, or wrong file name being called due to bad filename (spaces, or multiple periods). SO, trick is to sort out which one is the culprit on the specific files. 🙂

Example might be useful. Where are you trying to use shortcode? What shortcode?

Worst case, try re-encoding the non working files; rename them, then try using them from the new file name.

Well … if you don’t have a website to upload to, then it’s a moot point on FTP, obviously.

Permissions on your local machine might not allow playback via a virtual machine. Dunno.

Spaces in file name?

Well, if you have “my new song.mp3” … that looks like song.mp3 to most servers unless the %20is inserted to fill the empty space, such as my%20new%20song.mp3 and so a link to the file might show it not being there. File names should NEVER have spaces in them or more than one period.

Ideally, try loading them to a folder on your web server and see if they work on the web from the browser. Sometimes stuff just doesn’t work off your local machine and that’s just the way it is. Gremlins!

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I think it’s awesome, personally.

I think it’s dumb for some people who buy themes to expect lifetime support on how to update their theme, read the documentation, or read the bits about the VC plugin. Some people refuse to LEARN how to manage their site, server, content and expect the theme authors to teach them how to use WP, which is “insane” from point of view of the theme developer. At any other business a single support ticket would cost more than the theme price.

I think all products purchased on the cheap ($50 for a massive theme is still an insane deal) should have limited time support, and major major version updates a year later should be a modest update cost; this makes it worthwhile for the theme developers to stay in businesss, continue doing upgrades and not walk away. Two themes from ThemeForest I had used, are no longer available for download – Dead. FINI. If the new model had been in place, the author/dev might still be updating that theme.

A perfect example is that the theme devs had to do massive work for the theme to support WP 3.9; that wasn’t part of the purchase that people made for the product last August 2013.

It’s like a new car — should car makers give you a new car every year. No.

Folks like WOO have annual programs which help pay for ongoing development, upgrades, and support (and not as good as TagDiv, I should say). So, unless I’m reading the post wrong, it does seem like a good idea from a business point of view.

(Of course, I’m an “old guy” who has been doing graphic design since I was a teenager in the late 70s, and webdev since March 1995…. so, I tend to err on the side of business owners ….)

Hi,
sometimes it’s from
1) file corrupted by media center upload; best to do via FTP and do as binary files
2) permissions problem (not readable by public)
3) space in the file name not being converted to %20
4) multiple periods in filename which most web servers hate; eg. massivesong.rev2.mp3

Not sure if that helps, but those are the issues I’ve had with audio files. 🙂

Hi, Shashank
you know, I tried using a sub domain, and in our case with APC and mod_pagespeed I didn’t see much improvement since in theory once it’s cached, it’s not critical which locale on your server it comes from. I think there is some “number of connections” level where if you’re above that it CAN help, which I don’t recall off top of my head; maybe 15 or 20? Meaning if you were loading 50 images per page, then loading some off sub.yourdomain.xyz might speed things up. Again, you’d need to run some multiple speed tests on that to see how many msec you save.

And do something logical like
pix.mysite.zyz >> all portfolio images
mysite.xyz/images/ >> all business images

or something like that, otherwise you might end up with a nightmare of organization remembering what is where. 🙂

ALSO: remember a homepage is always a “special case” where loading many small compressed thumbnails doesn’t add much overhead. I think one of mine has 60+ images on it, also.

But remember most people these days don’t start at your home page, they start on a post found from social media, etc. (unless you’re tracking audience entry points and know the homepage is that critical for speed).

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@laehaem
please see the sticky topic at top of the forum, which has a wealth of info about optimizing your server, content, images, and whatnot to achieve best speed.

If your speed is that low it’s likely you have not addressed couple of the most important things for ALL WordPress sites:
1) expiration headers; which can be added via htaccess on Apache servers
2) gzip/deflate running on your server, which auto-compresses all content fed to the web browsers

Those two items are good for about 20 points alone; and is the most common problem with a speed of 65.

If you use GTMetrix to test a post page on your site, make note of the “server” items in the report, as those will be your main culprit.

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I think you can try using non breaking spaces in the title, but haven’t tried that. I did notice this also the other day 🙂

but try this Letter to the Editor

I’m sure Marius will have a “real” answer about this.

Hi, if you mean the featured image doesn’t fit; this is issue with wordpress which does not expand images. If you search the forum, I’ve posted links to couple of plugins for creating larger images for the sliders. 🙂

You’re welcome for whatever small help I’ve provided 🙂

If your score is 97, move on with your life and post great content 😉

Simplest way is to search replace the default fonts in the style.css file.

Well, typically jpeg is used for photos, png is used for logos, charts, illustrations, because it’s color reduced; so a compressed PNG might only have 256 colors, while a jpeg can have 16,000 when compressed (that is not exact, just an example). PNG is a modern version of GIF, not a replacement for JPEG 🙂

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I recommend simply setting the quality level to “60” by adding directive to your functions.php file, then do regenerate images plugin. Bam! Some people like “smushit” also.

Anyway…. it may not work with png format, hadn’t tried that; but this does work for jpeg images really well.

add_filter( 'jpeg_quality', create_function( '', 'return 60;' ) );

I have not tried this:
http://wordpress.org/plugins/compress-png-for-wp/

Basically it looks like you tried to run the patch updater and PHP couldn’t do the upgrade using fastcgi vs running as apache.

Likely make sure you update your theme using the FTP method to upload new files, and make sure you DELETE any patch updater file on your server!

There should NOT be anything here after you upgrade
html/wp-content/themes/Newspaperpatch/