there are some plugins for this in case anybody is chomping at the bit – popular on Mashable and getting popular on many sites; I think the mashable style plugin might work – but haven’t tried it:

http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-social-media-total-shares/

Just ignore it. You get a bundled version of the plugin with the theme; you can’t update VC except when the theme is updated.

You may find the documentation for this theme helpful:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-documentation/

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

best bet is to review the docs for the theme:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-documentation/

really simple, but best way to do it is via FTP:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme/

1. How to update the theme (manual)

Here are the steps required to update the theme via FTP:
◾Connect to your FTP account using Filezilla
◾It is a good idea to make a backup of your current theme installation
◾Unzip the theme downloaded from http://www.themeforest.net to a folder, in this folder you will find a file called Newspaper.zip
◾Unzip the theme (Newspaper.zip)
◾Via Filezilla go to the wordpress theme directory “your site public html/wp-content/themes/Newspaper”
◾Overwrite the files from that FTP folder with the ones from the content of Newspaper.zip

Hm. Not sure how your site can be calling that plugin if it’s not active, unless you have pages with a widget or hard-coded element – which have some kind of call to the plugin which should be switched off when the plugin is off.

Likely best to reset your plugin folder

1.Via FTP or your host’s file manager, navigate to the wp-contents folder (directory)
2.Via FTP or your host’s file manager, rename the folder “plugins” to “plugins.hold”
3. Login to your WordPress administration menus (/wp-admin)
4. Via FTP or your host’s file manager, rename “plugins.hold” back to “plugins”

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Likely best to review the support info on the Buddypress website as their goal is to make it compatible with all themes and take the burden of theme developers out of the mix, at least that is what they are saying on their site 🙂

So, technically all themes are compatible with Buddypress – and that compatibility is managed by Buddypress folk. As long as the site works with WP 3.9 and is not a horrible mess, it should work just fine.

http://buddypress.org/extend/themes/

However worth noting this theme is primarily setup for a “newspaper” site and not a social network portal (hence the name); two totally different things.

Best bet .. try it! 🙂

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

Probably best to deactivate that plugin while doing image regeneration. Neither the regeneration plugin or the calendar plugin you’re using are part of the theme. You cannot regenerate images not found on your site, only those which are part of a post, or set as a featured image- meaning the theme doesn’t break your photos. Some regeneration plugins will create thumbs from first image in post, some not.

You need to install the zip file for just the theme, not the entire package with docs and support information. Try the smaller zip file inside the big zip, or the second download from your themeforest download page which is just the installables.

HI, first step might be to review the docs, which describe setup, and how to customize your home page using modules:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-documentation/

Contact Form 7 is not part of the theme, so likely a good idea to look at the support forums for the plugin here:
http://contactform7.com/faq/i-see-green-border-response-but-i-never-receive-mail/

Normally such issues are due to server configuration, and the plugin setup/settings.

Most common is that the email is going into your spam/junk/trash folder and so not being seen in your inbox, or it’s being blocked/bounced as possible spam. So, checking your server/site “error log” for PHP is a good first step.

If you’re sure it’s somehow theme related, you should first try switching to the default WP theme and see if it still does not work, and then debug your settings in the plugin for how it connects to your mail server (authentication? port? phpmailer?). If it does appear to be theme related, albeit unlikely, you should update this post with the steps you tried to debug the problem.

Hope that helped a little 🙂

Hi! @manuel
The mod_pagespeed system runs at the server level as an nginx or apache module (we use apache as main system, with nginx used for some other things on same box, but not for WP sites). So, it runs above the domains, but re-writes content on the fly and then caches stuff and works with the server-based caching.

Benefits include automatic blank space removal, comment removal (e.g., “SEO powered by Yoast SEO” and other stuff you don’t want to “advertise” to the world, etc.) rewrite of image dimensions for anything resized to “fit” and cached version of the new size image, optimization of images, conversion of gif to png where necessary, DNS pre-fetch, etc., etc. — but you can read about it on the Google site.

We’re used the self-hosted module (aka “GPS” https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module ), but they also have a service to host content (aka “PSS” https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service ), which is a mix of CDN and the pagespeed modules together and you can test the before/after speed on their site to see if it benefits you (remember you have to do test couple of times for it to cache stuff). Test: http://www.webpagetest.org/compare

I don’t think the theme expressly is advertised as having any special/advanced support for BuddyPress … however, is believed to work with BuddyPress as you know from your prior posts on this topic. Remember that updates/upgrades are being done based on those most requested items, and this is a “newspaper” theme, and not expressly a theme designed for forums and social communities, which might be found in a theme specifically tailored for BuddyPress. Compatibility is more often the responsibility of BuddyPress devs and not the theme devs as noted on the BuddyPress site here:

(snip)

Themes

The concept of what makes a “BuddyPress Theme” can be a bit confusing. Since BuddyPress 1.7, your WordPress site is no longer required to have a theme that explicitly supports BuddyPress. Instead, BuddyPress comes with support for just about any modern and standard WordPress theme (especially the default ones.)

Back in 2010, bbPress popularized the concept of “Theme Compatibility.” This is a way of saying that even if your theme doesn’t directly support a specific feature, that feature will still function, look, and feel as it was originally intended to.

It’s a way to shift responsibility of code interoperability off of individual themes and onto feature developers to consider a wider audience.

Fun fact: WordPress has come with theme compatibility for comments for years — if your theme doesn’t directly support comments, WordPress fills in that gap and your visitors would never notice the difference. Neat, eh?

Savvy theme authors can still build beautiful and amazing WordPress themes that exclusively target BuddyPress and bbPress; theme compatibility just simplifies the process for them by giving them a set of conventions to work within.

We’ll be adding some screenshots of popular themes with BuddyPress integration soon. In the meantime check out some WordPress themes that include BuddyPress support in the WordPress theme repository.

(/snip)

That likely didn’t help, but thought I’d share based on my own experience with BuddyPress and various WP themes the past couple of years.

Not having this issue, so no idea. Wait for Lucian to be back on Monday, as he may have suggestion. First option is usually turn off any oddball plugins to see if messing with stuff or try re-uploading the theme files manually via FTP to ensure nothing got crunched (I’ve had this happen with the zip installer via WordPress panel… so now I only trust FTP upload!)

No prob. Not sure on the slider.

FYI, I don’t work here, just “paying forward” all the help I’ve gotten from others over the years. Good karma and all that 🙂

No prob. As I think I said, I spent an entire month (January 2014) messing with this stuff, and a mix of Amazon’s CDN, our new server, mod_pagespeed, etc.

I think I mentioned someplace the flaw in Google’s speed algorithm, where one of my test pages got a 91/100 with 47% of page rendering due to blocking elements; combined some files, now only have one blocking element, but less than 1% is considered able to render before loading the main CSS file, and the score went up to 97/100 for desktop and 91/100 mobile with user UX score of 85/100, and the items for the UX score are stupid.

(Test this page, which doesn’t use CDN, doesn’t use WordPress:
http://www.send2press.com/services/ez_price_list.shtml

You can drive yourself to drink with this stuff.

And the super annoying thing is the new expectation by Google for all pages to load via https, which requires SSL cert, and to possibly enably mod_SPDY on server since https is inherently slower than http. But … that’s another story, and the one I’m suffering with now. (Sigh.)

Hi Cherry
you might want to keep ONE thread, vs starting three or more regarding your site and pagespeed. Basically if you get all the things updated already covered in your other two threads, then mobile speed will also increase.

Again, as I’ve noted previously, you can’t do anything about the external ads being served which impact speed. Not sure how you’re loading ads on a demo site anyway, frankly. You should turn ads OFF for testing your “actual” speed. So the “errors” for mobile for the javascript and images from Google ads and advertisement browser caching, are impacting your score but nothing you can address and are false positives vis a vis the site and theme.

You *can* minify the main .css file which is showing as NOT minfied, as we’ve already covered in your prior threads.
Minifying http://cherrykoks.de/…ntent/themes/Newspaper/style.css?ver=4.1 could save 7.1KiB (16% reduction) after compression.

And basically don’t use contact form 7 unless you actually need it. Since you don’t have a live site, why would you need somebody to contact you anyway at this stage of your playing with the theme and setup without actual content. If you’re planning to use that, then you could presumably add its css to bottom of the main style.css, then hack the plugin to not write its own CSS into the head of the theme; or this would be example of where — as you’d asked elsewhere — you would add the plugin to the speedbooster plugin code to get it dumped at bottom of theme and optimized.

And remember best to test a post page for score not home page, since most people do NOT land on a site home page, but “surf in” to content from a social media link/share, or search result page, etc. — home page will always be a trickier prospect since it’s not indicative of the rest of the site, using sliders, modules, more photos, ajax loads, etc.

Also be aware you cannot get a 100/100 score with a WordPress site running numerous photos, plugins, ads, social media hooks, etc. Only people who have accomplished this have done custom sites without images, using CDN, and custom coding to maximize above the fold content load separate from below the fold content.

If you get above 80 on mobile and above 90 on desktop, you can really get on with your life and worry about content and marketing.

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

You need to create a new “page” and call it something like myhomepage; then in the WP settings, choose the static page myhomepage to work as home page.

The main wordpress docs are also very helpful in learning to use wordpress since the theme is merely an overlay of what wordpress does at core:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page

Hi,
basically

blockquote p {
border-left: 4px solid #ccc;
 color: #a5a4a4;
 font-style: italic;
 margin: 30px 0 30px 15px;
 padding-left: 15px;
}

if anything doesn’t work add the important tag as in my first example, as it needs to over-ride the default style

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

Hi, I think you need the p tag in there with this theme (remember CSS changes need to match the classes used on the theme, not plain HTML which you’re writing from scratch).

For example I modified my own blockquote by putting this CSS into the custom CSS box in the theme admin panel:

blockquote p {
   font-size:20px !important;  line-height:26px !important;  text-align: left !important; padding-left:20px;
}

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

You probably need to reinstall the plugin by uploading it via FTP from the themeforest “Newspaper” download, and replace the copy on the server; this is normal cause of that error from my own experience; meaning there is something missing or broken in the upload of the VC plugin folder.

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

Hi,
fyi if your server is setup properly you don’t need to put the gzip/deflate element in your htacess as it’s set at the server level as always on; unless you need that for your CDN – but that is more likely to have gzip/deflate on for speed anyway.

For plugins modification/addition to the speedbooster; obviously this only applies to the js and css related stuff which is purpose of tagdiv speedbooster. You don’t need to mess with an image optimization plugin, for example.

The world won’t end if you don’t remove the query strings, btw. Most WP sites leave that as-is and are successful due to content and marketing, not the query strings. Also note it might be an incremental “conflict” with this dot revision of theme and speed booster; meaning the benefit of the speed booster being on is greater than losing the query strings. Google uses them, so you can too. It’s “ideal” to remove them but that might not even improve stuff by one point, particularly if you test that with Pagespeed Insights directly vs GTMetrix.

However, you are correct, it would seem like you could remove the "?ver=" and test. Why not try it ? You’re not running a live site, obviously, so if you crash, no biggie. Just remove the plugin, and put it back.

I use a plugin to actually upscale the image to new image block size, vs simply “resizing via CSS” — might not be what you want, but try “Thumbnail Upscale” plugin in the WP repository.

Hi,
first you can’t do anything about the cache validation or anything with fonts loading off of google’s website, or anything loading from jetpack (or adsense, or addthis, or disqus, etc.) — as those elements live on somebody else’s server. Only solution is to remove them or workaround them (e.g., load google fonts on your site or CDN, or load the CSS from your own style sheet — you can google how to do this, as it’s a trick which has been used for couple of years — simply grab the CSS you’re loading from google for the fonts, then put it into your own CSS, then remove the “call” to that CSS from your style.css and/or functions.php).

For the remove query strings I would suggest this:
1) turn off all your plugins
2) make sure you put the remove query code at bottom of your functions.php file and have uploaded to server properly, replacing original file
3) test a post page and see if it’s working – it should work, unless you have conflicting element re-writing your code. Or, you didn’t put the code in right place with something else you’ve added to the functions.php file, or you have a missing or extra closing bracket (bad syntax). There are couple of ways to do this, but again – double check your code/syntax, which is #1 reason something doesn’t work – be careful what you copy/paste FROM … always use a proper plain text editor so it won’t introduce garbage characters.
4) start turning on plugins: pay close attention to any SEO plugin which may try to rewrite the css and js “positions” in the file
5) avoid using plugins which do the same thing – seo plugin with sitemap, and other sitemap plugin; seo plugin which rewrites location of your js and css and the tagdiv speed booster
6) once you find the conflicting plugin, you can sort out what to do for the version removal to work (and don’t have that in functions *and* use a version removal plugin at same time, AND an SEO plugin that rewrites your code AND the tagdiv speedbooster).

This is normal process to “debug” why something doesn’t work.

If you want to hard code the number of posts shown on a category page and not use the built in function of wordpress, you “might” be able to use visual composer for that but I’ve not done that, or you’d need to modify the category template and manually specify the loop (if you have no idea how to do that, you might need to hire a developer).

Obviously if you only want to show 10 items on the category pages, you would set that from the wordpresss > reading function you’ve already used. 20 is a common number to use, however, and works fine on most websites. Some people do less, some people do more. If your main audience is mobile, obviously 10 is a good number.

Since that function impacts the category pages, you’d then use the visual composer to layout your home page and not be impacted by the “10” settings.

In other words, easier to layout the home page with the theme features, than hack the template for the category pages.

You might want to look in the download from Themeforest, as it’s usually found in the download for each theme update. 🙂

Note the file “changed_files_4.1_4.2.html”
and the update_log.txt

[ V 4.2 ]
– added ajax post views count – the view counter now works with all the caching plugins (the system can be enabled via the panel)
– added header style 8
– remove caption from content
– added excerpt for big slides in panel
– various code fixes

Newspaper theme

Here is a list of all the changes between v 4.1 and v 4.2

Modified files – 24 files
•footer.php
•functions.php
•header.php
•includes\modules\module_modifier\td_module_blog.php
•includes\wp_booster\td_ajax.php
•includes\wp_booster\td_config.php
•includes\wp_booster\td_css_generator.php
•includes\wp_booster\td_fonts.php
•includes\wp_booster\td_global.php
•includes\wp_booster\td_module.php
•includes\wp_booster\td_page_views.php
•includes\wp_booster\td_unique_posts.php
•js\full_compact\site.js
•js\min\site.min.js
•js\td_affix.js
•js\td_loading_box.js
•less_files\header.less
•less_files\stacks.less
•style.css
•wp-admin\css\panel\box.less
•wp-admin\css\wp-admin.css
•wp-admin\panel\views\panel_header.php
•wp-admin\panel\views\panel_post_settings.php
•wp-admin\panel\views\panel_theme_fonts.php

Deleted files – 0 files
•none

New files – 2 files
•js\td_ajax_count.js
•parts\header-style-8-one-line.php

Did you clear your CDN and refresh the updated functions.php file after making changes? Remember if you’re using a CDN, you have to tell it when to grab updated content unless you have it set to do that automatically.

For web safe fonts, google “web safe fonts” to learn what those are.