Well, the first one is obviously irrelevant as that’s not the logo for your site, so just delete it. Clear your site cache so it can’t be seen. You obviously installed the demo content, which was then cached and hence why that is still found. If you upload your own logos, then the Newspaper logo shouldn’t show up on your site anymore.

FYI, useful to include the link to your GTMetrix report 🙂

I think the logo is loaded from the header and footer files, or a dependent file loaded by one of those and not in the style.css. So, if you look att the header.php script, then look at the different use cases for the layout option you’re using, you should be able to find the right header element…

e.g.,

    default:
        // this is the default header configuration
        // (logo + ad) + menu
        locate_template('parts/header-style-1.php', true);
        locate_template('parts/menu-header.php', true);
        break;

as so:

                    <a itemprop="url" href="<?php echo home_url(); ?>">
                        <img width="300" class="td-retina-data" data-retina="<?php echo htmlentities($td_customLogoR) ?>" src="<?php echo $td_customLogo?>" alt="<?php echo $td_logo_alt ?>"<?php echo $td_logo_title ?>/>
                    </a>

If I’m not mistaken width is specified implicitly to hint the page rendering, and then height is set as “auto” via the theme CSS, which is now common practice.

Hope that helped a little 🙂

None of our sites have the issue with disappearing sidebars. Of course, we had issues with the IE web browser, which were solved by using Chrome. I created a custom sidebar for home page, edited it, saved it, working perfectly. No issues. Typically issues with “missing sidebars” is due to placing a “bad behavior” plugin into a sidebar which tries to write malformed CSS or query to dbase, or improperly escaped javascript, etc. When the sidebar tries to render it can’t since the code is broken. Usually if I run into something like that, I first create the sidebar with just *one* element like a drop down for pages, then check and make sure it works, then add more widgets to the sidebar. Then if something doesn’t work, backtrack. Not sure if that helps, but that’s been my experience the past 9 years with WordPress stuff.

Posts seem to be working fine, so looks like you solved your issue 🙂

You obviously want to add your copyright notice to the footer, and create the actual pages which your bottom links point to.

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Basically Google can tell your site is responsive due to the @media queries in the .css stylesheet which has different “break points” for desktop, tablet, and phones.

I did read somewhere that “some” sites were getting penalized for blocking access to your theme folder and so Google couldn’t reads style sheet, but if you see the little picture on Google PageSpeed Insights and your page looks normal, that is a non issue.

I set my compression level for thumbnails to “50” in my functions.php file, which ensures that all the thumbnails are compressed via Imagemagik on server when created, and no need for intermediate plugin. For a little better quality try “60” or even “70” … but it makes huge difference, and all those thumbnails look fine at 50 from the WordPress thumbnail generation. (See my code for this in the page speed sticky!)

For compression in Photoshop with save-for-web jpegs I usually start with quality factor of “35” with softening of 0.2; with anything that has a lot of “reds” in the image, you’d have to go to 52 to eliminate the horrible artifacts (old mpeg/jpeg compression doesn’t do too well with strong reds…). But try using 52 vs 95 in Photoshop, if you’re using that. Then go down to 40 and see if you can see any difference; usually not.

I have never gotten that message and we’ve been doing responsive design sites since 2011.

This is more common message when
a) you’re mixing http://www.mysite.com and mysite.com – when you should one or the other, not both (www.mysite.xyz for ecom sites with SSL, no www for all others)
b) you have a plugin still running to generate a mobile site version in addition to desktop version
c) you have a redirect of some kind in place which “senses” a mobile user and is redirecting to homepage, when no redirect is needed; this may have been added to your htaccess file from a former theme or plugin; so double check your htaccess file

Hope that helped 🙂

Google has always recommended optimization of images; and this is why tools like Smushit, and modification of the default compression level in the functions.php file are so important, in addition to properly optimizing the images in Photoshop or similar to the lowest possible size that doesn’t suck BEFORE you upload them.

You can generally ignore any mention of any image needing 1kb of optimization. Remember Google’s info is “recommendation” not “the law.” If your site is over 90 desktop and over 80 mobile you don’t need to worry about “slow site speed penalties” which supposedly now exist. For example, for some images we like to embed the copyright info for legal reasons, which is meta data; technically you can make image smaller by removing that. Well, maybe I don’t want to 😉

Also, FYI, the speed for an average page in the Newspaper demo, is “94” desktop — but you are correct the demo for mobile is getting “under 70” due to the images on the latest demo not being fully optimized, which I’m sure Radu and folks will address soon as they got a bit sidetracked on the 4.0 fixes and updating the docs.

Cool! I had heard one could call CSS styles for the category description, but hadn’t tried that yet (my category descriptions these days are somewhat short). 🙂

There is no file at yoursite/search.php or yoursite.com/search/

search php is a function of WordPress and is used to search FROM YOUR SITE, not to allow others to ping your search script, which could be used to overload your site with fake searches.

You must have a link to that someplace on your site, menus, etc., or perhaps your former theme added a search redirect.

Simplest thing, create a page called “searchus” and then do a 301 redirect from

yoursite.com/search/ to yoursite.com/searchus/ and then put a search box on that page via widget or explain how to search.

Simplest thing is to see in webmaster tools WHERE and WHAT is linking to that page, and then remove the bad link.

Hope that helped 🙂

Simplest way is just add the information on the category description page for each description, as part of normal WordPress function, not part of the theme. I don’t think it allows for WYSIWYG (e.g., bold, italic, h2, etc.). But that is likely what you already tried. In old days we’d create custom category templates, but that’s a pain now with a complex theme like this.

Obviously searching the wordpress plugins repository is likely quicker than posting query here, but this one might work: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/categorytinymce

I use CuteFTP on both Windows and Mac (paid product); some folks like the free FileZilla which is also very popular: https://filezilla-project.org/

I believe FileZilla lets you edit remote files on the server, if you’re wanting to do that with FTP client.

More often folks will edit the files locally to have version backups in case you mess something up … if you edit the files on the server, and screw up, you then need to upload the backup file from the zip anyway. Better to edit the cloned copy of file like functions.php or style.css locally, upload, test site, if works you’re A-Okay. If broken, then you can reupload the original un-edited version over the new version … or if doing versions (make edit, save, backup, make another edit, save, make backup, etc.) you could go back a step to what worked.

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Note lots of technical issues with Jetpack, which is why I personally don’t use it, including major security issues including this past April.

See tech queries related to Jetpack on the WordPress plugins site:
http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jetpack

Also, there will be no “fixes” to 3.9.2 — all fixes are rolled into 4.0x.

Well, if v 4.3.1 came out August 1 (today), and the theme was updated couple of days ago, it’s hardly possible for the version that shipped July 29 to have the version of the plugin that was released August 1. So, presumably, as noted before, the next version of Newspaper will have the updated version of plugin. 🙂

Yes…. follow the suggestions found in this sticky topic.
1) make sure you have proper expiration headers
2) make sure you have gzip/deflate running on your server
3) use the speedbooster tagdiv plugin
4) use an image optimization tool (e.g., smushit, or similar) and/or set compression level in your functions.php file

Use GTMetrix to see anything you need to fix except for minifying the CSS and Java; if you wish to minimize that you can do so using the tips I’ve included for using CSSminifier, etc.

However, expiration headers, cache control headers in htaccess file, and gzip/deflate running on your server are good for 20 points of your problem and will get you into the 85 range once you solve that.

I’ve only ever seen this happening with caching, or on a cheap hosted account where there are 10,000 sites on same server and php/MySQL times out on refresh (bad!).

Sometimes if you have a malformed shortcode, or other oddity that can also happen. I would probably suspect the /userpro/ stuff.

But if the text is there when you go to edit the page, try re-saving it, view the text in both plain text view and code view to see if anything odd such as inserted code that might be breaking.

If using cache, be sure to clear cache after any post goes live.

Not sure that helps, but what came to mind.

in progress (not yet completed):

http://ga-ga.com
http://publishersnewswire.com

Is your .htaccess file writable to set your permalinks ?
That is the most common problem.

The 600×200 logo is used for “retina” displays which have much higher resolution, and smaller logo graphic would look “jaggy” on some of the Apple and newer high res smart phones.

From the docs:
◾Recommended sizes for header logo: normal: 300px x 100px | retina: 600px x 200px
◾Recommended sizes for footer logo: any size

If you don’t know what “retina” refers to, you may wish to Google that. It’s the term used for Apple’s higher resolution screens on current model iPhones, iPads, etc.

Hi
I didn’t know the theme yet supported custom upload of avatars for the authors? Hm. Must have missed that. I was looking for that the other day and didn’t see it. But then, I don’t use some things like Jetpack, so maybe it’s part of that.

If you’re using a plugin, or using Gravatars, you should check the docs for the plugin you’re using as it will usually have that info, such as 600×600 (this presumes retina support for image showing at 100×100 or 200×200, etc.), which is common. But Gravatar supposedly now supports up to 2048×2048.

The theme uses Gravatars by default, as do all WordPress themes, typically.

@chatxam101
not sure why you need that EXACT sans-serif font, but when searching the font spec sheets, the most unique character I found was the capital R which is slightly different, whereas the majority of the other letters are very common slab bold sans-serif, and not notably different from many other fonts.

you might go here:
https://www.google.com/fonts

on left side, select sans-serif, display
move slider to bold (e.g., font weight 700)
and then look through the fonts to see which one has closest “R”…

for instance, I noticed that this is very close:
Asap, 4 Styles by Omnibus-Type

For a commercial font you’d likely want to look at Adobe’s spec sheets, or – again – if you’re already using Adobe Illustrator, use a similar font and adjust the width and stroke to match the metrics of the logo you like. And again the “style” done in Photoshop of logo with the background image is not part of the “font” so you’d have to introduce that kind of element yourself by knocking out the background image on layer to be inside the lettering.

🙂 Been there !

I doubt they can send you the font since it might be licensed and not a “free” font. Lucien or Radu can likely tell you WHICH FONT it happens to be. Might be a Google font, too.

Hi!
Basically you will likely want to run the regenerate thumbnails plugin to redo the images to fit the images used by this theme.

You can see all the sizes used by various modules in the documentation, as so:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/modules-and-blocks/

The theme will pull the size that matches the size used in the module, presuming it exists.

@Shashank
Hi, if you look at the page speed sticky topic, my settings for mod_pagespeed I’m using with theme are found there, along with my htaccess TTL/expiration settings and robots.txt file, etc. 🙂

Basically mod_pagespeed can strip out all comments, and remove spaces and double line breaks. It doesn’t make a 300 foot long single line of code, but big whoop on that; it’s doing it on the fly and caching stuff, so not going to complain 🙂

I would not combine the CSS or JS files, since what if a specific function module is looking for site.js and you combined that with something else, it will break — I think the config that Radu and Co have done, along with their speed booster take care of a lot of that. You would kind of have to experiment on that one if you want to try to combine things.

Yes, you do need to leave white space and not “fill up” the menu or it will wrap on things like iPad portrait mode.

Ideally overflow should be hidden, or we should have option to add CSS to each menu element such as “hidden-tablet” to the rightmost menus which would then remove those items from the layout.

I guess if you’re using php, then it’s a different problem than what I thought you were having since CSS should ideally be able to hide portions of a CSS menu on specific devices, but no idea how to do that with the theme.