https://forum.tagdiv.com/w3-total-cache-configuration/

Um, Newspaper 3.9.2 is using Visual Composer 4.2.2, released 6/3/14. The latest version is 4.2.3 released 6/12/14 (per Code Canyon, anyway). So, “pretty outdated” ? Not really. Updates to Visual Composer come with updates to theme, once it’s been tested compatible. VC releases have bugs too 🙂

If you’re running an older version of the theme, all you need to do is update it to get latest compatible version of VC.

You might want to research more about the plugin. It’s not free, costs $25, but it’s included with the theme as part of the theme purchase/license and tied to the theme, as explained on Theme Forest in the features line up for the theme.

Hope that helped.

@Gee95

several of your errors should be set on on the server/hosting side of things and not via WordPress / plugins

1) gzip/deflate must be set to “on” for your server; contact your hosting provider
2) browser caching is controlled via expiration headers for content; with Apache it’s easy with htaccess file (see the pagespeed sticky topic for my settings)
3) vary/accept encoding header, set at server

Note that is why these items are marked “server” when doing test check on speed. These items are good for about 20 points alone and should be done first before doing anything else as these are necessary for ANY website, especially WP, to run faster (or really, to run properly).

Hey, your home page slider seems to work for me in IE11/Win7-64bit on desktop just fine. I see all the images on both slides A-Okay.

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@Orlando
you likely have some conflict with a plugin, or your server may be slow. I’ve not seen this issue on our sites at all. You should try deactivating plugins to see which one is causing the flash of unstyled text, or something inserting CSS in the head that is causing a delay to load rest of page such as slow ad network, complex jetpack element, or whatever. The plugin has been very highly tested with the theme, the recommended plugins, and on hundreds of websites (thousands?) and works very well when everything plays nice.

Sorry I don’t have better suggestion, but that’s the best advice I have. I went through these issues in January when we moved to new server. Couple of crappy old plugins simply no longer worked with WP 3.9 at all, and was not a theme or speedbooster related issue.

Apparently a dot update is coming with some fixes for some reported issues; post any bugs to the v4.0 sticky at top of forum.

Hey…
your links look like this in your source code:
<a target="_blank" href="#detail">
so, obviously that should not have the target_blank in there; if you do a target make it target="_top" or nothing at all there. You may be getting these as default when inserting links and you would want to NOT do target blank as that is expressly designed to open new tab (as with social media links, external sites, etc.).

Since one of the changes is major update to font handling, it should be expected to have to do some minor tweaks to the fonts; often simply going to the settings in the theme, double check and hit save fixes it. Obviously you should be turning off your caching, clearing your cache, disabling mod_pagespeed before doing any upgrade since otherwise your old CSS is cached and new CSS is not being loaded to match theme changes.

We don’t have this issue on any of our websites with latest version of theme and latest version of WP… so it’s likely a misconfiguration of something you’re using, such as another social plugin. Be sure you deactivated any OTHER social plugins such as those from a former theme, something in your sidebar not properly configured, etc.

Tech support will advise you similarly, and ask for a URL to see the problem.

You can often use the developer console in Chrome to see “errors” and also look at your page source to see if any duplicate code for social media might be inserted from something other than the theme functions. Good places to start to debug your issue.

I think there are a number of posts you can search for on this topic. But, I’m just visiting. Sorry not a better answer.

Hi, that plugin is for when you upload a 700px wide image and you want it to fill an 800px and/or 1200px wide space in the layout 🙂

The theme (and WordPress) cannot “enlarge” images in the sense of making larger versions of the picture. You may be able to over-ride the width to be 100% with CSS, but Lucien will have to help with that.

If your original image is large enough to fit the width when uploaded, then it’s a different issue.

There is a great plugin I use to auto-enlarge uploaded images to fit the space of the theme, which is “Thumbnail Upscale”
http://wordpress.org/plugins/thumbnail-upscale/

I think Marius addressed this someplace in detail, so you might do a search in the forum for “Yoast breadcrumbs” to find the recent help on that, if in a hurry.

I’d actually recommend you do a full backup via your hosting panel of your dbase, and do a repair/optimize outside of WP, if you can do so – to be safe.

(correction: “But yes… on a 190MB dbase, WP-Optimize clears out on average about 27.5MB of crap,”) … not correct. Clean up varies on how much needs optimization. That number happened on one site, first optimization after a year of no optimization. Normally it’s more like a 1 or 2% house cleaning.

We have the number of post drafts optimized in our functons.php file to limit number of saves to no more than 3.

The old version of the theme had VC integrated and was not a separate plugin. So only way to update was to move to newer version of theme. Current version of theme has VC as separate plugin so that people can customize it.

It’s worth it to make the move to newer theme version … speaking as somebody who got aboard the train last Fall (2013). 🙂

If you’re having trouble optimizing via plugin, I would likely contact your hosting provider and optimize your dbase from phpmyadmin or similar outside of wordpress (e.g., command line, or from server side).

But yes… on a 190MB dbase, WP-Optimize clears out on average about 27.5MB of crap, depending on when you do an optimization.

I think the pagespeed insights reference to browswer caching is having
1) expires headers from the server (or via htaccess on Apache, or config file on nginx), which specify a time to live, such as “cache fonts for one week, don’t reload them every time a page loads” … that is the purpose of “browser caching” — same with CSS, images like a logo, javascript, etc. — my settings are in the sticky for pagespeed.

2) remember to have gzip/deflate running on server side, you don’t need plugin for that as the server can compress everything on request

I’m not currently using W3 cache, and frankly I’d leave that off until you get everything else sorted as otherwise you end up caching incomplete pages from the other errors or overloads. Once EVERYTHING else is solid, THEN you would turn on the cache as the LAST thing in the chain.

Hope that helped a little (been there!). 🙂

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(9pm PDT/PST 7/15)
You have a lot of elements not loading properly, or only partially loading, when I just looked at your site. Likely a number of CSS, java, etc. is not loading at all due to the site being terribly slow right now, and timing out left and right. Header is a mess in IE7/Win64 on a 75mb FIOS connection, reloading page doesn’t make it better, left sticky social disappears then comes back, some social icons floating off right side in circles, etc. Likely first step is getting pages to fully load at all.

You have a lot of elements not loading properly, or only partially loading, when I just looked at your site. Likely a number of CSS, java, etc. is not loading at all due to the site being terribly slow right now, and timing out left and right. Header is a mess in IE7/Win64 on a 75mb FIOS connection, reloading page doesn’t make it better, left sticky social disappears then comes back, some social icons floating off right side in circles, etc. Likely first step is getting pages to fully load at all.

Yeah. Same with Google Authorship.
You should see the pain I’m going through right now for custom paid Google Search box in popup modal, having messed up styles. Ugh.

Hi, Radu,
thanks 🙂

This has been my only outstanding … “c’mon folks” thing since every newspaper ever published puts the author byline on the article, hence the oddity in not having that “on” for the posts for a newspaper theme.

With the folks who “swipe” content to fill pages not really an issue, but for those who make news articles and first publish them, it’s a necessity for copyright, attribution, and google authorship requirements, etc.

Thanks for the reply 🙂

I’d guess and on/off button might be best choice…. but I’m sure you have something in mind already.

Lucian.
I think you folks should start adding a FAQs section for these questions which pop up every week or two. That would make it easier to manage support, but also for those of us who pop in to see any breaking issue, fixes, problems, etc., to not have to scan through the same 10 questions which come up over and over (and over). Nothing against anybody for asking questions or seeking help, but after about the 40th time this has been answered having a top 10 frequently asked questions page/post might be helpful to all.

1. update to visual composer message
2. how to add author name to posts
3. etc.

(I don’t actually have a list in mind at the moment …. since I was away a bit during May/June due to illness …. but you get the idea).

🙂

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Hm. I ran into nothing but trouble with the ENvatio toolkit – and MANY theme devs have been recommending NOT using that to update theme, due to various problems.

But again, you generally want to use the theme panel provided with the theme, where there is section called “FOOTER” where you can edit the copyright. 🙂

TRY IT !! 🙂

Generally with this theme you don’t use the WP customize panel, you use the “theme panel” provided with the theme, found bottom of the WP admin menu when you login.

If you look at the page source for your pages, and you see the correct tracking code, then the theme is inserting it in the head properly. The theme doesn’t connect to GA, rather GA reads the code from the page when you identify your site via your GA account. If GA is unable to read the code, it’s very likely the code inserted is not correct or GA has not yet added your site to its tracking platform (wait time).

Obviously all the theme can do is insert the code you provide into your head section. It doesn’t do anything else with GA.

In our case it did take 3 days to start tracking properly.

Not sure that helps. But you are correct in that unless you have specified your site to run as http://www.yoursite.xyz (e.g., in webmaster tools, and your internal linking setup, such as for local SSL cert, etc.), most WP sites run without the redundant www (http://yoursite.zyx). SO, that should line up with the code you’re using and how you setup your code in the GA system … meaning, be consistent 🙂