+1 on Advanced Custom Fields…. been using this for a project and it works very well. There is no conflict unless you create a new template with field that has existing field name… which I don’t think it would let you do anyway.

kewl!

Hi…
just FYI, I believe as of a couple versions back of WP, they now use the ImageMagick library vs GD libs.

Hi
there is a great plugin which I’ve recommended somewhere on here for managing how images are cropped …

okay … found it … this works for me:
http://wordpress.org/plugins/thumbnail-crop-position/

(NOTE: I have not tested this with latest version of theme, and have not used it since latest version of WP … may not work ?)

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I then you can uncomment the pinterest button in the templates… do a quick search in forum for that. Might be the functions.php file.

Hi
first, make sure the images folder is writable, and remember the theme and WP won’t “enlarge” images to crop them to fit, only smaller ones. Also, I think there is a setting in the panel under post setting > crop featured image which must be turned “on”

hope that helped 🙂

Just an opinion:
it’s been generally acceptable practice with many themes that if you’re not making money from them, and you’re setting up 1) my kitty pictures, 2) my family vacation blogs, you can often get away with a single license. Kind of like doing a personal bio site at one URL, and then having a separate URL for your photography site, you could probably have just one license as they are both A/B aspects of a single endeavor.

If you’re a developer/designer building sites for clients, EACH client site needs a license.

If each blog is selling ads and earning revenue, you’d likely need a license for each.

Remember that license fees pay for the tech support, hand holding, teaching, and updates, and new feature requests.

I would likely try simply unzip the plugins on your hard drive, then manually FTP to your plugins folder.

Just ignore it.

Choose a type font which has all the extra characters for your language. Trey a web safe font like Arial, or Georgia; not all Google Fonts contain all the extended or alternate versions, sadly.

Note Google is messing with all their services right now (last half of June)…. I’ve had issues with Google News; they’re dropping photos on some stories; went to login to one system (Google Alerts) and it was down with “not currently available” message.

I think they are trying to finalize the big shift with combining all the G+, profile, local business stuff.

I bet if you check again NEXT week, it might be more consistent.

Nice thing about GTMetrix is you can choose to test your site from different locations and different browser options. I guess you’re getting that with Browserstack. I like GTMetrix as I used to outsource work to their parent company a decade ago, so I know they are top of stuff.

Anyway… just my thoughts for the day, after running into various oddities with Google systems and products the past 2 weeks.

double awesome 🙂

I think you can schedule the cron jobs with the functions.php or with a plugin.
I manage ours manually from the web server, not from within WP, so I’m rusty on this fix, but have read about it.. sorry.

+1 on adding a switch for this, as we’ve also standardized on Disqus.

@Thakksy
at this point likely good idea to look at your error logs to see WHAT is happening when you get a database connection error. For example, you might have somebody attacking your site and using up resources which is another cause of dbase connection error (it last happened to us during the U S SuperBowl). This means blocking the site(s) which are using up your resources, such as port scan, or loading/scanning all your site resources over and over.

For us the dbase connection issue has always been
1) not enough memory, had to fix this with move to new web server in Dec/Jan – upgrade the “defaults”
2) overload the dbase from some bad search spider hitting the entire site over and over… you can try to “throttle” that – I think there is a directive for robots.txt for Bing and some others (or use IPTables to limit concurrent connections) to say only load one page per minute– but no guarantee it will be followed.

With (2) you can often look at your logs to see WHO is doing bad behavior, or some spider which is using your search engine to troll site for content bits, etc.

Hope that helped a little.

Different themes may provide different custom fields for use with that theme. If the fields disappear when changing to a stock wordpress theme, then those custom data entry fields were provided by the old theme. You should still be able to add items using the built in custom fields widget from WordPress ?

I don’t use browserstack, so can’t help you with that.

Hi, mobile is 97/100 (experience); 99/100 (speed). Desktop 89/100.

Great job on speed! 🙂

Also, YOUR browser should have no impact on using a testing site like PageSpeed Insights. When you use pagespeed insights, Google connects from its own servers to your site to test, NOT from your web browser.

Weird. Try using GTMetrix.com and see how that works as an alternative for your site. Forget about the demo, that works – nothing to do with YOUR site.

For your site, try the GTmetrix.com test … it’s a little bit more liberal than Google, and gives you a better “average” experience, using Google’s API, just not as strict.

@quitifua6
Those errors were almost a month ago it seems like from the image.

Why not click “fixed” then check again tomorrow?

That error might have been temporary and not happening “right now.”

The demo is 98/100 user experience and 99/100 speed on mobile
and 99/100 speed on desktop as of 1:22pm PDT June 18, 2014, today.

Not sure how that is considered “going down.”

You will need to address the issues from Google Pagespeed Insights for YOUR site/server setup to get the best score. Using GTMetrix for scoring is sometimes more useful to showing the things needing fixed with better tools for doing so.

Sharing a link to your score info would likely be more useful?

I’m not on support staff, just visiting to check on the latest update stuff before I to and upgrade to our sites. 🙂

I think with most of the cache plugins, there should be an option to use APC on/off, unless I’m mistaken. I think on our box we have to point the app at the APC location or somesuch. Sorry, I forget. Often you can check with your hosting provider, as this has become a common question now. Not like 5 years ago, where the typical hosting company wouldn’t even want to deal with WP questions.

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@Thakksy
Yeah. It’s an adventure. Wasted most of this past January just on this kind of thing.

May not apply to your setup, but often that database connection error is from MySQL/PHP getting overloaded (‘the database has gone away’). Be sure to increase the memory limit for your hosting account. Sometimes the default is 32MB or 64MB, and really should be 128 or 256. (Mine is 1MB, but dedicated server).

@abdgun
you can still use the visual composer in the theme — just ignore the “warning” message.