Optimize all your images; when uploaded, using plugin to compress thumbs, and/or set the compression level in the functions.php file.

Limit loading of offline elements.

Make sure your host is using compression such as gzip or deflate.

Best place to start 🙂

You can adjust size *and* leading/line spacing from panel.

I think we ended up with something like 16 size and 21 line spacing :-0

Bootstrap is part of the theme, it won’t work without bootstrap.

Font awesome is used for all the icons like up-arrows, home page icon in menu bar, etc.

You could likely edit the functions.php file to remove loading of fontawesome, but then no icons would work on your site.

Marius might have better answer; I’m just visiting to check on issues with new version before I install 🙂

You can try to simply add the code to your Custom CSS in the panel; won’t blow anything up. The above code was marius’ answer to my query on this exact same topic.
Works perfectly for me. 🙂

Google news uses an XML sitemap file of just your news items, and/or an RSS feed of just your news items. They don’t scrape an index page of all your posts. You don’t need to create this type of page for Google News.

@danielpetre
not sure why it matters the plugin is in two places; perhaps one is for the automated install and another is for manual install?

Why does that need to be sorted ?

The zip files are for install … it still needs to be extracted and placed into the actual /wp-content/plugins/ folder one way or another.

If you’re using IE, switch to Chrome. I have this issue with IE11 on Win7/64 .. endless spin. Works fine in Chrome. Not sure related to your issue, but this was what happened to me 🙂

Seems some weird Ajax thing in IE … not related to theme, as it happens on other websites too, including Twitter’s ad module … entire div was missing with “create new campaign.” So, Chrome is “best for webdev” at the moment, unless you’re a Firefox fan.

@Gee95

I think I used something like “simple sitemap” plugin to do this. It allows you to make a new page called sitemap, and then puts all your posts by category and date on one page. Ends up being a huge page if you have 8,000 posts… but checkout the plugins on the wordpress.org repository.

You might try this:
http://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-sitemap/

You update the theme by downloading it from your Themeforest account, then uploading to web server.

3.8.2

last version was 3.8.1

Easy to find in the changelog once you download it …

[ V 3.8.2 ]
– fixed missing image from facebook shares on video post formats
– usability improvements in the fonts selection panel
– fixed pagebuilder icons style
– posts with pagination register only one view per page (more accurate page view counter)
– we updated the revolution slider plugin to the latest version
– speed booster plugin – revolution slider is now compatible
– speed booster plugin – improved compatibility with jetpack
– fixed text and title widget issue when visual composer plugin is not installed
– fixed bbPress freshness date/username
– tagDiv social counter – fixed twitter issue again (please update the plugin)

Hi, Marius gave me this solution way back when; not sure if it will work for you:

.td_980_resp .td-sub-footer-wrap .td-grid-wrap {
    padding-top: 6px !important;
}

*NOT* tested with May 20 edition of theme!!

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THis might or might not help… but:

Try logging out, and clearing your cache in your web browser (I did that this morning); restart browser, log back in, then try download from your account “downloads” screen?

You may be connecting from a shared/pool IP address which pools all users, and ThemeForest might be counting all those who have downloaded from what they think is one location.

This has worked for me on other sites. I have dedicated IP here, so I don’t run into that anymore, but have in past.

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Just downloaded with no trouble; 12:11pm PDT 5/20/14.
I downloaded “all files.”

@gmaarie
Hi… we use Apache for compatibility with widest range of applications, and because we have dedicated server so we can run Apache for some stuff, Nginx for others, multiple versions of php, etc.

I’ve only used Apache the past 20 years on the web for our servers, and so I am likely zero help whatsoever on other platforms. Usually you can simply Google something like “setting expires headers for wordpress on litespeed” or something like that, and see what pops up.

Nice thing is with the “alternative” platforms, a lot of people are using them with WordPress and are breaking the trail on that stuff.

🙂

Only way to not have issues with Google fonts, is not use them.
There are some threads here in the forum about changing your settings in the admin panel to “web safe” fonts and not using any Google fonts at all; then commenting the Google fonts out in the functions.php file.

btw — helps to turn OFF all caching, mod_pagespeed, etc., when doing a theme update.

Hi, don’t know if this will help … we had this same issue on one site and was driving me crazy. Turns out the CSS had been cached by the visitor’s browser, and so when they returned it would show them old layouts/missing elements etc.

In our case, we had to turn OFF the caching and mod_pagespeed entirely for several days on the site to let everybody load the new CSS/JS stuff and not the old stuff. Then the refresh worked for folks where their browser wasn’t clearing the cache properly. Tended to be more often with Firefox.

I waited 4 days then turned the caching and mod_pagespeed back on and it seemed to have solved the problem.

Not sure this will apply to your case, but might be worth a try.

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I had to install update via FTP, and then manually install the VisualComposer.

The best way to upgrade is found on the ThemeForest changelog for the theme.

@uzairfreak
you may wish to read through the sticky page speed thread at top of forum, as I posted various tips for compressing CSS and java files.

If you’re using GTMetrix, to test your site, it will also offer to give you optimized versions.

SEE: http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.thenerdmag.com/2nMdQOEd

Theme is only compatible with these versions: IE8 and above; primarily because it has elements of Bootstrap “3” which basically says anything old isn’t worth supporting. I think tagDiv has some of the shim stuff for some backwards compatibility, but if you note the clearly identified compatibility info for theme on Themeforest:

Compatible Browsers IE8, IE9, IE10, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome

This means anything below IE8 may not work, as much of the CSS presumes IE8 or later. You may need to use a browser sense javascript to switch to different theme for older users.

Wish I had better answer. The latest default theme for WordPress won’t support IE6 either.

There are some IE6 compatible themes here: (NOT an affiliate link)
http://themeforest.net/search?order_by=sales&term=ie6+support

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@5ud050n

I manage a dozen 10+ year old news portals that get updated every day. I suffer most of these evils on a daily basis, sadly. 🙂

Note … this is an issue with Google right now.

For example when we click the G+ button in Google News for one of our stories, we see the same behavior you do.

When we click from the website it seems to be random right now. Sometimes they only show the headline with picture when capturing, but then we going to G+ wall the whole paragraph is there.

So, far we’ve only beeb able to trace this to posts which have ‘ ‘ or ” ” in the description (quotes of some kind).

That may or may not help. It does NOT seem to be theme related.

HI,
usually most social media will pull from your meta tags which is usually the featured image for page; most will only use JPEG or PNG images, not GIFs since those are not technically a photo and more often used for ads (put another way some social media SHOULD grab animated GIFS but don’t do so consistently!).

So, on your page you have no images for story on page, only a video, and the OG tags show this:
<meta property="og:image" content="http://thegeeze.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Ibrahim-Hamato-Nothing-is-Impossible.gif" />

Which is an animated GIF from the video.

Most social media will
1) look for compatible open graph and meta image specified
2) image in post
3) images on page, such as logo or banner ad, if they can’t grab another image

But upshot … it’s sometimes hit or miss what image social media will pull. Twitter has become the best at this, and most of the time G+, but Facebook is really a dog’s breakfast.

You have no 100% consistent way to control images served to social media.

Often if you submit the link manually, you may have option to use < > arrows to select the image you want (Linked IN, and Facebook often work properly in this way). Sharing from buttons is *always* a little hit or miss.

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Yes, as noted in my original posts, we’re running Apache.

Nginx requires different syntax. Perhaps somebody else can help with that.

SO this means you need to work with your hosting provider to ensure proper expires headers, caching settings, etc., or ask them what file to edit for your particular hosting setup.

eg.

Nginx virtual host configuration file:

 location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
 expires 1y;
 log_not_found off;
 }