Hey, thanks everybody for the kind words. 🙂 I’ve really only pitched in a very small amount of time, but now I need to “focus” on couple of critical things, so no more posting on my FB page for awhile either. That 20 minutes of lunchtime wandering now has to be curtailed to meet some deadlines by end of May.
I’ll check back in to update the issue with enlarging images via a plugin, as that is the last remaining “darn it” item for our sites using Newspaper.
My hope it to use Auto Post Thumbnail Pro as first step as this creates an image from first item in post, even external from our mothership news portal (Send2Press.com), sets as featured image; then “perhaps” thumbail upscale plugin to grab that and make the larger thumbs for the “featured” category toppers and larger zoomed images for featured boxes on the home page. Since most of our images are 500×375 for the legacy news sites (like CaliforniaNewswire.com), or 700×405 on others (some are even 600×300), this will hopefully replicate the old timthumb behavior we need. Hopefully WP 4 will eventually have this capability. Sadly they assume everybody should be uploading giant 1024×768 images and then going “down” from there, while in fact zooming a 500 pixel image to fit a 700 pixel width feature box with overlay of text/headline, works just fine.
So, I’ll be back to update that adventure later on!
Peace out! 🙂
Thanks for all the kind words @OTIS and @AJ – and all. I’ve been happy to help out. Glad it’s been useful to some folks with the page speed stuff, image stuff, customizations, general wordpress WTF stuff, etc.
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Um. Because it’s a nice thing to do? Sorry that’s an alien concept to you, based on your post. Something to look into down the road perhaps.
Nothing better to do? I run a business which was an Inc. 5000 listed company, blah blah.
I’ve been an award winning graphic designer since a teenager in the 70s, have design award from Apple (!), widely interviewed in the press (Entrepreneur, Chicago Sun Times, etc), used to write monthly column on web design a decade ago for Digital Imaging, Micro Publishing News, Graphic Artist Guild; started building websites 1995, SEO and ecom 1996, built Oprah Winfrey’s ecom solution (and hosted it) for her “Begin with Love” video series; CEO of a design and publishing company, webdev, seo, PR, marketing, etc. Was on annual judging panel for PRSA “Excellence in Tech Journalism” awards. My websites generate 10 million page views per month. Some stories have gotten one million views for ONE story, in one week. Most sites have been online for 15+ years.
So, upshot my time is very valuable and I work huge hours and am involved with thousands of pages of content at any given time (google ‘Neotrope’ or ‘Send2Press’ to see what I mean).
But since you asked:
I often multi-task on my two 23-inch Apple cinema displays; and during the day I often have to do multiple things at once, like waiting for a bunch of things to FTP, waiting for mailing list system to run, run ecom system optimizations and backup, wait for client reply to do a same day project. Talk on phone to clients, etc.
So, I often have some “free time” where I check in on technical issues which may impact my business, from Heartbleed bug, PCI-DSS compliance, or support forums for the various commercial products I use.
Or as I stated to begin with:
....offering some help to others to pay forward all the help I’ve gotten over the years on stuff where I was pulling my hair out.
This means that I’ve been lucky to get help from many others over the years on stuff simple and complex and unsolvable without a forum poster saying ‘go look at this dummy’ and then I figure it out. A LOT OF WEB STUFF HAS CRAP DOCUMENTATION. There are whole websites in the webdev world just for this kind of thing …and I’ve had numerous issues with my ecom platform (NOT woocommerce), or issues with our dedicated servers which I would never have been able to sort out without help form somebody on a forum when the company tech support was clueless.
So, the time I’ve put in here has been to HELP others … to pay back the help I’ve gotten from so many over the years. I also pop in to the forum for my ecom software, have provided feedback to Yoast on bugs in his programs (e.g., beta of the news addon, issue with the twitter account field, etc.), and various other arcane things related to the web dev world.
For the average joe running a blog, that person doesn’t often have time or inclination, or sometimes the braincells to FIGURE IT OUT, which some of us do as matter of course. So, folks like me who post back some tips, tricks, or stuff that tagDiv might not even know, is useful. I’ve been managing WordPress sites daily since Jan 2006. I’ve learned more than a few things.
So, this is where the term “paying it forward” came from.
Pay it forward is an expression for describing the beneficiary of a good deed repaying it to others instead of to the original benefactor.
In any case …. happy earth day to all, and to all a good night! 🙂
Just as FYI: Google may serve up the same ads when you have two same size ad units in the same area, two boxes in same general vicinity the same size.
Ads are shown based on the size layout, and how they are tracking YOU to serve up ads. Using two different ad unit codes on same section may still show same ads.
Usually the way to clear that — it’s nothing to do with the theme — is go visit a bunch of websites like car sites, etc., and when you go back you should start seeing different ads served up.
One “trick” is to make one of the boxes “TEXT ONLY” and make one ad unit “IMAGES ONLY.” This has worked for me in the past.
Additionally Google will limit the NUMBER of ads on a single page to three, so if you have three ads on homepage already, then the sidebar would be fourth and might explain why the sidebar ad works on posts/pages but not the home page.
This may not be related to your issue, but similar to things I’ve run into with using AdSense since the day they launched that in beta quite a number of years ago.
HI, if you have the tagDiv speed booster plugin installed, it will appear in your list of plugins 😉
You can find it in the full download from Theme Forest for the theme (the folder with all the extra stuff like docs, psd bits, etc., in the “plugins” folder).
With Yslow, you’ll never get a perfect “numerical” score unless you load SOMETHING off a CDN someplace as they seem to think everybody should do that, even if it’s not faster for some stuff. But GTMetrix will “explain” why the score is what it is in detail. But you can still get an “A” for fixing everything else where possible. 🙂
It might be helpful (*HEY MARIUS!*) to add something to the docs for the theme install, perhaps on the ‘how to speed up website’ section, that spells out WHERE the plugin actually is – even though most folks SHOULD have looked at what was in the folder for the theme (ahem) before installing the theme.
You might try turning off any plugins you’re using which access external sites, such as social media, jetpack, forms which submit to another website URL, etc.
With normal theme without any weird add-ons or call-outs to other sites, our PCI-DSS security scanning firm passes all our sites as not having such issues.
Not my theme, but perhaps Marius and Radu might have better answer.
It would have been helpful if your sysadmin has given you an EXAMPLE of such an error showing WHICH application or code is giving that “cross scripting” error/warning. Since nobody else is having this issue, there must be something different about plugins or code you’re running on the site, which is throwing up this kind of warning message.
