With the built-in WordPress menu, you will need to choose the categories you want to show, and whether to create drop-down menu groups (related content, or sub-categories). It’s very easy once you try it.

You can even “check” boxes on left side of the menu (wp admin > appearance > menus)

short version
https://forum.tagdiv.com/menu/

long version
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Menu_User_Guide

HI, @sadiadds
you should read through all of the posts in this sticky thread for tips on using the speed booster plugin, optimizing your images, checking hosting for server compression, editing your htaccess file, and limiting external resources.

AH, you may be using Jetpack or something to “auto post” — that is different from sharing. Technically you shouldn’t be able to share/like something to FB without an account. SO, not sure how that is happening at all. Sorry.

Likely they edited in the OG tag data. Or, MASHABLE has a high-level account with FB (2 million members!), meaning the “account” is called MASHABLE and not a specific person. This likely means they have commercial account under business name, vs a “person” who then has a “page” like you and me.

Their OG tag clearly just says “Mashable” for site name.
<meta content="Mashable" data-page-subject="true" property="og:site_name" />

ON your site you would likely need to “not set” an author for a story you don’t want to have author on, and make sure in WP the “name” of your site is just name and not name.xyz.

In the case with Send2Press.com – the reason it shows that vs “Send2Press” is because all shares go through a shortcode/302 redirect. If shared directly, it should pick up the OG tag "<meta property="og:site_name" content="Send2Press Newswire">"

That may not help at all. But, it was my impression/experience in how that all works.

Check your meta tags for Facebook and Twitter (YOAST SEO or similar is useful for setting these up properly). Facebook “should” pull from the info in your OG tags, so that would be the first place to look.

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Hi, Martin
On one of our two sites, I did find it annoying that it covered up a box that said “featured items” … and thought about looking at the code to see how to change it to be “xx” from bottom. On other hand there are at least five news (BIG) sites I go to which have the same slider effect “in that spot,” and we used to have one done with DHTML on a custom theme which was an ad slider that would come out from left – but it was even more annoying.

So, after playing with it this week (I finally upgraded from 2x to 3x this past week, hence my showing up here again so often) I decided to just leave it. Since the “concept” is to “force” people to look at something to possibly click to another story, without leaving, if they scrolled past the “related” boxes, it does its job. I think if someone REALLY wants to see what is bottom right, then they’d close the box.

Actually, the other option I was pondering … was putting the logo and “about” box in col 3, so that only the footer logo gets covered.

Oh, and glad you’ve found some of my input useful. It’s my way of paying back for the 10 years of help I’ve gotten elsewhere by those “who came before” in trail breaking. Without the help of many others, I would not know all the semi-arcane things about WordPress I know now.

Now, if I can only figure out WHY my images are NOT enlarging in 3.6 to fit the large home slider left image or the featured category image. 20% size increase should happen, but not. (Sigh.)

Facebook puts in the info of the account you post under, meaning which account you’re logged in with when you “share” to Facebook. This is normal.

It will normally show

NAME OF WEBSITE | FB ACCOUNT THAT SHARED

e.g.,
https://www.facebook.com/Send2PressNewswire/posts/485665321535291

FYI, for one of our clients we used this plugin which has this feature; been using this plugin for several years now:
“WP Biographia”

HI, custom CSS is working in 3.6, so I recommend upgrading to that. Fixed a lot of oddities from v3x. However, in some cases figuring out what class to edit is the tricky bit. I added CSS to change the date top left of pages/posts, and also add more space above below the post title, as well as more spacing below logo.

The “featured” frame for a video is set by the video author when uploading or transcoding a video, or YouTube auto-selects a non blank frame. Meaning, somebody can choose to show a frame with a product image vs somebody’s smiling face doing an intro or vice versa. You don’t get to pick the ‘poster frame’ for a video to show on your site.

Selected the thumbnail – there is no way you can choose that from any plugin or theme.

You would need to have uploaded the video and set the desired thumbnail. “Usually” it will be whatever image is seen on the video, when static on the page on your site when you do the embed, sometimes not.

TIP: you can usually see what the poster frame for a video on YouTube is by looking at the images in the sidebar on YouTube, or the static channel images for the video owner/uploader. THAT static image will normally be what a “grab” function will choose on any WordPress site.

If there is an auto-magical way to grab a selected frame from a video, like “scrub 10 seconds and grab screen cap” … I’m not aware of it, but it may be possible (likely crash your hosting account too).

Hope that helps. We run into this often when we do news articles about topics and include a video. The solution *we* came up with is to do a screen grab FROM the video, and the put that image on the page as a featured image.

Example: for this post, about holiday music, we wanted to grab image from video, but the poster frame is awful, so I used a screen cap app (SNAGIT), and grabbed an image from the video to make a featured image – MEANING, watched video on computer, did screen cap of image, then saved in Photoshop, uploaded to post:
http://ga-ga.com/644/july-4th-music-surprising-secrets-of-patriotic-songs/

(NOTE: this website still “technically” is under construction…. )

🙂

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Obviously custom CSS workaround 🙂

Still, FYI, changing top menu font colors doesn’t currently (3.6) set a color proprerty for the date.

There is option to switch it OFF entirely in the theme panel (slide the <> slider to off). The “X” in the box is to remove it when viewing the page.

If you’re asking how to have it disappear before somebody has time to read it and click it to go to the story, that kind of defeats the purpose.

If you want to have a time delay to have it slide back out… like 7 seconds, you’d likely need to edit the CSS/Java for that element (Marius/Radu might have something for that).

If you don’t want it at all, simple to just turn it off. “Most” people now know the ‘X’ is to remove it (or “close”).

Yeah. IN the old days theme developers had to use one of two plugins to do the thumbnails, or write custom hooks into server imagemagick libraries or similar. Then WordPress finally added thumbnail support “if you make it featured image” … and then all the theme devs stopped using the old plugins. We have one from 2006-2010 that let us specify the exact cropping and would pull from YouTube and stuff … huge memory hog, but we’ve always had our own server(s), so wasn’t issue. Also, for a long time the WordPress folks didn’t actually run any magazine or content sites beyond blogs, so it took years to add CMS features to the “blogging platform.” And there are still some really dumb things in there one should be able to fully turn off and remove, or do by default. “Crop direction” is a really needed thing for WP to add. Much like ability to grab thumbnail from first image in post regardless of “featured” or not. (Sigh.) Welcome to my world 😉

Yeah. Fyi, stupid Envato doesn’t always update the info properly. Radu and co have to submit stuff to their system and sometimes it updates, and they have to wait for everything to be “approved.” This is why when they do a new release, they have to wait for Envato to “approve” the update, and then when it goes live THEN they usually update the features info since they can’t do that until approval happens – why might be when they are sleeping. Kind of funky … (or what we used to call a “catch 22”). So, every third or fourth update you might see that and go hey… what changed. I just look at the text file now, as this is the “old school” way we looked at stuff for perl scripts, javascript code, and theme files before themeforest existed 🙂

So, not entirely tagDiv’s fault there. Kind of an “out of sync” thing between their time and Envato approval of submitted files.

If you’re running IE11 on Win7/64, try using Chrome.
I have a lot of java and security based issues with IE on Windows.

If you’re not running IE, then sorry for the post.

Chrome works great on everything in 3.6 so far for me. I no longer use Firefox due to prior hacks allowed via insecure code in FF that has only taken 5 years to fix. IE11 “mostly” works, but then will just spin and spin.

FYI, when you download the theme files, there is clearly a file called “update_log.txt” … you can download the update zip file without having to install it on your website.

Good idea to spend some time familiarizing yourself with the files you’re downloading, as to what is in each folder and the supporting documents. Just a thought, no insult intended.

[ V 3.6 ]
– added new font system
– added support for custom font files
– added support for typekit.com fonts
– added Most Commented sort order option for widgets
– added support for font stacks
– better support for google fonts (it optimizes font delivery)
– fixed the breadcrumbs for the bbpress forum (no more 404 file missing error)
– fixed mega menu font issue
– slides work now with only one post

[ V 3.5 ]
– added 4 predefined style: SPORT, CAFE, FASHION, TECH – screenshot
– added option to uppercase the font for the Header Menu – screenshot
– added Alphabetical A -> Z sorting option
– added option to change the typography of the default Blockquote in Theme panel – screenshot
– added COLOR option for default Blockquote – screenshot
– added old sharing back – screenshot
– fixed Ad overlapping on Header Style 4
– fixed translation for Home breadcrumb
– fixed issue with video thumb downloader (sometimes it did not download the thumb)
– better megamenu handling on touch devices
– added comments on pages ( with option in theme panel – default it’s disabled )
– post views counter alternative for W3 Total Cache (with WP-PostViewer and Ajax_the_view plugins) – https://forum.tagdiv.com/wp-postviews-post-view-counter-alternative-for-w3-total-cache/

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Great thing is easy to play with, and there is a “default” button for colors to reset.

TIP: “export” your current settings, then “play” with color options, and if you get too far off the reservation, as it were, you can import your original settings back pretty darn quickly (“PDQ”).

I just did this while playing around with color options.

Additional minor issue with footer text

When changing the responsive layout from
full responsive 1170
to full responsive 980

additional 50px (?) spacing added to bottom footer area (coyright/bottom menu areas). As can be seen on the page example in my prior post above.

Kind of threw me too, only because of the black on white or white on black reset.
However, totally worth it for all the new typography functions many folks have asked for.

Sadly, the oooold timthumb and other thumbnail apps had “smart” cropping. It seems the thumbnail function built-in to WordPress (and used by all modern themes, except some legacy stuff) isn’t so smart. I just ran into this on client site where every photo would show people’s stomachs vs heads on the indexes with the fancy wide thumbs we were using, had to go back to “bloggy” square pix for the time being (ick!). This is nothing you can control right now such as “crop from top” vs “crop from middle” as far as I know.

Interesting, though. Wonder if WP *does* have this as a function hook. Hmm….. quick search on that. and … NOPE. It doesn’t have that function.

These folks tried to do a plugin for this issue, in the WP repository – VERY clever, when you upload image you can set the crop location/focus (!). This should be built in to WP, if you ask me 🙂
http://wordpress.org/plugins/thumbnail-crop-position/

For a more robust option, we have purchased this plugin to test as it mimics what the old photo plugins we had years back used to allow — no feedback from me on this one yet.
http://codecanyon.net/item/theia-smart-thumbnails-for-wordpress/3160252
(NOT an affiliate link!)

Hope that helped more 🙂

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One tip is to set the small, medium and large thumbnail settings for wordpress to match the sizes you’re using on home page and categories, found at:

wp admin > settings > media

but to “fix” existing images, you would likely need to run “regenerate thumbnails” plugin (I am actually doing this right now … myself since I started building pages without the front page setup, so now my pix on front page aren’t as deep as the right boxes ….!).

small = 100×65

medium = 700×357

large = 745×483

You could likely achieve this with the color settings in the theme panel and some very minor custom CSS, to do the “video gamer” kind of look to the site. I thought about this myself, and actually was playing around with changing the colors (I made the menu bar a dark purple to see what would happen…. kind of cool). But yeah, I’m sure some folks would like a one-click “reverseo changeo” 🙂

Ideally you should have back-up of all your images, as standard practice before installing anything or running any plugin which changes content.

However, you can simply re-run the regenerate thumbnail plugin to the sizes you were using before. But read the help info that comes with the plugin as it describes the best way to use it, how to “un-use” it and so forth.

I believe the “cropped” setting is in the theme panel; so you should “uncheck” that, and then re-run the thumbnail regen plugin to see if that fixes things.

It’s also useful to set the default small, medium, large settings in the main wordpress > settings > media … to limit number of thumbs actually built.

If the files are too big (in KBs) you can also use my hack in the functions.php file (search forum) to reduce the file sizes created by about 40%.

HI, I believe you can uncomment some of the disabled functions for visual composer – search the forum for that info.

Also be aware that most theme developers who integrate visual composer often customize it, and have to test compatibility, hence why “the latest” version of things bundled with theme may not be included until it’s fully tested.

Hope that helped!
(yummmmmm….. pie charts !)

Hi, #emre
you should read through all of the thread for info on adding elements to your .htaccess file, making sure you optimize images, and set images to be as small as possible, make sure your hosting provider is properly service pages as efficiently as possible, and limit use of plugins and anything that makes external calls … anything like social media buttons with “number of likes” or AdSense ads, or JetPack will all slow down the page.

I run into this sometimes where stupid Facebook will grab the LOGO from the page, or the last image related to a post somebody else has already shared, even with the featured image explicitly specified. Similarly, with Google News they will grab a random image when there are more than one, even if the OG tags and an image tag are in the head area. Very very annoying. Not theme specific, more the robot grabbing an image “from the page scrape” and to a certain extent nothing you can do about it.

One trick, try saving the page to Facebook by hand in a status update and try to “choose” a better photo from the choices if an < > appears over thumbnail, and then they will tend to use THAT image for awhile as the one related when anybody shares the home page.

But YES, having link to image on home page should work, as I do here:
<meta property="og:image" content="http://ga-ga.com/images/Ga-Ga_TM.png" />

I think you need to look at a published post on your site, since the jetpack code is inserted on view from JetPack, then view source and see what div tag they wrap their buttons in, then try putting an adjustment to that into the custom css box in the theme panel. Since I don’t use Jetpack and you didn’t include a link to a sample page on your site, I won’t be much additional help.

Marius is the wizard…. I’m just visiting 😉