this may help
https://forum.tagdiv.com/wp-postviews-post-view-counter-alternative-for-w3-total-cache/

You would need to set a ‘featured image’, or “default image” for your home page. I think Yoast SEO and some other tools let you do this. It’s not technically a “theme” function. However, Facebook may still grab wrong image – they do that. They “should” give you a choice with < > arrows, but that doesn’t always work.

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REF: changes since 3.2
======================
V 3.5 – 21 March – The list of modified files
◾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/

V 3.4 – 07 March
◾major improvements to the mega menu. Works with hover on sub-categories
◾major improvements to the ajax system. It’s really fast now 🙂
◾added more source and via
◾added transparent header option in Theme Panel – screenshot
◾added option to switch icons color for Header Menu from Black to White – screenshot
◾added option to switch off the uppercase font on Big Slider/Sliders screenshot
◾fixed sharing style
◾fixed sharing post to open in new window
◾fixed Mega Menu font
◾fixed wp-admin upload file issue on small screens

V 3.3 – 03 March – List of modified files
◾New sharing icons
◾better design for tags at the end of posts
◾better one click import script. Now our demo that is installed locally is more compleate
◾Fixed translation ‘Home’ in the breadcrumbs
◾Added Sub-menu font in Theme Panel -> Custom Typography
◾Fixed MegaMenu color issue
◾Added new pages and categories to demo install
◾fixed some random appearing issue with the menu and category selection on posts
◾we switched the h3 tags to h4 in the mega menu

Probably need to look at the post page source code, then put in some custom CSS for the style used by JetPack for the social buttons, since JetPack is an external system and not part of the theme itself.

Marius will likely be happy to share a snippet of code for that, but you could experiment with that yourself right now, obviously.

Hope that helped.

+1

This is somewhat more important to have top of post pages vs “number of comments…”

(okay.. I will now stop “nagging’ about this one 😉 )

keep up the great work!

HI,
that is the “big slide…”

see the documentation, or here:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/homepage/

That helped me figure it out 🙂

Version 3.5 of the theme fixed some of the wp-bakery issues, btw.

First thing you can do is set those sizes under WP-admin > settings > media – or the small, medium and large thumbnail sizes. This will minimize thumbs created by both the theme and WordPress. I think the thumbs are in the functions.php file if memory serves, but likely Marius will have more specific info on that. 🙂

AWESOME!!!! (as we still say in California…)

Thanks, Radu 🙂

Actually … I think this might be due to a caching issue with mod_pagespeed, but still testing. With mod_pagespeed “on” at all, I have issues with the “suggested” flyout, and the styles for the social sharing with tags box breaks.

Will update as I test this for plugin conflict, or cleaning the mod_pagespeed cache, even though it’s NOT supposed to cache anything in the wp-content/theme folder, like a stylesheet.

For those using mod_pagespeed – this is relevant, for everybody else just ignore these minor updates 🙂

<LOL>
Yeah. Yeah. Funny thing is it only impacts some things. Able to change colors, but some things the spinning wheel times out, and others it just takes awhile. Stupid IE !!

I use it to test things seen by clients as we have a lot of IE users, sadly. Although as a client it works just fine on Windows 7, except for managing web stuff.

Ah! looking in wrong place. Thanks 🙂

I’d again suggest “considering” making this ‘on’ by default since this is a “newspaper” theme, and it’s necessary for various Google related things like authorship and for Google News, as well as “normal industry practice” in publishing.

Thanks, Marius! 🙂

If you’re asking about all the boxes on the WP admin > users > user information page; those are included by WordPress, not the theme. If you’re asking about limiting the number of social media icons in the author box and the author page box, you can simply remove the items you don’t want by making the boxes plank on the WP admin > users > user page for that person(s).

Not sure if that helps or not. I was here, thought I’d share.

perhaps and “overflow hidden” method ?

the other reason, among many, that byline is needed as “default” on posts is that it’s a requirement for Google Authorship

“3.Make sure a byline containing your name appears on each page of your content (for example, “By Steven Levy”).”
https://plus.google.com/authorship

Update for those using mod_pagespeed – either on hosting service using .htaccess or self-hosted and using .htaccess to control on/off stuff.

UPDATE for Newspaper 3.5:

do not use these as they break the slide out recommended posts widget.

ModPagespeedEnableFilters move_css_to_head
ModPagespeedEnableFilters combine_css

These settings also appear to cause the “whiteout page” issue with the tagDiv Speed Booster 2.1 plugin, with 3.5.

<IfModule pagespeed_module>
ModPagespeed on
ModPagespeedEnableFilters collapse_whitespace
ModPagespeedEnableFilters remove_comments
ModPagespeedEnableFilters rewrite_images
ModPagespeedEnableFilters insert_dns_prefetch
</IfModule>

However, these minimal settings should *NOT* cause the page to “white out” since whitespace only removes empty spaces, comments are elements best removed anyway, and images and DNS has nothing to do with the Speed Booster AFAIK.

I will have to ping Radu on this issue once they get caught up on the current update cycle to sort out conflict with the speed booster plugin and mod_pagespeed, as obviously they should be able to work together and did so just fine in the 2x theme versions.

More later …

Hi
I’m updating this thread for consistency.

I just upgrade to Newspaper 3.5 and attempting to replicate this, with
Newspaper/includes/modules/td_module_1.php

if I remove the // for author name, it’s NOT printing on the posts although uncommenting on other modules does add the author byline to things like the sidebar modules or the indexes.

                <div class="meta-info">
                    <?php echo $this->get_category(); ?>
                    <?php echo $this->get_author(); ?>
                    <?php echo $this->get_date(false); ?>
                    <?php echo $this->get_commentsAndViews(); ?>
                </div>

e.g.,
http://ga-ga.com/1204/beginning-adventure-space-time-reveals-roots-doctor/

I have tried with tagdiv speedbooster on/off; I have mod_pagespeed off to ensure nothing is being cached; not using Jetpack.

This is CLEAN install of Newspaper 3.5; meaning the theme folder was uploaded as fresh folder and prior 2x folder was not over-written, so no mish-mash of old/new theme elements. No child theme being used.

Any idea why that might not be printing on page? Do I need to enable something else to cause the author byline to print on posts?

————————————

To repeat past posts as an opinion here:

“Byline” is one of the most critical things to all newspaper/magazine sites and should always appear below the title of article, or below the featured image; but typically the author and date are shown together in magazines and newspapers, so slightly annoying we still have to manually enable this EVERY update — look at TIME, or NY Times, or LA Times, or CNN, you will see the BYLINE and date top of every article. SO my big REQUEST would be to enable this by default “ON” and then let people comment it OFF which would be the exception vs the rule.

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Good job 🙂

Yes, we’ve had a *LOT* of trouble with Yoast SEO 1.5x due to their adding new features for bulk content changes, connectivity to Google Analytics. We are now looking for a more simple SEO tool, as we used to have an inhouse plugin to simply put all the social media and OG tags, custom field stuff in the head, without some of the other shenanigans now included, and adding more complexity and PROBLEMS. With Yoast SEO properly configured with all the extra crap turned off it does help manage a lot of things, and should not hurt pagespeed in the sense that nothing should be loaded externally or custom CSS, etc.

Jetpack however is a dog for speed even though cloud based. And many would disagree, but NOT using it unless you have to speeds up site tremendously. For bloggers it is awesome to add new features, for high content/traffic sites, not so much (in my opinion).

We’re looking at alternatives for a “simpler” SEO tool again, without the intrusive stuff they have been doing. No way to turn off the stoplight on right side of posts, broken google news features in 1.5, etc. Perhaps time to move on …. I will update as I move forward on this topic. 🙂

Yup. That’s what we were doing too. Only thing that seemed easy to do was use an RSS plugin to grab a feed from a category on our sister (meaning, related – in our network) sites. So, I used an RSS widget plugin to pull feed from

mynetworksite.xyz/topic/feed

and then pulled in one post with headline and 20 words from summary into widget area on sidebar on

mynetworksitexyz.xyz/123/my-post-about-new-stuff/

I had to try several different RSS plugins to get exactly what I wanted. But it worked.

Look at the RSS “widget” plugins on wordpress.org

Often you can use one of the many RSS plugins to pull RSS from another site *WITH THEIR PERMISSION* … or, manually put a post such as “from our sister site….”

I used an RSS plugin to put posts on one of our sites, showing latest stuff from sister site in sidebar, and that worked pretty well.

Be sure you’re only uploading the main theme folder “Newspaper” and not the big folder with all the docs and help/how-to.

You should look inside the folder you’re uploading to
/wp-content/themes/

to make sure it has the style.css in there, which would be good indicator it’s the wrong folder.

The “Newspaper” theme folder is the one which has the folders bbpress, images, includes, js, less_files, parts, translation, wp-admin, wpbakery, as well as about 35 loose files, including style.css and 404.php, etc.

AFAIK the theme only scales images on responsive resize, but I don’t have the latest version running yet. Meaning, the sizes when viewed on desktop at 100% match the thumbnails created. Maybe post a GTMetrix score page or something for folks to peek at?

You should have higher speed rating than 70 if you have proper expire headers, browser caching, W3 Cache cleared fully before launching new theme and then after launching new theme, and images uploaded are optimized to begin with and/or using something like smushit, or modified the functions.php to increase compression level for thumbs.

The theme does load things properly as it shows an ad based on initial viewport and doesn’t “reload” ads based on change such as dragging in the right side of browser window to redraw page, which would cause an advert to “reload” in same session. Theme works properly to only load a new ad if you refresh page to get new session ID for that viewport/size. 🙂

Hnm. Weird. No suggestion on that one.
I’m trying to figure out with IE10/11 — some days the 400 weight font of Open Sans won’t load off the CDN, and some days it does. So annoying to suddenly see ALL the text on page in 600 weight.

Always something!

@jbenbitez
not sure if you use a dbase optimizer for your site, but one thing I do after any major updates every time is
1) resave permalinks (just because)
2) run wp-optimize plugin to clean up dbase

We’ve been able to lessen the load on all our sites by as much as 20% (we have a LOT of pages) by using wp-optimize regularly, and also editing the wp-config to limit number of draft saves, and longer time to save each.

In our case the “BIG” memory leak was from YOAST. Going backward on one site fixed it, and on another getting latest version.

One client site was crashing until we stopped using AddThis “layers” plugin and cleared the cache about five times (not running Newspaper). GoDaddy hosting on that one.

Anyway – this is just some feedback on our issues- again, perhaps not related in any way to your issue. Often you can look at your site “error logs” to see what is generating an error, as best place to start with this kind of thing.