Kennylovescamping

you need to install the shareaholic plugin, then activate it, then configure its built-in settings to automatically place buttons “below” content, and choose buttons you want 🙂

Last time I used it, I didn’t need to manually insert any code in the theme templates, it works like addthis and “inserts” the code into the theme “hooks” at bottom of content.

Hey, @Kennylovescamping
off the original topic, but I did exactly the same thing using the addthis plugin vs the shareaholic plugin.

FYI – just follow my little holiday post and replace addthis with shareaholic, and of course you don’t need to hack the addthis for async mode (obviously):
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/holiday-tip-making-fancy-social-media-buttons/

@mmcmsp
similarly you can use the WP addthis plugin to insert share buttons of any style/shape on pages, posts, etc. — easy enough to try to see if it works for you during rev3 development which is Radu’s happy funtime post holidays “-)

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This may not help you, but Regenerate thumbnails plugin worked great for us with thousands of files.

http://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/

HOWEVER: if your system “times out” then you need to disable other plugins while doing a large operation on so many images – especially if you have larger then needed images (like if you uploaded 1MB files for images vs 50kb for a gallery picture, as one example), and perhaps set your website to “closed temporarily” (plugin to do this I think). Upshot is you want to
1) make sure your domain on your hosting plan has enough resources available to do a major operation
2) make sure you have enough disk space for all the new image sizes (some people with smaller hosting storage forget about this, as you’re basically perhaps tripling the number of images you will have from say 18,000 to 36,000 (3 old thumbs, 3 new thumbs)

So, plugin will “die” if not enough memory to run or space to write.

If your system still cannot handle doing that much image processing, you may want to look at the Jetpack plugin, PHOTON: http://jetpack.me/support/photon/ .

When you change to ANY new theme in WP you need to redo the image thumbnails as not all themes use the same layout, or thumbnail sizes, which of course is one of the things which makes each WP theme different.

Note that you may wish to also review the various plugins at wordpress.org on this topic as redoing all your graphics is part of using ANY new theme; it’s not specific to this theme.

Auto Post Thumbnail PRO for $7 from Themeforest also works awesome on one of our sites since we pull in content from our mothership site to a sister site via RSS.

Sorry don’t have better help on this one.

Hi, just as an aside the site with both comment systems has an awful Google PageSpeed score of “73” which having both comment systems impacts. On the other hand, if it’s a way to interact with audience, why not? Just be aware that’s an awful experience for mobile users waiting for both systems to instantiate. 🙂

If it looks right in the source code for your page – only way to check – then it’s an issue on Google’s side.

Note again the theme will may insert a blank author code if you don’t expressly enter that for each user account. So, LOOK AT YOUR SOURCE CODE for published posts and see if the element is properly showing up at bottom of your pages.

If it’s empty and you’re using a plugin, you may need to comment out the element in the theme php file.

Upshot: if you have it in head one way, and theme is putting in footer as “blank” that might cause issue. If you have it one way in your head, and another way in the footer (e.g., xxxx/ in heade and xxxx/posts in footer that would cause problem).

“view source” on your post page to see what is actually being “printed” in the webpage to check for all instances of the google author tag(s) to sort out where the conflict is.

Hope that helped :-0

+1 !
I’d love to see a default ‘fallback’ image also. I think Radu said someplace he would look into this, but you’d have to search forum to find that.

FYI, Yoast SEO supports having a fallback image for the social media image at least, when there is no image in the post; and there are some thumbnail plugins which will do that, but would be awesome to see in 3.0, I totally agree.

You can place videos anywhere in your post, as this is a normally supported function of WordPress via oembed. You only have to place video on top if doing “featured video” which is useful when you don’t have a photo (really only reason to do that, or if you had something like a music video gallery).

Always good idea to check all the wonderful tutorials provided by WordPress on how to use WP, such as how to insert videos:
how-to embed videos on ANY WordPress site regardless of theme:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds#In_A_Nutshell

basically all you do is in your post do

check out this cool video
http://youtu.be/videoID

here is example of how we do this on our site
http://ga-ga.com/1245/stone-solid-hooks-reflections-da-blooze/

so, upshot you only “have to” have video on top when you choose the featured video template; otherwise just do normal post, and drop in your videos anywhere you want in text.

Here is an example where we put two videos at bottom of article:
http://ga-ga.com/1125/musical-high-verheyen-studio-great-carl-verheyen-consistently-wows-crowds/

Hope that helped. 🙂

As to using both DisQus *and* the FB comment box; I would *not* advise that since Disqus can support login via Facebook, you will need to likely avoid that option, otherwise you might get two “call backs” to FB and this will kill your site loading time and PageSpeed, if you care about that. It it works, would love to see it! 🙂

Per the documentation you need to use the “regenerate thumbnails” plugin to create new thumbnails matching new theme layout. Give that a try, as this is usually the #1 thing folks forget (or miss) doing. 🙂

Pretty permalinks are not part of the theme, but core WP function.

Google “changing permalinks in wordpress” for more information on using a 301 redirect plugin or schema in your htaccess file.

Typically a 301 redirect plugin is needed with some types of permalink changes or you need to manually add all the redirects my hand in your .htaccess file, one per line, e.g.,

Redirect 301 /old/pathwithdate/story/ http://yoursite/story-new-name/

Hope that helped a tiny bit. I think there are a couple of good plugins for this in the wordpress.org plugin repository, http://wordpress.org/plugins/

Yoast did a piece on this awhile back,
http://yoast.com/change-wordpress-permalink-structure/

he created this tool to make some code for adding to your htaccess file to do apache style redirects/pattern matching, but this may or may not work based on your old vs new schema:
http://yoast.com/wp-content/permalink-helper.php

Try that last link, as starting point, follow directions, then take the code and post in your .htaccess file in root of your domain.

If that does not work you will need to hunt down a plugin to do it for you, or manually edit your htaccess file to create manual redirects (pain).

And one caveat; some of your social media button “views/shares” numbers may change/reset or go out of sync doing this, but in most cases will “self correct” in a bit. So your FB likes might suddenly say “0” but then should catch up to actual likes later on. This is common with ANY change of the system connecting to the sites to ping the data, not a “theme bug” or anything 🙂

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livingsmarttv
I think Radu said someplace not long ago, it’s on his “to do” list for upcoming 3.0 version to have a more fancy search results template, or at least be able to assign a module to it or somesuch (you might have to ‘search’ this forum to find that post …).

I don’t work here, just watching my website migrate off one server to another which I have to do in blocks of four sites out of 50, which is really annoying. So, while the one monitor is doing that I’m surfing around wasting time, hence my playing support due here for a little bit 🙂

I Can’t do anything else productive at the moment.

Chris

HI
it’s in the folder with your theme when you downloaded “all files” off themeforest.

I think it’s

newspaper-tf/plugins/td-speed-booster.zip

disclaimer:

“tagDiv speed booster is still in beta! Currently it is affecting the theme customizer and probably some plugins. This plugin is for advanced users only. We are still working on it.

~ Radu”

tarquisti
be sure to put your Google Author URL into the “user account” box for the author being specified on the post(s) under the wp > users section (not part of theme).

You might also try using a plugin like Yoast SEO which puts all the fancy meta data in the header for social media. I used to run an in-house plugin, but now we just use Yoast as those folks have it all in there for the social media tools, XML sitemap, etc.

TIP: go to a post page on your site, and do “view source” in web browser to see the code for your post, and at very bottom there will be a line for Google Authorship like so (this has my author account at G+ obviously)

<a href="https://plus.google.com/+ChristopherSimmons/posts?rel=author"></a>

If you don’t see that in your source code for your author account at G+, then make sure you have your author name in your user setup.

No idea, sorry. If the two other menus work and one does not, there is obviously something conflicting with it loading at top of the page, perhaps “inserted” by another plugin which is breaking the code (check the page by view source, or use Chrome’s error checking tools on the page). Obviously a conflict with something you’re running and not a problem with the theme itself, since the menus work properly with the normal plugins.

HI
Top Header Menu – is the black bar

Header Menu (main) – is main under logo menu

Footer Menu – is the one at bottom of page

Be sure to go to

wp admin > appearance > menus > manage locations

and check all are set right.

and,
wp > admin > appearance > menus > edit menus
[select] a menu to edit, the one you’re trying to put on top of pages in black bar, and check at bottom that the checkbox is checked for [x] top header menu, click [SAVE]

Also if using special plugins, turn them off to see if a conflict (any plugin not included with theme!)

If you’re using Firefox or pesky Chrome, you may need to go into your Chrome browser settings and “clear history” to get rid of their stupid caching (I usually test in IE, then check in Chrome).

You can see our menus running on the 10 year old site we’re (still) migrating to Newspaper, here (not self promotional, so I’m going to unlink this as code):
http://publishersnewswire.com/

The menus should work, as they hook into WordPress’ default menu system with CSS and are not custom menu plugins. If they work in the default WP theme (e.g., twenty twelve or thirteen, or even fourteen), they should work here. 🙂

That’s way outside the scope of the theme and means changing the way wordpress actually writes that directory structure. This is the kind of thing you typically would “google” to locate a how to.

You likely will need to create a function and put that in the root theme folder at end of the functions file or in the child theme folder for your custom functions file.

If you know what you’re doing, this can be done as so (apparently):

`add_action(‘init’, ‘cng_author_base’);
function cng_author_base() {
global $wp_rewrite;
$author_slug = ‘profile’; // change slug name
$wp_rewrite->author_base = $author_slug;
$wp_rewrite->flush_rules()
}

note, that $wp_rewrite->flush_rules() supposedly helps solve the 404 error when going to new rule.

ALSO: you may want to put Redirect 301 implicitly in your htaccess file for each author pointing to new location, once the new URLs actually work (not before, as you might create a loop of doom). If the old URLs automatically redirect to new location, this means WP is doing soft redirect so you won’t need to do manual 301s for each author.

IMPORTANT: once you do this you would also need to visit your permalinks settings in the wordpress panel and just hit “save” to resave.

If things don’t work right, simply remove the code from functons.php and then go back and hit ‘save’ again on your permalinks settings page. (and remove any manual 301 redirects if you do that)

Modifying how wordpress works is not part of the theme, fyi.

Hope that helped! 🙂

HAPPY HOLIDAYS ALL!

I am a helpful elf not working for TaGdiv — I’ve been updating and moving my websites and web server this month, hence a lot of “waiting and watching” the browser in one window while things update; hence surfing the web while that’s happening. Lots of little 15 minute windows where I need to watch, but nothing else I can really concentrate on; hence my little nuggets of (hopefully not too annoying) wisdom. In early Jan. you won’t see me here very often, as I’ll be working on a large project for our in-house system, but using this theme for a multi-user setup, so may have some helpful tips on that.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS ALL!

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.
• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

Those are not bugs. You need to create a menu using the wordpress panel to make a menu; if changing from another theme you need to assign your existing menu(s) to the spots which match the names of the menu areas in the theme. Be sure to read all of the documentation and videos that came with the theme. My menus have worked from the first version of the theme to now, even moving from another theme (two actually), and they are really easy to setup.

While this is more general to wordpress.com, the methods are the same:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

Hope that helped 🙂

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!

mehedi,
see how Radu got the demo to the pagespeed
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/

“speed” is a process which requires many tools to accomplish, no one theme “magically” has high pagespeed. YOU need to research and implement many things separate from the theme to achieve a high pagespeed ranking, including NOT using various things like adsense, or plugins which “dial out” to get resources. But, if you follow the link above, Radu explains how they optimized the demo site.

You should also read through this thread, as you may need to update your htacess file for expiration headers, optimize your images, etc.

Be aware that some hosting providers create a directory in your public root by default as /blog/ as a default install for blog software outside of the public content sometimes built with hosting co pagebuilder.

In some WP installs you can’t create a page/menu item called “blog” that would go to http://yoursite.com/blog/ due to the directory existing.

This may be totally unrelated to your situation. But this happened to a pal once and deleting the existing /blog/ folder in the public root fixed it.

Again, may not be related, but one thing to consider.

For “pages” you can simply do

<h2>About Our Magazine</h2>

when you create a new page. You can do the same in a post. I do this on our site for the “about us” page, and for a subhead below big featured image on articles.

The main title on page has the h1 tag, obviously.

Hope that helped 🙂

Hi, mmtt – glad you got that sorted!

no advice on putting ads in feeds, although feedburner I think lets you insert your own adsense codes into your RSS with them now.

In our case, we only serve “summary” RSS content as we don’t want people republishing our original copyrighted content, and we want them to read items on our site, not via RSS. So, we don’t use full text RSS anywhere anymore to avoid making theft of content too easy for ‘scrapers.’

Oh – just noticed you’re doing same for just having snippets in your RSS feed.

To insert an ad “between” items in an RSS feed, you’d have to actually build a custom RSS feed, I think. There may be a plugin that does that, dunno. Try the adsense injection that feedburner offers, maybe?

What I do is use the full size images on the post page, as featured image, and then WP creates the smaller thumbnails to use on indexes and home page.

You would only start with smaller images if you’re only using those for a non post element.

So, start with an article and the main image for a featured image of 700×406 for the big image, and then the smaller ones get built automatically (e.g., 100×65, 326×159, etc.).

At least that’s how it works for me.
Hope that helped. 🙂

The short answer:
Start with post; then indexes are built from the post, not the other way around. Use big image for big image, then small images built by WordPress.

HI,
if you’re using a cache plugin with “page cache” on that should work.
Many hosting providers also run caching software of varying kinds, but not all websites may have that function depending on plan and how they setup VPS or containers for different customer classes. eacclerator, optcache, memcache, etc.

The .htaccess file goes in the root of your public document area (e.g., httpdocs/yoursitename/public – same place that wp-content lives), and is more easily seen with an FTP application that can show hidden files ( .htaccess is the file name – the dot makes it hidden ). Or, if you’re using something like YOAST SEO, there is an “edit files” option to make additions to the file (which is what I do). It is there, as WordPress writes it’s “rewrite” rules to that file. In your web hosting account there may be a “file manager” which would let you edit it, also.

Smush.it is the popular choice, however it only works on new files not existing ones. I think “regenerate thumbnails” may work when smushit is on, but check the help support on that for those plugins.

What amazes me are the problems you and I can’t do much about
a) issues with Google AdSense
b) issues with social media elements
c) issues with recaptcha (I just turned this off); powered by Google
d) issues with Disqus or any comment platform including the one from automatic

The most hilarious issue is that we installed Google’s “mod_pagespeed” system on our web server, and now it’s saying that there is a PageSpeed error since PageSpeed inserted three 1×1 pixel graphics and isn’t specifying their height and width.

Seriously?

So, basically from my experience wrangling this the past few months, if you want to know your real pagespeed run it with
1) ads off ! You will get pagespeed errors from Google ads.
2) social media off – you will get error from twitter
3) if you use Addthis, as we do – you need to hack the plugin to add the #async=1 option at end of javascript string.

It’s a process that will end up being frustrating at some point. No way around issues with Google’s own products generating errors. SO, they penalize page speed for using their services. Crazy.

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

Well right now your site comes up as ‘not found’ from here in California, USA
http://www.scholarshubafrica.com/

(2:23pm PST / 5:23pm EST; Sat. 12/21)

so that would obviously cause a problem with feedburner …

normally you should be able to read feed more simply at

http://www.scholarshubafrica.com/feed/

which is the default RSS2 feed for WordPress sites — it’s what I use with Feedburner myself. sitename.000/feed

ALSO:
take some of Google’s “recommendations” with a grain of salt….

for a test page,
http://ga-ga.com/1277/12-songs-christmas-surprising-secrets-seasons-popular-tunes/

here is one of their ‘errors’ – note the page response time … 0.32 seconds (okay, we have a server response time of 1/3 of a second … oh no…… so sloooow!!) <LOL>

[!] Reduce server response time

In our test, your server responded in 0.32 seconds. There are many factors that can slow down your server response time. Please read our recommendations to learn how you can monitor and measure where your server is spending the most time.