Some browsers, particularly Safari on iOS (e.g., iPad) don’t like that option as it seems to conflict with the way the browser does its own caching and sequential loading of elements. I run into this on the LA Times website all the time … half the time, bottom of half of page won’t even load. But works in Chrome.

So, upshot – test site in ALL browsers. Turn OFF anything you don’t absolutely need. 🙂

What did you change on your website? Did you check error log, use debug option, check cdn expiration, or try disabling new plugins? If something suddenly changed without you changing it, not a good sign!

A plugin is just a function; same as adding a function to your theme functions.php file to achieve customization. A well constructed plugin has zero negative impact on running a site.

If you don’t want to use a plugin, you can often find many tutorials online for achieving similar effects without plugin, by adding a custom function.

Food for thought anyway.

make sure to turn off lazy loading option…

Check back later. Happens from time to time.

Try pasting the ad code into a simple sidebar html widget.

I was getting blank items today.

Google sometimes has issues since they pull content from multiple servers.

What happens, is Google tracking YOU – then you go to your site; they try to serve ad based on algorithm – that ad broken or timed out, nothing shows. So, you go back, they keep trying to show you bad ads.

Often you can trick them by doing something like
go to Google, search for major brand (e.g., Infiniti …)
go to infiniti website; close browser.

Go back to your website.
Probably you will now see an Infiniti ad on right side of your page on your site.

That is what I do anyways.

🙂

Need to setup your htaccess file properly. Open in text editor and adjust to work best with your hosting setup and with WordPress. Follow the WordPress.org codex docs on ‘hardening wordpress’ for custom settings in your htaccess file not some random settings from someplace on the web.

Theme doesn’t add code to your htaccess file!

“Blurry” thumbnails can be caused by multiple things

a) optimization plugins like smush-it
b) external image plugins like Jetpack/photon
c) changing default compression too low number in your wp-config.php file
d) mod_pagespeed and similar which may rewrite image as webp format
e) optimized WP hosting service which uses image compression tools to serve content

might not be your issue, but these are super common

Looks like either part of your meta data (view the ‘source’ for that post to find where the text is). Or, being added by browser at end as site name.

If it’s simply the ‘alt’ tag for your site page – then it will show in the source of your page in the title meta, or description or both. So however you manage that info would need to be adjusted.

Well, AMP only works for those browsers that are compatible not “all mobile devices” … and your content has to pass AMP validation, and get enough hits to be cached and served as AMP version by Google servers or whatever.

Up to you.

We use responsive design for non-AMP, and AMP for AMP-compatible mobile.

Nothing is best, just choices on what works for you. Coke or Pepsi. I opt for A&W root beer, myself.

( I don’t work here; just some feedback. )

Also note, many plugins that use ‘wp-cron’ can also be setup to use server side cron jobs, the ‘old school’ way. Check with plugin author on that as well.

We opted for AMP here, then did massive optimization of desktop version for responsive purposes (we use native fonts, remove unused code like bbpress or woocommerce, minify js and css, inline critical css above the fold, etc.).

Time consuming work, but just one of many options. 🙂

example function to add featured image
//Function to add featured image in RSS feeds
function featured_image_in_rss($content)
{
// Global $post variable
global $post;
// Check if the post has a featured image
if (has_post_thumbnail($post->ID))
{
$content = get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, 'full', array('style' => 'margin-bottom:10px;')) . $content;
}
return $content;
}
//Add the filter for RSS feeds Excerpt
add_filter('the_excerpt_rss', 'featured_image_in_rss');
//Add the filter for RSS feed content
add_filter('the_content_feed', 'featured_image_in_rss');

Install the theme zip, not the ‘all files’ zip.
See the install docs from the links here in the forum 🙂

AdRotate works great with the theme.

Speed Booster is *optional*.

See the theme docs for that plugin on how to add additional plugins to work with SpeedBooster.

However — note you can also try “scripts to footer” plugin instead, which is what I do.

Also, if your host plans to move to php 7 + https + http/2 – you won’t need to worry about that anymore as script location will be a non issue.

Known issue with WordPress; you can add a function to include featured image as an enclosure; and you can also make a custom RSS feed and setup however you wish. Problem with using a featured image template where image lives “outside the post meta box” is that it will then, of course, not be included inside the post meta in RSS.

What we do on our sites is create custom RSS feed template which adds the “large thumb” at top of the cdata for the post info, and function to make it an enclosure.

Simplest thing is to actually use featured image in the post meta vs featured image outside of post box; but not as sexy on website.

Or, you need to make a custom RSS feed template per the basic docs here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_Feeds

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-custom-rss-feeds-in-wordpress/

Hope that helped. I don’t work here, just long time WP user and TagDiv customer 🙂

Did you try the manual activation method if the envato api is down?

Changelog found in the all files download for each theme version on themeforest.

I got into habit of doing it this way years ago (have been using WP for 12 years, 13?) … and I do a full FTP site backup prior to any updates/upgrades. Of course I have custom stuff in the functions file, and hacks to remove the Google Fonts and use native fonts, so I kinda have no choice there. But by doing a full backup via FTP, then upload new stuff, it ensures clean upgrade, and a way to ‘roll back’ if something wonky.

Your mileage may vary, as the saying goes, but that’s what I do out of paranoia. 🙂

Well, on the documentation page for theme, “how to update…” note the first section:

Before you update, it is best practice to:

Always check our update notes

Always backup the files and the database, in case something goes wrong with the server you could use the backup to revert to the previous state. For more information on how to backup check the official documentation.

Do not keep older copies of the theme inside wordpress themes folder

Reset the cache after you update

Update the plugins. The theme required and recommended plugins are included in the theme package inside the ../Newspaper-tf/plugins folder.

Generally you delete the old folder, and upload new one; not merge them via FTP. Then you’d likely need to clear cache in web browser, and possibly clear transients in WP using something like WP-Optimize plugin.

You may have to manually install plugins from the /zip > allfiles/plugins

Works for me.

Shortcodes won’t stop working when Gutenberg rolls out; as millions of sites would break that use shortcodes for ad modules, date hooks, site builders, etc. Shortcodes won’t work in Gutebberg blocks except perhaps “shortcode block” which is where the worry seems to be coming from for a lot of folks. Meaning, if you built a post block in Gutenberg, a shortcode might not work “inside” that block to avoid potential loops.

Do you have proper open graph tags setup for your posts?

Remember you need to actually make the Pinterest board first; theme can’t make the Pinterest board for you.

Note, this board throws an error, so it obviously will not work ….

https://www.pinterest.com/naturalhairblog/natural-hair-care-and-hairstyles-group/

Whoops! We couldn’t find that page.
How about these instead?

It doesn’t work with some caching and/or CDN due to the timeout on the load times. Not theme specific, so in your case sounds like you should leave it ‘off’ … common issue, even with sites like LA Times, CBS.com etc. — we leave it off on all our sites, as we got it to be ‘okay’ on desktop, then not so much on iPad. So, unless you love the animated effect, I’d recommend leaving it off.

Originally it was not a true lazy load, but rather an image ‘effect’ (see theme docs); this may have changed.

( I don’t work here. )