I think this is the one I tested out couple of years back, then went to the paid one…

try –
https://jonassebastianohlsson.com/criticalpathcssgenerator/

and then the step up, which I use
https://criticalcss.com/

Totally worth the couple bucks … !

(I used the above for past couple of years; but on my new project for 2018 just discovered the whole thing with http/2 not needing to do it; ironically, now I’m ‘undoing’ the critical CSS thing for our new 2018 corporate site … *doh* )

• This reply was modified 8 years by simchris.

Built in WP search not that great; better off removing the theme search which uses WP, then add a ‘better search’ plugin which provides more relevance and options.

This is a decade old issue with WP and will be an issue with any theme, as the theme is not managing the search, WP core is doing that.

So, as stated – to upgrade the ‘functionality’ to provide more accurate searches, you will need to add another solution to modify how WP does its searches.

Often when learning how WordPress works, you can find wealth of tutorials as most topics related to “normal shenanigans with WordPress” are well documented.

E.g.,
https://wordpress.org/plugins/relevanssi/

http://www.wpbeginner.com/showcase/12-wordpress-search-plugins-to-improve-your-site-search/

Welcome to WordPress!

Probably a good first step is learn to use F12/console view in Chrome. You have a whole wall of server errors, and whatnot for your home page which is likely a contributing factor. Try it and see all the stuff YOU need to fix to get your site working properly.

If you look at my long winded tutorial thread in the docs > tutorials > DIY best of forums; I cover ideas for capturing critical CSS using an online tool for this, then placing that critical CSS in header.php and moving main style sheet to footer.

However, this method will no longer be necessary if your host is moving to php7 + https + http/2 which supercedes this method.

The longish answer is to use the built in WP function to echo the usermeta for twitter handle “if it exists,” and put that in the section of template block which has the byline under photo.

So, if you can find that function block in the templates, you can google how to echo the usermeta (the twitter handle you enter on the user setup page for each user), with conditional to only load *if* it exists.

Because they don’t provide ‘hacking’ per their support information.

If you want to ‘hack’ the theme with customizatons, there is a decade of tutorials online for learning how to edit WP templates; which is how I learned to do this stuff. No book on how to do this. Luckily one person figures something out, then shares, and then often posts a blog about it — and usually I find something and shazam.

Learning very basic CSS is also critical with this stuff.

And, realizing that for some things there is no “perfect” theme — it always needs something modified, and the trick is keeping track of that with ‘work folders’ on your PC, where you have your raw version, edits, and a log file of WHAT you changed, so that with the next update you can copy over the change.

I learned this lesson with pesky WooCommerce, too. Some stuff can *only* be fixed with functions, some stuff you have to hack the template, etc. Annoying .. but still better than building something entirely from scratch.

Anyway — hope that helped with the ‘hack’ I’ve used. “Trial and error” is the way to learn this stuff.

Sometimes I’ll open template and put something like ‘TEST NOTE’ there, just to see WHERE on the page it actually shows up! 🙂

Could be an ios 11 bug ! 🙂
I have never, ever, seen that before.

You can try adding that to your header.php, after body area starts, and then see what happens; then adjust … trial and error; that’s how rest of us do it — hope that helps! 🙂

Well, keep in mind ‘hacking’ the theme or any theme will need to be redone each time you update theme; same if you add custom functions to your functions.php — advanced users create their own plugin and put all their functions in there to survive theme updates — you can google that.

Anyway, here is something I did for one site to add top of page banner above menus … this is for only printing ads on posts and not on pages or indexes (indexes have a simple sidebar ad top of sidebar instead).

Anyway…. not sure this will print on this forum due to the php query, but here goes … I made a custom css class to control padding, background color and bottom border and align center:

<?php if ( is_single() ) {?>
<div class="neotopper"><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
<ins class="adsbygoogle"
style="display:block"
data-ad-client="MMMMMMMMMMMM"
data-ad-slot="NNNNNNNN"
data-ad-format="auto"></ins>
<script>
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
</script></div>
<?php } ?>

Chrome has built in ad blocking being tested, depending on your settings and version and locale.

Check your Chrome version and settings, as most likely cause. Try clearing history/cache in Chrome, and make sure you have latest update.

Sorry …. I was being flippant there. Obviously everybody “requesting” a new feature is a good thing. My upset is people complaining there isn’t a feature, and not liking the answer when told “we’ll consider it for the future…” — company isn’t obligated to add new features to the product. That’s like complaining your car doesn’t have back up camera when you bought it, but then asking why they won’t show them how to install one.

So apologies for offering my thoughts on the topic.

Peace out everybody!

( obviously if you’ve been using the theme since day one as I have, then it seems like you’d be able to hire somebody to add the missing feature you want so bad … but … to each their own … )

* I don’t work here; just professional lurker ! *

“Give me a break” 🙂

So, you did not do a search of your theme panel ad boxes, and other boxes?

So, you did not do search/replace in your dbase for infection?

You need to to those FIRST to fix an infected site. Without that, infection is still there as it’s in dbase NOT the files themselves!

You could likely try the redirection plugin to redirect

Site.ooo/blue
To
Site.ooo/colors/blue

I think in many cases wp may try to redirect there anyway as long as no post starting with
Site.ooo/blue-post-name

Not sure if that helps or not.

See
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-good-basic-security-practices/

Yes, if you dont update wordpress or plugins or themes when security patches ate released, you may get hacked.

See my [tutorial] post on learning to secure your site and also fix your hacked site.

Good time to implement security policy for using wordpress!

Theme doesnt control slugs or urls. You likely need to look at a plugin or write custom function to adjust your permalinks.

As with many folks in past, you might try disabling VC, uninstalling/delete, and re-installing VC — the version you’re using now, in case it got corrupted from other plugins or server, etc. — seems a lot of folks have to do this from time to time.

Just a suggestion … make proper backups of course.

Things might break with new version of WordPress, other plugins with bugs (e.g., Yoast had several updates this month — 3 I think), etc.

Anything that “suddenly stopped working” is not due to theme.

Theme cannot “upgrade” you without your permission — you would have to do that, so not sure why you thought you were being forced to do anything at all.

Visual Composer won’t update unless you upload the new version included with theme download; it can’t be updated via WP admin panel unless you buy your own copy of it.

So — if you are ‘suddenly’ having problems, might be worth doing normal debug practice — try checking error logs, disable plugins to see what might be causing it, check page for errors with F12, check for any external elements not loading and breaking things, etc.

Anyway — I don’t work here; just some more feedback. I’m out on this one!

Did you upgrade Visual Composer from the version included in the ‘all files’ download as per usual? You can’t upgrade VC via the WP panel, you need to delete old version via FTP and upload the new version to work with NP8.

So, you checked ALL your theme panel settings for errant items inserted into boxes?

You checked your database with either a dbase plugin or via phpMyAdmin in your hosting panel?

Delete all old themes and plugins not being used?

Checked your website via FTP for any errant plugins or files?

Checked your htaccess file for any weird redirects?

You changed all your passwords for hosting, site, superuser?

Made backup via phpMyAdmin of your MySQL dbase for safe keeping?

Only you can fix your site. Or hire somebody.

Good luck!
(I don’t work here.)

Why not simply EDIT the header.php file to insert a div and then your Adsense code, or your AdRotate code, or your static banners? That’s what I did. 5 minutes and done. Common WordPress practice, and simplest solution if you’re lost with other solutions!

( my opinion only; I do NOT work here … )

I always have to remember WHERE that is also 😉

You need to do all the steps in my security post, as even re-installing your theme and WP might not remove items in your ad boxes in theme panel, or in dbase. Those will still be there, so you need to do *all* the items from my post, or similar ones to ‘clean’ your site.

The theme itself has no malware. Your site itself has malware due to a bug in either older version of theme and/or insecure versions of WordPress core. So, when theme and WP not updated for security fix this allows your site, and possibly database to be hacked with malware.

Items in your database are not part of the theme files you download from ThemeForest.

Did you disable from the theme panel > post settings also in addition to the WordPress admin panel?