It’s a simple hit counter.

You can test by simply hitting f5 refresh on page, and watch if the custom field per post increments or not.

Also note ‘bot’ traffic less likely to be counted.

Checking your actual server stats package – if you’ve installed one – (e.g., webalizer) etc., also useful to see “actual traffic” for your site.

Any ‘hit counter’ on page simply increments each time page is loaded and should only be considered a reference point, and not technically 100% correct.

Are you putting your news into actual categories — have you removed the categories from demo you’re not using? There need to be actual posts, and you might need to setup your permalinks properly

Obviously a ‘category’ and post like this wont work right
http://www.whatisnewtoday.com/uncategorized/%C2%BDpostname%C2%BD/

Did you manually upload the plugins from the all files plugin folder also ?

It does not.
However, WordPress has ‘mini caching’ (transients).

If clearing your cache plugin not fully working, try
a) clear transients with wp-optimize
b) resave permalinks
c) in Chrome, use the force refresh/reload option

It’s an issue with Facebook timing out. Theme has zero control over FB.

FB uses the open graph meta found in the head of you page, and then EVERYTHING is up to FB to capture from that. Theme has NO control over that in any way.

You can try using the FB debugger tool, and you can also try using the ‘refresh attachment’ option once you share the post on your FB timeline.

Not much else you can do — they have 2 billion users now; so sometimes they can’t capture your content due to timeout issues on your system, pipes between locations, DNS issues, etc.

Welcome to the interwebs! 🙂

FTP best way to install if your CURL is not setup properly

Um, not true. Many people ‘login’ to a site to comment, or to use WooCommerce, or to add/edit posts, or other reasons. Some people won’t use social logins as this shares your activity with the social site and tracks you as the trade off.

There are plenty of social login plugins you can use to add a simple login element to the theme or any theme.

I personally don’t want one – but everybody is different.

Most ‘newspapers’ don’t have logins for people visiting the site. Hence the theme name.

Car drives just right for me 😉

( I don’t work here, just using the theme for 4 years. )

On a slow connection you will get ‘flash’ of layout, as your background likely being scaled (not big enough), or is a tile so has to draw that before the overlay of the content.

Try
a) disable lazy load animation effect
b) try solid color background in place of backing image
c) for backing image, try enlarging the jpeg manually to ‘giant size’ image, but with high compression (e.g., quality of 10 with blur of .03 in Photoshop)

I have 100mbt connection and that is the only effect being seen here in Win10/Chrome, and why what you’re seeing is not browser specific — but “content specific.”

It’s a version of “flash of unstyled text….” (FOUT).

You can also minimize such effects by taking any custom CSS from the custom code box, and also placing at bottom of your style.css file.

Did you regenerate your thumbnails to make the proper size images? I think you have to do that, per the docs … but double check that.

For those on Apache, all browsers also support the x-frame header option.

You can add this to your htaccess file

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header always append X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN
</IfModule>

FYI:
my prior rant on topic with references to both Matt Cutts answer before he left Google, and the Google Webmaster Tools (OFFICIAL) forum where it has been WIDELY discussed, and officially stated with HTML5 not an issue if page otherwise properly designed:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/h1-in-logo/

If it causes you issues, that may be unique to your content and nothing to do with how Google now works.

• This reply was modified 8 years by simchris.

Actually, I’ve been doing SEO since 1995, and ran a leading company in that space from Jan. 1996 to Jan. 2005, and have 10 million impressions per month. But whatever… not wrong.

If you look at Google’s own information on their algo – you can have more than one h1 on the page with proper modern markup … the header section is separate from the article section, and the h1 for the site name on the logo is totally acceptable in the DOM for that.

Their algo looks at h1 for ‘content’ in the article area to match page content, and *that* h1 should match the meta tag for page title and be semantic to the content within the article area – the de-facto page content.

HTML5 specifically is engineered to support more than one H1 tag to identify the ‘header’ element per ‘section’ — h = header, not seo.

If your site is, for some reason on old HTML, xHTML, etc., then yes only *one* h1 tag per page is correct. Under HTML5, more than one h1 tag used within ‘sections’ is correct.

Again, anybody telling you otherwise doesn’t know what they are talking about and has not lived on Google’s dev site, or the HTML/W3C dev community as I do.

So, if your site is “Giant Killer Puppies” and you do a page about “Best Food for Brown Puppies” then you can have h1 tag on your logo with site name in the ‘header’ section, and this is *separate* than the h1 tag for “Best Food for Brown Pups” which would *also* be used for referential links within site, inbound and social links, meta tags, and possibly alt tag for the hero photo on page.

Duh.

If that doesn’t work for your site, you have some DOM / markup errors.

We use this methodology on 25+ sites with top ranking for all content, millions of page views, and we’ve been building sites for 23 years, doing marketing since 1981, and doing SEO longer than most folks on here had a web connection.

Share and enjoy!

Read up on HTML5, Google’s own help site, webmaster tools info (search console), PageSpeed Insights, etc.

Welcome to the ‘semantic’ web — using header tags in proper way, with good content helps SEO, doesn’t hurt it, and there is *no* penalty with Google for using h1 tags correctly in modern markup — where appropriate and not intended to ‘black hat’ the usage.

I won't be on this site anymore starting Sept. 1, so winding down my help here *forever* -- so take of it what you will.

• This reply was modified 8 years by simchris.

You can add that yourself by editing the social includes file. Or simply disable the option in theme panel and use any of a dozen social buttons for what your specific audience uses.

With hundreds of social sites and some only regional, some having financial woes, some waxing, some waning, difficult for a ‘theme’ to stay on top of that. The various social plugins do better job.

Or like many of us, just roll your own and include via functions.php — build your own, and it’s yours! Many tutorials online for this.

Food for thought, anyway.

• This reply was modified 8 years by simchris.

Yikes!

the famous 300dpi image used for the web trick 🙂

I had client do that with their email signature, I kept trying to figure out why there was like a 2 sec delay opening her messages on my 100/mbt connection to my dedicated mail server. Turns out she had a 4MB image in her signature vs a 14kb image. (doh)

Lucky you sorted it!

Howdy … I have no idea which site is on my profile here, sadly, so might have to peek at that 😉 I actually have a main business site which hasn’t been updated in years, as I’m building my own WP theme from scratch for first time since 2011 for various reasons, from Bootstrap 3.x. But I manage a news network which uses TagDiv themes, and our main news ‘parent’ online since 2000 is mix of static shtml with 100/100 pagespeed score, and then news platform running on WP, but with a semi-custom theme not running TD, due to fact we started that prior to TD being in business and way too much hacking to switch.

As general rule for hacks:
a) yes, if you update theme, they get over-written as common sense — if you edit functions.php and then update theme, it uploads new file, so old one is gone. So, common method is to keep track of changed files, and edits by line number, then re-apply to new theme, then upload new theme with the same hacks applied (FTP, and I use TextPad on Win10, or BBEdit on Mac).

b) what I’ve started to do, with this new theme from scratch project, is move all mods to a plugin. This allows me to keep hacks, security mods, speed mods, inserts, RSS hacks, etc. in “one place.” — This is useful for stuff you don’t want to change every time with TD or other themes, but can’t always address stuff you actually do hack. — For instance, I take out the login code from TD theme headers. Have to do that every time. I also remove the xmlrpc, pingback or any of that stuff. == but again, with WP, you can often create your own plugin with a function to ‘enqueue’ something to the WP header, and this gets inserted to WP header, same way the theme panel does, but if you put it in your own plugin (which is insanely easy to do), then it survives theme update.

Not sure that helps — but food for thought. Thanks for kind words.

Also, I stopped posting links to my sites here as they end up getting barrage of hack attempts due to popularity of TD themes and a few bad actors lurking here.

As to JSON, I’m just learning how to build that from scratch myself, for this new ‘in house’ theme project — so, guess what I’m doing this coming Saturday! 🙂

Note – to disable the oembed function, however, you’d need to disable the embed code added to header by WordPress.

(the o-embed allows people with WordPress sites to put your page URL into their post and it drops in a Twitter like excerpt of your story …) — we disable this too.

We use a simple javascript on our site added to Footer; however I’ve noticed that Pinterest seemed to find a way around that now.

Seems to foil the dread Twitter spam people though.

There is a common bit of javascript which has been used for years, and probably the same one Simion linked to.

Try clearing your cache in both iOS apps, as you might have some funky thing on your device causing that.

Does the demo on ThemeForest for the theme do the same thing?

If you did the Securi site scan and you’re okay, then could be something else.

Is your site running https? Chrome will start kicking up a ‘warning’ for anything not https very soon. Right now warning, pretty soon it will say ‘possibly not safe’ …

Did you check your ‘widgets’ for anything weird going on there?

I have a long winded explanation about this for those who don’t understand how HTML5, the DOM works, or semantic markup. You can search for it if you want.

An H1 tag on logo inside the header element simply indicates it’s the most important element within the header area, vs the article area or footer area. And falls back for text logo vs image logo.

It helps in identifying most important branding, link, site specific element within the header, vs menu links, and other elements such as logins, dates, search, super menus, etc.

It does *not* hurt to have it in the header area in modern markup.

Anybody who tells you it’s a problem simply doesn’t understand how modern ‘mark up’ works.

So, peeps can like chill out! 😉

Simply use a plugin, and follow instructions for the plugin you choose to use. Often folks use a simple ‘subscribe’ widget on sidebar.

For integration with WooCommerce, more complex and you’d need to work with the plugin author providing plugin for WC.

Did you look at the actual page source to see what is on the page?

Could be a class, could be jump link ID, could be something else ‘on page’ which then shows up in a non-quoted search.

WordPress has a terrible search engine, so comparing WP to any site *not* using built-in WP search really has no point for any conversation.

Not sure that helped 😉

( I don’t work here; but resident smarty pants )

• This reply was modified 8 years by simchris.

No, the title for a ‘page’ built to be used as custom home page is just a framework, it’s not an actual page (it has no slug, for example — it’s not ‘home’).

So, if I make a custom home page, called ‘homepager’ to use as static front page, I use Yoast to put in my custom info, custom image for sharing home page to social, title for meta and description.

On the actual page layout, I add a plain HTML text box, with my H1 text in there, using a class like
.h1homepager{font-size:21px;line-height:26px;font-weight:bold}

<h1 class="h1homepager">My website is about giant killer bunnies who hate swastikas. SwastiRabbitz are gonna get you if you don't watch out!</h1>

Try disabling
a) queries to FB/Twitter for ‘number of shares’
b) any javascript pop-ups

try disabling any plugins not included with theme

scan site with Securi site scanner for malware

Works for me with 7.0x — have not yet tried with 7.1x

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

note final section in particular!