Theme doesn’t control permalinks or slugs.

Good to google the way to remove /category/ in front of your slugs, and also check your permalink settings in the WP admin panel.

( I don’t work here. )

It seems to be more of a WP thing than hosting thing.

If you see utf-8 in your wp-config.php file, then that’s a-okay.

If you look at the ‘page source’ for one of your posts, you can usually see exactly what is there. So, if your post is properly encoded — meaning a headline/title has an HTML entity for any high-ascii characters, then you’re fine — issue is on the side of whomever is pulling that into their system, and not much you can do about it.

Ran into this with our RSS feed recently, pulling into Java widget where the headlines were not javascript-compliant, but fine for modern HTML … we had to make custom RSS feed with the titles ‘javascript friendly encoded’ to fix that.

Nightmare! 🙂

Useful to share:
a) version of WordPress
b) theme version
c) php version
d) memory allocated to WP in wp-config.php and in hosting panel
e) using CDN ? Reset/turn ‘tuning’ settings off like minification?
f) using cache plugin? Cleared/disabled?
g) using an optimization plugin? disabled?
h) did you turn on debug feature in WordPress?
i) what errors from your hosting panel error log?

More information helps folks help you ! 🙂

ref:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress

http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/beginners-guide-to-troubleshooting-wordpress-errors-step-by-step/

Basically it means a character is not ‘encoded properly’ someplace. This can happen in RSS feeds, or some elements not properly ‘escaped’ or can even be from using something like Yoast SEO and not actually auditing the meta data printed in your post source.

Also be aware Google is in midst of major overhaul moving everything to ‘mobile first’ — we’ve been seeing weird stuff like rectangle images not cropped and shown as distorted squares in Google news, where one “view” on desktop still shows desktop layout, but now using the mobile rectangle image, then another search shows the mobile first layout with rectangle image and simpler page layout ….

soooo….. if it just started it might have nothing to do with you.

The issue is more common if you’re importing content from other sources into your site, and the encoded content isn’t re-encoded to UTF-8/HTML and you get stuff like a ™ in text that should be & trade; or & #153;.

I’m noticing right now in latest versions of WordPress a funky thing when I paste in stories from MS Word, that the curly quotes, long dashes, and trademarks are not converting to HTML entities when viewed on the text/code view of post editor.

Anyway — check your problem posts to see if you perhaps have “long dashes” in your titles vs hyphens — switch to using a single ” – ” vs using a — long dash or other element.

Not sure that helped … but some two cents.

Couple suggestions
a) make sure running php 5.6 and up with opcache on

b) limit number of queries per page; meaning don’t “turn everything on…” — you might want to only have a max of two ‘modules’ on sidebar, turn off the related posts widget and use simpler plugin, do NOT use the mega menu with images/posts, don’t use ‘7 days most popular’ option, don’t use the fly out related ‘you might like…’

Every one of those blocks is a dbase set of queries, so if you have 50 queries per page, cutting that down to 20 speeds everything up.

Also, if you’re getting ‘pounded’ with local search, you might consider installing the Google search option for site search instead to not use your own dbase for content searches — some spiders/bots can whack your processes by searching your entire site links for content vs looking at sitemap only.

You can also optimize your wp-config.php file by putting in direct explicit URLs for your site, and plugins folder, content folder, so that system doesn’t need to ‘look those up’ for every path.

It all adds up!

Using the adrotate shortcode in a post or page using shortcode where you want ad to appear. Covered in adrotate docs.

Delete old theme folder.
Upload new theme via FTP.

You can’t over write existing folder with new theme folder; it’s an entirely new theme.

Are you using an SMTP plugin with WP ? I found we needed that for any php forms and for WooCommerce to actually send email properly.

Versions of WordPress prior to 4.7.5 are insecure and ideally should *not* be used. Also a number of things have changed with 4.8, and so most modern themes/plugins are optimized for both

* php 5.6 or higher (5.2/5.3 not recommended; 5.4 end of life)
* WordPress 4.7.5 and higher (secure version)

No current themes/plugins may fully work with old versions of WP, due to all the security fixed done to WP and to themes/plugins over the past 18 months.

That is actually a built in ’embed’ function of WordPress, not the theme.

You might be able to control that with Yoast SEO social media settings. Or Google a solution.

We actually removed the embed function from our sites.

Which theme version, specifically?

And, did you uninstall any old versions of the theme you might have used in past from TagDiv?

Also which version of WordPress?

All saved in the mysql dbase with the rest of the website data.

Switch to one of the other footer templates, and then you can put your own elements into them. The ‘default’ versions are there for folks who DON’T want to change them. SO, pick one of the other footer templates and you can change them to whatever you want 🙂

Yes 🙂

I usually make a ‘widgetized sidebar’ and then put widgets into the custom sidebar like ‘homesider’ or whatever.

You can use a shortcode in a raw HTML box, or what I do is make a ‘widget sidebar’ and then specify a custom sidebar like ‘homesider’ where I drop widgets for that box.

Not sure if that helps or not 🙂

Often due to a mis-match in your http vs https settings, is most common reason for that error I’ve found.

See the docs > tutorials > DIY and best of forums

for some tips and suggestions ! :_)

Yes. older versions of theme may have security flaw as already noted.

Versions prior to 6.7.2 may not be secure:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-good-basic-security-practices/

Normal WP practice.
When you update themes and plugins, you *delete* old versions and upload new ones, not mix them together.

Well, we have been using it every day on 20 websites for the past 3 years. So it’s being used on the CANW website “right now.”

It works. Since it’s a simple function, there hasn’t been anything that has changed in WP that would cause it to break. It basically fixes something that should be built into WP to begin with, frankly.

But also does neat stuff like create default thumbs for old posts which don’t have featured images assigned, etc.

So … up to you 🙂
Works for us every day, flawlessly.

That’s how all those thumbs are seen on the ‘national’ category on the CANW link. It’s making those from the images in the syndicated posts, which are hosted on Send2Press.com. Snazzy!

usually you can set defaults for ‘all feeds’ first, then add a feed (it will try to ‘discover’ feeds when you put in a URL, but best to just paste in the ‘actual’ feed you want to preview). Note, settings will be down left side for plugin, and can also be found in the menu once there when selecting the plugin – so kinda easy to get lost, but upshot two ways to get to things.

Trick is
a) defaults can be set for all feeds,
b) but then EACH feed can have special settings, like auto create tags, or not; auto assign to specific category only (e.g., “Florida News” … or “National News” if you wanted to pull ALL our news as one example into a “national” category…)
c) you can set all posts to be assigned to a special ‘author’ such as “National News Desk” or similar (obviously need to have that author setup); or some syndication partners just use “Send2Press Newswire” as the author. One site made up an author, using a chracter from Harry Potter, but I don’t usually recommend that, as it looks goofy to me.
d) you can have it set to automatically grab stories (I usually set for 600 minutes, or 300 minutes if you want to); or you can even have it done manually, where once a day you just hit the ‘syndicate’ button.

Here is an example of CaliforniaNewswire® pulling all the Send2Press® Newswire content into a “national” category along with thumbs using the auto post thumbnail pro plugin, which creates featured image from first image in each post:
https://californianewswire.com/CA/national_news_desk/

(( do *not* pull any content from CANW; as it’s copyrighted; however “Send2Press” is a newswire intended for syndication .. so you can ‘pick’ feeds to use here:
https://www.send2press.com/wire/rss-feeds-by-topic/
))

And *Radu* said it was okay for me to mention this offering on the forum here, so I’m *not* being Spammy! 🙂

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Likely good to read the docs on how to use the FeedWordPress plugin first.

Hi
it’s always an adventure. I’ve been trying to get a menu to stick to top on iPad in portrait mode with a custom boostrap 3 based theme I’m building for a week now and about to give up on THAT for a bit!

FeedWordPress
https://wordpress.org/plugins/feedwordpress/

Auto Post Thumbnail PRO
https://codecanyon.net/item/auto-post-thumbnail-pro/4322624?ref=neotrope

You can do anything with CSS and @media queries, you just have to figure out the right elements to target or write your own CSS.