No, it’s still your index page … your home page is not a “page” like changing from

/pricelist/
to
/pricing-chart/
might be two different pages

an index page is an index page for your home page; it does not actually ‘exist’

so making a new page isn’t a new page, it is just new layout ….

see the WordPress codex (docs) on how WP works for more info 🙂

Major updates are like new themes as the code can be completely different.

Just like Windows 10 is different from Windows 7.

3.1 to 3.2 is update; 3x to 4x is an upgrade to new version. Same with themes. 🙂

Caitlan’s example with screen shot is what I meant by
…I’d suggest turning them all off, and then when you have the default thumbs, then only turn on those sizes.

Changing themes ‘deactivates’ widgets in sidebars; this is part of WordPress and nothing to do with the theme. If you look at your appearance > widgets, they may still be there, but in a deactivated section; so yes, you need to re-drag items to your sidebar.

In future when changing themes, I think there is a plugin out there which ‘saves widgets in place’ for changing themes, but WP does this due to different themes having different widgets, classes, styles, queries for custom widgets not part of WP core — and site might crash if you’re trying to load a whole bunch of widgets that call php scripts and functions that don’t exist in new theme vs old one.

Welcome to WordPress – it’s an adventure! 🙂

Creating a new layout on your home page with same type of blocks does not harm your Google ranking, as with the same content related to topic you cover, there is no difference in what Google “sees” in relation to what your audience happens to be. You can read up on Google’s many documents and forums on that issue.

An alternate to using SpeedBooster, might be using the ‘scripts to footer’ plugin, which would only move scripts to footer, but not the main CSS. That way the timing is more ‘together’ for base settings and over-rides in the head.

On “sloooooow” connections, you might see the flash of font changes, but if you look at page source and the style css is loading in the head and then the over-rides, that’s about the best you can do.

If you have a modern web host, you *can* look into using https + http/2 — http/2 is the next generation way of serving pages where the entire page is packaged as *one* highly compressed element and served to browser, and not piecemeal.

Chris

Set the proper date/time in your WordPress main admin panel under settings.
Check web server is setup to correct time (e.g., EDT).

So, for example if you have your website set to PDT and server time is EDT, then anything posted at 12pm might show 9am PDT vs “actual time” of 12pm.

Theme doesn’t control this; it’s all managed from basic WP settings, and server/php setup.

I don’t work here; but have been using WP for 12 years, so might be useful to look into. 🙂

https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-composer-tutorial/

Yeah, but you cant use both plugins same time.

See the docs … but I believe it’s just ‘pages’ — such as building a home page, or content pages such as “services and features’ — since ‘most’ publishers use normal WP post features or ACF custom fields to not be ‘tied’ to any one plugin/theme. But your mileage may vary. Probably a ‘conversion’ process to use TDC for posts, but dunno.

Keep using VC if you like it. Switch to TDC if you want to optimize site, faster response, lower overhead, better security.

(I don’t work here.)

disable breadcrumbs from theme panel — see the theme docs on how to use various options.

Need to change the styles in your style.css and then put the CSS to load fonts from typekit or Google fonts AT TOP of your style sheet, and not load separate style sheet from another site; the ‘delay’ causes FOUT since it would otherwise hold up page load — if loaded via async in the queue.

Or, put the CSS for the fonts INLINE in your header.php …

all basic webdev stuff worth learning/trying 🙂

so, you’ve debugged by disabling all your plugins to see if those files are still there after doing so? To determine how they are being created?

cleared all transients with wp-optimize ? resaved permalinks ?

Anyway — can’t help any more than that. Good luck!

Not related to theme, but your uploads folder and possibly a caching plugin or something adding alpha queries onto ends of file names — theme doesn’t do that AFAIK. I don’t work here, sorry.

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I’ve never seen a WordPress theme with ‘built-in’ PDF -> flipboard/flipbook style features. WordPress has no such support built-in. This can only be done with third party plugin as you need a whole bunch of code to build thumbs from the PDF, then ajax to ‘flip pages’ (aka a flipboard).

Google is your friend 😉

Examples? Use the link I provided — that was what it was there for ?

(I don’t work here.)

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Well, look at the modules you actually use, look at the image sizes, then only enable those. if you were doing new site, I’d suggest turning them all off, and then when you have the default thumbs, then only turn on those sizes.

So, for our site we try to only use ONE size on sidebars, for example, and on home page we try to only use 4 sizes, one of those being same as the sidebar size.

Themes and plugins are two different things.

Woocommerce update broke several of our plugins including one from woo funnily enough, and they did major patch fix. Make sure you have the newest update to Woo with fixes. Might not be your issue but messed us up.

examples
https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/flipbook/

Probably want to use a ‘directory listing’ plugin or perhaps a version of bbpress does that, dunno. Useful to check the WordPress.org plugin repository (repo) to see what existing “business directory’ plugins might be there.

(( I don’t work here; just wasting time waiting for my site backups to run… ))

Might have been the PHP cache or another caching thing in WordPress.

One of my other secret tricks is to clear transients by
a) use WP-Optimize plugin
b) resave permalinks

this both will clear stuck ‘transients’ which are micro-caching done by WordPress (like, oh, say you make change to your RSS, but the RSS not updating when you look at it- this is why).

But for us – seriously, going to PHP 5.6 from 5.4 solved a million little dumb weird things!

As it says, disable the image sizes you’re not using from the theme panel.

Also, consider using the built-in compression features of your web server, so that when WP adds items to the media system you have higher compression level than default; and perhaps optimize images in Photoshop prior to upload.

Not sure that helped, but it’s what we do here.

Probably need to find some kind of plugin for that, or use one of the Adobe tools to export to a flip-board type element; then load on your site, then place link to the file in your post/page.

Neither WP or the theme have anything like that built-in.

FYI, what we did for a two column layout was simply use a full width block, then use normal CSS for two columns (we actually used a table 100% width, with two custom columns with a td width = 50% class). In our case we didn’t need to put modules or blocks in there (or widgets), but did use a shortcode in one, and normal plain HTML in the other.

However, yes, having a two column “row” for pure HTML would be helpful.