I’m running TD Composer on all my sites with zero issues. But I only use for home page not for posts/pages.

In blocks and modules, images are cropped to fit the grid sizes, obviously… you cant fit square in rectangle. With featured image, the size inserted into a post template will fit the template size used, not the sizes you type into wordpress settings. If you insert images into posts or pages manually you can choose one of the preset sizes made by wordpress if different from size you actually uploaded. At least thats how it works on my sites.

• This reply was modified 9 years by simchris.

See the theme docs, link right side of page on how to install theme.

Make sure you use the ‘theme folder’ zip and not the ‘all files’ zip.

Useful to get in habit of unzip of folders on your local hard drive to see WHAT you are actually uploading to your site before actually uploading anything onto your web server.

Hope that helps! (We have all done this at least once 😉 ).

Good to learn to use console inspector in Chrome, and also ‘view source’ option on your post page(s).

a) in Chrome, F12 allows you to see the content, and identify anything not loading https
b) in Chrome ‘view source’ allows you to *see* your HTML and ‘search’ for elements like any instance of ‘http’ to track down WHAT is not loading via https.

Often it’s an external plugin, or other issue. But tracking down WHAT it is specifically helps to determine what needs fixing. Often something super simple.

All my Newsmag sites run https with no issues, but I do know a couple of the early ‘demo’ setups had some background image or something that wasn’t https in the code.

Couple of tips:
a) make sure your site is explicitly entered in your wp-config.php file as https (see the wordpress.org codex docs on editing your wp-config.php file — also very good to know if running a WP site of any kind)

b) if you recently changed your site from http to https, you need to do search/replace via phpmyadmin to your mysql dbase after making backup, to search/replace all instances of http://yoursite to https://yoursite

c) consider adding an element to your htaccess file in your public root (depending on whether you have one there or not), which does a force redirect for any http request to https (often this can be setup on modern web servers, but GoDaddy probably not).

Note last example here:
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/236734/wordpress-redirect-all-http-requests-to-https-via-htaccess

(( I don’t work here; just post for gingerbread cookie tips ))

• This reply was modified 9 years by simchris.

You might fully disable and clear *all* caching which needs to be done with any major theme change/update — 8x is totally new, so if you end up loading old CSS via cache on server and/or browser, stuff will not work right.

Also worth
a) resave permalinks
b) clear all transients with WP-Optimize
c) force clear all cache in browser (e.g., Chrome)

Hang in there !

(I don’t work here.)

If you update via FTP, you don’t need to redo license over and over except perhaps for a big jump from something like v6 to v8

Well, to be fair, I’ve been using TD themes for 4 years and never had those issues. On the other hand, I bought 3 boxes of coffee from Amazon, got 72 K-Cups, another person said he only got 36. So….. the universe doesn’t always play nice 😉

Hang in there!! Also good to do backups of settings if you’re losing them when reinstalling theme.

You might try sending Envato message via FB if they are not replying to support emails via ThemeForest website. Or, request refund … then go get the alternate version of theme from TagDiv “WP ION” .. which we also use here 🙂 Simpler to use, and not sold through ThemeForest. !

( again, I don’t work here .. just lurking while waiting for my damn server to update … )

Weird — their status page shows stuff is ‘up’
http://status.envato.com/

Did you try the manual activation method ?

if you just bought it, don’t you have a grace period to use and test without being “forced” to activate theme?

I forget, sorry. Don’t work here. But ThemeForest/Envato usually fix their bugaboos within a few hours. Not sure why you’d feel ‘ripped off’ when millions of items have been sold through Envato over past decade — nothing works 100% on web; not even Facebook. But, sorry for issues. Hang in there!

See the docs and try the manual activation method! 🙂

We have opposite experience here.

You’re not required to. But if you want new features, updates, and switch to much cleaner/simpler/faster page builder, it’s worth it. Just do full backups FIRST.

Been using TD Composer in place of VC since last August. Awesome sauce incorporated 😉

I think I just use empty text box for that on mine.

It’s not a 1:1 replacement; you will need to redo/adjust some stuff to what is supported in TD Composer — it doesn’t have all the same elements as VC, obviously.

Well, theme has no XSS on any of our sites … and we are PCI-DSS certified, own our own box, blah blah.

Usually with this kind of weirdo thing, it’s advisable to reinstall the theme and plugins, and possibly clean install of WordPress. Or, it’s a ‘false positive’ from the plugin used to scan, simply because it doesn’t know the theme is accessing the WP ajax framework to “load more” content as query. Duh.

( I don’t work here. )

I use the TagDiv Composer as replacement, as it will work with all the modules and whatnot to match theme. 🙂

Yes; in house builder (‘TagDiv Composer’) muuuuuuch lighter than VC, as it doesn’t try to be every damn idea ever invented on the web. In a perfect world VC would have a develop and deploy mode; meaning, design what you want, then export only what you need to keep lean CSS and not run the damn thing full tilt. It’s very very popular with the top themes on ThemeForest, but on certain servers (esp if using PHP 5.4!) it can be a beast.

PHP 5.6 helps with opcache.

But the TagDiv composer works great. I’m using it on several sites since August last year and works marvy!

Generally the reasoning behind doing this is on a slower hosting account, or for “sometimes” better mobile use. As in all things you need to TEST doing it both ways to see which provides better page load time.

For example, with https and http/2 on a modern 2017/18 next gen setup, running PHP 5.6 or PHP 7 with opcache on, might be better to load locally vs externally.

A lot of stuff I posted was primarily to “get stuff out of the header…” for better score couple of years back.

Which version of WORDPRESS are you using?

All versions prior to the latest one this month are insecure.

You can also disable the “show more via ajax” option in any module in the sidebar.

So, if you make a plain text box, and add to the default sidebar via appearance > widgets, that does not show up on your post, if the post template you’re using is set to use the default sidebar in WP ?

Sidebars work just fine on dozen of my sites running TagDiv Newsmag past 2 years. Theme is very professional, and works perfectly. Not all server setups are the same, and this can cause issues unrelated to the theme itself — or the great support provided. Hang in there!

FTP install is safest/best way to install VC.

Well, simple way to test … try it; if your site works, then it works.

It works fine on all my TagDiv sites running NewsMag, so not sure why it would not work for you. All it does is load the jquery script from Google CDN — same way Google fonts loaded — vs loading the local copy from your theme folder/WP install.

However, you *do* want to check to see if perhaps you need to update that to a later version, easily checked by seeing which version is being loaded now with WP/theme. e.g., 1.12.4 might need to be 2x or 3x (1.12.14 was last of v1). 1.12.4 was the standard as of WP 4.6.

No other voodoo involved 🙂

If you don’t have a specific reason to do this, then probably shouldn’t.

REF:
https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/

• This reply was modified 9 years by simchris.

Second version, mine, is used on dozen of my sites right now ?

Worked great for us over here for years with great support.

Take your time
a) check server settings
b) read the installation how-to
c) read the docs and help videos

It’s a learning experience; but TagDiv does great work and gives great support!

Don’t give up 🙂

( I don’t work here. )