I was able to fix my problem… all I had to do was: update my plugins.

I update to the latest Newspaper version. Now my header and footer section does not display properly, I get code instead. In the header section I get this:

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dyrectory.com business directory
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Thank you.
If you do decide to implement, I hope you’ll also include:
– the ability to up and down vote a post and votes are tallied / calcualted
– the ability for admin to turn on/off highest voted posts to appear on top of category
– the ability for admin to choose between allowing registrants with verified emails to have their posts automatically posted or for admin to approve post first
– the ability to ‘report’ a post
– etc.

Once again, thank you for considering my suggestions.

Here’s additional information to my features request:

I would love to see this new feature, the ability to add front-end submissions by users. The add post to have the same formats submission as identified in the Bimber Theme’s front-end submission.

The submission formats are:

Story (text with images), Open list, Ranked list, Check list, Trivia quiz, Peronalist quiz, Poll, Versus, Not or Not, Meme, Audio, Video, Image, Gallery, Embed and Link.

Refer to the Bimber theme’s front-end submission here: https://bimber.bringthepixel.com/main/frontend-submission/

Hi Calin,

I have sent my login info, etc. via email.

Thanks for looking into this.