Discussion on Zox News - Professional WordPress News & Magazine Theme

Discussion on Zox News - Professional WordPress News & Magazine Theme

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It would be very useful if the editor of the theme in his next update included weather forecast (in the header, to the right of the logo), besides the possibility to select quantity of news more read / last news that the buyer would like to display in his home.

Only this makes the theme limited and slightly inferior to the others on the same line. Other than these details, everything works perfectly on my site.

Hi derickwilli,

Thanks for the suggestions and I will take them into consideration, but I cannot guarantee that they will be included in the theme.

I purchased the theme but the plugins won’t update, the reviewer asks me for a purchase code and Theia Post Slider doesn’t update automatically so how do I update it since the theme features an old version? Thanks a lot!

Hi manuellucchese,

Please submit a ticket at the Support Center and I’ll look into this for you. Thanks!

In the meantime, I would advise reading the documentation, which will give you the instructions for registering both plugins.

Any plan on add a highlighted text feature to the theme for post CTA?

I got my dev to do it – thanks

Question – on this post here, why are some of the linked H2 red and others are black? seems to be a glitch there… https://multiplestreams.org/mlm/

Hi yellowdart,

Please submit a ticket at the Support Center and I’ll look into this for you. Thanks!

Hi, MVP,

When is your next update coming. I’ll buy the theme then.

Hi AutoKwame,

I’m looking to release the next update within the next week.

I want this theme and I love the teaser feature on articles.. but I am afraid about duplicated content. Is It posible to limit the words there?

Hi engelsol,

I am not sure what duplicate content you’re referring to, but the current article will never be duplicated in the teaser articles below it.

Hi again.. I am using your theme and I am happy to use it. It is really easy to use and it is a good looking theme. But maybe you can add some new features like different home pages, and some modifications related with front end submission etc. These are my ideas.

Thanks for this theme, have a nice day.

Hi mtotrakan,

My apologies for the delay in the release of the update, but I am looking into making the theme PHP7 compatible. I don’t have an exact release date, but I am currently working on it and will release it as soon as it’s done. I appreciate your patience. Thanks!

Thank you MVPthemes.

No problem!

Hi

I add my Pinterest link into the social media section, but the icon doesn’t appear as a result on the theme header?

Also, for some reason, the post sidebar isn’t appearing even though Template 1 is selected as default. Yet it works fine if I manually select Template 1 from post to post?

Please advise.

Hi ps3home,

As I mentioned previously, please submit a ticket at the Support Center and I’ll look into this for you. Thanks!

Done!

Hi ps3home,

Thanks for submitting a ticket. While I do typically answer tickets within 24 hours, it may take longer on weekends and holidays. I appreciate your patience and I will answer your ticket in the order it was submitted. Thanks!

does this theme come in light and dark?

Hi daboss704,

Unfortunately, there is no “dark” skin for the entire theme.

Need to do a few of pre-purchase question as I’m looking to upgrade my theme which I’ve been using for for than 1 and half year. Can you explain what this is http://prntscr.com/gwcjqk I know that “tech”,”politics” are categories of posts. What are “Latest, videos and trending”? How do they work?

Hi anamolr,

My apologies for the delay, but I am trying to include PHP 7 compatibility in the update as well, which is why I was unable to release it last week.

Can you let me know when it will be released, please? I want to work on Zox, replacing my current theme, but I’m not sure whether I should start working from right now or wait for your update. Because if there are big changes and better layouts then all the work might be of waste. Please give specific date if possible.

Hi anamolr,

While I don’t have an exact date at the moment, I am currently working on the update.

Hello,

I just bought the theme today and I want to utilize Featured Layout 2 for the home page, but when I select it, it looks nothing like your demo and when I try to ‘edit page’ and ‘launch page builder’ it comes up with a template selection that is nothing like Featured Layout 2.

The only part of the page that looks similar to Featured Layout 2 is the “More News” section.

Your help is appreciated. Thank you.

Hi hecubus70,

Please make sure you have read through the documentation (located in the /documentation folder of the original zip file you downloaded from Themeforest), which will guide you through the setup process and explain the features of the theme. If you have any specific questions after reading through the documentation, please submit a ticket at the Support Center and I’ll be happy to help.

Hi, LOVE this theme. I have one issue. The Meet the Team page adds everyone who ever wrote for the site. I often have guest writers, and having all of them on the Meet the Team page is too crowded. Also, there’s a few anonymous articles, and I don’t want an Anonymous person listed on the team. I’d like a few people on it. Can this be fixed to select who you want on Meet the Team? Thanks!

Hi justinadam86,

Please submit a ticket at the Support Center and I’ll look into this for you. Thanks!

is the html version available?

Hi dhyka,

Unfortunately, there is not an html template version of this theme.

Hi, facebook instant no compatible theme https://i.imgur.com/e5XgycF.png

Hi Armand_arias,

I’m not able to view the image, but please submit a ticket at the Support Center and I’ll look into this for you. Thanks!

hello, as you asked me I registered and a vouched ticket on your forum about two days ago. I know you are very busy and with a newly created theme you will have a lot to improve and fine-tune, but please do not forget about me :( Request #5247

Hi Xhera,

Thanks for submitting a ticket. While I do typically answer tickets within 24 hours, it may take longer on weekends and holidays. I appreciate your patience and I will answer your ticket in the order it was submitted. Thanks!

I cannot find where to edit or remove text under Article Title both on Post and Featureed post. Can you help please?

Hi chanwit,

Please submit a ticket at the Support Center and I’ll be happy to help you with this. Thanks!

Author 1) Incorrect. I said that the Twitter field you were seeing was from a separate plugin and that you would need to remove all of your plugins to find out which one is overriding the Twitter field from the theme. This was a very simple issue with a very simple solution.

Me 1) You are incorrect about the field I am using. I am using the offical wordpress user profile fields, which is the one your theme uses. The official wordpress twitter username field is not a url field, and your theme is using this OFFICIAL WORDDPRESS twitter USERNAME field to present a URL. This is a VERY good reason for a bad rating.

Author 2) You simply cannot generate different thumbnails for every size of image that appears in the site. This is another simple concept. Only a certain number of thumbnails are generated fro each image, and depending on the size of the image displayed, one of those thumbnails will be used, even if it is not the exact dimensions of what the image shows on the site. This is standard practice for WordPress.

Me 2) Most themes register different thumbnail sizes. The ones you have registered for different display than the full sizes are sometimes never displayed for as big as you have registered them to. Most themes actually store as many thumbnails as needed to ensure the smallest possible size appears. All SEO scans/scores/google scans will even give you warnings that your images are too big for any screen resolution. Do you want a real google webmasters warning that your theme uses images that are too big?

Author 3) Yes, the Logo uploaded via the Theme Options is stored in a database table that is separate from the media library. I am not sure why you would need it to appear in the media library, but I have been a theme developer for over 5 years now and you are the first person who has ever even mentioned this or cared about this function.

Me 3) The spirit of wordpress is RESTful content, content that links to each other in a database. You’re not only bypassing a native wordpress function to store theme images, logos etc, you’re making orphan anonymous uploads to the wordpress uploads folder. That is BAD, and is a fail point for passing themeforest quality check. Even when stored in another table, it needs to be deleted when it’s not being used anymore somehow. You are skipping a native wordpress function for theme image/attachments and making anonymous files/database tables.

Author: These are simply not “issues” that should cause such a poor rating for the theme.

Me: All of these reasons a perfect reason to give you a low rating, as a developer who can’t take constructive feedback, and takes it as insult to ability/understanding. I stated clear issues and you deny/don’t hear the issues. Your theme just over 2 months old and you’re not even willing to discover if I may be right, even about your themes mis-use of the wordpress user profile field, to get the twitter logo. Maybe you dont know that you’re using the same field name that wordpress does in author_meta? I am not using any other plugins to set any fields.

Hi chippymedia,

1) WordPress does not come with a Twitter field by default. You need a plugin to have one appear, and one of the plugins you are using is adding that field, not the default WordPress. So, essentially, you are using two plugins that are adding the same field, and another plugin is overriding the plugin from the theme. But the field from the theme is what is needed for the theme to work properly. If you deactivated all of your plugins as I suggested a week ago, this would be very clear to you. That way, you could install the MVP Social Buttons plugin so it will insert the correct field, and your theme will work properly.

2) There is a major downside to having too many thumbnails for each image size within the theme (and there are quite a few different image sizes, especially if you are considering all of the different devices) where your server will get slowed down if the theme generates 10, 20, 30 or more thumbnails every time you upload an image. If you have 200 posts, this theme will generate 1000 thumbnails (with up to 5 different thumbnails being created for each image uploaded). But if you have 20 or 30 thumbnails for each image uploaded, that number turns into 6000 images for 200 posts, which is obviously 6 times the size of what the theme generates. Yes, Google will issue warnings based on an image not being the exact size, but literally every news site on the net has these errors and it in no way detracts from the performance or load time for the site.

3) This has nothing to do with passing a Themeforest quality check. Every one of my themes has passed the checks, and believe me, there are quite a few checks that they are sticklers about that they have me correct every time I submit a theme. This is a non-issue, but it seems like you have a lot of experience with this, which makes me suggest that you are capable of correcting this “issue” on your own.

At this point there is nothing else I can say about any of these issues. Feel free to leave the 1-star rating. That is your right, but none of these issues changes the performance and delivery of your content for the theme. I have the exact same process for each of my 12 themes and have sold over 25,000 themes without anyone bringing up any of these things as an issue for them. Yes, if you look hard enough, you can find these types of “issues” with any theme. And even if they don’t have these “issues”, there are others that they may have that my themes do not. That’s the nature of web development.

I am more than open to constructive criticism and one of the reasons I have been as successful at this as I have is because I DO listen to my customers and very often include the changes and corrections they point out and suggest. But unfortunately, I am not able to simply include every suggestion, no matter how necessary customers may deem them. And the response should not be to simply rate the theme 1-stars because I make a decision not to include something. But that’s your prerogative as a customer and you do what you have to do. You seem to know what you’re talking about, so you should have no problem implementing these changes on your own, though. In fact, I would venture to say that you could have simply implemented the changes to the theme in the entire time we have been going back and forth about this and we could have both saved ourselves quite a bit of time and energy. But you insist on dragging this out for whatever reason. Feel free to continue, but I do not deem these changes as necessary to the theme and you are free to edit any of the files as you see fit.

fantastic thema really really well complimented! in my opinion I think I miss just a couple of things to be perfect. 1 the ability to source source and away to article as block similar to tag 2 the possibility to create the post video only with url instead of with a full frame. but I do not understand how to update the plugins it has equipped with since Theia Post Slider can not be updated automatically http://www.alien-origins.com

Hi Xhera,

Please submit a ticket at the Support Center and I’ll look into this for you. Thanks!

hello, as you asked me I registered and a vouched ticket on your forum about two days ago. I know you are very busy and with a newly created theme you will have a lot to improve and fine-tune, but please do not forget about me :( Request #5247

Hi Xhera,

Thanks for submitting a ticket. While I do typically answer tickets within 24 hours, it may take longer on weekends and holidays. I appreciate your patience and I will answer your ticket in the order it was submitted. Thanks!

It’s possible to disable the big leaderboard and use fixed menu?

Hi lyhhss,

Yes, the leaderboard ad is completely optional.

Hi there, thanks for the this theme. It is really good. Can you please help me to add the entries in the white area like your demo? I did it with using widgets but it appears at the bottom of the page. How can I do it like your demo?

Thanks.

Hi mtotrakan,

Please submit a ticket at the Support Center and I’ll look into this for you. Thanks!

Ok, I submit..Thanks.

Hi mtotrakan,

Thanks for submitting a ticket. While I do typically answer tickets within 24 hours, it may take longer on weekends and holidays. I appreciate your patience and I will answer your ticket in the order it was submitted. Thanks!

When do you think we will get an update that includes an update to the Theia Post Slider? No rush just checking. My OCD kicks in and I see the #1 by that plugin and it drives me up the wall :)

Hi john_wilbanks,

I’m looking to get an update out by the end of the month.

awesome! Thanks!

No problem!

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