How to fix blog article view and share #’s?

The Newspaper theme uses ajax to display views and pull in social data. https://forum.tagdiv.com/ajax-view-count/ In order to keep requests to admin-ajax.php to a minimum, you should reduce the number of different blocks used on your site as well as reduce the ajax filters and pagination for each block. This will reduce server requests considerably. Please … Read more

Is it possible to disable a theme programmatically?

here is no specialized hook for this. However the hook switch_theme should work for you. /** * Switches current theme to new template and stylesheet names. * * @since unknown * @uses do_action() Calls ‘switch_theme’ action on updated theme display name. * * @param string $template Template name * @param string $stylesheet Stylesheet name. */ … Read more