Widespread reports of WP 4.5 update breaking Visual Composer — however some folks say they have no issue with VC 4.11 included with latest versions of TagDiv themes, other folks online are reporting all kinds of themes breaking with WP 4.5 and VC 4.11.1.
If you are using an OLDER version of VC, and your VC is now broken using TagDiv themes; your first step would be to upgrade your VC to latest version included by TagDiv (4.11), which can be found in your all files download from ThemeForest (in the /plugins/ folder — where else?).
For others where it’s broken using 4.11/4.11.1 — might be due to other plugin/setting and you might need to wait for a 4.11.2/4.12 update — maybe not. If some have the problem and some don’t hard to tell if it’s inherently a VC problem or not.
Follow changelog for update status on VC:
https://wpbakery.atlassian.net/wiki/display/VC/Release+Notes
Other issues with WP reported widely related to the change in the image processing, setup and compression settings. In theory should mot break existing content since images are static. Regenerating thumbs might help with that, but other issue causing break is far more likely (e.g., blocks/rows using VC and not TagDiv blocks CSS might be broken if edited).
TAGDIV likely won’t have update for VC + WP 4.5 until a 4.11.2 or 4.12 version of Visual Composer pushed (follow the above changelog for timeline).
Reports of issues with VC might not “entirely” be solely the fault of VC + WP 4.5, since presumably WPBakery would have tested VC with the RC1/RC1 version of WP 4.5 out in the wild the past month, but perhaps not.
Just some facts for those freaking out.
Good time to build a backup strategy and also disable automatic updates on your WP setup.
It is broken for me…However I am using the TagDiv Visual Composer Shim…so I hope there will be an update to that.
It broken the sidebar too, it will not stick at the bottom anymore.
https://www.enterpr1se.info/
UPDATE:
Looks like current download of VC with Newsmag is only version 4.9 and *not* 4.11 as comes with latest version of Newspaper (!). (DOH!)
It’s possible 4.11x works, and 4.9 does not. Possible neither works.
Roll back to your back up for the time being.
Hi Chris,
Yes, you are right the latest version of Newsmag theme contains Visual Composer 4.9 and this creates issues on backend, you cannot edit the page. You can update to the 4.11 version as it works properly and also please make this change in the code – http://screencast.com/t/QeNhZNbdmCvk
If you(or other users) don’t have Visual Composer 4.11 please send an email at contact@tagdiv.com and we will provide it until we release the theme update.
We will make some tests during the day and we will release an update as soon as possible.
Thanks!
So you are making tests after the 4.5 being released? Shouldn’t you have tested Newsmag theme and VC with 4.5 RC 1 and 2? Seems lazy…
Hi,
We made tests with WP4.5 and Visual Composer 4.11.1 and we didn’t notice any issues.
I refer to the new tests, we are waiting for Visual Composer version 4.11.2. The plugin developer announced it but the plugin is not available yet. I guess it was uploaded and it’s waiting for Envato approval. There are a lot of messages on the plugin support page and that’s why we don’t want to hurry and we tried to provide a quick fix for this and also 4.11.1 version on email.
Our initial plan was to release a theme update and include 4.11.1 but after we noticed that they announced 4.11.2 we decided to wait. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Please contact us via email at contact@tagdiv.com and we will try to find a solution for this. Also paste a link to this ticket.
Thanks!
Any news yet on an update that will bring the theme in line with Woocommerce 2.5 it’s been out for months and there hasn’t been a theme update for 3 months. it worries me that I have another instance of the theme out there with a store and products and there’s no update for that??????
I’ve got 4 sites running this theme, the lack of a proper updates is getting a bit worrying
I don’t know if anyone else has had problems with the last version of VC that was bundled with the previous update. I have got problems with the masonry gallery dissappearing after a time. Also Have problems duplicating pages in VC back end, they come out all over the place once you’ve duplicated them with all the content boxes overlapping. My header ads also broke at the last update which I’ve only just noticed and am currently trying to sort out in another thread.
Unfortunately this theme seems to be going a bit shonky on the 4 installations I’ve used it on, I’ve taken 2 of them down cos they keep falling apart and I’m not confident in them. I’ve even gone as far as buying a instance of the newspaper theme due to the lack of confidence in this theme. maybe I should start looking for alternative themes? I don’t know, it’s a worry though
Is the latest update just to cover the guys who have updated to WP 4.5, looks like it from the change log, was hoping for more, guess I’ll have to be patient.
Hi
First we would want to apologize for any inconvenience you have had using our theme.
The last update was meant only to fix the jQuery conflict which appeared after wordpress’s last update and also to include the latest version of Visual Composer plugin which works fine with new wp version. we didn’t added any new feature yet but we work at a major update for Newsmag which currently is in development.
I can’t say for sure how much time will pass until the new update will be ready but we do our best to have it ready as soon as possible. However we have to make sure that the new theme’s version it’s optimized for best performances and all its features will work fine. This require a bit of time and lots of tests on different browsers and devices.
With regard at issues of actual theme’s version with Woocommerce plugin I am not really sure what you mean so please provide a link where I can inspect this and more specific details in this regard. I’ve made a few tests and Woocommerce V 2.5.5 works fine with current version of Newsmag that’s why I am a bit unsure at what you’re referring. If you have any issues related with theme’s functionality which affect and Woocommerce please open a new topic and provide all necessary details so we can insect this.
Thanks for your message!
Will there be an update to the Shim plugin you guys put together? Would love to see that so I can upgrade lol
Hi
I’ve tested shim plugin with WordPress V 4.5 and Newsmag V 2.3.6 and works fine so you can update the theme. However as a security measure make sure you do a full backup to the current wp-install and also to the database, just in case something goes wrong. Here you can find more details about the backup process: https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
Thanks!
Really late reply, but I am using Version: 1.7.1
