Like this, some posts break sidebar.
I recently changed post style 7.
Post with the classic editor are okay, but posts with backend editor are all broken.
Am I have to change all post template to ‘2/3+1/3’ manually?
And also break other visual composer things!!!
All posts that use visual composer’s ‘tab’ are broken…
Yes, and my homepage is now completely stuffed now that you have switched over to your new editor. I have to revert back to the unsecure version of your theme to fix this. Not happy!
I have the same problem.
I don’t know why a great theme than Newspaper changes the builder, but just for pages?
A great mistake…If WP has a based post, the focusing has mean to the posts, not pages.
If we install TD Composer the Posts broke. If we don’t use, we can’t edit the pages…
Please, correct this for all of us. The sidebar are essential for all.
Thanks!
You can keep using Visual Composer – it’s not ‘gone.’
The TDComposer is a more lightweight, faster, more secure solution for those who only use the pagebuilder for home page, business info pages, etc. and don’t use it on posts, where there is already wide variety of custom post layouts.
For our sites, it’s a perfect fit, as we don’t custom build ‘posts,’ only ‘pages’ and so it’s much faster, and less prone to all the weird system issues we’ve had with VC.
Nothing to correct in the sense of “it’s bad….” — if you have found a bug and can identify how you experienced it, where and why, and what steps taken to debug that, they will definitely address it for the next update to TDC — which is still fairly young, and still being developed.
TDC is *not* a 1:1 replacement for VC. Two totally different things.
If you like VC, keep using it. If you don’t want to switch to TDC, you don’t have to.
I like and trust the TagDiv team, I just believe that there is no way to generalize with a page-only solution, when you have a magazine theme and the idea is to propitiate through WordPress and its quick editing of notes via posts, the solution Should consider better migration.
From what I see in the forum we are several who have problems with the posts. In my case it is the sidebar that overlaps with the content that was previously in Visual Composer.
After installing TagDiv you can not choose to use it for one thing or another. It is a definite change since if it is active there is a conflict with the VC and the sidebar does not work. If we activate the VC and deactivate the TDC we simply do not have the blocks for the main pages.
That is, would not it be too much to ask for an intermediary solution?
I do not need an editor for the posts, I WANT TO USE THE TDC. But if the sidebar does not work and the VC is conflicting … maybe you have to change the subject. Even enjoying it and using it for so long.
I trust tagdiv team and there is no doubt that Newspaper is in fact the best theme available in many ways. I also believe that td composer is a great addition and will be very helpful in the long tun. However, I feel compelled to say that starting version 8, this forum has seen many users reporting issues, caused apparently due to td composer (some issues obviously due to improper installation procedures). In any case, knowing the nature of any such major update, I skipped updating 8 and waited for 8.1.
Updating did not cause any major issue in my case although it did wipe out all my sidebar widgets. I had to spend some time to make them work again. To those who have not yet updated to 8 or 8.1, I would suggest note down all your settings like widgets and stuff before upgrading.
The other thing I faced is, my social counters stopped working on facebook although I upgraded the social counter plugin also. I deleted cache, etc. but it didn’t work. My Post fb likes had started disappearing before I upgraded to 8.1 so I wouldn’t count the upgrade responsible for it but after upgrading, my fb Page likes also became 0. In order to verify the issue was not with facebook, I used Jetpack facebook Likes plugin and my Page likes came back. So I suspect there is some issue with the plugin, either tdc or social counter that caused the Page Likes to become 0. This forced me to deactivate tdc although it did not solve the problem then. I must add that after some time when I tried with another computer, the fb Likes reappeared even using td social counter, so the issue may have been caused by some traces of cache or whatever on the first computer but the main point to be noted is, the Page likes did disappear. Hope that can be looked into. For the time being I have switched to Jetpack fb counter but hope to switch back to td social counter soon. I guess I will wait for the next tdc update. I am wiring all this with the hope that it will help users and developers resolve whatever issues may be there.
Hello,
Thank you for all your appreciation and back-up. We appreciate the kind words.
I’m not saying that all of the problems originate from the misuse of visual composer but most of them certainly do. It was our fault that we left the visual composer options active even though they did not run properly. We created a guide to teach people the proper and intended way of using VC with our theme in order not to limit the user so he will not feel restrained https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-use-visual-composer/, but it backfired now since moving over to our new page builder.
Basically just the 3 columns work properly and pages only as mentioned in the guide above. We have mentioned this lots of times but people still used the options even though not recommended. Now the layout breaks exactly because of that use of unintended options found in VC.
However the solution is simple. Disable the tagdiv composer plugin and use VC as before.
The downside when using visual composer in an unintended way is that moving to our own page builder now will be more difficult as we did not make the same mistake again. We only left the proper columns active in the settings and we do not allow the use of the new page builder on posts.
If this is something you cannot live without, then the new builder is not for you.
Thank you for your understanding and I hope this sheds some light on the subject.
Fair enough, Bogdan. You got to move on your own not depending on VC, a third party plugin, although it served a great purpose at a different time. VC is no doubt a great plugin but if you have to play at its tune then it’s obviously not the best option for Newspaper theme. So I understand your move. I sincerely hope the td composer will soon become popular among Newspaper users.
A suggestion that could save you lots of hassle- do not install td composer along with the theme upgrade. Let users understand what it is, how it works, and decide on their own when to or whether to install it. What happens now is, it is installed by default and by nature overpowers VC, and that seems to be causing issues. This, of course, only if it is technically feasible considering you may have written the theme codes keeping tdc in mind and may need it to be installed while upgrading. Just a thought… Have a good day!
Thank you for your understanding and suggestions!
