How can you just FORCE someone have to rebuild / redesign a website with this composer????
you CAN’T DO THAT TO PEOPLE!!! SOME people don’t have the TIME to do this especially if it is a client’s website and things need to be DONE RIGHT NOW!!!
what happened that visual composer is no longer working when i go in to edit my homepage??? when CLEARLY it comes part of Newspaper 6.
Hello,
Why do people think we are forcing anyone to do anything? If you want to use visual composer…keep using visual composer by all means and disable the tagdiv composer. It is not mandatory plugin by any means. We kept the visual composer compatibility and visual composer will still receive updates so you can use it just as before.
Thank you!
So then I don’t understand why visual composer is no longer working on my site.
And when I click on the visual composer icon it opens up the site to purchase it… the plus icon opens the add element window but when i click on one nothing happens… and when i click on the templates icon the window opens but nothing happens with that as well
And as far as being forced to upgrade / update… that IS happening all over the place. But I do apologize for my assumptions. I was reacting to the fact that my client’s site is no working like i was 2 weeks ago… and i NEED it working.
Did you upgrade Visual Composer from the version included in the ‘all files’ download as per usual? You can’t upgrade VC via the WP panel, you need to delete old version via FTP and upload the new version to work with NP8.
no… i didn’t upgrade vc at all.
and i’m still using newspaper 6… i didn’t upgrade to 8
so i’m using visual composer 4.8.1 in newspaper 6
and up until my last edit of the homepage 2wks ago… it was working fine
Things might break with new version of WordPress, other plugins with bugs (e.g., Yoast had several updates this month — 3 I think), etc.
Anything that “suddenly stopped working” is not due to theme.
Theme cannot “upgrade” you without your permission — you would have to do that, so not sure why you thought you were being forced to do anything at all.
Visual Composer won’t update unless you upload the new version included with theme download; it can’t be updated via WP admin panel unless you buy your own copy of it.
So — if you are ‘suddenly’ having problems, might be worth doing normal debug practice — try checking error logs, disable plugins to see what might be causing it, check page for errors with F12, check for any external elements not loading and breaking things, etc.
Anyway — I don’t work here; just some more feedback. I’m out on this one!
As with many folks in past, you might try disabling VC, uninstalling/delete, and re-installing VC — the version you’re using now, in case it got corrupted from other plugins or server, etc. — seems a lot of folks have to do this from time to time.
Just a suggestion … make proper backups of course.
thank you Chris…
I deactivated and deleted the old composer and downloaded newspaper 8 but only uploaded the composer from it…not the complete newspaper 8 update. and it works again.
