Hi,
we´re using the Newspaper Theme in version 7.8.1 and we want now to update at the latest version. Our online news portal has a lot of content …
Also we have many pages and articles build with Visual Composer and so we wouldn´t use the tagdiv composer. How we should now update? How we could deactivate the tagdiv composer – if we have to do this?
Are there any other issues which could happend, if we didn´t use your composer?
And the last questions (for the future): Is there an “easy” way to transfer all content created with Visual Composer to tagdiv composer – or have we to re-create all content which has been made with the Visual Composer? And what about articles which has content like shortcodes?
Thanks a lot for your help
Hello,
It is always recommended to make a full back-up of your site before attempting such a big update. I also recommend creating a duplicate of your site on a subdomain and apply the update there so if anything goes wrong, you will not affect the live site. If you used VC on posts, then you will not be able to use the tagdiv composer so you should disable it (it activates automatically when updating) You should also make sure you update the plugins as well. Plugins that come with the theme will not update automatically so you have to disable and delete them and then install them again from the main theme package.
Thank you!
Hi Bogdan,
thank you for your response.
Where should I than deactivate the tagdiv composer after the updates? And where did I find the plugins? And is it possible to buy the full license of the VC (for further updates) at evato for example?
Hi,
The tagDiv composer is a plugin as well. It can be deactivated in the plugins section if needed. Note that it will automatically be activated after a theme update, that is the current functionality.
The theme package includes the Visual composer page builder, check the plugins folder
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/whats-included/
It will be updated along with theme updates.
If you do not want to use this bundled version included in the theme package, you could purchase a separate plugin with license. In that case try to use similar versions as the one provided with the theme. When the plugin is updates by it’s developers, we will test it first and only then include it. More about this here
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin/
Thanks
