VERSION 9 – DEMOS NOT WORKING

Having bad experiences in the past with major updates, I installed this on a subdomain and tested it. System Status report passes on all parameters. I installed multiple FULL demos and all I get is a blank screen with each demo. I have installed Visual Composer and made sure all Plugins are installed. Still no joy. I roll back to a default Word Press install and things work. Only when I go to Newspaper 9 does nothing work.

When I use Visual Composer all I get is text in all the sections. When I switch to TAG Composer I get the error “Error at rows: 12(models) : 1(dom). The model does not match the content”

I did a clean install on a subdomain. Brand new install. System Status check out ok. I installed the js_composer zip file. All the other Plug Ins installed automatically with the Newspaper install.

So, in the Dashboard everything comes up text no matter what I try and TAG Composer crashes.

I tried to use the Cloud Templates and that crashed.

This is a brand new, fresh, clean install on a New Subdomain with no plugins other than Tag and Visual Composer.

Again, I created a brand new subdomain.

I install WordPress.

I set the settings so that the System Status is green in all areas.

No Plugs in were installed.

I installed the Newspaper Theme via the Zip file. I did not have to upload the decompressed directory structure.

Via this installation, all the supporting Tag plugin installed.

I only had to install the Bakery Visual Composer.

I then installed the Spa Heaven Demo and all supporting Images.

I made sure that under settings that it was set to Static Page and set the Page to Home.

I went to Pages and brought up the Home Spa Heaven Page.

No matter what I did, the text in all the Text boxes wold not convert to a visual display. I selected Various Template types, and still to Visual. I clicked on Classic Mode.

I click on TAG COMPOSER and received the above previously posted error message.

I then started from scratch again and tried creating a Homepage from the Cloud Templates. Exactly the same results.

Nothing displays on the subdomain web site except a single bar across the top.

I got tired of trying to make any of the Demos work with Version 9. I then tried Version 8.8 and still no joy. I am running 8.8.2 in production and it is stable so I didn’t want to touch anything.

I was able to get Visual Composer to work and build up a site from scratch. But any time I tried to load a demo it would not work.

I punted away from Newspaper and attempted to use another Theme, but I found that the themes I was looking at were not as robust.

So…I am stuck building up from scratch since that is the only way Visual Composer and Tag Composer will work and render in development and then render the Page and display it.

There is a particular look I am trying to achieve. I am building a Page. I am adjusting the margins to get things where I want. The one issue I am unable to easily resolve through the Theme Management Dashboard is setting the entire background color of a Page.

I am able to set an image for the overall background of the Site. That is what I want. I create a Homepage and adjust the margins to move the latest articles and Blog Postings down that I set up with Blocks. I need to be able to set the Background color (opacity) to the whole page (which contains the Blocks to render the Blog Posts, which is separate from setting up the Background Image for the Site, there is the Header and the Site Background Image) so that the image is visible.

In short I am creating a Homepage and pushing it down some distance below the Header and Top Menu to get a look I want. The Image is a Book Cover and I want it unobstructed.

Please advise how I can set the Page Background container color/opacity without having to hack the Style Sheets.

Thanks

I found my answer. I went into the page and over rode the CSS class located via the Web Inspector.