Hi, is there any way how to move from newspaper theme to newsmag without need to set everything all up, i mean , ads, homepage, widgets, sidebar, post styles etc? or when i purchase newsmag i have to set all the settings again?
cheers
You have to set some things and regenerate thumbnails, but its not that hard.
I’m doing this right now…. it’s not terribly hard. You can save some of your custom CSS, but redoing the home page, redoing the ads, and setting up sidebar modules does need to be redone.
Biggest issue is making sure you switch off the old theme, switch off all plugins, fully delete the old Newspaper plugins from server, and do fresh install with the new theme; don’t try to re-use the old Newspaper plugins with the new theme. I crashed my WP install (500 server error), being a very experienced dude with WP, because I forgot to deactivate stuff in right order. Tricky that. Visual Composer is kind of a POS with WP theme switching, to be frank.
Ok i got ya, all must be clean before i change the theme that why i asked as i dont need to craxh the whole think:) do you need to set ne api envato in order to be notified when new updates coming or its automaticaly linked to the previous.. i guess its not and needs to be done again…
did you manage to do it Christopher?
I don’t use the Envato plugin as it always messes things up for me. But I do get automatic emails from ThemeForest on the updates to all my purchases without any trouble.
Yes, I converted my hobby magazine site (ga-ga.com) over to Newsmag, which is on track to launch Jan 1 (it’s a combination of some of our old sites being combined into “one” main site). Only having one or two very minor issues which are not related to changing themes and will likely ping Radu about that today.
Hi Christopher,
let me know via email if you have any suggestions.
Radu O.
Persistently trying to move with Nevspaper Template on Nevsmag but I fail, can someone pleas write something more accurate F.A.Q how it works. Slowly thinking whether it was right that I bought this Template. Thank you.
I did post a step by step in this forum, you just need to search for it.
Try this:
1) make backup of your site files, as per usual good practices; use tools to export your database from WP panel. Backup images.
Clear cache.
2) make sure you’re running latest version of WordPress (4.1); v 3.9x has cross-site scripting vulnerability; v4.0 has bugs, fixed in 4.1.
3) switch to default theme (e.g., twenty-twelve); do this before disabling visual composer!!!!!
Clear cache again, as applicable.
4) disable ALL plugins
5) DELETE the original theme folder, delete the original plugins for theme (TD speed booster, TD social, Visual Composer)
Then follow my posts on best way to install theme:
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Make sure you upload only the main theme files; don’t install the “all files” zip from ThemeForest… that has docs, psd files, plugins, etc.
You want to install the smaller of the two files on Themeforest, if you’re installing via theme panel with .zip.
BEST WAY TO INSTALL WP THEMES:
Ideal way is still to
1) unzip theme folder “Newsmag” on your HD
2) upload via FTP/SFTP to your /wp-content/themes/ folder
3) upload the plugins unzipped to /wp-content/plugins/
4) switch to default theme from your old theme [should already be done for migration]
5) turn off *all* running plugins [should already be done for migration]
6) clear your cache(s), turn off caching (!),
7) activate the Visual Composer plugin
8) activate the new Newsmag theme
9) launch the theme panel
10) reactivate only the plugins you 100% need to make sure they work (some plugins WILL NOT WORK properly with WP 4.01 until you update the plugins!).
Clear the cache in your WEB BROWSER FULLY and restart web browser; this clears any CSS/Java used by your previous theme admin, and theme, so that you see the new CSS/JS properly (seriously, this is cause for huge number of “my new theme doesn’t load right” or “admin panel doesn’t have any boxes!” errors).
If you’re running WordPress older than 4.0 be aware there is a very serious cross-site scripting vulnerability (e.g., WP 3.9.2). You should be running WP 4.0+ to use this theme properly.
This is standard practice for switching to a brand new theme and good habit to get into doing it this way to ensure you clear cobwebs on old, and cleanly move to new.
Hope that helps! 🙂
Chris
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ADVANCED USERS:
if you or somebody else optimized your site for better PageSpeed score and increase dbase efficiency, by editing the wop-config.php file to add absolute paths to the theme folder, you will need to remove that line prior to doing any theme switch. Some people forget this step and immediately get a server error trying to change themes in the WP admin panel. You should be making backups of your wp-config.php folder periodically anyway and never hurts to open it and view from time to time.
If you already borked your install and are getting server 500 error or similar you will need to do common procedure to reset WordPress:
1) login via FTP, manually delete both Newspaper and Newsmag themes so that all that is in theme folder is default themes; this forces WordPress to restart with default theme
2) manually delete the Visual Composer plugin so there is no VC folder in plugins
3) rename your plugins folder to pluginsX
4) login successfully
5) go to theme panel and SELECT your default twenty-twelve theme to CLEAR the prior selection in dbase of the Newspaper or Newsmag theme no longer running
6) logout
7) via FTP or server side file manager, rename plugins back to plugins
8) login and make sure site is working
9) then do CLEAN install of the Newsmag theme, plugins
(admin feel free to add this to docs if you wish)
Chris
THX Chris
Been there 🙂
