Same problem here as well. Update went smoothly otherwise.
The break wasn’t that bad for me. AMP still works and I’ve used the responsive site anyway. If you rely heavily on the mobile theme, I’d hold off.
Hi all.
I have good news I guess, so I am sharing it. Not sure what the future holds in store for me but as of now my site is working along with Mobile Theme. I faced the same problem of
“This version of the tagDiv Mobile Theme plugin is not supported by the current activated theme! Please update your theme!”
While updating via FTP, I was getting “1 Failed Transfer”, all files except one were getting transferred. So I deleted the entire Newspaper Folder in Themes. Then I uploaded the new 9.7 Newspaper folder and there was no failed transfer. But I got another problem:
Not able to login using mysite.com/admin. From another support thread I got this: Login using mysite.com/wp-login.php. This worked. After login, I installed the Mobile Theme plugin and that too started working. My earlier customization of Mobile Theme was still there. Now I am back to normal, touch wood.
So, the moral of the story is:
1. Put the site in maintenance mode.
2. Use FTP and delete the old Newspaper theme folder.
3. Upload the new folder.
4. Login to the site using mysite.com/wp-login.php
5. Install & activate all new plugins including Mobile Theme Plugin.
I just hope I am not celebrating too soon.
Thanks.
Calin,
That doesn’t work. It claims that the plugin is successfully activated but then the error just returns on the next page load. There’s clearly something wrong with Newspaper and this plugin on all of these set ups…
Ok, I took another run at it and I JUST fixed it on my site.
I tried a variation of desiyatri’s approach. Using CPanel’s file manager I deleted the Newspaper folder and then re-extracted the zip file. That seemed to clear it up. Site is working again fully.
Oddly, with this approach Id didn’t have to re-install the plugins or even reenable the theme. It seems to be working right out of the box…