Installing and Using NewsPaper in an offline environment

Hello, I decided to buy the template even though the environment I am using it in is a non-connected Intranet.

For the most part – the theme works very well. I am wondering if there are some smaller cosmetic things that can be brought over to my offline environment.

The setting I started with is the one called “News Magazine” (https://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper_magazine/).

I did install the theme on a test server that is connected to the internet so I could test settings in a non-production environment. Site and theme work perfectly.

In my intranet environment, there are some subtle differences. It is probably due to importing a template, which I could not do directly on my intranet server.

i.e. The Main Menu – the green stripe does not appear below the main menu (even though the General Theme Color has the Theme Accent Color set accordingly).

The hover effect on the main menu (menu item background turns black), happens in a little strip below the menu item (where you would expect the green stripe to be present)

The titles in the “Block 1” item are using the accent color specified above, whereas on the demo content it is just white background.

Just small subtle differences like that – but the overall functioning works fine.

If the missing settings are stored in the database, or as a template somewhere, can it be exported from my test site and then imported into my intranet site?

Note that I did use the export/import settings from the Theme Panel. This copied the colors and other panel settings, but I think there is still something missing.

When I setup my staging area, and I clicked to use the “News Magazine” style, it also imported the sample data.

Other than pictures and text, is there anything else that gets pulled into the WordPress install that would not be captured by the Export/Import?

Just not sure what is missing in my offline area. Is there a template or something? I don’t see any templates listed in my staging area. If there is an email addr, I could send screenshots of what things are missing.

Would the version of WP itself affect things? My staging area (on the internet) is v5.3.2 but my intranet is version v5.2.4

Updated the old version of WP, and that had no effect. So there must be something that gets copied down that is not captured by the export/import.

I just did another test – I exported my staging area using a plugin called All-In-One WP Migration. Importing this into the intranet site did restore the proper look, and all styles work.

The only issue is that the plugin deletes existing content and replaces all with the data from the export file. I would lose all my existing data, which is somewhat significant.

It does tell me that there is more to be exported/imported than what the NewsPaper theme does by default. Is there anything else that can be done to copy the missing settings?

Yes! Thank you – this worked. Rather than copying into the custom CSS though, I copied the css styles into the child themes styles.css

Thanks so much!