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Same problem here. I updated to WP 4.5 and the Visual Composer stopped working. Looks like I need to update WP Bakery, BUT:
I use the Envato Toolkit so my client can update the Newspaper theme from within WordPress dashboard. The instructions for the Visual Composer update only pertain to when you manually download the latest version of the Newspaper theme. Is there a more automatic way to do this? I want my client to be able to do routine WordPress updates herself, but not if the site is going to stop working until she goes through a convoluted process related to Newspaper and Visual Composer.
WPBakery Visual Composer
Settings | Deactivate | Edit
Drag and drop page builder for WordPress. Take full control over your WordPress site, build any layout you can imagine – no programming knowledge required.
Version 4.11.2 | By Michael M – WPBakery.com | Visit plugin site
Hi, I am new to this forum, I´ve just purchased your theme but I am not an expert in WP…
My question is, please, is there a way to edit the texts, photos and contents of one of the demos? I try to build a new site for my magazine, but it looks quite difficult to me to start from scrath.
I aassume to edit the content I should go into my WP panel – All pages – Homepage – but then I only see the layout and the Page builder content, but cannot get into the text itself…
I have also purchased WPBakery Visual Content, do I need any other plugins?
Thank you very much!
Well, I am seeing lots of users of Newsmag theme have problem of images not showing up. Even our website http://www.kabir.org had the same problem.
I tried the solution as suggested by other developers: Here is the guide on how to update the plugin – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
This still did not help in my case and I am seeing in other websites case well.
Solution that worked for me:
– I found it’s not cache or some other issue.
– The issue is with jquery script it’s not changing the opacity of images
– Go on style.css in theme folder line no: 23884
– Change the opacity of images from o to 1 in CSS file. (0: hidden; 1:visible).
Problem solved. Images showing up again.
Anexo la manera de solucionar el problema del Visual Composer en Español:
Paso 1: Entrar al WordPress, ir a Plugins y desactivar “WPBakery Visual Composer”.
Paso 2: Entrar al servidor web y en la ruta /wp-content/plugins borrar la carpeta “js_composer”
Paso 3: En el WordPress ir a Plugins, Añadir nuevo y Subir plugin
Paso 4: Ubicar y seleccionar el archivo en la ruta de la ultima actualizaciĂłn del Tema, por ejemplo: Newspaper/plugins/js_composer.zip
Paso 5: El plugin se instalara correctamente
Paso 6: Habilitar el plugin
Y funcionara el Visual Composer correctamente en el WordPress 4.5
Cabe señalar que mientras realicen esta actividad el sitio mostrara “Shortcodes”, el proceso para este cambio dura aproximadamente 2 a 3 min.
Saludos!
Ricardo Pelcastre
Andrei, thanks for your quick reply. Basically let me begin with the first problem. There was an update of wordpress that was available. I have updated my wordpress. Then suddenly, I realised that my visual composer was not working. So, the elements were frozen, and the configuration of this visual composer was different.
As a result, I couldn’t drag and drop new boxes from visual composer. When I published the home page, all the videos on the homepage were frozen. But when you click on the video and go to its page, the video is available and working.
After several attempts to figure out the problems, I deleted the entire website, included wordpress. I uploaded wordpress again and then uploaded newsmag file. I have followed the instructions on the plugins that come with it, included visual composer.
The problem did not solve. I realised that the plugin of the visual composer was probably the cause of the problem. So, I decided to load it from the file in my computer and follow your instructions. It did not solve the problem.
I came to realise that there was a new visual composer. Its message reads:Welcome to Visual Composer 4.11
Congratulations! You are about to use most powerful time saver for WordPress ever – page builder plugin with Frontend and Backend editors by WPBakery. Although from your documentation, there was a clear indication that newsmag comes with visual composer, I decided to go ahead and buy this new visual composer.
It has to be activated and now all the functions of visual composer have been restored. I can drag boxes and place them on the home page.
But when you publish the home page, the problem is still there. The videos on the home page are frozen while the videos in individual pages are working.
I hope I have made myself more comprehensive.
Thanks for your help.
Boke
I have solved following these steps: https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
Thanks also
My newsman was working well until an update of wordpress became available. I updated it, and the plugin ceased to work. I tried to follow instructions on how to activate it. It did not work. I deleted the entire website, and reloaded it. Nothing.
My impression is wpbakery.com has overruled the previous ‘visual composer’ while updating wordpress, and directs you to their website to buy the updated version of the old visual composer. Now, there is a change in the configuration of visual composer as included in newsmag, making it hard to overrule the instructions in the style sheet (CSS).
Can someone help out?
There’s a new update to Visual Composer you can download by downloading the latest update to Newspaper. From there, you can follow the instructions in this link to update the plugin.
Hello brunop,
You’ll need to deactivate and then delete the Visual Composer plugin that’s already installed on your site first, then install the updated version of the plugin. Doing this will still allow you to keep all of the settings you previously had as well (it worked for me when I did it earlier today). Here is a link to the instructions for updating Visual Composer. Hope this helps and it works for you.
An update just got released through Newspaper, so you should be able to download the new version of the Visual Composer plugin that’s compatible with WordPress 4.5.
Once you’ve downloaded the updated plugin, follow the steps in this link to update the plugin.
I was experiencing the same issue and just made the update to my site and now it works again.
An update just got released through Newspaper, so you should be able to download the new version of the Visual Composer plugin that’s compatible with WordPress 4.5.
Once you’ve downloaded the updated plugin, follow the steps in this link to update the plugin.
WPBakery (Visual Composer) has released version 4.11.2 this morning and it fixes all issues related to WP 4.5. I installed it with the Newspaper theme and it works fine
VC Changelog:
https://wpbakery.atlassian.net/wiki/display/VC/Release+Notes
What current vulnerability in VC 4.11 are you so worried about exactly that you need 4.11.1 “right now.”
Last time there was major security flaw announced in VC, TagDiv had update to theme and VC same day the patch was released. So not big worry there. 100,000 users are a priority for TagDiv, so they don’t wait a month to patch things based on being around here myself the past 2.5 years.
Just some feedback 🙂
( I don’t work here . . . )
Widespread reports of WP 4.5 update breaking Visual Composer — however some folks say they have no issue with VC 4.11 included with latest versions of TagDiv themes, other folks online are reporting all kinds of themes breaking with WP 4.5 and VC 4.11.1.
If you are using an OLDER version of VC, and your VC is now broken using TagDiv themes; your first step would be to upgrade your VC to latest version included by TagDiv (4.11), which can be found in your all files download from ThemeForest (in the /plugins/ folder — where else?).
For others where it’s broken using 4.11/4.11.1 — might be due to other plugin/setting and you might need to wait for a 4.11.2/4.12 update — maybe not. If some have the problem and some don’t hard to tell if it’s inherently a VC problem or not.
Follow changelog for update status on VC:
https://wpbakery.atlassian.net/wiki/display/VC/Release+Notes
Other issues with WP reported widely related to the change in the image processing, setup and compression settings. In theory should mot break existing content since images are static. Regenerating thumbs might help with that, but other issue causing break is far more likely (e.g., blocks/rows using VC and not TagDiv blocks CSS might be broken if edited).
TAGDIV likely won’t have update for VC + WP 4.5 until a 4.11.2 or 4.12 version of Visual Composer pushed (follow the above changelog for timeline).
Reports of issues with VC might not “entirely” be solely the fault of VC + WP 4.5, since presumably WPBakery would have tested VC with the RC1/RC1 version of WP 4.5 out in the wild the past month, but perhaps not.
Just some facts for those freaking out.
Good time to build a backup strategy and also disable automatic updates on your WP setup.
Issue is primarily with Visual Composer. I believe they (TagDiv) are waiting on WPbakery to update VC before TagDiv can push an update with the new version.
Also useful to go READ the changes to WordPress for each major full dot update vs ‘patch update.’ Note all the changes to how images work. This means generally you may need to regenerate your thumbs for the new compression optimizations.
Always keep BACK-UP of your working site, before doing ANY major update to WP, so you can seamlessly ROLL BACK to prior version. Good time to plan for that as it’s a basic WP admin skill everybody running a website that is more than a blog should learn.
I no longer provide help/support around these parts, but popped in to see how the fur was flying before I even attempted my updates. Also checked the VC support forum where everybody freaking out.
ALSO be aware that WP sometimes have its own inherent bugs — but normally those should have been tested by major plugin devs (ahem WPBakery you froods!) with the RC1 and RC2 versions prior to WP releasing latest build today as stable version.
Anyway…. just some feedback as long time lurker here (2.5 years so far … ) 🙂
Roll back if you can. Try disabling VC if you can’t.
Also good time to make sure you disable auto-updates of WP core files, if you don’t already do that.
I see that my Newspaper license does not grant me support for VC from WP Bakery, so hopefully you folks can help.
I have a site with a large number of downloads (intranet). I’ve been trying a few “download manager” plugins (Download Monitor, WPDownload Manager). These plugins basically make a custom post type for their content. I can get something close to what I want as shown here:
My VC question is this. The block settings allow me to filter by category ID, slug, etc. and also allow to select a custom post type as shown below:
So what’s the proper way to filter on category when using a custom post type. A very VC-centric question, but seeing as I’m not allowed to ask without a real VC license, I’m asking here. Developers of both download plugins are willing to help to some extent, but obviously they can’t do much without knowing how this VC filtering system works.
Help! Last step in getting this site live. Downloads are THE centerpiece of this site.
Hi,
We have not tested this but visual composer offers this solution: https://vc.wpbakery.com/addons/buddypress-shortcodes/
We cannot say for sure if this will work or not though. Maybe some of our users that bought this package can confirm if it works or not.
Thank you!
Hi;
I bought your theme and using only 2 add-ons: WPBakery Visual Composer and tagDiv Social Counter but there are thousands of spam mails queeing for sending from my site, so its a terrible thing for me. Can you help me?
There are 20 other websites running on my server, they don’t have any problem like this.
I delete VC plugin,
and
installed js_composer.zip.
why appear message?
There is a new version of WPBakery Visual Composer available. View version 4.11.1 details. Automatic update is unavailable for this plugin. To receive automatic updates license activation is required. Please visit settings to activate your Visual Composer. Got Visual Composer in theme?
Hi,
Since I’ve updated the theme to the latest version (6.7), the site is so slow and it’s taking a lot of server resources. I’ve seen this particularly when enabling/disabling the WPBakery Visual Composer plugin. When it’s enabled the server usage is 90%, and when I disable it, it drops to 2-3%.
Also there was a new version of the plugin immediately after you updated the theme to version 6.7 and maybe that should be the problem of this slowness!
When I scroll to the bottom of my blog and select the 2, 3, 4, etc page number at the bottom it doesn’t take me where it should. It just refreshes the page. I’m not sure why that is the case.
My url is: http://www.letstalkfantasyfootball.com/
I’ve deactivated my plugins one by one while turning off my Cloudflare to try and find the issue but I’ve had no luck.
Do you guys think it’s theme related or am I simply missing something here?
Thanks!
Plugins I’m using:
AMP
BackWPup
Contact Form 7
Contact Form DB
Disqus Conditional Load
Facebook Instant Articles & Google AMP Pages by PageFrog
Glue for Yoast SEO and AMP
Google Analytics by Yoast
Graphiq Search
Redirection
Revolution Slider
StarBox
SumoMe
Wordfence Security
WP Rocket
WP Smush Pro
WPBakery Visual Composer
Yoast SEO
Hi
I Would like to speed up my site and go on PHP 7 from my actual PHP 5.6
I get a shared premium Hosting with OVH that workd really well.
All (non newsmag) plugins are compatible with PHP 7: AdRotate, Advanced Custom Fields Pro, Akismet, SEO Redirection, WP Rocket and Yoast SEO
Questions are:
1) Is the Newsmag theme compatible with PHP 7?
2) Are the newsmag plugins I have activated compatible with PHP 7?
– tagDiv Social Counter
– WPBakery Visual Composer
3) due to your experience there is a way to proper way to proceed to this migration?
Thanks in advance
Fabrizio
I uploaded the newspaper theme to a test site. Everything worked great including visual composer. I then uploaded the theme to my intended site and visual composer is not working. I then removed the theme and it’s elements from the test site and still visual composer would not work. I then purchased visual composer and uploded it to my main site. Still visual composer will not work. I contacted the plugin publisher WPBakery and they said there is a conflict with the “inbuilt version of Visual Composer (or the related code) present in your theme.”
I do not know where to go from here but I hope to have visual composer working ASAP.
Thank you in advance.
Hello Dariob,
The latest version of Revolution Slider which is tested with our theme is 5.2.2 as you can see here -> http://screencast.com/t/cBh0cyCRY9 This kind of plugin comes bundled with our theme. If you want to have the latest version, ensure that you have downloaded the recent update of the theme which includes this plugin and you have to delete the old version and install manually from your latest folder which you have downloaded from Theme Forest (revslider.zip), like this -> http://screencast.com/t/E1LhZnoZC6y Please follow the same steps which are shown in the tutorial for updating the Visual Composer, like this -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
Thank you for the message!
