In case anyone stumbles onto this… There is no way to customize without risking changes being overwritten when TD pushes updates.
Catalin L. May 8, 2019 at 7:54 am
Hi,
Most of the theme files were moved into the tagDiv Composer plugin as per the requirements of Envato: https://help.author.envato.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000472383-WordPress-Theme-Requirements, as we wrote an article on that subject. In the future, if you need to make some changes over those core files, you need to check the files from here -> https://www.screencast.com/t/Pu345nqP If you need more assistance in this case, please open a new topic at our support forum from here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/forum/newspaper/
Thank you!
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AvatarMatt Pramschufer May 9, 2019 at 3:39 pm
So does this mean that you have to edit the core plugin files directly!? I have made changes to the footer and various part of site through child theme template customizations, how are these suppose to be added now without editing the core plugin files?
Example. I have a child theme and have
childtheme/parts/footer/td_footer_template_14.php
I have added an above footer widget area to this file, and now this is gone. How would I re-add this functionality?
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Catalin L.Catalin L. May 10, 2019 at 7:36 am
Hi,
Most of the theme files were moved into the tagDiv composer plugin as per the requirements of Envato: https://help.author.envato.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000472383-WordPress-Theme-Requirements.
We wrote an article on the subject here: https://tagdiv.com/updating-the-core-of-tagdiv-themes/
Moving forward with such requirements, a child theme will only work with functions.php, and style.css, as there are very few files left in the main theme as Envato, requires all functionality to be added through plugins. From now on, if you want to make some changes over the footer theme templates, you need to edit the code from here -> https://www.screencast.com/t/RqUdpKc8 Also, if you need more assistance in this case, please open a new topic at our support forum from here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/forum/newspaper/
Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for understanding!
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AvatarMatt Pramschufer May 13, 2019 at 4:59 pm
That does not help at all. What happens when you update the TD Composer plugin? All of the updates that were done to those would be replaced.
This is NOT going to work for continuous development using the Newspaper theme.
There are ways to incorporate locate_template() within a plugin so that you can still maintain the functionality of overriding core templates.
This is not an inconvenience this is a DEAL BREAKER for utilizing this theme going forward with new clients, the flexibility and customization of this theme just went from 90% down to 0%.
Catalin L.Catalin L. May 14, 2019 at 7:53 am
Hi,
The Newspaper theme update brings a change for the customers that use WP Bakery Page Builder with our Theme: when you’ll be updating to the Newspaper 9.7.2 version, you’ll need to activate the tagDiv Composer to keep the Newspaper theme functionality you’ve previously used. Otherwise, you will have basic WordPress functionality, complying with Envato WordPress Requirements – https://help.author.envato.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000472383-WordPress-Theme-Requirements.
Please note that activating the tagDiv Composer doesn’t mean that you are required to use our custom page builder on your website. You can use the WP Bakery page builder as you did before the update. We recommended you to do not use the tagDiv Composer and WP Bakery page builders on the same page though, because you cannot edit with WP Baker blocks and shortcodes created with tagDiv Composer or vice-versa. Regarding your customizations, if you have made and have affected some of the theme core files when you will make the theme update, all of these files will be overwritten. You need to make a full backup and then, all these customizations should have to be implemented again to the core files.
Thank you!
AvatarMatt Pramschufer May 14, 2019 at 9:19 pm
Catalin,
Your response has nothing to do with the issue I proposed. I did not say anything about WP Bakery.
The theme has no hooks at all to implement customizations on a plugin level, and now the functionality of customizing page/post templates has been removed without introducing a new method to make those customizations.
Your answer of just “hack the core files” is absurd. You can not really believe that your customers are going to think this “cowboy coding” way is going to fly in 2019?
Is there someone on your development team or someone higher up that you could connect me to?
I have built out over 20 media publications using the Newspaper theme, all of which have customizations. If I make changes to the TD Composer plugin and you push out an update, it is only a matter of time before all of those customizations are lost.
Catalin L.Catalin L. May 15, 2019 at 8:12 am
Hi,
Sorry for the inconvenience! In your case, if this update will affect your websites, the best solution is to keep the old theme version (9.1) for them. This can be downloaded from here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/important-new-update-newspaper-9-7/ Please notice that we try doing our best and where we find a way for this case, we will make an update with this, sorry! At the moment, there is no such thing, sorry!
Thank you!
Hi,
Please make sure that you do not have a plugin conflict, please deactivate all non theme plugins, also if you are using child theme or cache plugin, please deactivate them, clear all cache and try again.
Please make sure that the theme system status is configured as mentioned in the requirements guide. Please follow the guide carefully
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/
and please increase all requirements that are lower, and follow all steps.
WP_MEMORY_LIMIT try to increase it to a value of double you already have if possible.
Please add this code in the .htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_substitute.c>
SubstituteMaxLineLength 10M
</IfModule>
If there is still a problem, you can send us an email at contact@tagdiv.com and provide admin login. We will take a look. Include a link to this topic in the email.
Thank you for your understanding.
Hi Calin,
Thank you for your reply. I deactivated all non theme plugins and cleared the cash. Did not helped. I do not use child theme.
Please find our settings. Is is possible to localize the drawbacks?
settings
Hi,
Please make sure that you do not have a plugin conflict, please deactivate all non theme plugins, also if you are using child theme or cache plugin, please deactivate them, clear all cache and try again.
Also please check if you do not have some code set in analytics or custom code even in ads you can check.
Thank you!
Hi,
Please make sure that you do not have a plugin conflict, please deactivate all non theme plugins, also if you are using child theme or cache plugin, please deactivate them, clear all cache and try again.
Category Templates: ‘How to’ Tips and Useful Best Practice Examples -> https://tagdiv.com/find-whats-new-category-templates/
Block settings guide -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/block-settings-guide/
Thank you!
Hi,
Please make sure that you do not have a plugin conflict, please deactivate all non theme plugins, also if you are using child theme or cache plugin, please deactivate them, clear all cache and try again.
Please make sure that all the settings are like in our requirements, please follow the guide carefully
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/
and please increase all requirements that are lower, and follow all steps.
Try to increase the WP_MEMORY_LIMIT to 128mb or 256mb if is possible.
Thank you!
Hi,
Unfortunately the sticky sidebar will not work if you are using the Infinite Loading, sorry!
Please make sure that you do not have a plugin conflict, please deactivate all non theme plugins, also if you are using child theme or cache plugin, please deactivate them, clear all cache and try again.
Please make sure that all the settings are like in our requirements, please follow the guide carefully
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/
and please increase all requirements that are lower, and follow all steps.
Thank you!
Hi,
Please make sure that you do not have a plugin conflict, please deactivate all non theme plugins, also if you are using child theme or cache plugin, please deactivate them, clear all cache and try again.
-> https://www.screencast.com/t/m5XMhnmAIbn
If there is still a problem, you can send us an email at contact@tagdiv.com and provide admin login. We will take a look. Include a link to this topic in the email.
Thank you!
Hi again
I really love what the CSS changes above does to my blog, both on desktop and mobile. But after the last WP/theme update something has changed on the desktop; the two columns with pictures next to eachother are no longer the same size of the pictures in the text blog/width. https://www.ladiesabroad.se/2019/04/isla-holbox-mexiko.html, scroll down a bit. (At least I noticed it had changed today, and I did the updates yesterday.)
At the moment I have this CSS pasted into the Costum CSS section:
.single .wp-block-column:not(:last-child) { margin-right: 5px; } .single .wp-block-column:not(:first-child) { margin-left: 5px; } .single .wp-block-image{ margin-bottom: 8px; } .single .has-2-columns .wp-block-column{ margin-bottom: 0px; } .td-post-content p { margin-top: 26px; }
And this in the Advanced CSS -> iPhone section:
.single .wp-block-column:not(:last-child) {
margin-right: 0px;
} .single .wp-block-column:not(:first-child) {
margin-left: 0px;
}
Hello,
Most of the theme files were moved into the tagdiv composer plugin as per the requirements of envato: https://help.author.envato.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000472383-WordPress-Theme-Requirements.
We wrote an article on the subject here: https://tagdiv.com/updating-the-core-of-tagdiv-themes/
Moving forward with such requirements, a child theme will only work with functions.php, and style.css as there are very few files left in the main theme as envato requires all functionality to be added through plugins.
Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for understanding.
Hi Calin,
The child theme isn’t working as expected though.
I’ve used the default child-theme and added td_footer_template_1.php in the parts folder.
It seems like it’s not picking it up.
As a test, i’ve added an additional class to a div, but isn’t visible on the site
was:
<div class=”td-container”>
changed into:
<div class=”td-container another-extra-test-class”>
Can you see/tell why it’s not being overridden?
Here’s a test site i’m playing with: https://forkast.vcbwebdesign.nl
It contains the default wp installation with only the newspaper and child theme activated
Thanks
Hi,
I try your format date and for me is working -> https://www.screencast.com/t/RfESO6ti9 -> https://www.screencast.com/t/3pPnZbMKqfG -> https://www.screencast.com/t/F08BYy6p
Formatting Date and Time -> https://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time
Please make sure that you do not have a plugin conflict, please deactivate all non theme plugins, also if you are using child theme or cache plugin, please deactivate them, clear all cache and try again.
Thank you!
Hi,
Please make sure that you have install/update the theme correctly.
Please make sure that you do not have a plugin conflict, please deactivate all non theme plugins, also if you are using child theme or cache plugin, please deactivate them, clear all cache and try again.
Please make sure that all the settings are like in our requirements, please follow the guide carefully
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/
and please increase all requirements that are lower, and follow all steps.
If the problem is still there, please delete( delete the theme plugins too, do not override ) the current version of Newspaper that you have and download again from themefores the newspaper and reinstall it.
Thank you!
Hi,
Please make sure that you have the last version of theme and use the Gutenberg,
also this can be a plugin conflict, please make sure that you do not have a plugin conflict, please deactivate all non theme plugins, also if you are using child theme or cache plugin, please deactivate them, clear all cache and try again-> https://www.screencast.com/t/Om2AUmOw9 -> https://www.screencast.com/t/hmrvXsb9FuWv
Thank you!
Hello !
This is most likely a plugin conflict. Please make sure that you do not have a plugin conflict, please deactivate all non theme plugins, also if you are using child theme or cache plugin, please deactivate them, clear all cache and try again.
Thank you !
Hi,
This can be a plugin conflict, please make sure that you do not have a plugin conflict, please deactivate all non theme plugins, also if you are using child theme or cache plugin, please deactivate them, clear all cache and try again.
If there is still a problem, you can send us an email at contact@tagdiv.com and provide admin login, as well as cPanel or FTP if possible. We will take a look. Include a link to this topic in the email.
Thank you!
Hi,
This can be a plugin conflict, please make sure that you do not have a plugin conflict, please deactivate all non theme plugins, also if you are using child theme or cache plugin, please deactivate them, clear all cache and try again.
Please make sure that all the settings are like in our requirements, please follow the guide carefully
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/
and please increase all requirements that are lower, and follow all steps.
Thank you!
Hi,
This can be a plugin conflict, please make sure that you do not have a plugin conflict, please deactivate all non theme plugins, also if you are using child theme or cache plugin, please deactivate them, clear all cache and try again.
Thank you!
Hi,
I have deactivated all the plugins (only the ones in the theme itself are active). I don’t use child theme. I have removed any cache program and associated directory.
I checked everything again, and the problem continues. No highlighted image is ever shown.
https://fotos.subefotos.com/496cf9ce8d9b03b8a3de1f06e28d6a17o.jpg
https://fotos.subefotos.com/c72f2264c8e63724f5e141aa37c817b5o.jpg
https://fotos.subefotos.com/2e91a0b410c21e3616a263dfde85b321o.jpg
https://fotos.subefotos.com/5e215b04dcc9094259897c29ada8ef39o.jpg
https://fotos.subefotos.com/1598a96bcdd1f60ce0cc9d316cfa4c7eo.jpg
What could be causing the error?
Hi,
This can be a plugin conflict, please make sure that you do not have a plugin conflict, please deactivate all non theme plugins, also if you are using child theme or cache plugin, please deactivate them, clear all cache and try again.
Please make sure that all the settings are like in our requirements, please follow the guide carefully
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/
and please increase all requirements that are lower, and follow all steps.
Thank you!
Hi,
@Lucas Felix please check this similar topic about mobile theme -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/mobile-home-page/
@bilalbzd please make sure that you set the last version of child, also please make sure that you do not have a plugin conflict, please deactivate all non theme plugins, also if you are using child theme or cache plugin, please deactivate them, clear all cache and try again.
If there is still a problem, please provide me a link to your website to can take a closer look.
Thank you!
Hi,
This can be a plugin conflict, please make sure that you do not have a plugin conflict, please deactivate all non theme plugins, also if you are using child theme or cache plugin, please deactivate them, clear all cache and try again.
Please make sure that all the settings are like in our requirements, please follow the guide carefully
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/
and please increase all requirements that are lower, and follow all steps.
If there is still a problem, you can send us an email at contact@tagdiv.com and provide admin login, as well as cPanel or FTP if possible. We will take a look. Include a link to this topic in the email.
Thank you!
Hi,
Make sure that all is set like in our documentation for sharing -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/sharing/ also please make sure that you do not have a plugin conflict, please deactivate all non theme plugins, also if you are using child theme or cache plugin, please deactivate them, clear all cache and try again.
-> https://www.screencast.com/t/jlZbRIt4HWC
Thank you!
Hi,
If I understand correctly you have set in theme panel to show only the top share buttons and in your website are showing both of theme ( top and bottom), this can be a plugin conflict, please make sure that you do not have a plugin conflict, please deactivate all non theme plugins, also if you are using child theme or cache plugin, please deactivate them, clear all cache and try again.
Thank you!
Hi,
This can be a plugin conflict, please make sure that you do not have a plugin conflict, please deactivate all non theme plugins, also if you are using child theme or cache plugin, please deactivate them, clear all cache and try again.
Please make sure that the tagDiv Composer is activate -> https://www.screencast.com/t/Y1iMuy1sIJ2
Please check our documentation for tagDiv Composer Tutorial -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-composer-tutorial-2/
Homepage – How to build and set it -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-homepage-how-to-build-and-set-it/
Thank you!
