- NewspaperChild Theme Support
- NewspaperIntroduction to CPT and ACF with Newspaper Theme
- NewspaperHow to Update the Newspaper Theme
- NewspaperWhat’s Included in the Newspaper Theme Package
- NewspaperFlex Block Settings Guide
- NewspaperPrimary Category: Build a hierarchy for your website
- NewspaperBreadcrumbs
- NewspaperHow to Install Newspaper via FTP
- NewspaperHow to Install Newspaper via WordPress
Hi Guys,
We use custom fields within the child theme for page.php, loop-single.php and loop-single-1.php as well as a mailchimp signup in footer.php.
Is there an alternative to having to update these each time you release a theme update?
David
@sathana So you want the ad to not be displayed in the homepage, while in the rest of the website it should appear. One solution is to use a cloud header template in the homepage. Edit the homepage and load or create a cloud header template – http://prntscr.com/ninsf7
– http://prntscr.com/ninskg
So you can create or load a cloud header template just in the homepage, what it contains is up to you. It will be displayed just in the homepage. With this functionality each page or template can use a different header, the possibilities are many.
@lpa_admin I can’t say for sure if that will work for sure, if those files will change or not. It is true that the child theme has lost most of it’s usefulness, as it is currently limited to just a few files after the 9.7 update.
We will try to find a way of allowing files from the composer to be modified without doing it directly. If such a way is found we will create documentation for it.
Thanks Simion.
Just found out.
Is there a way that I modify this without core modifications?
Via child theme functions.php file?
Or any other adviseable way?
Hi,
If you are using the child theme for your customization and you make some changes in other file then style.css or functions.php then in Newspaper v9.7 these will not longer work -> https://tagdiv.com/updating-the-core-of-tagdiv-themes/
If your customization are made only in theme panel, those will not be lost.
-> https://tagdiv.com/update-newspaper-theme/
Thank you!
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. I that case, all of your additional customizations will be lost, sorry! Before making any update, we recommend to make a full backup to your database and then, all of your additional customizations should have to be re-added.
Regarding on TD Composer, please notice this the main required plugin of our theme and it has to be enabled if you want to have the all theme functionality. If you do not like it, you can also install the WP Backey and keep both to be enabled.
Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for understanding.
Thank you!
Hi,
Depends, if you use a default predefined post template style and wish to insert that shortcode, you would have to edit the post template files. After update 9.7 the post template files have been moved in the tagDiv composer plugin – http://prntscr.com/nilv4m Some similar topics to use do_shortcode here – https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/ads-below-pagination/
For older theme versions a child theme could be used to copy and modify/add code in the single template files – https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-child-theme-support-tutorial/
Or you could use a cloud post template – https://cloud.tagdiv.com/#/load/Single
In this case you can add a column text element in the template with the composer, in the location you want, and add the shortcode in it – http://prntscr.com/nilxwn
Let me know if you have more questions.
Thanks
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.
You can make a test on fresh install or on a cop[y of your live website, deactivate all non theme plugins and check the mobile menu ( deactivate the cache plugin too ).
Thank you!
Hi,
Chances are the modifications you made to theme files in the child theme will not be valid anymore. Many theme files were moved in the tagDiv composer and will be served from there. Now the child theme is limited to a functions file, style, and a few theme files that can still be modified in it.
Please download the theme package again and update the theme, delete the old theme and upload the new one. Update the theme plugins as well. Don’t make any modifications to theme of plugin files after the update. Also what PHP version are you using? try using PHP 7, 7.1 or 7.2 if possible.
Thanks
Hi @Ravi Shanker,
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.
WP_MEMORY_LIMIT try to increase it at least to 256mb.
Also please check the php version to be 7-7.2
When tagDiv Composer is not working -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-composer-not-working/
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 are still a problem please remove the theme and reinstall the theme via FTP.
Let me know how is works!
Thank you!
Hi,
Yes, the child with amp customization will work only on theme not on mobile plugin.
Thank you!
Replied in your other topic – https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/child-theme-30/
Hi,
Since theme update 9.7 most of the theme files have been moved in the tagDiv composer plugin – https://tagdiv.com/updating-the-core-of-tagdiv-themes/
So customizing these files is not possible to do in a child theme anymore. One way would be to modify them in the composer plugin directly, but the changes will be lost after a theme update because the plugins will be updated as well.
The child theme is now limited to a functions and style files, and a few files that were not moved in the composer and can still be used in it.
Maybe a solution will be found to be able to modify theme files found in the plugin more safely, we will create documentation for it if that happens. If you have more questions pleas let me know.
Thanks
Hi,
From what I can see in your screenshots, the header template is empty.
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 import a new header template from tagDiv Cloud Library and try to edit it.
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.
Thank you!
Today I updated Newsmag Theme 4.7 to 4.8 via WordPress. After it I had fatal error like here above. I called my webhoster and they renamed the plugin AMP. After that I was able to go to the dashboard deactivating 4.8, deleting and uploading 4.7 again. Now my website top energy news is online again. 4.7 is working. May be the plugin tagDiv AMP must be deactivated and deleted and then updating to 4.8 is possible, isn’t it? Should I delete the child theme also? There is a problem with one or more tagDiv plugins. What do you think? WP Bakery Theme 5.7 is working. I updated it from Newsmag 4.8 Package. Regards
Agree – we also work with multiple themes and the other themes still work with the child theme while meeting envato requirements.
We are also going to wait and see if they will make this situation right. If not we will stop using this theme all together. it is a shame since we already invested alot of hours and money it getting this theme customized. but we will cut our losses.
The treatment given at this time is so much disrespectful. A decision was made away from the interests of your customers and you seek to exempt yourself by hiding behind the new envato requirements.
Maybe you guys were just rushing to make this update available, which is really a downgrade, since it worsens in every way the functionality of the template. You know there is no possibility in wordpress to make child plugins, and even then you moved the theme files to plugins folders.I’ve checked that a header template file (just like some others) still remains in a folder structure in the theme directory. All others have already been moved to plugin folders. So this was not a well done update, it was a trick, was a workaround that worsened the quality of the template.
Come on guys, you can do a lot better for your customers. I hope this is not a complete abandonment of your customers, and you intend to support your customers in the sense that you know it is right.
But do it quickly away because it’s already obvious to everyone here including my team that the effort to get a new template is minor than looking for alternatives to save the mess you guys have made.
@raqy couldn’t agree more. I’ve decide to stay at 9.6.1 till they deliver a right solution for child theme
Hi Tagdiv
I used the automatic update process you suggest at C. 6 point (automatic update) of this page https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ but the result is the same. Theme broken & complete mess.
The problem is customizations we made in our Child theme that are not compatible with the new 4.8 version.
We need this kind of customitazions and we have paid money to a Pro to get it. And know you told us that are not compatible!!!
Tell us how to solve the problem without spend other money please.
About TagDiv Composer
We built our magazine with the previuous version of Newsmag Theme with Visual Composer and we like it. See Fabrizio Azzali review on your theme page.
In the lasts theme versions you use TAG DIV visual composer. We do not love visual editors. It is possible to delete TAG DIV Composer plugin from installation?
Newspaper is not my only Theme.
I have several other envato Themeforest WordPress themes including X Theme and Avada Theme.
They are still up and running with a child theme following envato requirements. So whats the issue?
We all know it is best WordPress practice to use a child Theme.
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This reply was modified 7 years by
knaggsy.
I will NOT be updating anymore until Child theme support is back.
I use child theme for :
-Adding Trending News ticker in the /parts/header-style-9.php
-Adding Facebook Comments shortcode to loop-single-2.php
-Custom pages using loop-customposttype.php
-Adding Google Translate icons to td_module_single.php
-Remove some Meta info from td_module_slide.php
and other things. We need child theme support. Please find a way to let us edit the php code.
thanks
/Johnny
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This reply was modified 7 years by
bananaj.
Hi Calin
Apologies about the web site but it’s all sorted now. However, I am confused about the new Envato-compliant version of Newspaper 9.7.2 and the use of child themes.
Given I have modified module 8 and the corresponding CSS where does this now sit in terms if a child theme, as the related block/module includes has moved to a “legacy” folder within wp-content>plugins etc.
This seems to me that I cannot create a child and my customised block will be overwritten each time their is an update.
Is this the case? If so, how do you recommend getting around this?
Thanks
Best
Gary
Can we assume that the legacy code in header-style-10 will not be updated each time td-composer plugin is updated? Previously, we used mods to that code in a child theme to select an appropriate header for a page. Clearly, that doesn’t work anymore. We will investigate the use of cloud header templates but it is sad to see such a useful capability disappear.
same issue here !
it works with normal version of the theme but not with child theme (even with yesterday’s update)
I think tagdiv should release patch for Newspaper 9.6.1 users. Because a lot of users, include me, use old version 9.6.1 because in 9.7.* cannot save current customization from child theme.