You can use both, yes! The api uses the plugin provided here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/practical-example-how-to-add-a-new-block-and-module/ you can also create a child theme for other modifications.
Thank you!
Hi there,
Since yesterday, I am facing a weird issue related to the footer and the sidebar: the footer stretched itself, but not in all the pages/posts (just in some of them), and the posts main sidebar (located on the right), has now “moved” to the left, leaving a huge blank space on the right and covering up the post content.
I have tried by disabling all plugins,cleaning cache, deleting and reinstalling main and child theme but, no luck: the issue is still there.
Since the site is not live yet so, I can provide the support team both FTP and WP admin access (if you give me an e-mail or way to contact you by private message, I will send the details to you), so you can check what’s happening and what might be wrong.
Thank you
Thank you. Is a combination possible, e.g. using a child theme and using the theme-api via a plugin?
Hello,
Unfortunately I cannot provide a precise answer if one or the other is the best way to go. Generally, if you wish to simply adjust/modify the theme elements, then you can use a child theme. If you want to add content then you should use the api plugin. But you are the one that has to make this decision. This is simply a suggestion not anything else.
I hope this helps.
Thanks.
Hi there!
Would you be so kind to tell how did you resolve it? I am facing the very same problem since today, and I don’t know how to fix it (I have even tried by installing the main theme folder again, as I ma working with the child one- but it hasn’t worked).
Thank you
What is the better way to modify and amend the newspaper theme – via child-theme or via a plugin using the theme-api? Which one does offer more flexibility?
We definitely want to change / add some things but unsure, which way to go…
Hi,
I’m working with the child theme of Newspaper 6.
My Web has boxed style, but I would like to have some “separator” sections with full width. I saw in the demo content page “Video” that it’s possible, but I can’t configure my page like that, and the page setting it’s app
apparently equal to the demo video page.
What can I do wrong?
Thanks.
Here’s part of the code for one of the posts that should have a placeholder image, but doesn’t:
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it would appear that it’s not trying to load any image at all for some reason. I just don’t get it.
Also, I’m not using the child theme. I use the full Newsmag theme.
Hi folks.
For some reason the editor-style.css in main theme (or child theme, I’ve tried) are not applied even though they are loaded fine in the tinyMCEPreInit.
For example the sidebar image is not loaded.
Any ideas?
Tip:
look at your page source, see what the “printed” image link is.
Open that link in browser, is the image actually there?
http://yoursite.iii/wp-content/themes/Newsmag/images/no-thumb/td_sizehere.png ?
If using child theme, did you replace in the child theme location as well ?
Disable any minification tools you may be running for testing.
Hello bradmiskell,
Please consult our documentation about Child Theme support. As you can see here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-child-theme-support-tutorial/ the td_module_single.php Here you can find what kind of files could be overwritten by Child Theme and wich are not.
Hope this helps!
Thank you for the message!
Hello mustamar,
Unfortunately, this kind of file is not rewritten with child theme as you can see in our documentation, here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-child-theme-support-tutorial/ and therefore is nothing happened. The single way to achieve this it to set manually.
Thank you for the message!
Hello,
Basically your problems from 1 to 5 are all related to the same problem. Please disable all plugins except visual composer and clear your cache (also reset cdn if you use it). These issues are often plugin conflicts. Not all plugins are compatible with premium themes as the code is custom.(plugins are created on the default WP code)
If these issues only appear in the child theme, then please try to recreate it and use the one that comes with the theme: http://screencast.com/t/AtA0saskv7bR
your last question is a different matter. It is a known problem that will get fixed in a future version of the theme. Until then, there is a workaround. Please follow this topic to see how it can be done:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/search-error-message-thumbnail-is-not-set/
Thank you!
Hello Chief3,
The template wich you should edit is search.php and you find it in our theme files, like this -> http://screencast.com/t/QEmt0NrXcVnR If you want to change the thumb, you should edit the files from modules folder, according to your module used by you, like this -> http://screencast.com/t/Zd3bU1FUtSGH
For more information about child theme, please consult our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-child-theme-support-tutorial/ In this documentation you have information about what kind of files could be used in the child theme and wich not. Also, if you want to create another module, please consult our API documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/td_api_moduleadd/
If you want to display more levels in our theme and you are not aware the steps in this regard, please consider hiring a freelancer/developer to do this for you because we cannot provide custom services at the moment, we only we can guide you to the right direction, sorry!
Hope this helps!
Thank you for the message!
Hello,
It will work from the child theme. Simply copy over the 404 file from the main theme over to the root folder of the child theme (please make sure you update your child theme if you have an older version of it. A child theme comes with every version of the theme).
Thank you!
I noticed a lot of those problems in the list(#1 #2 #4 #5) only happens under CHILD-THEME.
Don`t know why.
As for the problem #6, this guy as well; https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/small-bug-on-search-results/
Hello.
I have a problem with my newsmag child theme.
I want to change H3 to H2 for every post title in search and category archive.
How to do that?
I have created includes/wp_booster/td_module.php in my child theme, then change h3 to h2 in the file, but nothing happened.
Please help.
Should edits like this — to .php docs — be done within the context of a Child Theme? Obviously, I’m thinking in terms of theme updates. If so, should it be nested in Child Theme directories per Newspaper Theme structure?
Sorry if this is a stupid Q. Thanks.
Hi Chris,
Yes i’ve tried that “mark as fixed” several times and a few days later the error comes back. So its not just ping/update conflict.
I do not believe this is a common issue as I have a friend with a different child theme and he has no problems so this is Newspaper specific.
Where would I need to search to find the log file error on my VPS?
Hi there,
I would like to edit the template of my search results and was wondering what template doc I could use in my child theme to do so. I would like to add universal thumbnails for when a search result is not a post. (i.e.) when a search result is a PDF or has a certain name on it’s file. I have the code ready, I just need to know where to place. Thanks.
Is this a general issue with ALL wordpress child themes when you try to update?
When you say change theme temporarily, what way in particular?
Can this be resolved?
Always interesting to see that other people have different views :).
I basically used the same logic to go in a completely different direction. On my older Joomla and WordPress based websites I didn’t know how to create overrides and such. The more websites I got (currently about 8 now) and the more time passed (oldest is 2008), the harder it was to remember what I did and why.
So I started to create these detailed log files to deal with that. Of course after a year I always had to search for those files because I forgot where I left those logs :P. The most annoying stuff I did was editing the style.css directly. That meant that every time I wanted to update I had to do a code comparison between files that were by definition not similar!
In the end I got fed up with “wasting” my time and invested time and effort to learn how to create overrides and unload functions for both Joomla and WordPress. Now I am glad I did because it is saving me so much time. All minor updates are now handled automatically by the server. Major versions I have to manually “order” so I can check if nothing went wrong. This is basically a 95% reduction of time I spend on maintenance.
Of course there are some downsides. It takes more effort to implement and you have the @css import, which is not SEO optimal. And yes at some point you will need to re-apply your changes on the latest files. Child themes do not make you immune to change.
Don’t forget about the importance of updating though. Last year there were some serious security exploits in a lot of themes. Years ago a leak in the Joomla upload function once resulted in a php script being uploaded that was used to send emails. Not fun :(.
Hello studiotopo,
Unfortunately, the td_panel_generator.php file is not supported by the Child Theme and it is not overwritten by the theme but only the footer.php. You can do the changes for footer.php in the child theme and the other one into your main theme if you want. Please notice that if you have the child theme, on the new update, the theme overwritten the code and you can lose this changes.
For more information about child theme, please consult our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-child-theme-support-tutorial/
Thank you for the message!
Hi,
just an info: I use the child theme and I have insert the edited footer.php file inside.
As there is to edit the td_panel_generator.php, how can I do to use it inside the child theme?
