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- NewsmagRequirements for Newsmag
- NewsmagInstall via WordPress
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- NewsmagBlock settings tutorial
- NewsmagtagDiv Social Counter tutorial
- NewsmagHow to update the WPBakery plugin
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Fair enough, Bogdan. You got to move on your own not depending on VC, a third party plugin, although it served a great purpose at a different time. VC is no doubt a great plugin but if you have to play at its tune then it’s obviously not the best option for Newspaper theme. So I understand your move. I sincerely hope the td composer will soon become popular among Newspaper users.
A suggestion that could save you lots of hassle- do not install td composer along with the theme upgrade. Let users understand what it is, how it works, and decide on their own when to or whether to install it. What happens now is, it is installed by default and by nature overpowers VC, and that seems to be causing issues. This, of course, only if it is technically feasible considering you may have written the theme codes keeping tdc in mind and may need it to be installed while upgrading. Just a thought… Have a good day!
Hello,
Both visual composer and the tagdiv composer will not work both at the same time. Please only use one or the other.
As for the add-ons, they themselves have not been tested with our theme. Only the masic visual composer plugin is tested but not it’s add-ons.
Thank you!
Hi.
I do not use child theme. I also do not use visual composer. Just Tagdiv composer
Thanks
Hi,
It could be a child theme that is causing this error. Code from the child theme might need adjustment for the new theme version. Try disabling it and see if the error is still present.
Also if you use Visual composer try disabling the tagDiv composer, or the other way around and check if this has any effect.
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Hello,
Thank you for all your appreciation and back-up. We appreciate the kind words.
I’m not saying that all of the problems originate from the misuse of visual composer but most of them certainly do. It was our fault that we left the visual composer options active even though they did not run properly. We created a guide to teach people the proper and intended way of using VC with our theme in order not to limit the user so he will not feel restrained https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-use-visual-composer/, but it backfired now since moving over to our new page builder.
Basically just the 3 columns work properly and pages only as mentioned in the guide above. We have mentioned this lots of times but people still used the options even though not recommended. Now the layout breaks exactly because of that use of unintended options found in VC.
However the solution is simple. Disable the tagdiv composer plugin and use VC as before.
The downside when using visual composer in an unintended way is that moving to our own page builder now will be more difficult as we did not make the same mistake again. We only left the proper columns active in the settings and we do not allow the use of the new page builder on posts.
If this is something you cannot live without, then the new builder is not for you.
Thank you for your understanding and I hope this sheds some light on the subject.
Hello,
Please do not use both page builders at the same time. This is a known issue when using both visual composer and the tagdiv composer.
Thank you!
Hi,
Please check the theme system status and make modifications to the parameters mentioned in this guide, if necessary
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/system-status-parameters-guide/
This might be the cause for the theme and plugins to not function properly. It could also be a plugin conflict. Try as a test to temporarily disable all plugins except the tagDiv composer and theme plugins and clear any caching installed. Then test to see if it works as intended.
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I tested and work.
Dont have problem if I user Visual Composer to posts?
Hi,
The error is displayed when you are not using the tagDiv composer editor. A solution would be to edit one of your theme files. Please copy the code provided here
– https://pastebin.com/kwhQw4NT
Then edit the td_block_text_with_title.php file from your theme (Newspaper/includes/shortcodes/td_block_text_with_title.php)
And replace all the found code with the one provided
– https://www.screencast.com/t/XziIqPVDEhbG
Then the error will not be displayed anymore, when the tagDiv composer is deactivated. We are sorry for any inconvenience this has caused for you. Please let us know if you have further problems.
Thank you!
Hi,
If you used Visual composer to create your website, then deactivate the tagDiv composer and everything should work fine. Maybe something went wrong during the update process. Please try and reinstall the theme by FTP
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/install-via-ftp/
Than temporarily deactivate all your plugins except Visual composer and theme plugins, and clear any caching installed. If the error is still present, it would be helpful if you could provide some screenshots so we can see.
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Hi,
Please provide more details about this problem, so we can better understand why it is not working. What happens when you activate the plugin, and is there an error of some kind displayed.
Try deactivating all other plugins, then activate the tagDiv composer. This editor is tested and created specially for the theme, and it should work accordingly.
Also check the theme system status and make modifications to the parameters mentioned in this guide, if necessary
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/system-status-parameters-guide/
This will ensure the proper functionality of the theme and plugins. You could ask your hosting provider to make theme for you if needed.
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Hello,
Single image blocks are the first to be affected if using both page builders at the same time. Please do not use both the visual composer and the tagdiv composer simultaneously. Please only use one or the other.
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Hi,
The tagDiv composer will automatically be installed and activated when the theme is updated, or installed for the first time
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-composer-tutorial/
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Hello,
The absolute best way of going about this is to read the theme documentation and learn how to build pages in the page builder. Then you can build whichever layout you need/like using our theme
Please start here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-composer-tutorial-2/
This guide shoud help with the settings: https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-block-settings-tutorial/
Here is a more visual presentation of the page builder even though it’s from our newspaper theme but the builder works in the same way:
Thanks.
Hello,
I think this is the guide Catalin was trying to show:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/block-settings-guide/
SInce the new tagdiv composer, our documentation no longer covers visual composer settings, but the block settings are the same ones on both builders.
You cna change a block title from the block settings. Please access your page and edit the blocks in your preferred page builder.
Thank you!
Hello,
The effect is added by changing the grid style in the tagdiv composer or visual composer. Each big grid has a few styles to choose from:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-block-settings-tutorial/
Thank you!
After I’ve updated Newsmag to version 4.0 and visual Composer to 5.2, I found that Responsive options in Visual Composer (from the pencil above each column) is not working anymore. I tried to make some column to hide on mobile device and show only PC but the result is it shows on every device regardless the size of the screen. Please check if this is a bug. If it’s not a bug, please let me know how to fix this problem or what cause this problem.
Thank you.
Hi,
I cannot access your website at the moment
– https://www.screencast.com/t/jnxRQ85DX
Again I have places the slide element in Visual composer like in your page, and there is no problem with it for me
– https://www.screencast.com/t/MycnfwwjLL
– https://www.screencast.com/t/JOsP7aVogu
If it is not working properly for you, maybe it is a plugin conflict, or custom code. You could check if that is the case.
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Hi,
Please check the theme system status and make modifications to the WordPress and server parameters mentioned in this guide, if necessary
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/system-status-parameters-guide/
You could ask your hosting provider to make them for you if needed, they might have a recommended method in this matter.
This will ensure the proper functionality of the theme and plugins.
After making the changes, check if everything works using the tagDiv composer. Please let us know if you still have problems.
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Hello,
I want to update Newspaper 8.0.1, but there’s a problem.
I have installed Visual Composer and visual composer add-ons, there are
Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer, Visual Composer Extensions All in one and
Youtube Video Gallery-Youtube Channel For Visual Composer with Video Advertising.
When I will change to tagDiv Composer, Does not visual composer add-ons work?
In case there are more people interested in these two functionalities that for we are very important:
1.- Possibility of having a vertical menu sections to the left as most of the newspapers are enabling. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ https://www.ft.com/, https://www.nytimes.com/ etc,.
2.- Possibility of unpublish or disable rows to, depending on the day or the time of day, to enable one sections or others. It’s basic for a real newspaper. To us it supposes many problems that it has disappeared this functionality that had visual composer.
Please, consider this.
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Dear tagDiv Team,
I would know how to update Newspaper 8 theme to 8.1 version without losing all the changes I have made on the themplate.
I didn’t write any code or css changes, but of course I modified the homepage via TagDiv composer and the theme via the Newspaper8 Theme Control Panel.
How can I keep all the changes I have applied on my website? Will I lose them?
Waiting your courteous reply,
Best Regards,
Marco
I trust tagdiv team and there is no doubt that Newspaper is in fact the best theme available in many ways. I also believe that td composer is a great addition and will be very helpful in the long tun. However, I feel compelled to say that starting version 8, this forum has seen many users reporting issues, caused apparently due to td composer (some issues obviously due to improper installation procedures). In any case, knowing the nature of any such major update, I skipped updating 8 and waited for 8.1.
Updating did not cause any major issue in my case although it did wipe out all my sidebar widgets. I had to spend some time to make them work again. To those who have not yet updated to 8 or 8.1, I would suggest note down all your settings like widgets and stuff before upgrading.
The other thing I faced is, my social counters stopped working on facebook although I upgraded the social counter plugin also. I deleted cache, etc. but it didn’t work. My Post fb likes had started disappearing before I upgraded to 8.1 so I wouldn’t count the upgrade responsible for it but after upgrading, my fb Page likes also became 0. In order to verify the issue was not with facebook, I used Jetpack facebook Likes plugin and my Page likes came back. So I suspect there is some issue with the plugin, either tdc or social counter that caused the Page Likes to become 0. This forced me to deactivate tdc although it did not solve the problem then. I must add that after some time when I tried with another computer, the fb Likes reappeared even using td social counter, so the issue may have been caused by some traces of cache or whatever on the first computer but the main point to be noted is, the Page likes did disappear. Hope that can be looked into. For the time being I have switched to Jetpack fb counter but hope to switch back to td social counter soon. I guess I will wait for the next tdc update. I am wiring all this with the hope that it will help users and developers resolve whatever issues may be there.
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This reply was modified 9 years by
Mayapur Voice.
I like and trust the TagDiv team, I just believe that there is no way to generalize with a page-only solution, when you have a magazine theme and the idea is to propitiate through WordPress and its quick editing of notes via posts, the solution Should consider better migration.
From what I see in the forum we are several who have problems with the posts. In my case it is the sidebar that overlaps with the content that was previously in Visual Composer.
After installing TagDiv you can not choose to use it for one thing or another. It is a definite change since if it is active there is a conflict with the VC and the sidebar does not work. If we activate the VC and deactivate the TDC we simply do not have the blocks for the main pages.
That is, would not it be too much to ask for an intermediary solution?
I do not need an editor for the posts, I WANT TO USE THE TDC. But if the sidebar does not work and the VC is conflicting … maybe you have to change the subject. Even enjoying it and using it for so long.
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This reply was modified 9 years by
monoazulweb.
I had to deactivate tagdiv composer, delete it and then reinstalled it. And it worked.
Hope it works for you as well.