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In our case there was some weird issue with Visual Composer where processes would go out of control and server CPU would spike from “1” to “70” and eventually crash the box even with dual XEONs and 32GB RAM. There was no server side “tweak” to solve it.
At the time, Radu made a “shim” where we could create layouts with most of the TD modules for our home page, disable VC, then leave the shim on. That worked great the past 15 months or whatever it’s been.
If your server had the same particular mix we had, and running 1.71, and the older version of Visual Composer, you can “try” to build your home page, then DISABLE the plugin and see if the pages still load once the CSS is there.
But really, v 3.1 is awesome and I keep finding little gems, like the ” – advertisement – ” for ad spots, the IDs for categories shown in module drop downs (!), etc. — loving it!
Thanks, Bogdan. I’ve been playing around in visual composer and it’s a lot of fun. Thanks for all of your help.
Hello frenzygh,
Let’s take it easy and I want to explain you step by step what you do not understand. As I have explained you above, this is a Big Grid feature which is available only for the static page and not for Blog. If you want to change this, you can do that from panel, like this -> http://screencast.com/t/Fvrr40eHaAO After this, when you create a new page using the Visual Composer, you will have to add what type of Big Grid you want from the table, like this -> http://screencast.com/t/LHkjPn6nCUr -> http://screencast.com/t/BNJwselk3js and the result you should see here -> http://screencast.com/t/c0xNRSyqlwBS So, please notice that if you want to fit all the thumbs of Big Grid you must have some posts in your site to have content to be displayed.
I hope that you understand what I tried to explain above and let us know how it goes!
Thanks for your understanding!
Hello,
The duplication of featured images usually occurs when adding the image in the featured image section and on the post itself thus resulting in 2 images being displayed. Please make sure you do not ad the featured image inside the post content. Only add it here: http://screencast.com/t/fl8HNEo5
If this is not the case, we did have reports in the past with featured image duplication caused by plugins. Sometimes plugins add their own featured image like photon for example. In your case I can see in the code a WPDM template which contains the image. It could be a plugin causing this so please disable all plugins except visual composer, clear cache and reset cdn files. Then check the posts again.
Thank you!
Hello PatWire,
Please try to re-save your Permalinks, clear all your caches and test it again. Also, if you are using some untested plugins in the theme, please try to disable all of them, leave just Visual Composer to active, purge CDN files if you are using the CDN system and install only the plugins that come bundled with our theme and rule out the conflicting plugins.
Thanks for your understanding!
Hi
Try to update Visual Composer plugin at V 3.1 which is included in theme’s patch: https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin/ clear all caches then test the site again.
Let me know how it goes.
Thanks!
Hi
Please make sure that you update the plugin according with our documentation: https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin/ also try to deactivate all other plugins then try to install Visual Composer again.
Let us know how it goes.
Thanks!
Hello foxxx.sale,
Do you want to add blocks in your post content? Also, please notice that our theme has been designed to use the Visual Composer only for pages but if you want you can use this plugin and on posts pages but it is not fully tested with it and probably you will need additional customizations through code. If you want to active the Visual Composer for posts, please turn it on from this -> http://screencast.com/t/tTWQTWU4
If is not what you mean, please provide more details.
Thanks.
I am getting this error on my site http://www.nigerianbride.com:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function vc_map_get_attributes() in /home3/waakmm0aaf7m/public_html/wp-content/themes/Newsmag/vc_templates/vc_row.php on line 32
All the inner pages seem to be working but the home page is not working. I disabled “WPBakery Visual Composer” in the plugins section and the homepage did manage to pop up but not in the normal structure. I meed help please.
Hello,
You will need to edit the page itself and edit the element from visual composer: http://screencast.com/t/Mq9SOjyynXo
Here is a guid on how to set up the social networks properly: https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-social-counter-tutorial-2/
Thank you!
Hello,
If you want to filter the content on pages you need to play around in visual composer a bit and get a feel for it and what it can do. This guide should provide a quick insight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guxT8HgCBFo&list=PL6CsDkMaejhqHDywTTazZ-qpBzB8kFSfT&index=2 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC7iz-v-zIY&list=PL6CsDkMaejhqHDywTTazZ-qpBzB8kFSfT&index=6
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-use-visual-composer/
The filtering of the posts that will show on the theme blocks and grids is done through the block settings.
Here is a tutorial on how to use the block settings to filter the content: https://forum.tagdiv.com/block-settings-guide/
I hope this helps.
Thank you!
Hi
The theme has been developed to be fast but it may still need configurations on this matters so test your site using google’s page speed insights testing tool(or gtmetrix) and make sure you follow the guide instructions and methods then test your site again.
I’ve tested your site using google page speed and noticed that your server response time is very slow. According to google report it takes more then 5 seconds until the server deliver the requested data: http://screencast.com/t/taHVTK3OB Make sure that the server meets theme’s requirements: https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-requirements-for-newsmag/ and also check if the parameters from system status have the values indicated here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/system-status-parameters-guide/
Also try deactivate all plugins except Visual Composer, clear all caches then test your site page-speed again. In terms of speed we have made a page speed guide and covered the most important aspects that google notifies you of (image optimization, js/css render blocking and more..) and based on which it classifies and grades your site regarding speed. You can find it here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
If you decide to use the speed booster keep in mind that is an optional plugin and it was designed to work only with tested plugins – http://screencast.com/t/FXXDNtqfz in case you use other plugins it will be automatically disabled, so please check System Status – http://screencast.com/t/9SmVSXqe To make it work with other plugins you will have to alter the code and remove/comment this – http://screencast.com/t/RZLIOPUNdqh Also you may find some useful information here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/website-memory-problem/ – https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/speed-booster-and-akismet/
Thanks!
Hi,
I am unable to upload visual composer. please let me know regarding this.
Thanks
Hello 4Musky,
Please try to disable all the active plugins, leave just Visual Composer to active, clear all your caches and install only the plugins that come bundled with the theme and rule out the conflicting plugins. Also, if your problem is still there, please send us an email at contact@tagdiv.com with your log-in information (wp-admin) so we can further inspect it. Provide the link of this topic so we can easily identify you.
Thanks.
Hello Balleto,
As I can see in your source page, you are using a RAW HTML from Visual Composer with a custom code added by you. So, please try to disable all your plugins, leave just Visual Composer to active, clear all your caches and install only the plugins that come bundled with our theme and rule out a conflicting plugin. I have checked your console and I noticed that you have some js errors which might be created by these untested plugins which you are using on our theme and which can interact with it and cause a lot of unknown issues.
Hope this helps!
Thaks for your understanding!
Hi
If you don’t need Visual Composer then is not necessary to install it, the theme will works fine without VC, just make sure that you update the theme at V 3.1 as I’ve indicated above.
Thanks!
HI
Thanks @Chris for you help!
@beautywarrior I assume that now you’re using an older version of Visual Composer. In the paste some of plugin’s versions had some issues with high CPU usage but now the plugin was optimized and it works better.
As @Chris pointed would be best to update the theme at V 3.1 which is available on theme forest and also update Visual Composer plugin at V 4.12. Please check our documentation for more details in this regard: https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-how-to-update-the-theme/
Also make sure that the parameters from system status have the values specified in our documentation: https://forum.tagdiv.com/system-status-parameters-guide/ and your server meets theme’s requirements: https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-requirements-for-newsmag/
Thanks!
HI
We deactivate front-end editor from Visual Composer trough a hook because some times appear issues when theme’s blocks are used. You can enable the Visual Composer front-end editor by removing this code from theme’s functions – http://screencast.com/t/1N4LB7WhP2jR but unfortunately, will not work properly if you use theme’s blocks on the page.
Thanks!
Hi
Please note that the plugin is still ion beta version and there is a change to not work as expected on any wp configuration. It may conflict with one of your plugins so try to deactivate them all, then try to use the plugin again. It’s best to test it on a test install, not directly on your live site, just to make sure that there won’t be any issues.
For other questions related with td-composer plugin please open a thread here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/forum/tagdiv-composer/
Thanks!
I dont and never had Visual Composer installed
I have the same problem. But my VP does not appear when I want to create a new entry. I do not have the option to use the plugin.
I can not use my Visual Composer and Slider Revolution and both asked me to activate plugins
Hello, I was able to create the big grid 3 through visual composer but its not live even though I have published the page. Here is a link to the preview “http://frenzygh.com/212-2/” Kindly help me how to make work on site. Thank you
Hi Again,
I manage a template , which includes WPBakery Visual Composer 4.11.1 and it works fine.
Your theme includes newest version of the plugin 4.12 but I can not use it on Frontend editor.
Could you please help me ?
Thanks in advance
Hi Team,
I just uploaded td-composer-newsmag but it doesn’t work:(
I can see the TDComposer on the admin menu >> http://prntscr.com/cc8lxr
If I click on it , nothing happens >>> http://prntscr.com/cc8mdu
What can I do now ?
Thanks in advance
Well, we have dedicated server with dual Xeon E5-2640v3 processors and 32GB of RAM. So, I have enough horsepower to throw at anything pretty much (except that one version/batch/trunk of Visual Composer that killed the box last year! which led to Radu’s “shim” plugin workaround). So, not best person to ask beyond saying “we have never had a problem with it” — but then, I never had issue with wp-postviews either, sooo…. unless you’re trying to do something funky with a CDN, bad ad network with timeout issues, etc. I don’t see a problem.
Oh, I know what one of the ‘hax’ we did was, as I don’t think it originally did/supported ‘async’ mode for stuff; which was one thing we did.
Anyway — works for me, “your mileage may vary.”
(and for you geeky folk; specs on just ONE of the processors on our new server went live Aug 5, sadly as our old server had total RAID failure during migration; http://ark.intel.com/products/83359/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2640-v3-20M-Cache-2_60-GHz ).
