Hi
Please make sure that you installed the plugin from Newsmag-tf\plugins folder. The page-builder should be available here: http://screencast.com/t/DZCD2uY7 You can find more details about VC usage in our documentation https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-how-to-use-visual-composer/
Hope this help.
Thanks!
Hi
I’ve checked your site and the theme works fine, didn’t found any errors or other things which may affect its functionality. I suspect that a plugin may cause this issue so you can try to deactivate all plugins except Visual Composer, clear all caches and test again. If the problem persit try this css in theme panel > custom css: http://screencast.com/t/0v8MdTUpM
body {
overflow-y: scroll!important;
}
Thanks!
Thanks Andrei.
I followed the instructions and updated the theme, but I have found a problem:
All the pages that use Visual Composer are now showing all elements as “Text blocks”, with the shortcode inside. I send you a few screens so you can better understand what I mean:
Backend:
Frontend:
Thanks!
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leofratt.
I made a page by Visual Composer, and chose “Block 7” and “widgetized Sidebar.”
However, titles overlap.
This is my web site.
http://pettee.jp/
How can I fix this error?
Hi Andrei,
Where do I access the Visual Composer page builder?
My Visual Composer plug-in does not have a page builder option visible.
Thank you!
Brad
I would like to create a custom grid element but im running into some difficulties.
Maybe some of these questions should be asked to the Visual Composer staff, however maybe you can help me too:
– how do i add the category tag on a custom grid element?
– can i add the (newspaper 6) review rating as an item on a custom grid element?
(this one is even less pertinent probably)
– when using the post excerpt and title in a custom grid element, how do i gain control over the excerpt’s lenght (in words or characthers) and on the excerpt’s and title’s font?
Thank you in advance for anything you can help me with
Alessandro
P.S. Alternatively, is it possible to tweak existing grid elements?
You need a plugin for that, free or premium. I am using qtranslate-X on my http://www.photocommand.com, which is also complemented by WPBakery Visual Composer & qTranslate-X, Yoast SEO & qTranslate-X, Advanced Custom Fields: qTranslate as those plugins gave me those options.
If I was starting today, I am not sure I would use qtranslate-X (I read it is a hard one to uninstall if you need to and it is not the most SEO friendly (take care when setting your URLs in the language implementation options).
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This reply was modified 10 years by
JCAires.
Hello George,
I see now what you mean and i do not think visual composer was meant to work from a mobile device. We tried adding elements with VC from a galaxy S4, S3, S2, or from other mobile phones we have but we could not add a single element to the page. Furthermore using visual composer on posts is not tested with our theme and is known to cause issues.
Thank you!
Hi
I’ve checked your site and noticed that you’re using V 4.6.3 of Newspaper and V 4.4.4 of VC. We received some reports in the past regarding the high CPU usage with this version of VC. If you want to stay with this version try to downgrade the VC plugin at V 4.3.5 which require lower resources.
If you want to use the curen version of Visual Composer plugin available with the theme, then you need to update the theme to version 6.5.1 which has support for later versions of VC plugin and it’s also included within full theme’s package.
The current version of the Visual Composer included in theme’s package (4.7.4) has been tested and works fine. Also the plugin has passed through a major update, lots of security vulnerabilities have been fixed
If you decide to update please follow this guide: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ backup your current install, run the import settings script, update plugins and check the result. You can always get back to the previous working theme version if something goes wrong as long as you backup it but doing the update as instructed the theme should work fine.
You should also consider into the process at the following aspects:
– backup your current theme/WordPress/database: https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
– setup a maintenance mode and you can use a plugin for that.
– empty all caches/purge files if you also use CDN host then disable any services of this type until you switch to the new theme
– disable all plugins
– install the theme then install the required plugins
– switch back the rest of the plugins and start other services
Hope this help.
Thanks!
Hi drsam,
Yes, it is possible. To achieve an sticky sidebar you have to put in Visual Composer (row settings),
in Extra class name, this extra class -> td-ss-row .
Please consult our documentation here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/smart-sidebar-2/
Thanks.
Hi
I’ve checked your site and the features based on ajax works fine now: http://screencast.com/t/ZFyUfRK6b – http://screencast.com/t/uwSJoT0Gwc2a
If this happens again try to deactivate all plugins except Visual Composer, clear all caches and test again.
Thanks!
Hi
To use diferent modules on the category page you will need custom modifications in theme’s core files and I cand provide a quick solution for that. Instead you can use blocks from Visual Composer, which are built from different modules, following this steps:
– first you need to set the block in VC and add a specific class for it as it’s necessary a custom css for this particular case: http://screencast.com/t/RmC19Befc
– switch in backend editor copy this code: http://screencast.com/t/u3Ca4vZrRXda http://screencast.com/t/oej5d5DGAkH
– insert this code in category.php file like here: http://screencast.com/t/SRIR9kv4
<?php echo do_shortcode('[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3" el_class="class"][td_block_14 limit="4" category_id="6" ajax_pagination="next_prev"][/vc_column][/vc_row]');?>
After that add this css in theme panel > custom css:
.class{
width: 100%!important;
}
The result should be like here: http://screencast.com/t/mjgyiqSCKn
This code will display the same block on all categories pages. If you need different blocks depending by category it’s need a set of conditions like this: http://screencast.com/t/kDrGBrUE
<?php
if (is_category(13)) {
block for category with id 13 goes here
}
elseif (is_category(14)){
block for category with id 14 goes here
}
?>
To get the category id follow this link: http://screencast.com/t/RZuMUg8oM01
Hope this help.
Thanks!
Hello,
The category color is set from the theme panel: http://screencast.com/t/lzesgkJV2HRv , but this wilkl affect the category tag in the post, not the color on the homepage.
As the homepage is built with visual composer elements, you can achieve this effect by adding colors to your blocks that contain the specific category.
You can set the block to display a certain category: http://screencast.com/t/g2sMYz2HB and then set a color to it: http://screencast.com/t/8QhbhKAZg.
You can see this effect in our demo (it is not set to show a single category but you will see the different block colors): http://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/
If this is not what you mean, please provide more details so we can understand your request better.
Thank you!
Hi Bogdan,
The problem only happens when we create wordpress posts using visual composer.
Attached screenshot from mobile:-
http://www.screencast.com/t/iySfpZYl
Kindly advice.
thanks!
Looks like the site is still using v4.6.3. It is at v6.5 now. Maybe updating it would help. Just a thought. Also, Visual Composer with that version is 4.7.4, which is better to fix a vulnerability in earlier versions. Check documentation on updating theme and Visual Composer.
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This reply was modified 10 years by
doucare1971.
Hi,
I’m writing here because I implemented Newspapper for a client, and i’m having performance problems.
The official requirements for the theme states that Godaddy should handle 2000 daily visits. I’m using the most expensive of the shared hosting plans on Godaddy, the site has less than 7500 monthly visits and WP Super Chache is running, but the CPU can’t handle the traffic.
I installed the “Query Monitor” plugin to find the queries that are consuming resources, and it seems that the problem is in Visual Composer:

The site is: http://www.goldevestuario.com
Could you please help me understand why in my case the theme is having trouble dealing with so low traffic?
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Leonel Frattesi
Hi,
“I looked over the code that you provided and works fine. If you’re using page template default as the page template for the homepage: http://screencast.com/t/WelReLqatY the sidebar should appear only once.”
This is exactly what I did, but the sidebar is still appearing twice, the widgetized sidebar and newmag default sidebar.
I intend going live tonight, I am familiar with Visual composer as I used it in my previous theme, but I am just stuck, this is the last thing I need to fix..
Please where can I send you a temporal admin login so you can fix it, then I pick it up from there.
Best..
Thanks for the reply!
I disabled all the plugins except visual composer and there is no modified CSS code — The problem persists.
I pulled the site out of maintenance mode so that you can take a look.
Thanks again for your help!
Hello,
Please make sure you also delete the folder containing that name: html/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/. There is probably an empty folder with that name and is creating a conflict . Please access your files via FTP and delete the js composer folder under wp-content/plugins/
Thank you!
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Bogdan B..
I have done (at least I believe I did) what you have told me to do. However, I keep receiving this message:
Descomprimiendo…
Instalando el plugin…
La carpeta ya existe. /home/content/n3pnexwpnas02_data01/24/2912324/html/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/
Fallo en la instalación del plugin.
Volver a la página de plugins
Please help, I already have used other themes with you and have not found this problems.
thank you,
francisco
Hi
I am not sure that this issue is related with the host provider, so lease make sure you follow the steps indicated in our documentation regarding the VC installation: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin/ deactivate all others plugins, clear all caches and test again.
Thanks!
Thank you Ing Geek.
@k2point0, you can follow this tutorial on how to use visual composer: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-use-visual-composer/
You can also check this video tutorial (it’s for the newsmag theme but the method applies to newspaper as well): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVkBJWJD2LQ
I hope this helps.
Thank you!
Hi there…
for one of my category pages I’d like to use a mix of the available modules rather than one of the modules offered. So rather than 10x M11, I’d like to have a mix that I can build with VisualComposer or if necessary by programming. If I use VC, I loose the abbility of global paging.
Please advise.
Guenter
Hello,
Please try to disable all your plugins except visual composer so we can rule out a plugin conflict. You can also check your CSS modifications so they do not affect other parts of your website as well. Do a back-up of your modified CSS code and remove it from the theme panel to see if the problem does not originate from there.
If the problem is still there let us know and provide a link to your website so we can inspect the issue
Thank you!
Hi
Please make sure that you install the plugin from the Newspaper-tf\plugins path. Before the installing a newer version of the plugin, delete the current one, make sure that in html/wp-content/plugins is no folder called: js_composer then try to install the plugin again.
Let us know how it goes.
Thanks!