Hi,
I just upgraded to Newspaper 6 today due the latest Visual Composer not working with Newspaper 4 (at least, it didn’t for me). Anyway, I’m trying to create a page template, however I’m having a few issues.
Effectively, the template that I created allowed was a standard page, but had a logo (Background image) at the top of the page content (underneath the header), with a menu underneath. The code for this on Newspaper 4 was:
get_header();
if (have_posts()) { ?>
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="container td-page-wrap">
<div class="row">
<div class="span12"><strong><div id="wtog-logo"></div> <div id="wtog-menu"><?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'wtog', 'container' => '')); ?> </div> </strong>
<div class="td-grid-wrap">
<div class="container-fluid">
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php } else {
echo td_page_generator::no_posts();
}
get_footer();All of the pagebuilder/visual composer content would show as normal below this ‘submenu’ (wtog-menu). What would be the best way to have the same shown in Newspaper 6? I noticed the code on the other existing templates are much more complex, so any help would be appreciated.
Hi,
I just installed Newspaper theme in my website, PanduanSaya.com. Just finish my edits but I found out a few things not working properly:
1. My mega menu not showing sub-categories. I followed the tutorial but can’t get it to work
2. My ajax filtering or pagination in block (homepage) not working properly. I clicked the next/previous, but somehow it takes to the top of website, and the ajax does not change the page that it should be – it just takes you to the top of the website.
3. My news sticker also having the same problem like ajax filtering in block.
Here are few of my settings, hope it helps:
– I disable lazy load, because it causing my images not showing
– I tried optimized pre-loading in mega menu preload, not working
– page attribute for my homepage (visual composer) is default template
– I use Incapsula CDN
Hello Bog,
We changed the slider into a single image box now, I need your help with these following items
1.We have used accordian via visual composer for our about us page, The question sections are not properly getting aligned in mobile.
2.In Entrepreneurship & Startup and Tech section – the first article is repeating twice randomly some time.
Happy weekend!!
Cheers,
Pandian
Greetings,
We just recently purchased the newspaper theme. We want to know how can we import just the widgets and visual compose settings for tech blog view http://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper_tech/
Also if we only want to import visual composer builder settings like http://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper_tech/ how can we do that
Thanks!
Hi Chris
Thanks for your Speed tips. Based on your suggestions, i have removed JS composer CSS file using small function. (Of course only for post pages) Now it seems some what better. But still there is 700KB style.css file that shipped with newspaper theme. So, to reduce the file size i have minified it and replaced manually.
http://www.filehosting.org/file/details/515957/new_style.css
But when i use above CSS file theme layout broken. Where i did wrong? Also please share the sticky post URL which contains instructions speed up the site. (There are many in sticky)
With regards
Selvam.S
Thanks for your reply.
And nothing changes after following your guide.
After that, I have create fresh site with latest version of NewsMag theme(V 2.2.1).
– Remove all plugins and install 2 plugins are: tagDiv Social Counter(Version 3.0), WPBakery Visual Composer(Version 4.7.4)
– Install “Default demo” from “Install Demos” tab.
Go to Pages > “News – Front Page”:
– Add Block 1: http://imgur.com/SlpWE91
-> Result: http://imgur.com/cvB0bo5
How to fix it now?
Thanks,
Minh
I installed everything according to instructions. When you modify the homepage is not using Visual Composer adds features and blocks. please, give me an advice. thank you
Hi there,
I’m new and I want to update the theme but I’m scared like crazy that the content I’ve created with visual composer on the newspaper theme will be gone or somehow messed up if I delete the theme and then install the updated version.
Could someone give me some peace of mind and let me know if I would run into any troubles?
Thank you very much
Hi
Try do deactivate all plugins except Visual Composer, clear all caches and test again. Also try using a plugin like WP Super Cache for cache. Also check the values from system status: http://screencast.com/t/s2MbwfIV
max_execution_time should be at 300 and max_input_vars should be above 2000.
Let us know how it goes.
Thanks!
Hi Lucian
Thanks for your detailed reply. When i analyze the issue, found that newspaper theme CSS file and JS composer CSS totally seems around 1.5 MB. Is it possible to manually minimize it?
When i try to minimize them via online minification sites like http://cssminifier.com/ http://www.cleancss.com/css-minify/http://csscompressor.com/ and http://refresh-sf.com/ browser went unresponsive and unable to get minified CSS
Did you ever tried these tools?
(Note: I am very curious to know what happened in your end, Please try once before reply this thread)
Hi
I am not sure what you mean, but if you want to set a title for the ad block that can be done in Visual Composer like here: http://screencast.com/t/wSLT6335 – http://screencast.com/t/9dGFTjlXd6iR If this is not what you mean please provide more details.
The theme render google ads so if you set a custom value in theme panel, the ad’s size should change according with your settings. Try to clear all caches and test the site again again.
Let me know how it goes.
Thanks!
Hi
Seams to be css problem, on block 1 appear some wrong classes: http://screencast.com/t/skVlyLmQm Please make sure you updated the theme according with our documentation, also the Visual Composer plugin must be installed from the same path: https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-how-to-update-the-theme/ – https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin/ Also clear all caches, deactivate all plugins except Visual Composer and test again.
Let me know how it goes.
Thanks!
Hello, I have a custom ad unit that displays after the first four articles are shown. For desktop I have the google adsense size at 580 x 400. Now here is the problem, there is too much white spacing for my liking. Here is a link to two examples:
This one isn’t terrible, but I would like to shrink it down
http://s28.postimg.org/mj71fc1dp/image.png
This is horrible!
http://s18.postimg.org/8v8lgmbhl/image.png
Now if this helps, I have deactivated Visual Composer but activated the shim. I can re-activate it if this needs to be done to make changes, however I can’t leave it installed as it slows the site down.
Thanks for reading and I will be awaiting your reply.
Hi
Try to deactivate all plugins except Visual Composer and test again. If the problem persist please address us via email at contact@tagdiv.com including a link to this conversation and also give us wp-access so we can have a closer look at this and we will get back to your as soon as possible.
Thanks!
Hi
The quotes wasn’t designed to work on pages if Visual Composer it’s used but you can try this custom css in theme panel > custom css: http://screencast.com/t/R1USfvkXOa
.td-container .td_quote_box p{
font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif;
color: #777;
font-size: 13px;
line-height: 21px;
text-align: left;
padding-bottom: 16px;
margin: 0;
text-transform: none;
font-style: italic;
}
.td-container .td_quote_box {
background-color: #FCFCFC;
border-left-style: solid;
border-width: 2px;
border-color: #4db2ec!important;
padding: 15px 23px 0 23px;
position: relative;
top: 6px;
}Note that this css will work fine only for this case, if you want different quotes, will be needed other customizations.
Let me know how it goes.
Thanks!
Hi,
Please disable all your plugins except of Visual Composer, clear cache and re-save your permalinks, then check if it solves your issue.
If the issue persist please send an email at contact@tagdiv.com and provide wp-admin and ftp access so we can take a closer look at this, also paste a link to this topic so we can know who you are and what your issue is.
Thanks!
Hello Andrei,
Just updated again according to your tutorial after updating the theme and the Visual Composer 4.7.4 version which was attached in my theme update now I’m not able to use Visual Composer it is totally unresponsive.
I’m attaching Screen Shot of Visual Composer Error – 
Blog url is http://www.crictracker.com
Hello,
First of all, you have to understand that newspaper 6 is a totally different theme. It was built from scratch in order to provide a better ‘cleaner’ theme with many improvements and possibilities.
Many of the previous settings will not work in newspaper 6 so you have to change a few settings in your new theme version.
1) You can change ALL fonts of the theme from the theme panel. You just have to find the ones you need. For headings H1-H6 the option is here: http://screencast.com/t/SGl89bcpxhI4 for posts and for pages they are in the page section. If it is a module title, you have to find the modules and blocks article titles. There are a lot of font settings and they can be a bit confusing.
2) Shortcodes were changed in version 6 so you have to rebuild your page in visual composer. Also the CSS code for styling was changed in the new version so ALL custom modification made in version 4 will not work anymore
3) If you have custom modification to your titles, it will not work anymore. Please remove all CSS customization you had in the previous theme version.
As an alternative, you can use this css to adjust the title:
.page-id-8427 h3{
margin-top:0!important;
}
I hope this helps.
Thank you!
Hi,
If you use Visual Composer to create your page, you can use Widgetised Sidebar block to display your custom sidebar – http://screencast.com/t/QgjXE99zqzw5 as the sidebar is added automatically only if you don’t use VC pagebuilder.
If you need this, you can switch to PageBuilder with title template which allows you to set the sidebar from Page Settings – http://screencast.com/t/6Wklpgg3e – http://screencast.com/t/ufa8te8Ijz
But you need to be careful how you add blocks to the page if you use this template, for example Big Grid can be used only on full row width(so you cannot use it on this template only if you don’t use sidebar) – http://screencast.com/t/3cz3DtNHnlT – http://screencast.com/t/Oinr6S3zvLT
On posts you can select a custom sidebar.
– It can be set globally (to all posts) from Theme Panel -> Template Settings -> Blog and post settings – http://screencast.com/t/FBCaRUVYe2
– On each category, this will override the global settings and the posts included in the category will inherit the settings from here – http://screencast.com/t/j7J0vtEBti
– And it can be set individually on each post (overrides global and category settings) – http://screencast.com/t/DhiJ3uqcr
Hope this helps!
Hello,
The design can be replicated but you need a bit of CSS coding to pull it off. You can set background colors to transparent from the theme panel to every element: http://screencast.com/t/Lzn2C640NX
Then you can create a blank page in visual composer and set it as a homepage. Then you need to identify the page id so you can modify just the one page http://screencast.com/t/Qq9WvQ3BgV4
Then you can start to create your css code like so:
.page-id-2 .td-sub-footer-container{
display:none;
}
.page-id-2 .td-footer-wrapper{
display:none
}
.page-id-2 .td-main-content-wrap{
display:none
}
result: http://screencast.com/t/85HvlJCA9
This code will need adjustments but it is an example of how it can be done. If you cannot manage to build the css code on your own, you can hire a freelancer to do it for you as we cannot provide any custom work at the moment. We try to help set people on the right path.
I hope this helps.
Thank you!
Hi,
I have added this to our suggestions list and the developers will consider it for future theme’s updates. We have over 250 features on our list we have to pick very carefully what we implement.
Just an alternative for first question. You could you Carousel from Visual Composer in the page content to display logos and add also the links – http://screencast.com/t/ZAtZaQCWywKF – http://screencast.com/t/F00RScfMvg
Thanks for the message!
Hello Bmusiq,
Please make sure to update your theme to the latest version (6.5.1) and also update visual composer to the latest version (it comes with the latest version of the theme).
If the problem is still there after the update, please try to disable all your plugins except visual composer and check the playlist again.
I have tested this on my end and it works fine, even adding the playlist shortcode in a textblock.
If the problem is still there after disabling plugins please send us an email at contact@tagdiv.com and provide your login info so we can take a closer look at the problem and come up with a solution
Thank you!
Hi,
When you send the email for the other issue, please paste a link also to this topic and we will check it.
Please make sure you use the latest theme version 6.5.1 and you update the theme plugins first, then check it only with Visual Composer active(disable all other plugins) and if the issue persist we will take a look.
Thanks!
Hi
I suspect you’re using page builder + latest articles as page template in Visual Composer: http://screencast.com/t/eRU4fCDo You can find more informations about page templates in our documentation: https://forum.tagdiv.com/page-templates-2/ Also you can change the sidebar from page settings: http://screencast.com/t/7y3bwpnv2J and you can customize the latest article area from posts loop settings: http://screencast.com/t/IIpzqFa7hQ7 Regarding the sidebar widget that can be customized from Appearance > Widgets: http://screencast.com/t/UH5kUA4Dp IOn this section you can add or remove elements from that widged or change the blocks settings displayed in the widget.
Hope this help.
Thanks!
Hi
Please make sure that you updated the theme according with our documentation: https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-how-to-update-the-theme/ also try to deactivate all plugins except Visual Composer, clear all caches and test again.
Let us know how it goes and if the problem persist please provide your site url so we can inspect this closer.
Thanks!
