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Thanks.
I am trying to update some plugins but i cannot do it for visual composer. I am on 4.3.4 and it tells me that the 4.4.2 is available for donwload but i miss a valid key.
I have entered my Envato user name but i cannot fond a key for visual composer.

all done. thanks!

The (2) problem wasn’t visually fixed once I enabled gd library because the analogies of the visual composer column was 1/2 and it “needed” a bit more…

So changing it to 2/3 + 1/3 it worked.
Thank you again for your info

@nelito
I never said anyone was wrong for complaining.

We didn’t need to modify anything on the server to use the theme.

Normal server optimization of WordPress is theme agnostic. TIME magazine had to optimize their severs for WordPress, regardless of the theme they are using.

@deanhankin
VC’s so called “limitation” only surfaced with the most recent version. After almost 2 years of use by TagDiv with tens of thousands of happy users, I would venture it wasn’t a bad choice for a visual platform. The visual editing is the main reason many folks bought the theme — without a plugin like visual composer along with all its prebuilt and custom modules there is no other simple way to do this kind of layout.

That being said, we here are playing with a “lean framework” again, and testing stuff like this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/siteorigin-panels/

For some of our sites, we are looking into “lean layout” again vs “complex layout” where high demand news site doesn’t need a fancy “magazine” layout where the look/feel is a factor in audience hanging about and returning. For example, one of our oooold sites, running Canvas: CaliforniaNewswire.com — not as pretty as FloridaNewswire.com, but very lean by comparison, and not really optimized at all.

As to arrogance… it’s up to you to research and learn the tools of the trade. Hopefully you’re learning from all of this 🙂

In any case, I will shut up now. I am not “defending” the theme (or VC) against your issues, I am simply saying that not everyone has the issues you may have had. For some it’s a one click install process and a site can be completely switched over in a few hours. That’s pretty powerful for a $50 investment.

Things change with all WP materials. WooCommerce updates, breaks stuff. Waaaah! Not the theme’s fault. Revolution Slider has security vulnerability. Waaaaaaah! Not the theme’s fault. WP 4.1 breaks plugins. Waaaaah! Not the theme’s fault. People expect a hell of a lot for $50 these days.

Cheers.

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Well, it does say it uses Visual Composer. And it’s only been a couple of weeks since the latest version of VC kind of went off the rails. We’ve been using it with the Newspaper theme for 14 months without any issues at all, aside from one other bad version we skipped.

Hundreds of themes use Visual Composer, so it’s not unique to TagDiv.

And not everybody is crashing their server using it. Only some, which is where the problem comes up.

Obviously smart folks should research any framework or plugin a theme requires in advance if it’s mission critical; test usage then rollback if not functional as needed. We’re still running LAST version of VC (except on one test install) due to this issue.

Hopefully next iteration of VC will be more “CPU/RAM friendly!”

Theme works great for us.

We waited on using the new Visual Composer, as I always “wait and see” with any new major upgrade to “related” products.

We deployed one site in a weekend (floridanewswire.com) … which was switchover from a 2009 WordPress theme which was basically falling apart as no compatible with WP 4.1.

As with all things where you have interconnected elements, web server, php optimizations, WordPress optimizations, theme, and plugins all interact, and it’s a process to “fine tune” that for your use case.

Obviously very high traffic sites should not be using Visual Composer, sad to say. A pre built “easy to use” theme such as this and the many others using VC are designed for quick deploy as we did with FloridaNewswire.com or Ga-Ga.com — it’s not “lean code.”

For high traffic sites, ALL good developers know you need to look for cost saving on queries for php management and/or use good caching to serve static pages with minimal live data calls, so that the new content is taking brunt of traffic and legacy content is not as rich in data push/pull.

This is why it’s a tradeoff — you can’t have “one click easy” and “lean code” … just like you can’t have 100 things on a page and have it be fast. You either need to have 50 items, or faster system (e.g., we have 1GB switch for our server vs normal 100/base; super high demand systems get dual 1GB, or 4GB connections, or 40x the average 100/base port on typical server or VPS which is shared among 4 containers).

Ironically, I am pondering going back to “lean code” vs “overload code” as the current VC is easy to use, but wow, they need to figure out a way to “design” then deploy a snapshot. Just like you don’t give somebody Photoshop file with 50 layers, you give out a “flattened” version for actual use. VC needs to implement a “snapshot” deploy version of its code to allow development side then live use where the code isn’t such a burden on the system. Not a fault of the theme, obviously.

As always, your mileage may vary. Just some thoughts for the day.

License number and API kay I set the tab Visual editor
Without a license key work the WPBakery Visual Composer plugin

The current version of Visual Composer is a memory hog. Not directly related to theme.
Hopefully next version will be better.

Ironic how so many people were whining about not getting the latest version of VC the moment it was released, and now they have it, it’s not that great.

My site has 95 speed rating without modifying the speed booster file, using all my recommendations.

Render blocking css/js are not a deal breaker for the web. If you can fix everything else you’re good.

Of course, I’m spoiled with 12core XEON and 32GB RAM.

Okay, thanks Alin I will try it.

Now I would like to take advantage of your attention to ask about another issue that i have on the same page: custom fonts. I can change the font using html on the visual composer’s text block, but I should be able to do this on theme panel – theme fonts, shouldn’t I?

Regards,
Fz

Hello,

first of all, it´s a great theme, but after installing all we need, and following your constructions for more pagespeed, nothing happens.

Lots of them is because of the pictures bus there are more ponts in loading js and css.

Now we followed your instruction to optimize the pagespeed by putting the files in to the footer, but nothing happens.

When we check the site withe the functions.php of the theme, there is also this:

registered scripts
td-external | http://our-domain.tld/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/js/td_external.js
td-site-min | http://our-domain.tld/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/js/min/site.min.js
jquery | http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js
registered styles
cptch_stylesheet |
cntctfrm_stylesheet |
google-font-rest |
td-bootstrap |
td-theme |
js_composer_front |

Then we put them to the footer, but this message is also available. What did we do wrong?

The td-speed-booster.php looks like this:

if ($this->is_ie === false and $this->td_theme_name == ‘Newspaper’) {
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘td-bootstrap’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘td-theme’); //this is the main style of the theme, it depends on td-bootstrap to load
}

$this->move_style_to_footer(‘google-font-rest’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘woocommerce_frontend_styles’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘cptch_stylesheet’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘cntctfrm_stylesheet’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘google-font-rest’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘td-bootstrap’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘td-theme’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘js_composer_front’);

//jetpack lost styles
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘jetpack-subscriptions’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘jetpack-widgets’);

/**
* move javascript to footer
*/
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘themepunchtools’);
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘revmin’);
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘jquery’);
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘td-external’);
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘td-site-min’);

Can you help us please?

Thanks

You need to switch off all plugins, except Visual Composer, which is needed by theme. Then clear all your caches. Then turn on plugins one by one (e.g., Yoast SEO fairly safe, WP-optimize safe), until you find the “bad one.”