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Hi guys, Visual Composer seem to need to be updated.. today my page broke layaot completly.. i guess its due not updating the VC. following the rules of the theme i can not update the VC separately – its a part of the theme.. when you come up with update of the newsmag .. please see my web what happend.
http://www.electropiknik.cz/
thank you for your help!
You can ignore the notice as noted in the theme docs
https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
How to Update Visual Composer plugin (WPBakery)
•The theme includes a license for this plugin so you don’t have to buy it.
•You don’t have to activate the plugin license, it’s already activated.
•You can’t update the plugin directly from the it’s producer.
•You don’t have to worry about the plugin update warnings.
Hi,
I would like to know if I have to deactivate my VC before installing the theme or simply installing Newsmag without deactivating VC.
Thanks a lot.
@kronos Thanks a lot. I tried and it looks as expected. The problem with this method is that it inserts short-codes in the post bodies and if we decide on changing themes in future, there will be a lot of ugly shortcodes visible to users (due to the WP Bakery Visual Composer) So a theme template will be a preferred solution. We burned ourselves before by depending too much on plugin based feature. That said your suggestion does help a lot.
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arnieswap.
Hi,
We tested the theme with WordPress SEO by Yoast, try to install it, disable all plugins and activate only Visual Composer and WordPress SEO by Yoast, see if the pagination issue is still there.
Thank you, Emil G.
Hi,
You can use this solution and import the styling from the js_composer.css file: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/buttons/
Thanks
Hi,
You also need to update the VC plugin. Please use this guide to update the Visual Composer plugin and upload the plugin from the /plugins folder which was provided with the theme files and use the FTP method to do it: https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
The VC version tested and included within the Newspaper theme files is version 4.3.5.
The theme was tested using the latest version of WordPress (4.1) and the VC plugin also so you can also update WordPress to the latest version without worries.
Thanks!
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This reply was modified 11 years by
Lucian.
Hi,
You don’t need to update Visual Composer plugin, because we will provide updates on a regular basis, after we test the plugin for theme compatibility we include it in the latest theme update, inside the ../plugins folder: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
Also please read here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/how-to-update-visual-composer-2/
Thanks!
Alin,
Please note that the MegaMenu is designed to work only on categories(with/without subcategories): https://forum.tagdiv.com/menus-newsmag/
MegaMenu also has a feature to embed a page as part of the menu for a custom look:

I need to put a lot of automakers in the submenu and the way MegaMenu would typically do a vertical list for sub-menu items doesn’t work for me. This is functionality provided by the plugin itself.
When you use this functionality in conjunction with a page developed with Visual Composer and you are browsing a bbPress forum, you get the above broken sub-menu.
Mark
Hi,
Thanks @Kronos17
@rhetoricrich If you refer to the Big Grid you can always add it using Visual Composer plugin on the page:
http://screencast.com/t/2fNmpauBuP
http://screencast.com/t/5O6uykrF
http://screencast.com/t/MGAgEtU4LvzP
Please also follow our documentation: https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-documentation/
Let me know if you have issues!
Thanks!
Well, you then likely have a plugin that breaks visual composer, so try turning off all plugins except vc, and them turn them on one by one to find baddie.
This is most common with Internet Explorer; using Chrome works much better.
Sometimes it’s a bad plugin which conflicts with Visual Composer. Note if you’re running WP 4.1, you *must* have VC 4.3.5 installed, as WP 4.1 broke VC.
You can do that with Visual Composer. Go to Settings > Visual Composer and turn it on for Posts. Then, on the posts you want centered like that, turn off the sidebar and go into the VC backend editor, change the row layout to 1/4 + 1/2 + 1/4 and use a text block in the center column. If that’s too narrow, just remember the row layout is any combination using fractions larger than 1/12. So 1/8 + 6/8 + 1/8 would give you a wider center column for text than 1/4 + 1/2 + 1/4.
It won’t allow you to go full-width with images throughout the post, as in your example, but that’s because this is a newspaper/magazine theme and that feature is more creative or photography.
But it will produce the desired layout without much effort and no coding. Play around with it a bit.
Current bundled version of Visual Composer included with theme is 4.3.5.
Yes, it’s found in the all files download from ThemeForest, in the /plugins/ folders as js_composer.zip
VC 4.4 had numerous bugs and so has not been updated with theme.
With the next theme update they will likely include VC 4.4.1 or 4.4.2x, if tested compatible.
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This reply was modified 11 years by
simchris.
Hi there,
I really love this theme you guys created, and I’m hoping you can help me out with something. I’d like to set up a Big Slide Module on my homepage, but instead of displaying posts within it, I would like it to display static pages on the site that do not change. This way, I can present important information to my site visitor without worrying that it will be lost if I add content elsewhere.
I’ve been looking around in Visual Composer but I can’t seem to find a way to do this. It only offers “categories” for posts and whatnot, but I want to be very specific about what pages I feature in the Big slide and the other elements in the module.
Hopefully there is a simple solution to this. Please let me know. Thank you!
Thanks!
I tried to instal the new visual composer update but when i download the file its still the one from december.
I’m downloading it from the wrong place? envato?!
Cheers,
Hi
see theme docs, link right side of page
and also
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/how-to-update-visual-composer-2/
Taking a look at that so far, I would say it should do what is may say it does, but also some problems noted in the comments from users where people can still detect things, so may have limited value. It seems cheap enough, and if you’re more interested in that vs theme features, why not buy it and try it.
Also note if you’re using Visual Composer, you would likely not be able to hide that fully, and I see some issues from their support with things like contact forms.
I’m also doubtful that the tagdiv speed booster will work with that plugin.
What we do to hide a lot of WP stuff is using Yoast to hide some stuff, but then we run mod_pagspeed which hides all comments, we hide the versioning via functions.php, and we remove the pingback script. In most cases we also move the uploads folder. So, you might hide all the other stuff and people could still search for sites with xmlrpc.php or license.txt — did you remove that already? How about readme.html ? Is that still on your site?
There is also some bbpress style sheet data and woocommerce code you likely would need to manually remove from the functions and td booster functions.
There is no “one click” or “one plugin” way to fully hide WordPress. People who want to hack your site could likely figure it out through various methods. However, it’s better to concentrate on other security measures and only use highly validated plugins and code, vs trying to fully hide use of WP. With all the VIP sites now running WP (time magazine!), etc., there are much bigger fish in the sea than there used to be.
I would advise “caution” on a live site.
On a test site, why not just try it out ?
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This reply was modified 11 years by
simchris.
my Visual Composer License Key is not working ? I bought this theme but till now i didnt use it’s code
Blog : http://coolneeds.com
@Emil G
Hi
I’m being prompted for a license key for visual composer when I tried to update the plug-in, is it not bundled with Newspaper, if so where do I get a valid key?
Best theme out there at the mo, btw
Thanks Niall
Hey tagDiv,
I am using a Visual Composer page as one of my MegaMenu items. I’ve built a page to look a certain way and it gets loaded up as a submenu and displayed when you hover over.
Like this:

However, when I go to the Forum, it looks like this:

Depends on old theme vs new theme ….. obviously.
If you look at a snapshot of your old theme post page layout, count how many queries are being done for each section of the page. Do the same with the new theme.
For example on one of our sites, we changed the sidebar module to NOT show thumbnails with each item on the “latest items” list. We chose not to use megamenu. Etc.
Themes are not apples to apples unless identical layout and number of queries per page.
Visual Composer does add some overhead, sadly. But caching and mod_pagespeed, etc. help with that.
Not sure if that helped in any way, just some food for thought 🙂
Hi,
Unfortunately is no option for this, the block has been designed to work on pages, so it can be added only on pages using Visual Composer plugin.
You can try this solution, but will appear to all of your posts that are using that post template:
Use pagebuilder to customize your block, then switch to classic mode and get the shortcode: http://screencast.com/t/YgZ9wlj4U3
Now use echo do_shortcode('your shortcode') and place it in you post template like this: http://screencast.com/t/7Rrq0TMI
Result: http://screencast.com/t/hODdwqN0wlc
Thanks!
Hi,
Please also try this without any plugins active, leave just the Visual Composer plugin active then check again. If you have this issue please use contact@tagdiv.com to give us wp-access and send you login details and also provide an URL to this tread or specify your issue in details.
Thanks