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- NewsmagHow to use the Visual Composer plugin
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- NewspaperCredit System
- NewspaperBookmark – Save For Later
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- NewspaperModules Builder in Newspaper Theme
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- NewspaperCreate a frontend submission form
- NewspaperHow to Use the Tabbed Content shortcode
- NewspaperCreate a form contact page
- NewspaperFilters and sorting for taxonomies
- NewspaperUser review system
- NewspaperCustom Fields Support
- NewspaperWooCommerce: Happy “Add to Favorites!”
Hi,
We will update the VC plugin with the next theme update which will be tomorrow.
Sorry about this and for inconvenience.
Thanks
Well, the new update fixes bugs and customer requests for the theme framework which has nothing to do with VC. But of course you can look at the changelog to see what changed.
I believe the hold up on new version is the various requests folks have made for things related to VC specifically which need to be tested, as well as overall compatibility with WP 4.0 which will be out any day now.
I’m wondering the same thing as well,because the last update i’ve not touch because there was no VC update as promise…
Hey guys, after the 4.1 update we were promised a VC update with the next update. Then 4.2 was released with no VC update included. Now with 4.2.1 we STILL have no update for this plugin.
I request you either release the new update today, as promised and flaked several times already, or explain what problems the new version of VC is giving you to make it work with the theme. Don’t leave your customers in the dark and don’t fail to follow through.
Keep in that you’ve recommended to several users here not to purchase the full VC plugin because of the compatibility work you do to port the plugin to the theme. Leaves us little option to get around being blown off…
Have I mentioned the stacks are great yet? Could use a couple more honestly. Thanks.
Something to add to the wishlist.
Sometimes I would like to target a specific Visual Composer Elements for additional styling. Most of the standard VC elements have an “Extra CSS Class” field for this purpose, but not the tagDiv add-ons to VC.
Thanks
Denis
Thanks for the quick reply.
I tried using the visual composer but that’s not what I want.
I mean is it possible to show a block of latest posts with ajax after everything on posts page? Even after comments? Just before the footer widgets start.
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This reply was modified 11 years by
Shashank Shekhar.
The VC license is built into the theme, so as long as you’re using the version which ships with the theme and have installed it from the download folder “plugins” into the wp-content/plugins/ folder and activated it; it will work. There is no license code for the “bundled” version. It works as long as you are using the Newspaper theme.
Some things never work “locally” believe it or not, which is why I gave up on that for WordPress dev, and now always test things on a live server, even if a test domain, or sub domain (not always possible with client, of course).
Not sure that will help.
Note tagdiv doesn’t provide phone support for the theme, as far as I know.
If the plugin is not activating from the WP theme panel > plugins > activate plugin – then it likely means the plugin wasn’t setup properly, such as decompression from zip error (corrupted file). If a plugin won’t activate that usually means either file(s) corrupted, or wordpress not installed properly, or the “paths” to its own folders is not correct.
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This reply was modified 11 years by
simchris.
It would be useful to have a custom taxonomy, say “Issue”, so that posts can be associated with a particular “Issue” or “Edition” of the newspaper. Now the post can be in, say, category: “Sports” and in issue: “25” and effectively allow back-issue archives. And chance of adding this to a wishlist? This seems kind of obvious for a newspaper theme. (There would need to be filters for this custom taxonomy on any shortcode/VC-element that produces a list of posts, like the Block elements in Visual Composer.)
Hi Lucian,
I did everything as you mentioned (except that my site is developped locally on my Mac and didn’t need ftp), but I still do not see the VC button, neither on the Page nor the Post modification view.
Can you verify on your side if my VC license is activated (when I re-clic on the “Activate” button it doesn’t seem to do anything)?
Please let me know what to do? Would it better to chat on the phone? If yes, let me know your number.
Truly appreciate your concern and reactivity,
Yan
Hi,
Please make sure you delete and re-install the VC Bakery that was included into theme files, like this: https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
Also please re-upload your theme files and make sure you do it like this: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme/
Should work fine.
Hope this helps!
Thanks
Hi,
I’m trying to improve the performance of my site (http://admitto.nl), which is now at 49% for mobile and 65% for desktop with Pagespeed). This is however the max I’ve been able to reach. Do you have any more tips or tricks?
Im using the Newspaper theme with the following plugins:
ClickDesk Live Chat
Contact Form 7
Google Analytics Dashboard
Hide Title
MailPoet Newsletters
Custom Anti-Spam
Recent Tweets Widget
Share buttons by AddtoAny
tagDiv Social Counter
tagDiv speed booster
W3 Total Cache
Wordpress SEO
WP-Optimize
WPBakery Visual Composer
WP Smush.it
I know these are a lot of plugins, but I don’t think they influence the performance that bad. Pagespeed is mainly complaining about compressing CSS/JS. Any ideas here?
Thanks in advance!
Hi,
Using Themeforest on my Mac locally while developping (site not online yet). Everything works fine, except the visual composer does not work (a main reason for my purchase of this theme), the button actually doesn’t appear as it should. Without this button, I can not do anything to compose easily my homepage. I am now struggling and waisting too much time without this functionality. Reading previous posts, I’ve tried de/reinstall WPBakery, etc, but nothing works. Strange because my configuration is relativelly standard (Safari, last version of WP and Themeforest…). I activated the VC function (both in my profile and with API key).
Could you please help urgently ?
Best, Yan
Hi,
Thanks @Christopher!
@zelatech
Sorry for the delay. Have managed to solve this? Please make sure you use the WPBakery Visual Composer provided with the theme, I have also tested this and seems like it works.
Thanks
Hi,
Thanks @TheMediumUTM!
@monsterdevelopment
Like @TheMediumUTM suggested you should try to install the version of Visual Composer which comes with theme files, also please make sure you disable all CDN plugins and empty cache, we had experimenting slider issues when using CDN.
Please let me know if you solve this and send a link if you try this again so I can check.
Hope this helps!
Thanks
I tried many times to clear render blocking css and JS but not successful. I hope someone here will help me out.
Here is my speedbooster.php file
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: tagDiv speed booster
Plugin URI: http://tagdiv.com
Description: Speed booster for Newspaper theme - It moves the styles and all the scripts of the theme to the bottom. It also activates internal theme optimizations for better speed.
Author: tagDiv
Version: 2.5
Author URI: http://tagdiv.com
*/
/*
* 2.6 - fixed rendering bug on the loading of the page
* 2.5 - code improvements, newspaper 4 compatibility
* - makes most of the javascript files use defer parsing
* - better compatibility with revolution slider
* 2.4 - updated jquery version
* - support for https
* 2.3 - fixed warnings when trying to move javascript files that are not registered
*/
class td_speed_booster {
var $load_contact_form_7 = '';
var $load_google_fonts = '';
var $styles_for_footer = array();
var $async_js_scripts = array(
'contact-form-7',
'bbpress',
'woocommerce',
'site',
'devicepx',
'js_composer_front'
);
function __construct() {
add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', array($this, 'enqueue_scripts_hook'), 100);
add_action('wp_footer', array($this, 'wp_footer_hook'), 15);
add_action('wp_head', array($this, 'wp_head_hook'), 15);
define('TD_SPEED_BOOSTER' , 'v2.5');
}
function enqueue_scripts_hook() {
global $wp_scripts;
//$this->move_js_to_footer('bp-legacy-js');
//detect revmin - revolution slider and do not move jquery
if( !is_admin() and !isset($wp_scripts->registered['revmin'])){
if (is_ssl()) {
$td_protocol = 'https';
} else {
$td_protocol = 'http';
}
wp_deregister_script('jquery');
wp_register_script('jquery', ($td_protocol . '://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js'), true, '1.11.0', true);
wp_enqueue_script('jquery');
}
//move styles
$this->move_style_to_footer('bbp-default-bbpress'); //bpress old
$this->move_style_to_footer('bbp-default'); //bpress
$this->move_style_to_footer('contact-form-7');
$this->move_style_to_footer('td-bootstrap');
$this->move_style_to_footer('td-theme');
$this->move_style_to_footer('google-font-rest');
$this->move_style_to_footer('woocommerce_frontend_styles');
//jetpack lost styles
$this->move_style_to_footer('jetpack-subscriptions');
$this->move_style_to_footer('jetpack-widgets');
$this->move_js_to_footer('themepunchtools');
$this->move_js_to_footer('revmin');
//bbpress
//remove_action( 'bbp_head', array($BBP_Default, 'head_scripts') );
}
function wp_footer_hook() {
$current_theme_version = '';
if (defined('TD_THEME_VERSION')) {
//get the theme version for style
$current_theme_version = TD_THEME_VERSION;
//on demo mode, autogenerate version hourly + day
if (TD_DEPLOY_MODE == 'demo') {
$current_theme_version = date('jG');
}
}
foreach ($this->styles_for_footer as $style_id => $style_src) {
echo "<link rel='stylesheet' id='" . $style_id . "-css' href='" . $style_src . "?ver=" . $current_theme_version . "' type='text/css' media='all' />\n";
}
}
function wp_head_hook() {
if (defined('TD_THEME_VERSION')) {
echo '<style>body {visibility:hidden;}</style>';
}
}
function move_style_to_footer($style_id) {
global $wp_styles;
if (!empty($wp_styles->registered[$style_id]) and !empty($wp_styles->registered[$style_id]->src)) {
$this->styles_for_footer[$style_id] = $wp_styles->registered[$style_id]->src;
wp_deregister_style($style_id);
}
}
function move_js_to_footer($js_id) {
global $wp_scripts;
if (isset($wp_scripts->registered[$js_id])) {
wp_enqueue_script($js_id, ($wp_scripts->registered[$js_id]->src), '', $wp_scripts->registered[$js_id]->ver, true);
}
}
function async_js_hook($url) {
//check to see if we have js
if (strpos( $url, '.js' ) === false) {
return $url;
}
if ($this->strpos_array($url, $this->async_js_scripts) === false) {
return $url;
} else {
return "$url' defer='defer";
}
}
private function strpos_array($haystack_string, $needle_array, $offset=0) {
foreach($needle_array as $query) {
if(strpos($haystack_string, $query, $offset) !== false) {
return true; // stop on first true result
}
}
return false;
}
}
new td_speed_booster();
And here is my function generated file
registered scripts
common | /wp-admin/js/common.min.js
admin-bar | /wp-includes/js/admin-bar.min.js
utils | /wp-includes/js/utils.min.js
svg-painter | /wp-admin/js/svg-painter.js
wp-auth-check | /wp-includes/js/wp-auth-check.min.js
itsec_file_change_warning_js | http://mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/modules/free/file-change/js/admin-file-change-warning.js
itsec_strong_passwords | http://mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/modules/free/strong-passwords/js/strong-passwords.js
devicepx | http://s0.wp.com/wp-content/js/devicepx-jetpack.js
wpuf-subscriptions | http://mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-user-frontend-pro/assets/js/subscriptions.js
wp-color-picker | /wp-admin/js/color-picker.min.js
jquery |
media-upload | /wp-admin/js/media-upload.min.js
thickbox | /wp-includes/js/thickbox/thickbox.js
wpuf-chosen | http://mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-user-frontend-pro/admin/../assets/js/chosen.jquery.js
wpseo-admin-global-script | http://mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/js/wp-seo-admin-global.min.js
td-wp-admin-general | http://mydomain.com/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/wp-admin/js/general.js
td-wp-admin-panel-js | http://mydomain.com/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/wp-admin/js/wp-admin-panel.js
suggest | /wp-includes/js/jquery/suggest.min.js
registered styles
admin-bar | /wp-includes/css/admin-bar.min.css
colors | 1
ie | /wp-admin/css/ie.min.css
wp-auth-check | /wp-includes/css/wp-auth-check.min.css
itsec_notice_css | http://mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/css/itsec_notice.css
wp-color-picker | /wp-admin/css/color-picker.min.css
wpuf-chosen-style | http://mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-user-frontend-pro/admin/../assets/css/chosen/chosen.css
google-font-ubuntu | http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Ubuntu:300,400,500,700,300italic,400italic,500italic,700italic&subset=latin,cyrillic-ext,greek-ext,greek,latin-ext,cyrillic
td-wp-admin-td-panel-2 | http://mydomain.com/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/wp-admin/css/wp-admin.css
thickbox | /wp-includes/js/thickbox/thickbox.css
wpalchemy-metabox | http://mydomain.com/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/wp-admin/content-metaboxes/meta.css
ithemes-icon-font | http://mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/lib/icon-fonts/icon-fonts.css
bbp-admin-css | http://mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/css/admin.css
jetpack-icons | http://mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/jetpack/_inc/jetpack-icons.min.css
Here what my pagespeed test suggest
Remove Render Blocking Javascript
http://mydomain.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js.pagespeed.jm.ocognCjcS2.js
http://mydomain.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery-migrate.min.js.pagespeed.jm.mhpNjdU8Wl.js
http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=true
http://maps.gstatic.com/maps-api-v3/api/js/17/15/main.js
http://mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-user-frontend-pro/assets/js/frontend-form.js.pagespeed.jm.DduuMTRcHs.js
Optimize CSS Deliver of the following
http://mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/revslider/rs-plugin/css/W.settings.css,qrev=4.3.8.pagespeed.cf.DyIPD1r_80.css
http://mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/revslider/rs-plugin/css/W.captions.php,qrev=4.3.8.pagespeed.cf.VUw1T7K7S2.css
http://mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-user-frontend-pro/assets/css/W.frontend-forms.css.pagespeed.cf.vemqQTxrMU.css
http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto%3A400%2C700
I am also using Dreampress which is on varnish cache. I enabled Page Speed Mod as well. No other caching plugin.
My Page Speed Score is 64 for desktop and 41 for mobile.
Further, Here is what i added in my httaccess
<IfModule pagespeed_module>
ModPagespeed on
ModPagespeedModifyCachingHeaders off
</IfModule>
# BEGIN Expire headers
<ifModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 5 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 604800 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 604800 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 604800 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 604800 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 604800 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 604800 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 604800 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 604800 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 604800 seconds"
#ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 600 seconds"
#ExpiresByType application/xhtml+xml "access plus 600 seconds"
</ifModule>
# END Expire headers
Now please suggest me what to do for increasing my page speed. My site is damn slow. Please help me to correct the speedbooster.php file as per instructions. Special request ot Christopher for helping me out. Thanks
@rparlier
You may find it useful to read through the theme documentation found from link top right of page for this forum, as it explains about this in detail, along with a lot of other great info on using the theme:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-documentation/
Yup, you don’t. We get a version bundled with the theme, and tagDiv includes the latest one with each new theme update.
Some people are so annoyed by the update counter that they buy a VC licence just to keep it up to date (I considered it…). But some people have reported problems with that, because tagDiv tests each new version’s compatibility before including it in a theme update. So it’s safest just to not update it.
The visual composer plugin says I don’t have the license to update.
Note you can buy copy of VC to get direct support for issues with Visual Composer.
Medium, I agree with the images being small. I had planned on fixing those problems once I have the layout finished.
The top slider should, if I’ve read the documentation right, be holding the Big Slider. I’ve chosen the Homepage template in the Visual Composer list with the Homepage – bg + with article list. So that Big slider should be sitting in the location that it looks like you’re missing slides. Instead it seems to have pulled beneath it, leaving the box open above.
Good point about the weekend. I work so much I forget the days of the week. Thank you for your help though, I appreciate it.
Hello daicadung,
with no question: this would be a really great feature, to be able to customize categories, e.g. with Visual Composer, but I guess it’s too much work for TagDiv to implement it.
Several people have requested it in the past already but it seems it’s really complicated.
Best regards
There is a bug with plugin. Using Embedded Posts from Facebook get error when saving.
get this error:
http://content.screencast.com/users/zelatech/folders/Default/media/999421ac-0245-41c7-a3cd-29b465d4ea68/23-08-2014%2010-12-46.jpg
we can’t contact official support.
thanks
I saw this behaviour once, not with this slider or theme, but with another slider plugin on a different theme. I switched themes, not plugins, and it worked again, oddly enough…
Only one suggestion occurs to a layman like me: Ensure that when you update the theme, you also install the version of WPBakery Visual Composer included with it. If it’s not that, I’m not sure what it is.
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This reply was modified 11 years by
TheMediumUTM.
Hi Lucian,
I want, when access some categories, that website show some different layout. So i will make some page (use visual composer), with a page define for a category.
How to custome? If you have tutorial for problem, please send me.
Best regards,