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Hi!
I just installed a fresh installation of both WP and the Newspaper Theme. When I active the regular Newspaper demo no images load on the site. If I right click and choose show image however the images load fine in another browser window. Any suggestion on what might be wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Erik
Hello fermin,
I have tested on my side and the Video Playlist for Vimeo seems to work as expected, without any problem. I suspect being a problem that might be caused by interference between your untested plugins and our theme. Please try to disable all the active plugins, leave just Visual Composer and install only the plugins that come bundled with our theme and rule out the conflicting plugins. Please try to rule the theme without these plugins and check it again and see how it works.
Hope this helps and let us know how it goes!
Thank you for the message!
Hello Vesa,
In order to achieve the best results after you will install the latest update you have to follow some rigorous steps like this -> you have to delete both of your themes, child theme, and main theme. All your customizations from your Newspaper 4 child theme will do not work because all the files from this were changed in Newspaper 6 and as the main theme and also you lose all changes.
Newspaper 6 is a whole new theme so an update from 4 to 6 may cause the same issues as switching to another theme (but we did try to maintain compatibility where ever possible).
Always make a full backup of your current installation – https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups and then do a clean update, meaning that we recommend that you delete the old version of the theme before uploading the new one – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ update also the plugins that come bundled with the theme files from the /plugins folder. In the “how to update” guide is specified that you will have to run the script that will import from database your settings.
The shortcodes have been changed so old ones will not work anymore. Please note that old files customization or custom CSS will not work with the new version and you will have to adjust or re-add them.
Bottom line is that newspaper 6 is a whole new theme built from scratch.
Unfortunately, you will have to clear your agenda and spare a bit of time to adjust all your settings to the new version of the theme.
If you have already Newspaper 6 and you want only to do the update to latest version, you should make this without any problem. All your customization are recorded in the database which is not affected by this update.
Hope this helps and let us know how it goes!
Thank you for the message!
Hello emirbalin,
I have checked your website again and saw that you have some untested plugins installed on the theme. Please try to disable all the active plugins, leave just Visual Composer and instal only the plugins that come bundled with our theme. These issues might be caused by interference between these plugins and our theme. Also, I noticed that you have Big Grid Slider on the top of your homepage which is not displayed. Please check your Big Grid settings and ensure you have filtered by some categories which have posts, otherwise, does not display anything. Please check this -> http://screencast.com/t/d0kn40siZTy1
Hope this helps and let us know how it goes!
Thank you for the message!
Hello,
Please try to update your theme to the latest version (6.6.5) and then try to install the demo again.
Let us know how it goes.
Thank you!
Hi… I am newbie. After installing default demo. I checked there is blank block above menu and header. How to delete or fix it?
After installing newspaper theme i have installed Default Demo, then edited all pages and posts and created my sites, now newspaper status menu shows “Default demo – demo ID: default | install type: full” installed and its showing an Uninstall button near to it how can i remove my Demo installed status?
Hey,
We were able to add config to each of the block settings (in visual composer) using a function hooked to admin_init. This allows the user to specify a list of terms in that taxonomy and filter the results by those terms.
function extendCustomTaxonomyOptions() {
// Check if Visual Composer is installed
if ( ! defined( 'WPB_VC_VERSION' ) ) {
return;
}
// Retrieve all Lifestyle taxonomy
$terms = get_terms('name_of_your_custom_taxonomy_here');
if( !is_wp_error( $terms ) && count( $terms ) > 0 ) {
$dropdown = array(
'Disabled' => 'disabled',
'All Custom Taxonomy Terms' => 'all'
);
foreach( $terms as $term ) {
$dropdown["- {$term->name}"] = $term->term_id;
}
// Param to be added
$new_param = array(
'type' => 'dropdown',
'heading' => 'Filter based on custom taxonomy',
'param_name' => 'adv_filtering_custom_taxonomy',
'group' => 'Filter',
'admin_label' => true,
'value' => $dropdown,
'description' => __( 'If selected, will further filter the posts based on the custom taxonomy', 'vc_extend' )
);
// Integrate and add new parameter to the options available from the parent theme
// See https://wpbakery.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=524335 for more info
for ( $i = 1; $i <= 16; $i++) {
vc_add_param( "td_block_{$i}", $new_param);
}
vc_add_param( "td_block_slide", $new_param);
}
}
Then we added some custom code in a child theme copy of the td_data_source class to read those settings and filter the results. This was added to the end of the td_data_source::shortcode_to_args() function, just before returning the $wp_query_args:
if( array_key_exists( 'adv_filtering_custom_taxonomy', $atts ) ) {
if( $atts['adv_filtering_custom_taxonomy'] != 'disabled' && !empty( $atts['adv_filtering_custom_taxonomy'] ) ) {
// Add new taxonomy in the query
$query = array_merge( $wp_query_args, array(
'tax_query' => array(
array(
'taxonomy' => 'name_of_your_custom_taxonomy_here',
'field' => 'term_id',
'terms' => $atts['adv_filtering_custom_taxonomy']
)
)
));
}
}
Hope that helps!
Deleted Tagdiv speed booster plugin file by mistake. How to recover/reinstall it ?
Thanks.
Hello,
I have built my site based on one of the Demo’s so the demo is actually still active and installed. If I go ahead and apply the theme update, will I lose all of my changes and be reverted back to the demo defaults?
Alternatively is there a way to uninstall the demo while at the same time keeping my website design and content stay exactly the same?
I am worried that because I built the entire site on top of a demo, it will all be erased with an upgrade 🙁
Thanks for your help
Hello
I have put the Custom CSS below this piece of code in style.css and it works. But, when I have installed Speed Booster many things on the website have changed. The issue that I mentioned before still happens and many other things like some blocks out of place, footer and breadcrumbs don´t fix correctly.
I have to say that I have removed the piece of code mentioned on tutorials (step 5.1), I don´t know if I have to do any other thing. I have seen on tutorial that there is a 5.2 step, which I haven´t done. Could be that the problem?
Thanks
Hi
I installed ‘Newspaper demos’ and changed the one article in Japanese.
Before changing it in front page like below (default demo).
“The model is talking about booking her latest gig, modeling WordPress underwear in the brand latest Perfectly Fit campaign, which was shot by Lachian…”
But now it shows whole article which does not cut off article after changing article in Japanese.
This problem is Japanese character?Can I show the post to be cut like this?
“あああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああ…”
Thanks in advance,
Hi Catalin,
I appreciate your continued help.
I had to restore a recent backup. Maybe you could have a look at our current layout and contrast it with that in the picture.
I do have Visual Composer installed; it’s just not the latest version. The funny thing was that the settings seemed to be correct (=the same as before theme update), yet for some reason there were additional, unwanted categories like “Latest articles”, “The most popular posts” and “Popular category” (all in Finnish, of course) at the bottom of the front page. They were not there before the update.
I also noticed that my translations were missing.
TagDiv’s instruction video says “Delete the old version of the theme.” At that stage I deleted the “Newspaper 4 child theme”, which was active. Afterwards I have wondered if I should have deleted the Newspaper 4 main theme, not the child theme. Which should one delete?
Note that I have made customizations to a number of php files – for example, td_block_8.php – and added customizations in the CSS Editor. Does this cause problems when updating?
Best,
Vesa
Hi
The theme have support for custom post types and custom taxonomies, for more details about this please check our documentation: https://forum.tagdiv.com/custom-post-type-support/
We don’t have a template hierarchy documentation but the theme it’s coded according with WordPress standards and the hierarchy is the same. More details about this can be found here: https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/ Because the theme it’s very complex the file structure it’s a bit different then in a default wp theme. For example the theme have more loop/single files because have more posts templates. Best way to check each file role is to create a test install on your computer, then start editing and see how the your changes affect the front end.
Thanks!
Hi There
I have been struggling to install demo after updating to version 6.6.4. It doesn’t link through but a “preview” button works except for “install”.
Please advice
Hi
The demos have pretty much the same page-speed: http://screencast.com/t/BQBX1qpE so you can install any demo that you like.
Also you can test the live demos with google’s pages-speed tool: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
Thanks!
Hello Vesa,
I have checked your image and saw that you do not have Visual Composer installed. Please try to update it to the latest version and also and the other that come bundled with our theme. Please try to redo your menu because on the 6’s version was changed and differs slightly from 4’s version. Also, please provide more details about what kind of layout do you want to have so I will be able to provide a more accurate response.
Thank you for the message!
Hello,
If you want to to use the travel demo, you can install the demo content for it and go from there http://screencast.com/t/z7YnlI5Vmm1R. If you simply want to replicate the homepage for the travel demo, you can follow my tutorial here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/adding-top-area-like-travel-example/
Thank you!
Hello mikebare,
This kind of delay it might be caused by the interference between your untested plugins. Please try to disable all the active plugins, leave just Visual Composer and install only the plugins that come bundled with our theme and rule out the conflicting plugins. Check your backend after this advice and see if your problem is still there. Also, try to enable one by one and trying to identify what kind of plugin generate this problem.
Hope this helps and let us know how it goes!
Thank you for the message!
It looks I solved the problem!!! 🙂 (http://wordpress.airlive.net)
I installed the demo and desinstalled it and I’ve now have the featured picture on each article (if set).
I have a new question, is it possible to change this defaut image: http://picpaste.com/Capture_d___e__cran_2016-02-01_a___11.41.54-OLRPspwM.png ?
Thanks
Hello @Albert, before you change the root parameters for your fonts, you have to remove your custom modification from your Custom CSS area to avoid the code duplication.
@gstern, our Speed Booster plugin has been designed to work properly with some tested plugins, as you can see in this screenshot -> http://screencast.com/t/ojSRErqBEI8 Please note that the Speed Booster plugin disable itself when an incompatible plugin it’s installed. We added this measure to avoid conflicts with the plugins that won’t allow moving their CSS/js resources at page bottom. To keep it always activated comment or delete the indicated lines from td-speed-booster.php: http://screencast.com/t/RZLIOPUNdqh You can check this topic for more information about speed booster usage: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/speed-booster-questions/
Hope this helps!
Thank you for the message!
Hi!
Just installed the theme and I’m currently trying to customise it to fit my ideas. One thing that seems to trouble me is the main menu. I would like to modify the hovering in such a way that the font will change colour and remove the coloured bar under the main menu items completely. How could I make this happen?
Hello,
Please make sure you have content to show if you only installed the demo without content and you have no posts or pages set, then it has nothing to display. you can import demo content like so: http://screencast.com/t/oEoMYTnM – https://forum.tagdiv.com/installing-demos/
Thank you!
So I’ve been scouring your documentation to figure out how to use the shortcodes you have in your demo like the tab, dropcaps, etc… But I cant seem to find a guide anywhere. Can someone point me to the right resource please? Or do I need to install another plugin like ‘shortcoder’
Thanks
Hi Catalin,
I do understand that I will run the script *after* installing Newspaper 6.6.4.
You wrote “Please ensure you have downloaded the latest version of the theme ->Newspaper 6.6.4 because the script link is available from there”.
As you can see I have downloaded the latest version:
http://oi66.tinypic.com/2w750n4.jpg
Could you please tell me which folder in the download contains the script link?
I cannot run the script after installing Newspaper if I don’t know where I can find the script. 🙂
Or does the script link appear in the WordPress admin panel after installing Newspaper 6, as Chris suggests above?
Thank you for your patience and guidance.
