Hi,
Two questions:
1. Do I have to install and activate WPBakery Visual Composer? I have a brand new site and I am just getting started using the theme and was planning on just using TD Composer.
2. I installed a demo. When I go to my “Home — Front Page” page and choose Edit with TD Composer I see the left side bar where it says Add Element, but the right side is just all white, the page is not showing up. How do I fix that?
Thanks!
Hi,
I installed and uninstalled demos many times because there are so many great ones so I wanted to try them.
Well, every time I installed a new demo, I had to enter ENVATO PURCHASE CODE.
Was it OK to do so?
Or do you charge me every time I enter ENVATO PURCHASE CODE?
Please let me know.
So even in the demo pages installed by the theme, the contact form is 2/3 of the row and the other 1/3 of the row is Blocks. However its not displaying like that, everything is full width. This is happening on multiple pages even on the Newspaper demo pages. Please help
Install the theme zip file, not the all files zip.
While some folks may not know how to use their PHP settings panel in their hosting, or don’t quite understand why the info reported by theme status is different from a local php.ini file for your hosting account, etc. — it’s often highly useful to *peek* at your ACTUAL site/server php setup using a simple query. Most good hosts might even have put such a file in your root directory anyway, perhaps not.
But it’s simple enough to find out:
Simply create a blank empty text file (not Word doc!) — and call it something like
phpinfo.php
then simply put this at top of the file and nothing else
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
then FTP the file into your public root, where your website is.
Then simply load the file in your web browser:
mysite.ggg/phpinfo.php
This simple query shows all kind of status about your php setup, installed modules, etc.
You can likely delete or rename the file to anything else for security purposes after looking at it.
Local PHP settings on your hosting may not match server over-rides, or hosting panel settings. Normally with any *good* hosting service you should have a hosting panel where you can see/set your PHP settings, version, etc. This is normally where you’d see your *actual* live php settings.
The theme is picking up that info from querying the current php settings as ‘reported’ by the server for your local install.
You can do the same by putting a simple php query file in your public root and then reading that in your web browser.
To read your actual php settings
create an empty text file, name it
phpinfo.php
put this at top of text file, and nothing else
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
Put the file in your root directory via FTP (same place your WP install is, or whatever).
Load that via web browser
mysite.efg/phpinfo.php
this will load the actual php settings as reporting by your system, for your specific site as well as overall server settings used by your site.
This should probably be in the them docs someplace, but there you go.
Theme is querying and posting the same data you see running that php ‘query.’ So, theme is not ‘making it up’ from some random info source. 🙂
Hope that helped. I don’t work here.
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Well, remember the “theme” is not slow with F Rating — your site/setup is. Two totally different things. You also need to test with adverts off.
You need to do all the stuff noted on GTmetrix for your setup, from time to live, to gzip, to regenerating your images with compression, limiting calls to outside sites as that all slows things down, if using avatar photos use a local gravatar plugin, make sure you have enough RAM allocated, try to avoid plugins that do popups or rolls downs, avoid large background images (anything over 40k will massively slow down a page), consider using web-safe fonts and NOT a bunch of Google fonts; don’t use child theme as it’s a redirect; make sure you’re using PHP 5.6 or higher with opcache turned on (5.4 is a dog and way out of date; 5.2/5.3 are obsolete and should not be used unless no other choice for old code — which doesn’t apply to WordPress). Stuff like that.
Don’t use the lazy load animation on your posts/pages – disable that ‘effect.’ Consider not using the extra modules like related/more from other, or story ‘more to read’ flyout.
Get a good baseline for streamlined site, good page score — then turn on bells and whistles, evaluate the performance hit, and make choices.
I just switched all my AdSense ads to text-only, as I got sick of the 20 stupid crappy image, cookies and poor optimization of Google’s 10 year old image serving system. Their own ad server doesn’t meet modern pagespeed requirements, so why use it?
For example: I just did an install here; starting speed with 78; regenerated all thumbs with a compression factor of 50; switched off Google fonts, and moved to text ads; speed went to 90 with ads ‘on’ ! All that stuff seriously adds up.
Not sure if any of that helps. I was early adopter of Newspaper, Newsmag, and WPion. So, kinda a dinosaur around here. You might find my ancient thread helpful in the documentation > tutorials > DIY > best of forums. Maybe not.
Anyway – I have a 90 score right now, with no caching plugin and have not yet compressed the main style.css or main .js files, which should gain couple of points right there.
I have been making some updates and checking configurations. When I go to Newsmag/System Status it tells you or is supposed to tell you the php.ini configuration. As far as I can tell it does not read the configuration correctly.
NewsMag States:
php.ini configuration
Server software i Apache
PHP Version i 5.6.31
post_max_size i 128M – You cannot upload images, themes and plugins that have a size bigger than this value. To see how you can change this please check our guide here.
max_execution_time 600
max_input_vars 1000 – the max_input_vars should be bigger than 2000, otherwise it can cause incomplete saves in the menu panel in WordPress. To see how you can change this please check our guide here.
SUHOSIN installed false
mbstring available
After downloading and checking my php.ini file here are the actual settings:
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Resource Limits ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
max_execution_time = 300 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
max_input_time = 1000 ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data
memory_limit = 256M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (32MB)
max_input_vars = 4000
upload_max_size = 64M
post_max_size = 64M
upload_max_filesize = 64M
Shouldnt they be exactly the same? This same thing is true when Newsmag attempts to read the settings for WordPress. I think this is very important and should be consistent
The issue is now sorted, after I read the doc about deleting the VC5.2 and reinstalling from the Newspaper download. Thanks, John
After upgrading to Newspaper 8 and, yes, upgrading to Visual Composer 5.2 I no longer have block formats on my page layouts. The blocks have converted to code and I can’t recreate the block format as they don’t appear as optional elements. If this is related to VC5.2 how can I get rid of it and install the version included in the Newspaper package. Thanks, John
How to install this theme (Newsmag4) is like demo?
I can see installs in your demo wp-admin?
Hi there!
I am new to wordpress and tagdiv theme – please help me out ma’am / sir!
1. I have bought tagdiv newspaper theme
2. I have installed it – and then, ran demo for “Politics”
3. My website injust.org
You will see that the home page is blank – does not look like the demo
4. But, after you go to my website injust.org
And, then -> Hover over More -> Click Economy or Healthcare or Environment in the Dropdown under More
Click it
You will see that now you can see demo pictures and demo content.
BUT NOT IN HOME PAGE
Please help me out!
Hi,
When I press the toggle menu it does nothing, just adds a # at the end of the url.
I installed the Mobile Theme plugin to test it, and the toggle menu works well with it, but since I don’t like the mobile layout, I had to uninstall it, and I can’t figure it out where is the problem.
Is it possible to have the Mobile Theme plugin installed while keeping the desktop layout for the mobiles?
Can you take a look to my site: http://meganotas.com
Thanks
Hello Catalin.
Thank you for the response. I have just downloaded the theme, so I just have an youtube-gallery plugin and a wp cache plugin installed, in addition to the plugins coming with the template. The Newspaper 7 version has many more plugins, and still clearer images. There is only a difference for the images uploaded to the blocks, not images uploaded otherwise, so just look at the posts and associated images beneath the ‘spotlight’ heading on the page. If you could have a look and compare:
(i) With clear images for the blocks: http://www.thecar.no
(ii) With more fuzzy images for the blocks: http://www.thecarindia.com
Also:
– I would like to remove the author identification on the posts (perhaps I have overlooked a feature)
– I would also like to take away the black-comment symbol showing on the right side of the post
– I am not able to get the logo larger in size without using the max-size feature the new template. The logo also appear more sharp for the previous template (both are png files).
In advance, thank you.
Best,
Glenn
Hello inalessandria,
I suggest you make a new clean install from scratch via FTP way, remove all of the untested plugins and leave just to active only the plugins which come bundled with the theme core files and check the results. Also, you should check this problem with your hosting provider because it would be some problem caused by your dedicated server. Ask help from them because they would help you in this case.
Thanks for your understanding!
Ok, this looks like I made a stupid error installing the theme. An error which should not able the theme function at all but it does 🙂 I had the theme installed in “/themes/Newspaper/Newspaper/” folder…
I need to reinstall it, sorry for the hassle.
Cheers
Well, actually it does not work. I installed it from Newspaper 8 files, and it did not recognize Newspaper 8 as it’s parent, the child theme is listed as “broken”. In style.css, the code is:
/*
Theme Name: Newspaper 7 Child theme
Theme URI: http://themeforest.net/user/tagDiv/portfolio
Description: Child theme made by tagDiv
Author: tagDiv
Author URI: http://themeforest.net/user/tagDiv/portfolio
Template: Newspaper
Version: 7.7c
*/
/* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
This file will load automatically when the child theme is active. You can use it
for custom CSS.
*/
Hi,
On a default theme install, using only the plugins included in the theme package,there is no problem using the tagDiv composer. Both in terms of speed and design or display.
This can be caused by not having the system status as mentioned in the guide provided by Bogdan
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/system-status-parameters-guide/
Or maybe a plugin conflict. Try testing with all other plugins deactivated, and also clear your cache after you disable them. See if there is any effect after doing this, and let us know if you still have problems.
Thanks
Hello Newstrack,
I have inspected your website and I saw that you have some errors through it. Also, I have noticed that you are using some untested plugins (like autoptimize -> https://www.screencast.com/t/HVJZYvqTYFa) which can interact with the theme core files and causes a lot of unknown issues. Notice that the theme cannot be tested with all of the plugins, sorry!
NOTE: The first step in debugging WordPress is to disable all of the untested plugins to avoid any conflicting plugins. Try to make a new clean install from scratch and check the theme exclusively in the default state and see the results and then, if the problem is still there, please let us know.
Thanks for your understanding!
Hello hafizhafizah,
It seems to be a strange error, sorry! Please try to download again the theme packet from Theme Forest, remove the old theme after you have made a full backup to your database and then install it again via FTP way because this is the surest method in this regard and check the results. It could be possible to be some corrupt files when you have downloaded the theme and that’s why you got this message.
Hope this helps and let us know how it goes!
Thanks for your understanding!
Hi,
I installed the mobile theme plugin. I want to change all the fonts to the google font “Asap”, what should I do?
Thanks,
Tina
Hi,
I have tested this post sorting on the same big grid, and it is working properly. It must display random posts from the category you choose
– https://www.screencast.com/t/ryT1mxur5aid
If the category you choose has posts in it, then they should display randomly as it is meant to.
This could be also a caching issue. Maybe you have caching installed or the server has a cache. That can produce the same page content, and not refresh the data.
Thanks
Hello ponlork,
I’m not sure why this happens on your end. It could be the wp super cache plugin:
Please use this guide to properly set wp super cache: https://forum.tagdiv.com/cache-plugin-install-and-configure/
Also, the wp super cache has a flaw in it;s code that should be corrected.
https://github.com/Automattic/wp-super-cache/pull/185/files
Edit wp-cache-phase1.php and add the green code from the right column as it shows in the provided link.
Let us know if you still have trouble with wp super cache.
You can try to disable the mobile theme plugin if you use it and test to see if you still have this issue.
Thank you!
