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Hi,
This is the same problem I’ve been having since I upgraded and updated. The icons for editing individual blocks are not there. I can only move or delete whole blocks but not edit. Please help. I haven’t been able to use any of the really nice looking homepage templates.
I also have a notice on my dashboard that says: “Important notice: You have an outdated version of Visual Composer Design Options. It is required to review and save it.”
Any help to fix this will be appreciated.
I just figured it out. I had to change my homepage template to blank. 🙂
1. How do I erase the excess pink space from the top of footer to snap closer to logo and same with bottom of footer to snap closer to social icons?
I think those areas have some padding due to the possibility to include some ads in those spaces. It looks like the height of the footer is hardcoded to be 1164×389. It is element ‘td-footer-wrapper td-footer-template-4’. You could change it in your style sheet.
2. How do I make the social icons in footer menu a bit bigger? And how do I make the hover colour on those icons a solid purple colour instead of the colours constantly changing?
The footer social media icons are designed to be 40×40. You’d have to change the styles too. Look at the following elements in your CSS: td-social-style-2 and td-icon-font. If you’re going to make several edits to the stylesheet, consider making a child theme.
3. Chris’s Pagespeed Custom Code no longer works (the one that you post at the end of the functions.php – will he be coming out with a new one that works with Newspaper 6?)
Have you upgraded to v6.1 of the theme?
4. How do I move the bottom share options (at the end of my posts), above my taboola advertisement so that they appear right at end of article?
Go to your dashboard. Theme Panel>Post Seetings>Sharing. You should see toggles to move the social sharing buttons.
5. Is there a code so that my custom ad 1 will appear underneath (or above) the author box?
I’m not sure if it always inserts it below ads. I think the author box is placed there via the posts template. You can attempt to mess with the posts templates to see if another one places the author box higher. Go to dashboard. Theme Panel>Post Settings>Default Post Template.
Hello latest visual composer active, after updating to Newspaper 6 blocks not showing in background, and even with default page templates not able to edit. For reference screenshot links given below..
tried with database update and without update, same Problem. Also tried with deactivating all plugins expect visual composer.
No Blocks – http://s28.postimg.org/pamrzdw65/image.jpg
Not able to edit default template – http://s28.postimg.org/adeaydixp/image.jpg
I am glad if I can also help a bit. Yet, do you have a short idea what I could try as a quick workaround?
Actually for testing it is enough to delete the content of the file … no need to check the sourcecode afterwards, because if the page still shows, the file is definetily not taken from the child-theme 🙂
I have tested with style1 as well, same situation. Didn’t test other templates though, guess it is valid for all of them.
Which is actually an impossibility, isn’t it? Isn’t WP itself handling the child-theme thing? Did you “bend” something there? 🙂
Hi Alin, thanks for getting back to me.
I’ve tried both methods of trying to create the sidebar and neither is working for me.
I went to Template Settings > Blog and posts Template and in the sidebar dropdown box I created a Custom Sidebar,previously I had it set on defaut. The demo categories are not listed on mine because I haven’t installed the demo.
I then went to Appearance > Widgets.
I clicked on the Custom Side box I created and added widgets including Tag Cloud and Calendar. However nothing appears on the sidebars in post pages.
I then went to Appearance > Widgets clicked on Block 1 and added it to my Custom Sidebar and tried to customise it and add widgets but still it doesn’t appear on post pages.
I also tried the custom sidebar method but still nothing. Your instructions are what I had originally tried to do.
By no means am I an experienced web developer, but for the past few years I have been installing and setting up WordPress themes just by following the instructions. I’m so frustrated as I have spent many hours on this and can’t resolve it!
Please help me get the sidebar working.
Hi,
Newspaper compared to other themes ads extra data to the menu items (mega menu data) and it may go over the default max_input_vars value which is 1000. You have to change the value inside the php.ini file and restart Apache. After that you could add the phpinfo(); function at the bottom of a template (ex. the Category template) – http://screencast.com/t/YPHJcQle – Open a category page on frontend and look at the bottom for the max_input_vars value to see if it’s changed to 5000. – http://screencast.com/t/TUUKd1sLUw
Also check the host documentation on how to edit the php.ini file, they usually have a guide.
If the menu still doesn’t save try to create a new menu and add the same items on it, the old menu may have some hidden error (from a parameter or something else). If it works delete the old menu and use the new one.
Thank you, Emil G.
Hi,
Unfortunately you will need custom work to create a custom page template and display the featured image like you want, not so simple. Theme page template were designed to work with Visual Composer and to display Visual Composer elements.
I suggest to get someone to help you as we cannot provide any type of custom work for the moment, sorry!
Thanks!
Hi,
@Carel and @neakriti I have added this on our list and we will try to find a solution for login widget to appear on mobile. We will see if it will be added somewhere else…
You can try this custom css to display only sign in widget in top menu – http://screencast.com/t/brzKHghs3
@media (max-width: 767px){
.td-header-top-menu-full {
display: block !important;
}
.td-header-sp-top-menu {
display: block!important;
}
.menu-top-container {
display: none !important;
}
.td-header-sp-top-widget {
display: none !important;
}
}2. If you use SEO by Yoast and bbpress activate you can handle it – http://screencast.com/t/9u6h6LGbwrzI Also you have in Theme Panel bbpress template to add a custom sidebar and set position for it – http://screencast.com/t/lEsL9kkVK I was referred to the page template of bbpress – http://screencast.com/t/HJPkL1ztavSa we use now full plugin without any customizations.
Thanks!
Hi
At your first question unfortunately it’s not possible to do that, because the theme wasn’t designed to support that.
For the second problem if you are using post template:Default on the pages, you can follow this links
href=”http://screencast.com/t/e6FHGyI6
href=”http://screencast.com/t/WQjxq6ZUw
href=”http://screencast.com/t/ImmZBqUXT3FT
as an example!
Thank you!
Hi,
You can use this css only for mobile screens – http://screencast.com/t/rMDSomt6J
@media (max-width: 767px){
.single .td-page-wrap .td-grid-wrap{
padding-top: 10px !important;
}
}
About placing the code in the body you will have to to this for each template where you want to appear – page template that you use, post template, category… I think that what you done is the best solution.
Thanks!
Hi,
The Homepage BG template was removed, so now the Big Slide will not be added automatically to your page. You will have to add it manually using Visual Composer elements and add a background to the row – http://screencast.com/t/b1NHmJssA – http://screencast.com/t/G40JxDjwWG Like you can see in the screenshot you have to adjust margins and padding.
Hope this helps!
Hey guys,
I’ve changed the setting under Theme Panel > Template Settings > Woocommerce template…
However, the product page still shows a sidebar…
Can someone please help me out?
No wonder it’s all messed up. Thanks once again Alin!
If I want to use the Default Template, how do I put H1 tag to the header logo? This is because the site name appears at the front end of the page if I opt for Pagebuilder
Hi,
Whjen you use Pagebuilder with title, the default sidebar is also added so please set to full width page(without sidebar) when you use this template if you have added sidebar in the page content – http://screencast.com/t/UScGpldW0cI
Thanks!
Hi,
I am trying to get the blog page to show excerpts ( like the category pages do: http://weedstream.net/dev/category/celebrities/ )
Here is the blog page: http://weedstream.net/dev/blog/
I have tried setting the template at the page level without success.
Thank you!
I have a really strange thing here. My posts are all set to style9, and I copied single_template_9.php into my child-theme folder, but no matter what I edit there, the output stays the same. It is like this file is not taken into consideration. I also added teststrings to the HTML output and checked in the source code, it is simply not there. Editing page.php or the loop-single-9.php does show up in the output, so the child-theme works, and apparently it uses the style9 template, but I can not edit it.
Do you have a clue? To recreate, please simply copy the file into your childtheme and change something, for example <article id=”444test444″…
then call a post that has style9 and check the source code … still shows its good old post-XX ID, so definetely this file is not read. But then what else is used?
My aim is to use the td_1068x580 as featured image instead of 1068×0, and for this I need to change it in the post template, which should be exactly this one.
Thanks for a hint on where I find what I am searching for 🙂
Hello, i am very fresh to this theme but managed nearly all I needed so far. BUT I would like to show the featured image on my pages as I do on posts, I use post template 9 for it. Now when copying these lines
<?php
// override the default featured image by the templates (single.php and home.php/index.php - blog loop)
if (!empty(td_global::$load_featured_img_from_template)) {
echo $td_mod_single->get_image(td_global::$load_featured_img_from_template);
} else {
echo $td_mod_single->get_image('td_1068x0');
}
?>
into my child’s page.php, it gives me an error, and as i saw in the breadcrumbs, they are called different for pages then for posts, so I guess also here I need a differnent code.
How can I solve this?
Thanks for this amazing theme
Sofian
The new update is fantastic.
1. Deleted old theme and uploaded the new version, activated, etc. I’ve disabled all my plugins and am getting this error on the front page:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function vc_column_offset_class_merge() in /nas/wp/www/staging/****/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/vc_templates/vc_column.php on line 22
I’ve only got visual composer plugin activated.
2. We have an existing site with content and the old shortcoded blockquotes appear to be missing, which makes the previous content with the blockquotes in it show the raw shortcodes. Did the shortcodes not get carried over? Is there an easy way to fix this?
Thanks! Unbelievable job on this theme.
Hi all.
After much struggling I seem to have got the Newspaper 6 theme set up. For my Homepage, About and Contact I have used the pre-set page templates. The problem is I just cannot get the sidebar to appear on any of my post pages. I’ve gone to my postpage and used Visual Composer to set the right sidebar template, and also to set a widgetised sidebar but nothing works. When i look in Appearance – Widgets there is no sidebar box. Any ideas on how to get this showing?
Also, At the top of the homepage is the Category Top Posts Box which shows highlights of your content. How do I set it and select what is featured in the box?
Thanks in advance!
Hi,
You asked on the wrong section, this is Newsmag.
The Ads>Posts>Post Template style 1 is not related to the More Articles Box, to add custom code inside that area you have to edit the file which generates it, you can find it here – http://screencast.com/t/HwRuyTYU5Sjc
Here’s a similar thread – https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/change-more-articles-box/
The smart sidebar just keeps the sidebar sticky (it follows you when you scroll down). If it’s a long sidebar it scrolls down to it’s end. Not sure what you mean with that image, please provide more details. The layout has to be set from the widget section or from the page (if you use visual composer to create 2/3 + 1/3 columns).
Thank you, Emil G.
Is it broken? Everytime I changed to to Pagebuilder + Page Title, my site layout are messed up. However Default Template is okay
Hi i tried to make new homepage for newspaper 6, but its really hard to make, no blocks shows there, even default templates not easy to edit.
With Newspaper V4, I was able to delete some lines of javascript to force the template to use the “attachment.php” page instead of a modal pop-up. How do I do this with Newspaper V6?
I’ve tried removing the highlighted portion, but this doesn’t seem to work.
What am I doing wrong?
Hi,
1. Please provide a link so we can take a look if you still have this issue with thumbnails. Try also to regenerate only that image maybe it was not regenerated.
2. Try to change the module to display your articles on category page and save your settings as were added more features for category template – http://screencast.com/t/a2bJ1wNTh37U Also change the module for each template you may have issues also on search page for example – http://screencast.com/t/VoiG4Xjta7
3. Do you use speed booster? This usually happens because of the speed booster plugin which move the css and js at the bottom of the page structure so that the page will load faster, this is why the theme default color appears first then changes, because of the cascading property of css. A solution is to change the color directly into the css style-sheet, which will make your colors to load first and stay that way.
4. You can change the date format form WordPress settings – http://screencast.com/t/tHRb1anDA6R
Thanks!
