Hi,
Buttons can be created like this in a text element
– https://www.screencast.com/t/V0NENGgo
More information here in this guide
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/increase-users-engagement-add-custom-buttons-posts/
There might be a more dedicated button element added in future updates for the tagDiv composer, with more options and settings.
Thanks
Hello monicacortes,
Please keep in mind that what you want to do is a BIG update and the theme will be broken because it is totally another theme, sorry!
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 theme will do not work because all the files from this were changed in Newspaper 8.1 and as the main theme and also you lose all changes.
The Newspaper 8.1 is a whole new theme so an update from 4 to 8.1 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 8.1 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.
Hope this helps and let us know how it goes!
Thank you for the message!
Hi,
Please deactivate it and delete it from the plugins section, though it should not activate by itself. This should happen only when the theme is installed or updated.
Thanks
Hi,
Please note that the theme has to be updated along with WordPress and plugins. Old versions can have security breaches and these can be exploited by different tools.
Please make sure you update your theme, plugins, and WordPress and do not stick to old versions.
If you have been the victim of an attack, update your theme immediately to the latest version and use one of these guides:
http://securepress.org/tutorial-how-to-remove-malware.php
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-removal
https://www.wordfence.com/docs/how-to-clean-a-hacked-wordpress-site-using-wordfence/
Here is a link for best WordPress security practices created by Chris S:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-good-basic-security-practices/
Thank you!
Hi Movie,
I have checked your website and I saw that you are using an old theme version and also, use such untested plugins which can interact with the theme core files and causes a lot of unknown issues. First of all, you should update the theme to the latest theme’s version, remove all of the untested plugins and use only the items which come bundled with the theme core files and rule out any conflicting plugins.
Thanks for your understanding!
After updated to Newspaper Theme 8.1. My site crashed and when I finally got it back up I was unable to re-install the tagDiv Composer plugin. I keep getting the same error.
Warning: require_once(td_deploy_mode.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory
Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required ‘td_deploy_mode.php’ (include_path=’.:/opt/php56/lib/php’)
My site is fresnoalliance.com
Hello,
I’m using the Top Header Menu and the Header Menu (main) locations. I have separate menus assigned to the two locations, but anything I add to one menu also gets added to the other one. So the menus are exactly the same. If I delete an item from one menu, everything gets deleted from the other menu.
I only noticed this problem after the most recent update. I tried disabling all plugins, flushing the cache and reinstalling the theme. Nothing has worked.
Hi,
Just updated to Newspaper 8 and redeisgned my homepage at http://www.sgaialand.it.
From certain computers, I see it perfect. When I zoom in/out, all blocks remain in the right position:
See it here
Using other computers, the main column goes full width, all blocks stick to the sides of the page, image thumbnails don’t adapt, etc.:
See it here
It’s quite a big deal and need to fix this ASAP… can anybody help me?
Many thanks!
PS: Gotta get back to the old Newspaper 7 /visual composer homepage in the meantime, so I guess you won’t see the issue when you visit the website.
I updated to 8.1. of your theme and it has caused problems with how Visual Composer elements display in most of my posts.
Example post: https://agenturer.no/selvstendig-agent-nord-norge/
You will see a picture in the middle (that is been expanded in size). It looks very ugly.
However if you see the setup on the back end in Visual composer you will notice the picture should be in the left sidebar: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xh5druotg9ojj7w/visual-composer-setup.jpg?dl=0
Can you help me with figuring out why this is happening after updating to 8.1? (from 7.8).
Kind regards
Lars
I got my hosting company to do what you mentioned (please see below). I have no plugins activated, cache it using WP Cache and I still have problems with editing….
Can you please sort this out ASAP.
Thank you for contacting us.
This is an update for your request in which the following configurations required to be set in the server.
wp-config.php file
define( ‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’ );
define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false);
Php.ini
max_input_vars = 5000
max_execution_time = 300
post_max_size = 50M
upload_max_filesize = 50M
suhosin.request.max_vars = 5000
suhosin.post.max_vars = 5000
Now you tell me it’s this problem https://www.screencast.com/t/oKKjne7Z5T
How do I resolve this? an you tell me exactly what I need to do to fix the problem? I’ve the stopped anti virus. I have tried on 2 browsers Firefox and Chrome and still dont work. It’s been a week, I am no nearer doing anything with the site.
Please please find out what the problem is.
Thanks
I also have the same problem.
The last update is not in the menu, but there are no plugins installed.
Hi, I am looking to display “last modified date” on the posts that are updated after the published date. When i put the following code in function.php, the newsmag theme gives error and doesn’t display anything. Could you help me as to where i should put the code to do the mentioned task.
function wpb_last_updated_date( $content ) {
$u_time = get_the_time(‘U’);
$u_modified_time = get_the_modified_time(‘U’);
if ($u_modified_time >= $u_time + 86400) {
$updated_date = get_the_modified_time(‘F jS, Y’);
$updated_time = get_the_modified_time(‘h:i a’);
$custom_content .= ‘<p class=”last-updated”>Last updated on ‘. $updated_date . ‘ at ‘. $updated_time .'</p>’;
}
$custom_content .= $content;
return $custom_content;
}
add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘wpb_last_updated_date’ );
Hello Catalin,
This is our website:
http://marronyblanco.com/
And we would like to update it from the Newspaper 4 version to the Newspaper 8 version. It has only 4 or 5 static pages, because is based on posts. Every time we have tried to update it following your instruction everything is broken: the menus, the sidebars, the widgets…
Do you provide any kind of payment service to do this? We will lost a lot of time and you, as the developers of the theme, will invest less than an hour.
Thank you in advance.
Juan.
Hello Catalin,
Thank you for your answer. the problem was we were using a Child Theme, and the update didn’t work. In fact, we have tried to update our theme 2 times and everything is broken.
This is our website:
http://marronyblanco.com/
And we would like to update it from the Newspaper 4 version to the Newspaper 8 version. It has only 4 or 5 static pages, because is based on posts. Do you provide any kind of payment service to do this? We will lost a lot of time and you, as the developers of the theme, will invest less than an hour.
Thank you in advance.
Juan.
Hi issajar,
Sorry for this but please notice that we cannot provide this type of services at the moment, sorry! Please notice that from 4.4 version to 8 version of the theme it’s been a long time and the update has been made slowly. Why do you have not updated the theme until now, sorry?
Thanks for your understanding!
Hi,
If you update the theme to the latest version or install it, the tagDiv composer will automatically activate itself
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-composer-tutorial/
Having both editors active could create problems in some cases. After updating please go to your plugins section and deactivate the tagDiv composer plugin.
If you use a child theme please switch to the main theme, as it may require adjustments to the new theme version. Custom code you might use may not work properly anymore.
Thanks
I have found the culprit and it was entirely my fault – I failed to update the child theme code along with the main theme. Sorry for bothering you.
So to anyone reading this with similar problems, make sure that you have updated the child theme code, particularly functions.php.
Your site is hacked.
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/traffictrade-malware-newspaper-8-1-all-updated/
Hello,
I’m currently having an issue where the desktop version of the website is loading on mobile – http://moviemarker.co.uk/
Can you help? Nothing has changed recently apart from the WordPress update several weeks ago, however this problem started around 4/5 days ago
Thanks
Hi Amit,
Thank you for the response.
Well, I am not really very good with technical stuff and hence didn’t understand what you mean by creating a plugin for function.php but I have successfully created a child theme with proper implementation of styles.css and function.php but still, couldn’t find any way to keep mobile style.css and function.php update proof.
May be someday, you will create a detailed blog post on this and then I will be able to actually implement it on my site. 🙂
Thank you.
Hi,
In Newspaper 8 the tagDiv composer was introduced, this plugin will automatically activate itself when the theme is updated or installed
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-composer-tutorial/
In some cases this editor can affect the elements on the page created with Visual composer.
After making the update, please go to your plugins section and deactivate the tagDiv composer, then check if there still is a problem.
Thanks
Hi,
For the moment there is no specific option to change the font properties for the font logo. It will be available in future updates. There is a solution provided in this topic, to change it manually
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/i-cant-edit-my-text/
Thanks
My site installed tagDiv Mobile Theme and WP Fastest Cache plugins.
After Edit homepage and update.
If the first open homepage by PC Chrome Brower, the second time open homepage by iPhone, iPhone Safari display PC home page.
If the first open homepage by iPhone Safari, the second time open homepage by PC Chrome Brower, iPhone Safari display Mobile homepage.
Hi Simion C., and many thanks for the help…
I tried updating the theme fom 6.7.2 to 8.1… (I have it purchased and download from envato-themeforest site) and got the same issue:
The post pages are too wide for the screen, the text goes out of the screen in desktop and also in tablet, mobile…
The pages are displaying ok, but the posts are not readable…. so I had to go back to my old version with a backup.
I tried importing the settings from the newspaper panel, but didn´t help.
With this version I have some problems, so I would need to update the theme version…
BSD Hi, thanks for answer
We, when buying version 8, saw nowhere to warn of incompatibility with previous versions. Now we are with a serious security problem where you can not see our site halaja.org, due to the error of version 4.4 of newspaper.
I am told that upgrading to version 8 is tricky. So they can not provide us with a patch for version 4.4 (something that is common in the software industry)?
Looking for another type of solution, you offer an installation service for u $ s 50, if we hire this service could make the update of our version 4.4 at 8?
We appreciate your prompt response.
regards
Mario
