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Hello.
As we get the latest update of theme (Newspaper7), we also get Visual composer broken. Latest theme update did not offer latest update of Visual composer plugin to us. We have Version 4.9.2 installed and latest is: current version 4.11.2.
If we got VC in a theme, that means that theme author has license and only he/she can download latest versions of VC and include it in the theme. We as a theme user, may use Visual Composer free of charge while we use theme that came with VC (because we have license for that theme).
I assume that this is a main reason of all our problems, and i really need to know why we did not get latest update in our theme update? This is serious problem, we can not work at all till this is over.
Please try to solve this ASAP.
Thanks
MPL Agency – Serbia
http://www.americkiizbori2016.rs
a) make sure you update VC plugin properly by
— delete old folder in /plugins/
— upload NEW updated js-composer plugin folder via FTP into your plugins folder
b) log-in to your theme
c) clear web browser cache completely
d) clear transients with wp-optimze
e) launch visual composer
f) if your page shows [code] try preview then ‘save’ without making changes
g) read up on changes to Visual Composer in case *they* decided to deprecate/retire some feature, which no longer works and will leave an empty space or reveal dead shortcode — only option is to remove old dead shortcode, and rebuilt that element
and it goes without saying you should ALREADY have increased your default memory for WP to 96MB or more in your wp-config.php file to even use VC at all!
VC is nice to have drag and drop, but it’s a tricky little bastard… er … little fellow.
If you get white screen of death, that’s a whole ‘nuther story.
Good luck!
a) make sure you update VC plugin properly by
— delete old folder in /plugins/
— upload NEW updated js-composer plugin folder via FTP into your plugins folder
b) log-in to your theme
c) clear web browser cache completely
d) clear transients with wp-optimze
e) launch visual composer
f) if your page shows [code] try preview then ‘save’ without making changes
g) read up on changes to Visual Composer in case *they* decided to deprecate/retire some feature, which no longer works and will leave an empty space or reveal dead shortcode — only option is to remove old dead shortcode, and rebuilt that element
and it goes without saying you should ALREADY have increased your default memory for WP to 96MB or more in your wp-config.php file to even use VC at all!
VC is nice to have drag and drop, but it’s a tricky little bastard… er … little fellow.
If you get white screen of death, that’s a whole ‘nuther story.
Good luck!
a) make sure you update VC plugin properly by
— delete old folder in /plugins/
— upload NEW updated js-composer plugin folder via FTP into your plugins folder
b) log-in to your theme
c) clear web browser cache completely
d) clear transients with wp-optimze
e) launch visual composer
f) if your page shows [code] try preview then ‘save’ without making changes
g) read up on changes to Visual Composer in case *they* decided to deprecate/retire some feature, which no longer works and will leave an empty space or reveal dead shortcode — only option is to remove old dead shortcode, and rebuilt that element
and it goes without saying you should ALREADY have increased your default memory for WP to 96MB or more in your wp-config.php file to even use VC at all!
VC is nice to have drag and drop, but it’s a tricky little bastard… er … little fellow.
If you get white screen of death, that’s a whole ‘nuther story.
Good luck!
Visual composer plugin comes with the Newspaper theme, so we dont have option to update directly, only throw the theme update. Newspaper 7 is not offering option to update VC to latest. What about that problem?
Triple. Here is the same problem, and yes, you re right – @blujimbo. It started before latest update. Visual composer not working, just loading and loading. Backend editor is not showing at all. Plugin is up to date (Visual C), and there was not some new plugins installed on my site.
Please give us some answers fast. Thanks
Yes, I think the problem is getting version 4 of the plugin. I thought I’d get an update for that too, but no dice. How can I find it?
Double Bump. Same problem – thanks for posting first. I think it started before this update for me.
a) try clearing cache on site if using one; reset update CDN if using one
b) clear cache in your web browser
c) clear transients using wp-optimize
d) make sure you have enough memory allocated to WordPress via the wp-config.php file
Hi Catalin,
I manage now to update my site to 7.0 without having a problem and I am proud to share it to the community.
Please help me to implement back the following:
1. Please advise if this is correct for Facebook comments and USERPRO Author Box – I manage to set this properly on the previous version 6.7.2 I am using loop-single-12.php style
<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_social_sharing_bottom();?>
<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_next_prev_posts();?>
- - - This is what I inserted a shortcode to show a USERPRO Author Box Card - - -
<?php echo do_shortcode('[userpro template=card user=author]');?>
<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_item_scope_meta();?>
</footer>
- - - This is what I inserted a code to show Facebook Comment - - -
<div class="fb-comments" data-href="<?php echo get_permalink($td_mod_single->post->ID); ?>" data-width="100%" data-numposts="5"></div>
<?php echo $td_mod_single->related_posts();?>
For Facebook comment – I place a code in header.php
<body <?php body_class() ?> itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="<?php echo td_global::$http_or_https?>://schema.org/WebPage">
<div id=”fb-root”></div>
<script>(function(d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.5&appId=XXXXXX”;
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, ‘script’, ‘facebook-jssdk’));</script>
<?php /* scroll to top */?>
2. http://prnt.sc/b2jo8d – I want to know the exact gradient color of that in the screenshot.
Regards
After the last update version the plugin social no count Facebook and Youtube.
my site http://www.guiadoexcel.com.br
What Can I do to solve?
Thank’s
Hi there,
First of all, I manage to update the Theme from version 6.7.2 to version 7.0 without having a problem, if you have some customization through code, you will have to do a backup and then you should try to re-implement this in Newspaper 7 files. Here’s what I did:
1. Switch your site to “Maintenance Mode” using a plugin or if you don’t have its fine also.
2. I switch my Theme from “Newspaper” to “Twenty Fifteen” theme since its in “Maintenance Mode” so nobody sees it except me. 🙂
3. I deactivate all my plugins and if possible do not deactivate the following plugins “WP Super Cache”, “Cloudflare” and my “Maintenance Mode” plugin, please note that “WP Super Cache” plugin once deactivated and activated again the settings change back to its default and make sure you set it to the correct settings or follow this link: https://forum.tagdiv.com/cache-plugin-install-and-configure/
4. Please don’t skip this to always backup the files and the database or ask your hosting company to guide you on how to do it, in case something goes wrong with the server you could use the backup to revert to the previous state as what the Documentation says follow this guide link: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ – Please read it carefully and follow what the instruction says follow the guide until Serial “A. Update the theme via FTP” only, this is the best way possible to update the Theme recommended by the tagdiv team.
5. After the update please ensure that you have cleared all your caches and purge your CDN files if you are using the CDN, and then go into the Theme Panel and click on the Save Settings button.
6. Update the following plugins – Visual Composer, Slider Revolution, tagDiv Social Counter and tagDiv Speed Booster that comes with the latest file you just downloaded from Envato>Download>All Files & documentation inside that there is a Folder name Plugins, how to update these plugins? follow this link and read it carefully: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin/ and do the same way with the remaining plugins Slider Revolution, tagDiv Social Counter and tagDiv Speed Booster only.
7. Check your site if it’s working or not, if it is working then proceed to the next step, congrats you made it. 🙂
8. Then start activating again your plugins that you just deactivated earlier in Serial 3, much better one by one to activate your plugin then you will know what causing you a problem if you activate a plugin, first you activate the recommended ones then the rest of your plugins.
9. Since you haven’t found any problem at all and if you have some customization through code on the previous version, then you should try to re-implement this in Newspaper 7.
Try this common troubleshooting tool:
a. Clearing all your caches and purge your CDN files help a lil bit of our common problems.
b. Save again your Permalinks in case you have some extra Pages which comes or created by your Third Party Plugins and problems with some links are “Not Found”, go to Dashboard>Settings>Permalinks and mine is set to “Post name” then click “Save Changes”.
Lastly, if you have found any error or conflict or question about anything, please just do a search here in the forum or write a new topic and address your problem and I just share this atleast a lil help for the awesome tagdiv team. Great theme ever!!!
I love the new update Newspaper version 7 🙂
Enjoy!!!
They are usually listed in the changelog files found in the “all files” download from themeforest. Not always, but most of the time. This is usually for dot update, not “full version” changes like Newspaper going from 6 to 7 where it might be whole new theme so not applicable for listing changed files since they ALL changed.
Figured out that I needed to update themes and plugins. Is there a way to receive email updates for this theme when something big happens?
Would love to know about it, if that’s a possibility.
My website http://www.observerxtra.com on mobile version displays a white screen with the text:
“The mobile theme path couldn’t be set. Please check if you already have another mobile theme plugin active and disable it (ex. Jetpack Mobile Theme or similar) If you use a cache plugin clear it before checking the results.”
When I updated the site last night, the mobile was working. I even changed the colour and it was working great. By the morning, without touching the site again the error message is displayed. Have to say when it was working I really liked it. Much faster which is super important for mobile — thank you for creating this add on. When I can get it working on our site it will be a great asset.
I don’t have another mobile theme plugin installed or Jetpack. I am hosted on WPengine and they look after cache and don’t allow cache plugins. I cleared the cache for page and object but nothing has changed. I updated all of my plugins.
After the upgrade to v7 my pages have gone wonky in the background – especially my homepage which I can’t get into anymore to edit. I read that Visual Composer was breaking these pages and not the theme, however, I have the latest visual composer and something is wonky with my current pages. If I start a fresh new page everything looks fine.
I would super appreciate if someone can take a look.
Hey Andrei,
So I had this exact same problem when WordPress updated recently, but you guys fixed it through a theme update. However, the exact same problem mentioned by ozzie62 happened to me last week. For now, I have turned off lazyload so my images show. But, I updated the theme yesterday and even the Visual Composer Plugin like you said, but nothing changed. My site is shanaplandebate.com. Please help me out!
Hello,
after theme update, you can not log in anymore, and appears as follows:
Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function visual_composer() in /srv/users/serverpilot/apps/wordpress/public/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/functions.php:205 Stack trace: #0 /srv/users/serverpilot/apps/wordpress/public/wp-includes/plugin.php(525): myoverride(”) #1 /srv/users/serverpilot/apps/wordpress/public/wp-settings.php(393): do_action(‘init’) #2 /srv/users/serverpilot/apps/wordpress/public/wp-config.php(39): require_once(‘/srv/users/serv…’) #3 /srv/users/serverpilot/apps/wordpress/public/wp-load.php(37): require_once(‘/srv/users/serv…’) #4 /srv/users/serverpilot/apps/wordpress/public/wp-login.php(12): require(‘/srv/users/serv…’) #5 {main} thrown in /srv/users/serverpilot/apps/wordpress/public/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/functions.php on line 205
Hello Guys,
we updated to Newspaper 7 and got an issue (maybe bug) regarding Visual Composer and the Author Box . We excluded severals ID’s to only show up some Authors, which was fine in V6.7.2. After the update to Newspaper 7 all settings will simply ignored, so that all Authors will show up. :-/
All Plugins (including Visual Composer) are up 2 date and all caches and Caching Plugins were cleared.
Any suggestions would be helpful.
Cheers,
Chris
at first, very nice update 🙂
but we have a problem to set a background image for the mobile menu. We have tried different image sizes but there is no picture displayed.cache etc. we have already deactivated, but that did not help
what can we do?
the url is http://sumikai.com
Hi
i make a lot of change in categori and in loop file.
Can we know witch file are change in the new update, maybe it was more easy for me to copy the few file you change than make all work again in each where i make change ?
thanks
After I updated my theme to version 7 I keep getting this error message: wp booster error:
Please update your [tagDiv social counter] Plugin!
When I try to update it by uploading zip file per your instructions it keeps saying it already exists. This is the message it gives me:
“Destination folder already exists. /home2/fittwof1/public_html/wp-content/plugins/td-social-counter/
Plugin install failed.”
I also updated the plugin but still getting this error message on top of my admin panel. How can I get rid of it.
(www.fit2fash.com)
Why isn’t this standard? You gonna make us do this annoying step anytime we update the theme?!
For some reason after I updated to Newspaper 7 my Social Counter on my sidebar did not get the styling. Can someone tell me what happened? Here is a link to my site: http://fresnoalliance.com/wordpress/
I updated to Newspaper 7 yesterday and now my backgrounds are messed up. See here The background image will load and then on the left side will be covered with that purple color
I don’t know why but with the update to NP7 I lost my footer contact mail again.
And the custom code is ok. I tried to delete it, save and rewrite the code:
.footer-email-wrap a{
color:#eaeaea;
}
But nothing happens, email continues on gray color. Before update it worked perfectly with the code you gave me.
Thank you, and sorry for the same problem once again.
