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Hi VAtheist,
Newspaper 6 is practically a new theme, the whole code was rewritten so you have do a clean update and make sure that no old files remain. Please follow the guide suggested by Chris. Make 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. The recommended method is via FTP. Then update also the theme plugins: Visual Composer (also optional plugins Social Counter, Speed Booster if you use them).
Please note that the old custom modifications to the files or custom css will not work, you will have to adjust and re-add them. Also the shortcodes have been changed.
Thanks!
Just a quick update – I checked with the Visual Composer team and they indicated that when VC is bundled with the theme, the support comes from the theme for VC issues, so I’m back to the Newspaper theme for support on this matter. Thanks,
Hello,
1. Just change it in the code i gave you. Replace 400 with the number you want.
2. I assume you are talking about the core files of the theme. You can access these from your host.
The custom css code you place in the theme panel (http://screencast.com/t/5nPigFzqcA) will not be affected by the update.
Thank you.
Hi Bogdan,
Im afraid that deleting all unused widgets and disableing the rest momentarily did not work. I dont have the theme updated (im on 6.1) could it be that?
Hi
My problem was solved by switching from WP SMTP to EASY SMTP plugin. All this seems to be due to wordpress 4.3 and the plugin WP SMTP has not been updated yet.
Anyway, another very important subject of improvment for Newspaper is the subscription process. Sending a strong password by email is relly not a good way to have people coming on the website. Also, it gives the access to the backend whereas your font plugin is intended to avoid this.
Why dont you just improve your login form by adding a password field and then a mere conformation link sent by email…
have had to install my backup of the site as the update wasn’t working.
The backup contains v4.6.3 – This is now working fine but would like to upgrade to latest version 6 and then update WP.
Thanks and look forwward to a resolve soon.
Hash
Hi,
I’m getting the following error after updating the previous install of Newspaper to the new v.6
Fatal error: Class ‘td_block_widget’ not found in /home/jazzorg/public_html/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/includes/widgets/td_page_builder_widgets.php on line 3
Is there something I am doing wrong?
Cheers
Hi
The pages are designed to use the templates from Visual Composer page builder: http://screencast.com/t/0R48avrPh The post templates can’t be used for pages now as they have a different structure. To achieve that you will need lots of customization in theme’s core files and unfortunately we cannot offer any type of custom work as we work hard on the development, updates, fixes and support. This customization require good coding skills and if you don’t know how to do it yourself you can look for a freelancer from sites like: http://studio.envato.com/ to do it for you.
Thanks for the message!
HI
Please try to clear all caches, browser cache too, deactivate all plugins except Visual Composer and test again. If the problem persist try to update the theme, also the plugins included in /plugins folder, at the latest version available on themeforest. Make sure you do a clean update as is recommended in our documentation: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-theme/
Let me know ho it goes!
Thanks!
Hi
you can follow these directions:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/
note you need to DELETE the old theme folder before uploading the new one. When you update themes and plugins you don’t “over write” the old one, you delete old one, and upload the NEW version. Best way is via FTP.
Be sure you have backups of all your files, dbase, etc., so you can “go back” if necessary.
Hope that was slightly helpful.
This helps. Two followups:
1. For #1, where do I go to modify the max-height from 400px to something bigger?
2. For #1, do I access that file from my wordpress dashboard or via my host?
Lastly, if I modify this .block-mega-child-cats setting, will it get overwritten if I do a theme update to the next version of Newspaper? I have Newspaper 6.2
Hi
In the current version of Visual Composer the shortcode for tabs has been changed that’s why they are different from those on our demo. We will fix this in the next theme’s updates but meanwhile you can use this custom css in theme panel > custom css: http://pastebin.com/ttmX0r1U – http://screencast.com/t/odvibm25F67g
Thanks!
Hi Bogdan,
Thank you for taking the time to respond. I like the feature of being able to select a custom sidebar in the post options, however it would be even better if you could multiple sidebars and even better to be able to drop and grab them into order.
The reason I suggest this, is that if you want just one or two additional widgets items in your sidebar as well as the standard widgets such as the Social Counter and categories, in order to achieve this you have to make a complete new sidebar set that also include the social counter and any others you still want visible. Doing this requires you to re-populate all the settings for the social counter each time you drag it into a new custom sidebar.
If we were able to keep the newspaper defualt sidebar but also add additional custom sidebars below it, it would be a great feature, maybe it’s something you guys could consider on a future update?
Hi
There are a few thing which must be considered when you update from V4 at V6 of Newspaer theme.
Newspaper 6 is practically a new theme, the whole code was rewritten so make sure you made a clean update, meaning that we recommend that you delete the old version of the theme before uploading the new one, more details can be found in our update guide: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ Also the old custom modifications to the files or custom css will not work, you will have to adjust and re-add them.
1. I’ve test this and the changes work fine: http://screencast.com/t/LJHosDQCWO0Q – http://screencast.com/t/eRCoQtYu Try do deactivate all plugins except Visual Composer, clear all caches and test again.
2. The page template are different then V4 so as the page title to be displayed you need to use pagebuilder + page title as page template: http://screencast.com/t/lMtXA7G3FJ5k – http://screencast.com/t/7aXoIu4wNpi
3. I test those changes on a page and works fine as can be seen here: http://screencast.com/t/5yAyAtLe – http://screencast.com/t/JVdrWZQG4
4. Try this custom css in theme panel > custom css: http://screencast.com/t/3n0UfYzdO7kc
.td-a-rec.td-a-rec-id-sidebar {
padding-bottom: 20px;
}
5. Check this topic, Bogdan posted a solution here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/how-to-hide-more-from-author/
6. The theme uses p tag for subtitle, to change that you need to edit the file corresponding with the post template used, for post template 2 the file is single_template_2.php and change the tag like here: http://screencast.com/t/lWuYj4Ftm
Thanks!
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Andrei L..
Hello Jphillips,
Make sure that you use the latest theme version 6.5 and the Visual Composer is updated to 4.7.1.1 version.
You can use these update guides if you are not up to date: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin/
Another thing you can do is check to see if all elements are selected in the plugin settings under administrator:
http://screencast.com/t/wLYichcA (select all)
Let us know if the problem is still there.
Thank you!
Hello NP Comm,
I see that you use Raw HTML elements. There has been a problem with visual composer and raw HTML. You can either try editing your website without the raw html or you can update to the latest theme version (6.5) also update visual composer to the latest version which comes with the theme (version 4.7.1). you can use this guide: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin/
Let us know if the problem is still there.
Thank you!
I just updated to the newest version of Newspaper and I somehow managed to mark all of my posts by the same name so that every post is showing up as OneChristianVoice.com/palm-beach-events. Every article is showing up as that same URL, which is actually invalid, so it sends me to the error page. Is there a global setting that I set my posts to? The posts are not marked with the category “palm-beach-events.
Thank you. I really LOVE the update, by the way!
Hi
Today i have upgraded from newspaper theme 4.6.3 to 6.5 in my staging site today here http://sep.wpdiv.com/ and experiencing plenty of issues after upgraded the theme.
Note : Currently i am using Style 2 as default post template http://prntscr.com/8ljwvu
1. Did tried to change the post title font size via theme options panel here http://prntscr.com/8lk0i9 and no changes in front end. (Also verified the post specific template as well http://prntscr.com/8lke4p)
2. Page title no appearing after upgraded the theme, when i edit the page, template has changed automatically after i updated the theme. http://prntscr.com/8lk1sx
3. Unable to change the page title and content font properties as well http://prntscr.com/8lk4p8
4. No bottom Padding below ad widget http://prntscr.com/8lk5ha
5. How can i disable ‘more from author’ tab http://prntscr.com/8lk64f
6. Earlier i have used H6 as sub title property inside the post content with newspaper 4.6.3. After upgrading newspaper theme, sub title font property like post content http://prntscr.com/8lk64f
Hi TagDiv team!
If possible please add an option to display post modified/update date as well as published date to the configuration panel. Many bloggers (including me) have to modify the code in wpbooster folder to change the date from published to updated. This option will make our job easier.
Thanks
Hi,
It is still on our list, but it is not a priority as we have many features on our list and we have to pick very carefully what we implement. It will be added an option in one of the future updates but I cannot provide you a date.
Thanks!
Hello,
I am having an issue on 2 of my 3 sites that are using your theme. The issue being that, when going to edit a page(seems to happen randomly), visual composer seems to hang for a few moments and then only loads a few of my content blocks. The front end of the site looks fine, it’s just the missing blocks I am unable to edit. All the data is still there though oddly enough even after clicking update with the missing blocks. Please advise, Thanks!
Error: http://prntscr.com/8lesgx
Missing Blocks: http://prntscr.com/8let1f
@Alin [tagDiv] Thanks and i will be looking forward to the updates…
Hi,
I have added these suggestions on our list and we will consider them for future updates.
@Chris I’m not sure if a music demo will be created as there is a video demo and I guess it will be something similar. Anyway it is added on the list.
Thanks!
Hi
As Chris suggested above make sure that you delete the js_composer folder from /wp-content/plugins deactivate all plugins then try to re-install the plugin from Newsmag-tf.zip\Newsmag-tf\plugins path according to our documentation: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
If the problem persist please send an email at contact@tagdiv.com and provide wp-admin and ftp access so we can take a look, also paste a link to this topic.
Thanks!
Hi
Try to delete the old plugin, switch to default WP theme and install the plugin from the update path again. Note that we didn’t tested the latest version with the theme yet, so it’s possible to appear some issues with it’s functionality.
Thanks!