- NewsmagHow to update a plugin
- NewspaperHow to update a plugin
- NewsmagHow to update the theme
- NewsmagHow to update the WPBakery plugin
- NewspaperHow to update the WPBakery Page Builder plugin
- NewspaperHow to Update the Newspaper Theme
- Apitd_api_top_bar_template::update_key
- Apitd_api_top_bar_template::update
- Apitd_api_single_template::update_key
- Apitd_api_single_template::update
- Apitd_api_footer_template::update_key
- Apitd_api_footer_template::update
- Apitd_api_smart_list::update_key
- Apitd_api_smart_list::update
- Apitd_api_thumb::update_key
- Apitd_api_thumb::update
- Apitd_api_category_top_posts_style::update_key
- Apitd_api_category_top_posts_style::update
- Apitd_api_category_template::update_key
- Apitd_api_category_template::update
Hi,
Please provide your site URL so we can take a look. Also please make sure that no files from version 4 of the theme remain after update like it is specified in the docs(this depends how did you updated FTP,wordpress..) and check if you updated also the plugins that come with the theme files from the /plugins folder and check the version – http://screencast.com/t/nn2stdsARkr
If you follow all these steps from “how to update 4-6” guide and run the script check your page only with Visual Composer active an also clear cache. You need also to regenerate the thumbnails after update – https://forum.tagdiv.com/using-the-theme-with-existing-content/
Please note that in version 6 any customization(to the theme files, custom css) from old version will not work and you will have to re-add them. In the “how to update” guide is specified that you will have to run the script that will import from database your settings, will change the shortcodes. Unfortunately you will have to re-add your widgets in the sidebars as some of them may not be imported or don’t exist anymore, also they will become inactive.
Thanks!
Hi,
Please make sure that you update the theme properly using this guide – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ and also disable all your plugins before update. After update please make sure that no files from version 4 will remain, to make sure of that you can try to update via ftp – https://forum.tagdiv.com/install-via-ftp/ then update also the theme’s plugins from the /plugin folder, activate it from here – http://screencast.com/t/ZtkWY5ykJgCh and make sure that you use the latest version – http://screencast.com/t/nn2stdsARkr check your site only with Visual Composer active and see if it works.
Please note that in version 6 any customization(to the theme files, custom css) from old version will not work and you will have to re-add them. In the “how to update” guide is specified that you will have to run the script that will import from database your settings, will change the shortcodes. Unfortunately you will have to re-add your widgets in the sidebars as some of them may not be imported or don’t exist anymore, also they will become inactive.
Thanks!
Hi,
Newspaper 6 should be regarded as a new theme, that’s why we recommend to make a clean install(I recommend FTP method) and make sure that no files from old version will remain there. Please note that in version 6 any customization(to the theme files, custom css) from old version will not work and you will have to re-add them.
This video tutorial may help more – https://forum.tagdiv.com/install-via-ftp/ Also please check this guide for Visual Composer – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin/
In the “how to update” guide is specified that you will have to run the script that will import from database your settings, will change the shortcodes. Unfortunately you will have to re-add your widgets in the sidebars as some of them may not be imported or don’t exist anymore, also they will become inactive.
Thanks!
I have the same request… To have the category color displayed in home also. What file do we have to modify to make this possible? can we do it through functions php of a child theme? Just give me some basic help and I’ll try to figure out the rest. But It’s something important for feature updates.
Regards
OK. Я постепенно изучаю этот форум и регулярно нахожу на нём много новой и полезной информации для практической работы. Буду следить за вашей разработкой конструктора страниц. )
Сегодня обновил тему NewsPaper до версии 6.3 и очень обрадовался, так как был добавлен очень нужный функционал для работы с Custom Post Type и Custom Taxonomy. Довольно тщательно его протестировал, пока работает чётко, без ошибок и это круто! )
Правда, не хватило нескольких возможностей, о которых напишу ниже в порядке их важности по убыванию.
1. Для одного Custom Post Type я использую несколько Custom Taxonomies и столкнулся с такой проблемой, что в настройках “CATEGORY SPOT TAXONOMY” и “TAG SPOT TAXONOMY” http://prntscr.com/7thcat можно выбирать только одну Custom Taxonomy. Эти настройки отлично работают, но хотелось бы иметь возможность выбирать несколько Custom Taxonomies для вывода их на сайте в нужных блоках “CATEGORY SPOT TAXONOMY” или “TAG SPOT TAXONOMY”.
2. При настройке блоков и других элементов в VC не нашёл настроек фильтрации по Custom Taxonomy. Наверное, данный функционал пока ещё находится в разработке ) В нужных модулях VC у меня без проблем получается выводить записи из Custom Post Type, но очень не хватает точной фильтрации по Custom Taxonomy.
3. При настройке Post Template для Custom Taxonomy я сначала немного запутался, экспериментируя с шаблонами single.php, но потом понял, что данная настройка http://prntscr.com/7thgr1 применяется одинаково для всех записей типа post. В принципе это не очень мешает, но было бы логичнее разделить настройки Post Template для Default Post Type (Blog) и для Custom Post Type.
4. Ну и последнее, в разделе “CPT & Taxonomy” в настройках “Custom post types” можно очень удобно настроить категории и теги для Custom Post Type, но почему-то нет возможности сделать это для Default Post Type (Blog), думаю, многим бы она пригодилась )
Возможно я чего-то ещё недосмотрел или не так понял, буду рад, если дадите хороший совет!
С уважением, Евгений.
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OK. I’m slowly learning this forum and regularly find on it a lot of new and useful information for practical work. I will follow the development of your page builder. )
Today, the theme NewsPaper updated to version 6.3 and was very happy, as was added much needed functionality to work with Custom Post Type and Custom Taxonomy. Rather it carefully tested while working accurately, without mistakes and that’s cool! )
However, not enough several possibilities, of which I will write below in order of descending importance.
1. For a Custom Post Type I use multiple Custom Taxonomies and faced with such a problem, in settings “CATEGORY SPOT TAXONOMY” and “TAG SPOT TAXONOMY” http://prntscr.com/7thcat you can choose only one Custom Taxonomy. These settings work fine, but I would like to be able to select multiple Custom Taxonomies to display them on the site in the required blocks “CATEGORY SPOT TAXONOMY” or “TAG SPOT TAXONOMY”.
2. When setting blocks and other elements in the VC did not find the settings for filtering Custom Taxonomy. Probably, this functionality is still in development. ) The relevant modules VC I have no problem turns out to display records from the Custom Post Type, but are lacking in precision filtering Custom Taxonomy.
3. When configuring the Post Template for Custom Taxonomy I first bit confused, experimenting with patterns single.php, but then I realized that this setting http://prntscr.com/7thgr1 applies equally to all types of records post. In principle, it is not a botherbut it would be more logical to divide the Post Template settings for the Default Post Type (Blog) for Custom Post Type.
4. And finally, in the section “CPT & Taxonomy” settings “Custom post types” can be very convenient to adjust the categories and tags for Custom Post Type, but for some reason it is not possible to do so for the Default Post Type (Blog), thinkmany would have it handy. )
Maybe I’m something else overlooked or misunderstood, I will be glad if you give good advice!
Sincerely, Evgeny.
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This reply was modified 11 years by
extpress.
Hi,
Ok, so I guess it was a plugin that caused this issue.
Another couple of quick questions:
1) I used the themeforest auto update feature, as shown in one of your posts here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-automatically-update-newspaper-theme/. Does that automatically update the included plugins that came with the theme?
2) The speedbooster plugin shows incompatibilities with several popular plugins, such as akismet, AMR shortcodes etc. Obviously spam prevention, shortcodes and website performance are both very important. Whilst it is unlikely (as incompatible does mean incompatible), will there be any possibility of this plugin being more compatible in the future?
3) On my website (www.studenthub.org.uk), the featured images do not fill up the tiled spaces, leaving blank grey spaces. Is there anyway to remove them, so the featured images scale to fit the gaps?
Thanks for your reply.
Hi, I’m going to update the theme to version 2.0. I’ve noticed that you made changes to child theme CSS and functions.php. Should we modify them? Their changes are not listed in the changelog.
Also, what if the name of the parent theme directory is different from “Newsmag”? It’ll detect the parent theme automatically via what it’s set on wordpress?
Thanks!
Hi
When you update the theme the old files are overwritten by the new one, except those from child theme and all custom modification you did will be lost. Please check the child theme documentation: https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-child-theme-support-tutorial/
Thanks!
Hi,
I understand! I’ll add your request on our request lists and consider it for future updates.
Thanks for the message!
Alin,
Another theme I use detects when the current page is the home page and uses H1 on the logo image and on hidden/covered text containing the site title and tagline. When the current page is not the home page, it replaces H1 with H2.
I see this code in header.php:
<?php if( is_home() || is_front_page() ) echo '<h1>'; else echo '<h2>'; ?>
Any chance that this can be added to a future theme update? Yes, manually adding a text block is a simple solution but the majority of people buying your theme doesn’t know that they need to do this.
Regarding H2, perhaps the header tag can be a selectable attribute on the VC blocks. Perhaps on your demo stacks, you can by default select the H2 header for blocks on the home page and archive pages. This way, users can get H1 and H2 on the home page and archive pages out of the box. Any thoughts?
Hi
Please check this link with the update details: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-theme/ you can install envato wordpress toolkit to update the theme automatically. For more security I can recommend to back up your site before the update, in case somethings goes wrong you can get back to the old version. Here you can find details about the back up: https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
Thanks!
Ok here’s my obvious query that how to properly update my theme without creating any mess? I remember the last time I updated my theme using Envato’s auto-updater plugin, my site went down and showed tons of fatal errors.
The problem was so intense that I had to do a clean WordPress install and installed theme after it (due to caching problems) lol.
So please suggest me a better and easy way to do this because this time my site is loaded with lots of customizations that I can’t risk to lose them at all!
And one more thing, does this update brought the child theme customization functionality over main theme support?
Regards
I resorted the back-up and I’ll update the theme again. Thank you!!
Hi
Newspaper 6 must be regarded like a new theme and before update you should consider the following aspects:
– backup your current theme/WordPress/database: https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
– empty all caches/purge files if you also use CDN host then disable any services of this type until you switch to the new theme
– setup a maintenance mode (if your site is live) and you can use a plugin for that
– disable all plugins
– install the theme then install the required plugins
– switch back the rest of the plugins and start other services
Also you can check our documentation here – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ Notice that it’s important to back up your site, in case something goes wrong, you can get back at the previous theme version.
If you have any custom modification in the code or custom css will not work in version 6 of the theme.
Let me know how it goes!
Thanks!
Hi,
Please make sure that you do a clean update like is recommended in this guide – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ and also update the theme’s plugins that you can find them in /plugins folder from package downloaded from themeforest. Newspaper 6 should be regarded as a new theme, that’s why we recommend to make a clean install(FTP should work fine) and make sure that no files from old version will remain there. As you can see on your site – http://screencast.com/t/i0f9rupEtG1s Please note that in version 6 any customization(to the theme files, custom css) from old version will not work and you will have to re-add them. In the “how to update” guide is specified that you will have to run the script that will import from database your settings, will change the shortcodes. Unfortunately you will have to re-add your widgets in the sidebars as some of them may not be imported or don’t exist anymore, also they will become inactive.
Hope this helps!
Hi,
Seems that the prettyPhoto security issue was aborted in 4.5.3 update according to their update logs: http://screencast.com/t/WaCN5Zle72ow
The latest theme version (2.0) now available on themeforest has the 4.5.3 version of the VC plugin included so it’s safe for you to download it, update the theme then update the plugin if you want: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-theme/ – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
Thanks for the message!
Hi,
I had to upgrade to newspaper 6 yesterday. Now most of the pages I had already edited appear without layout, text or pictures. A few pages still have the text and the header picture in the wrong size.I did run the update script as suggested, but that does not have seemed to work either. The settings are not like I used to have them. Is there any easy way to get my work back? I am a beginner, so laymans terms are greatly appreciated!
thank you!
Hi,
Please make sure that you use the latest theme version 6.3 and also update the plugins that come with the theme files from the /plugins folder. Also you can check this without any plugins active, leave only Visual Composer active, clear cache and see if you still have this issue. Let me know!
I’m not sure what you mean, the theme doesn’t have such of feature for users.
Thanks!
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This reply was modified 11 years by
Alin [tagDiv].
Hello.
I tried to update to Newspaper 6 from newspaper 4 but all was wrong, I did a backup and restore all.
I follow all the steps but when I finish to update the website appears as this:

All the content is bad… What I do it wrong?
Are there any services to do the update and the desing and structure still same that I have in Newspaper 4 ?
Thank you very much and sorry if my english it is not good.
Hi,
When you update your theme, you will lose all custom modifications to the theme files, you will not lose any theme settings/option/colors/custom css from Theme Panel.
And there are tutorials how yo update/install the theme – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ and also video tutorials – https://forum.tagdiv.com/install-via-ftp/
Thanks!
Hi,
Please make sure that you have updated the theme properly and also the plugins that come with the theme files, you can find them in the /plugins folder. Also if you use child please make sure that you use the latest version like provided with the theme’s files. The latest version of the theme is 6.3 and also form this version we added a better support for child theme – https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-child-theme-support-tutorial/
Thanks!
I am trying to update my site theme from Newspaper 4 to Newspaper 6 using the Method of Updating atomatically outlined here ; https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/.
I have done the following steps;
Step 1 – Download the envato wordpress toolkit from here: https://github.com/envato/envato-wordpress-toolkit
Step 2 – Upload and activate the envato wordpress toolkit plugin (.zip file that you downloaded).
Step 3 – Get your new api key
Step 4 – Go to Envato Toolkit Menu and add your Themeforest Username and the API Key that you generated from your account in the required fields. Save your settings. If you have problems with the update check Skip Theme Backup checkbox.
But I am stuck on how to do the following steps;
Step 5 – Update the theme.
Step 6 – Choose Activate the theme.
Step 7 – Update the plugins. The theme required and recommended plugins are included in the theme package inside the ../Newspaper-tf/plugins folder.
Tried uploading the new version but no success and I cant find the new version of the theme even after I had synced it with my account.
Need Help
Hi,
I just updated the theme and now my site isn’t working anymore. https://forum.tagdiv.com/
Do you know what might have gone wrong and how to fix it?
Thank you,
Liesbeth
Hi,
I see that you use version 4 of the theme and you still have that error, usually the javascript errors are caused by plugins that conflict with theme javascript, that why I suggest to disable the plugins and also css/js minification. As you may have also updated a plugin and it may cause this issue. What is the version of the theme and Visual Composer that you use?
Thanks!
