- TutorialsFrom WPBakery to tagDiv Composer
- TutorialsDefault Block Settings Guide
- TutorialsHow to Update the WPBakery Page Builder plugin
Hello,
Please check the block settings and make sure you have the proper sorting option in place.
Also check your cache as changes on your site are affected by the cache we only recommend wp super cache and these settings: https://forum.tagdiv.com/cache-plugin-install-and-configure/ if you use a cdn: https://forum.tagdiv.com/cloudflare-cdn/
If the problem is still there, please to disable all plugins except visual composer, clear cache and reset cdn files. Then test again.
Thank you!
Hi There,
I got a small probleme: I crashed the slider or the carousel on the homepage of the theme travel-blog.
I need your support now and ask for your support.
How can I recreate it again?
How can I exchange the pictures with own pictures?
Is visual composoer necessary? Or slider revolution? Both are providing updates (not free)?
How to Build an own slider/carousel for every page and implement it into the pages, above the posts? With Pics, framesize like in travel-blog or full size, or post size?
I am very thank full for your help,
Jens
Hello,
Please disable both wp rocket and rocket loader as they are known to cause issues with our theme. the recommenced cache and cdn settings are these ones: https://forum.tagdiv.com/cache-plugin-install-and-configure/
https://forum.tagdiv.com/cloudflare-cdn/
If the issue is still there please disable all plugins except visual composer, clear cache and reset cdn files.
We have no reports of such issues until now so i think it’s a simple plugin conflict.
Also if you have any custom code added to the theme panel or customization done to the theme files, please also remove them to see if they do not affect the functionality of the theme. if you have a child theme, test the main theme also.
Thank you!
Hello,
The column layout is added in visual composer: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-use-visual-composer/
You will have to play around in visual composer to learn how to use it and how to add content to your pages. Once you figure out the basics, you can start adding a row and split it into 1, 2 or 3 sections as the link above mentions. Then you can add elements in each section. Once you add an element you will have a bunch of settings for each one. Here is a guide on how to use them: https://forum.tagdiv.com/block-settings-guide/
If you require more information, take a look through our documentation and our youtube page.
This brief guide will show the basics of Visual Composer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgWqozuqmJk&list=PL6CsDkMaejhrfEuAth6JVYLPmFwFzNFwY&index=2
I hope this helps.
Thank you!
Well, our theme blocks and modules were designed to show posts only, not custom content. If you want to add custom content, you can use the visual composer elements that allow you to add images, videos or other elements on your site if you do not want posts.
Thank you!
Hello Monique,
You did not mention anything about disabling the other plugin so please disable all plugins except visual composer, clear cache and reset cdn files if you use it. This will rule out a plugin conflict. If the problem is still there after you do the above steps, then please contact us via email at contact@tagdiv.copm and provide wp-admin so we can login and investigate the issue.
Thank you!
Hello,
It could be an issue. Please use these 2 guides to update both the theme and visual composer:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin/
If the options still does not show up, make sure you have all elements checked in the visual composer settings like so: http://screencast.com/t/VPLs42cHw
Thank you!
Hello,
The latest version of the theme and the latest version of the visual composer plugin are bundled together and can be downloaded from envato.
Please download the theme from envato and use these 2 tutorials to update both your theme and visual composer:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin/
Thank you!
Hello Bogdan,
I didn’t translate something yet manually.
I also checked some other settings of the theme and until now it seems that everything works fine.
So, I deactivated all the plugins as you proposed except “visual composer” and “WP Super cache”. I cleared the cache and tried again without any luck.
I don’t use wordfence and I don’t have any cdn files.
Plugin list that I use: Admin Columns, Coming soon and Maintenance mode WpDevArt, Enhanced Media Library, EWWW Image Optimizer, greeklish-permalinks, Regenerate Thumbnails, tagDiv Mobile Theme, tagDiv Social Counter, tagDiv Speed Booster, WP Super Cache, WPBakery Visual Composer and Yoast SEO
Now should I start translating from English to Greek ? 🙂
Hello,
Well you should not use the word bug looseley as most people tend to. A bug is something that happens to ALL of the users. We do not claim to be bug-free…far from it, but a major bug usually end up as the hottest topic on this forum. Whenever there is a major bug, you only need to access the forum and you will see lots of topics with the same issue. That is clearly a bug :). On your end this does not happen so I think it is safe to say that it is a local issue on your end. Probably a plugin conflict. If you have any further strange issues, the debugging starts with the plugins. Disable all plugins except visual composer, and very importantly: clear all caching, and purge cdn files if you use it. Then if the problem is still there, check for custom code in the theme panel, child theme or the theme files. If you use a chuild theme and want to debug an issue, it;s best to simply switch to the main theme for testing.
I hope this helps if not for this particular issue, but maybe for future ones.
Thank you!
Regards, Bogdan B – tagDiv
Hello,
Try to clear your manually translated items and then try to load the translation again. Also check if any other settings from the theme panel are not working. if this is the case, please disable all plugins except visual composer, clear cache and reaset cdn files if you use it. Then test again.
Also if you use wordfence, please set the firewall to learning mode.
Let us know if you still have trouble with translations.
Thank you!
Hello,
The big grid slide is an element like any other that can be found in visual composer. When you edit a page and press the + button to add a new element, a list will show with all of the theme elements you can use:
http://screencast.com/t/zhwlRq2uxMUP
Thank you!
Hello,
You can use a visual composer element called a “separator” like so: http://screencast.com/t/xgOVTEDCun1s You can add it after your content blocks.
Thank you!
Hi,
The default css for post content is – http://screencast.com/t/RXkPo1CoZ4VF and you can change it from Theme Panel > Theme Fonts – http://screencast.com/t/Pcc7pxNR
The text from page content, when you don’t use Visual Composer, inherits the body font which is by default – http://screencast.com/t/G2q1RXF2Kj which is different and you can change it from here – http://screencast.com/t/fNKlpVt0
Thanks!
Hello,
If you want to buy the plugin to get access to plugin support from the developers, you can but we do not recommend using any other version that the tested and approved one with our theme. Right now the latest version tested is 4.12.1 which is the latest version the plugin author has released: http://screencast.com/t/EznDBR02H6DX We update visual composer along with the theme updates so if you do not have this version, please use the guide you posted and update your plugin from the main theme package.
Thank you!
Hi!
You write that it is not possible to update the Visual Composer automatically. We should wait until the next theme release.
https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
Actually a new plugin version of visual composer is available.
Usually it is important to update wordpress plugins asap because of security reasons.
Can i buy a wp bakery licence an update it automatically? So it could cause theme errors but i think security of a professional blog is more important.
Greetings
Hi,
I’m workgin on http://www.urbanista.com.tr
I just updated the theme via ftp…
I had an very old version, so I began to rebuild the main pages. But in this new version I can’t use visual composer. I can click the icon of it. I try to select an element. But nothing happens. I can’t use colomns etc…
what’s your suggestion?
deniz
HI
Thanks @Chris for your answers!
@Msegura909 and @Colourofsunshine the issues are not caused because of Visual Composer license. The plugin comes bundled with the theme and there is no need a license key for it. We always include in theme’s patch the latest version of Visual Composer which currently is V 4.11.2.
Note that older version of Visual Composer are not compatible with latest version of WordPress, that’s why the issue occurs. To make sure that the theme and plugin works fine we recommend to use the latest versions available, for the theme is V 7.4 and for plugin is 4.11.2. Check our documentation for more details in this regard: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ -https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin/ Also try to deactivate all plugins except VC, clear all caches, purge the cdn files if you’
re using then test the site again.
@Msegura909 we didn’t tested V 4.11.2 of VC with V 6.5 of Newspaper and we can’t guarantee that it will work fine with it. However you can try to update only the plugin and check how it goes.
Thanks!
Hello,
Facebook does not have anything to do with it as the social counter has multiple social networks to work with besides Facebook. The plugin should show up in visual composer and in the widgets area. if yours does not, please disable all plugins except visual composer, clear cache and reset cdn files if you use it.
If you still cannot do it, please contact us via email at contact@tagdiv.com and provide wp-admin so we can login and investigate.
Thank you!
Bogdan B
Hi
We didn’t received such reports so far and we’re not aware what could cause this issue. Try to deactivate all plugins, clear all caches then test the site again. You can also test this with a default wp-theme and check how it goes.
Current Version of Visual Composer is 4.11.2 and can be found in theme’s patch which is now available on themeforest. Try to update the plugin according to our documentation and check how it goes: https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin/ also make sure that you’re using V 3.2 of the theme: https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-how-to-update-the-theme/
Let us know ho it goes and if the problem occurs only with Newsmag theme please send us an email at contact@tagdiv.com with your login credentials and we will inspect this issue as soon as possible, also include a link to this topic.
Thanks!
Just to add following my own research (Im non tech) …..
I notice my “WPBakery Visual Composer” plugin needs updating, it has been like that for a while.
Could this be the reason why people who have contacted me stating the forms only site dont work & that I should go ahead & update ? (The problem seems to be not being able to enter email & name in the box drop downs on the forms….seems to happen in Firefox & possibly safari only….I get forms sent form most people but some, seemingly on certain browsers dont get through)
I know it sounds obvious to update the plugin but Ive dont that before on an old site, it didn’t take & caused me a very long night so Im v cautious)
Any pointers from anyone most appreciated…Im losing enquiries from potential customers & simply want my contact form 7 performing as it should.
Thanks folks.
You can download latest version from your ThemeForest account, but you can also see the changelog at bottom of the Newsmag “info” page on ThemeForest.
e.g.,
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Version 3.2 – October 10th, 2016
new: added support for design options on most of the blocks. You can now change the padding, margin and border on blocks
new: added support for retina images on our blocks and modules. You can enable them in the panel.
misc: various core code refactoring and optimizations.
misc: better theme documentation and better help text in panel
misc: added used on for thumbnails in theme panel
misc: file path and names are now visible on each module, smart list, template etc on hover
misc: breadcrumbs markup, added BreadcrumbList schema
fix: our blocks sometimes had issues autoadjuting the column count when placed in a inner row that is in a row
fix: on first install the Visual Composer tooltip was appearing over our tooltip and there was no way to close the last remaining open tooltip
fix: wrong recomanded columns in Visual Composer, new users found it dificult to find out on what colum layouts our blocks work best
fix: background ad on tempalte 8
fix: top menu hover and background ad cursor fix bugs
fix: images that have alignnone now work as expected
fix: main menu was loading without css on first load
fix: modal login button css
The list of modified files
Hi,
Please check below this is what google speed test tells about the loading of website. Please give a solution to the issue. I have minimal elements on the site but still this is the result. And by the way i am using W3total cache plugin as my host doesn’t recommend Super Cache plugin which you recommend and i have total 6 plugins installed including “WPBakery Visual Composer”.
Your page has 6 blocking script resources and 6 blocking CSS resources. This causes a delay in rendering your page.
None of the above-the-fold content on your page could be rendered without waiting for the following resources to load. Try to defer or asynchronously load blocking resources, or inline the critical portions of those resources directly in the HTML.
Remove render-blocking JavaScript:
http://www.morenews.pk/…-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.12.4
http://www.morenews.pk/…s/jquery/jquery-migrate.min.js?ver=1.4.1
http://www.morenews.pk/…ent/plugins/akismet/_inc/form.js?ver=3.2
http://www.morenews.pk/…hemes/Newsmag/js/tagdiv_theme.js?ver=3.1
http://www.morenews.pk/…cludes/js/comment-reply.min.js?ver=4.6.1
http://www.morenews.pk/…wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js?ver=4.6.1
Optimize CSS Delivery of the following:
http://fonts.googleapis.com/…italic%2C400italic%2C300italic&ver=4.6.1
http://fonts.googleapis.com/…s?family=Open+Sans%3A400%2C700&ver=4.6.1
http://www.morenews.pk/…/assets/css/js_composer.min.css?ver=4.12
http://www.morenews.pk/…content/themes/Newsmag/style.css?ver=3.1
http://www.morenews.pk/…tic/0cb8f5e622fa7b1928cf42bfad8eacdb.css
http://www.morenews.pk/…ttons3/assets/css/essb-subscribe.min.css
Hi there,
I am an enthusiastic user of Newspaper since april. I had a optimized child theme with few and unimportant changes.
It was performing really well, scoring 86-90 on Google Speed Test with no critical problem.
Yesterday I had the awful idea to update it using the ThemeForest updating plugin.
I updated the theme to 7.4 with all the plugins, but my speed terribly dropped. Now no matter how hard I try to work on plugins, cache and other optimization tools, results are poor. Google Speed Test also started to warn about image dimension (all adv not under my control), a warning never showed before.
Not only: visual composer added some information on my homepage I didn’t want to show (like author and comments) and made the Homepage extremely slow.
What happened?
I did nothing technical, just updating to a new version using official tools.
What can I do?
Thank you,
Alberto
WP Version 4.6.1
Newspaper Version 7.4
Site: http://www.differenzatra.it
Hi guys,
I am having similar issues. I cannot save any changes to the standard block in Visual Composer. I purchased the VC licence separately thinking it may help the issue however it persisted. I wrote to the VC authors who said that the problem was “The issue is because there is a Visual Composer related code present in your theme added by the theme author. You will have to get rid of it. I would advise you to do so with the help of theme author, otherwise you might loose the extra elements added by him. Once this is done, you can install the standalone plugin and it will work fine.”
SO.. that is what I’m asking for help with. I originally submitted an inquiry about this issue months ago however it was never resolved, hence I went directly to VC to try to find a resolution.
Would be great if you can contact me about getting VC working ASAP.
Cheers,
Monique