- NewspaperFlex Block Builder and Flex Loop Builder
- NewspaperModules Builder in Newspaper Theme
- NewspapertagDiv Shop
- NewspapertagDiv Composer Tutorial
- NewspaperCreate Custom Code with the browser’s Inspector or the Live CSS Box
- NewspaperCompare theme files – Winmerge tutorial
- NewspaperHow to update the WPBakery Page Builder plugin
- NewspaperBlock settings tutorial
- NewspaperPost Formats (for TinyMCE)
- NewspaperFont Customization
- NewspaperBackground Introduction
- NewspaperFooter Builder
- NewspaperFavicon & iOS Bookmarklet
Hi,
I can’t seem to figure out how to implement the Big grids found in the Newspaper template.
I want to use them on the front page of my website.
When I go to my wp-admin – and click on visual composer -> grid builder -> I have no templates.
If I click add new, it take me to a blank page to add templates.
I was under the impression there were supposed to be big grid templates included with the Newspaper theme, as illustrated here: http://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/big-grid-1/
Am I missing something? Is something missing from my installation?
Screenshots: http://urbanyvr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-05-13-at-3.07.35-PM.png
Screenshots: http://urbanyvr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-05-13-at-3.08.18-PM.png
Thank you so much for the help
Hi
You’re still using re-sized images on modules as can be seen here: http://screencast.com/t/hXwlWHtG0 however they seems to be displayed fine on my side. A link to image’s thumb used on module should look like here: http://screencast.com/t/PYOFydsbG
Try to deactivate all plugins except Visual Composer, clear all caches then test again.
Thanks!
Hello vipcomm,
Please notice that our theme was fully tested in this regard before to be released and you should not have these type of errors. As you can see, the problems appear on your side and probably is caused by your settings.
So, first of all, please try to do a full backup to your data, according to this documentation here -> https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups to rule out the way can loose all your data from your database and then try to do a fresh install only VIA FTP -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ because this is the surest method in this case. In the next step, you will have to disable ALL your plugins and leave just Visual Composer to active -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin/ (for Newspaper 7 -> Visual Composer 4.11.2), clear all your caches, purge all CDN files if you are using CDN and install only the plugins that come bundled with our theme and rule out the conflicting plugins and if you are using the Child theme, please try to switch to the main theme. So, please try to bring the website to the default settings to rule out all the potential errors which could appear when you customize your side.
Hope this helps and let us know how it goes!
Thank you for your understanding!
Hi,
The plugins need to be switched off period. Then site checked without them as a plugin conflict could still be there if you simply switched the conflicting plugin off and on again. You need to find the plugin that causes this issue so that is why I suggest disabling all of them at once except visual composer and checking the thumbs. If they display the same it means that it;s not a plugin but in most cases it is.
ANyway, if you still have rpoblems with this, please sen us an email at contact@tagdiv.com and provide wp-admin so we can inspect the issue. Please also provide wp-admin so we can identify you.
Thank you!
Hello arvindk,
Please notice that the Ads will be displayed for your smart list only if you will use the Smart list 6,7,8 -> http://screencast.com/t/CTFhbjN8Z and the ads for these you can set from the Theme panel, like this -> http://screencast.com/t/cg1K7wGv7pA
Unfortunately, we do not have a list with theme shortcode. So, if you want to use the do_shortcode() method, all of your desired shortcode you will have to take from your Visual Composer, like this -> http://screencast.com/t/Xqf5mOWElRH and the shortcode for this element you can get it in this way, like this -> http://screencast.com/t/YmiFx4k6Pyr This type of method are used then you want to add your ads (in this example) in a certain place of your site. For example, the snippet of the code for this Ad box will be the following ->>
<?php echo do_shortcode('[td_block_ad_box]');?> and then this it would have to be added in the core files corresponding to your desired place from your website. (for example, if you add the ad in your posts, you have to edit the loop-single corresponding to single template used by you and so on).
If you need more assistance in this regard or you have another problem, please submit a new topic on the forum.
Thank you for your understanding!
Hello vrplmp,
I suppose that you want to change the pagination for your Blocks. If you want to do that, please try to check the Block settings from your Visual Composer, like this -> http://screencast.com/t/YH07RKXwz and there you can see all the pagination styles for your blocks.
Hope this helps!
If is not what you mean, please provide more details, some useful screenshots by showing what you want.
Thank you for your understanding!
Please also try this without any plugins. Disable all of them except visual composer and clear all caches. That means the caching plugin , a cdn server if you use it, or the hosting cache if this is the case.
This will rule out a plugin conflict.
Thank you!
Hello stavrosgian,
The latest version of WordPress (4.5.x) ‘broke’ the Visual Composer and now it is necessary to update the plugin to the latest version of it, namely 4.11.2. Also, please notice that you cannot use a newer version of WordPress with an older version of Newspaper and Visual Composer because it will appear a lot of issues through it. So, please try to update your theme to the latest version (Newspaper 7.0.1), update your Visual Composer to the latest version 4.11.2, Social Counter to 4.0, clear all your caches and test it again.
Thank you for your understanding!
Hi,
Please read a bit about the mobile theme here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-mobile-theme/
It adds another mce editor for the pages and ALL the pages except the homepage need to be created in this editor to display on the mobile theme.Basically there will be 2 versions of each page. The desktop one you already have and you have to create another one for mobile without using VC. The mobile theme does not use visual composer in order to provide better loading speed.
Thank you!
Hello,
@elocuent if you use the mobile theme, the translation will have to come from the theme panel and not other plugins. Please load a translation from here: http://screencast.com/t/nx4b5l6QB result: http://screencast.com/t/c0V7WjlZOra
@Cybergh0sT
Please disable all your plugins except visual composer and clear all your caches that means the caching plugin, a cdn server or hosting cache. Then check again.
Thank you!
Hello firethreedesigns,
Please try to disable all the plugins, leave just Visual Composer to active, clear all caches, purge CDN files and install only the plugins that come bundled with our theme and rule out the conflicting plugins. It could be a plugin issue that causes this.
If you need more assistance in this regard because your problem is still there, please send us an email at contact@tagdiv.com with your log-in information (wp-admin) so we can further inspect the problem. Also, please provide the link of this topic so we can know who you are and what the issue is.
Thanks.
Hi,
The other problems seem to not be problems at all, but the mobile theme edtior now introduced with the mobile theme plugin. You cannot add visual composer on the mobile theme as it was created to not use it. There are 2 editors in page edit now. Please scroll down to see the second editor for desktop: http://screencast.com/t/Imy7o0XxET
Your pages will not display as before on mobile phones with the mobile theme. It was designed to get the most speed for mobile users and this could not be done with visual composer. If you plan on using the mobile theme you need to create your mobile version of the pages. If you do not want to use this plugin you can simply deactivate it from the plugins section.
You can read more about the mobile theme here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-mobile-theme/
Thank you!
Hello,
1) The issues you are facing are not issues at all. It’s just the way the mobile theme displays content. The mobile theme will not show content created for the desktop version. It will however display the latest articles if you have them set on that particular page. If you plan on using the mobile theme plugin, you will have to create a mobile version of your pages without the use of visual composer, just by using the mobile editor (the second mce editor now available in the page edit)
2)The subscription can be made through the theme login option in the mobile menu. Unfortunately the theme has no alternative subscription method. You can try to add the widget from the sidebar inside the page content in the mobile editor. I see you use the mailchimp subscription for the newsletter, so maybe mailchimp allows you to add a subscription form inside the mce editor.
Thank you!
Hi,
Please try to disable all plugins except visual composer, clear cache and reset cdn files. A plugin could be the cause of this. Or if you have any custom css code or custom modification to the files, please remove them in order to see if it does not affect the padding. (I see some modification to the module 18 from the css in the theme panel. Please remove the custom css in your panel and check the images again)
Thank you!
Hi,
It seems you need the TAB element of visual composer. The use of visual composer is not tested on posts, but you could give it a try. Test this out on a page first and add the tab element and create your content: http://screencast.com/t/CBZyuvTwwXw and then add a text block element in each tab to add content.
After you have your result, try to add it to your post in text mode simply access the classic mode and text mode on the page and copy all of the shortcodes (all the long text) and paste it in the post in text mode. You should get this result: http://screencast.com/t/uprImPL2j
Hope this helps.
Thanks
Hi,
I assume you want to show a page with content from contributors. In this case you can create a new page and add visual composer elements to it in order to create the layout and then filter the results from block settings based on the post author: http://screencast.com/t/L71ogANpz For this filter you will need the user ID you can get from here: http://screencast.com/t/NOooGdXZuHy
As for the image lightbox, this will work for your images if theyu are set to link to the media file. If you add another link to the image, the lightbox will no be able to display the post. Featured images work by default as they are set o link to the media file.
Thank you!
Working for me just fine.
Sounds like you have some issues with your setup.
Useful to disable all plugins, update theme, update plugins, and only use visual composer to tesr update. Skip using child theme.
Dont use anything that modifies code like wordfence or cloudflare unless you know what youre doing. Avoid jetpack.
Connection issues usually mean your server setup not optimized, or you are trying to connect to offline sources like jetpack stuff which crashes all the time.
I dont work here, just some feedback that it does work. But visual composer is a little wonky in its setup and updates. Often deleting the jscomposer folder completely only way to upgrade the damn thing.
My high traffic travel website http://www.asiantraveltips.com has been using Newspaper theme for a couple of months now and it has been pretty good, but since the latest version updates all kinds of things have broken and I can’t fix them. I am currently on V7.0.1. My server is a VPS at A Small Orange running Apache with PHP V 5.4.45 and 1024 MB RAM. I’ve copied the Theme Status data below.
The Visual Composer is no longer working. I have tried uninstalling the plugin and reinstalling from the plugins folder in the theme files and it’s now on V.4.11.2 as you recommend but it still doesn’t work. If you visit the home page you’ll see the [vc] code is displayed at the top of the page instead of the parallax image scroller that should be there.
Apparently the image embed isn’t working, so look at http://www.awesomescreenshot.com/image/1243684/423dbeebbf2789c41a928271be340223
The image above shows the page editor screen when I try to edit my static front page. It’s blank. Before I uninstalled and reinstalled VC, it was displaying a VC logo in there but when I’d click it, I’d be taken to their website to buy the product. Now there’s just a blank box and if I click on the VC logo next to “Classic Editor” it does nothing. Same when I try to create a new page.
I have also lost my Mappress Pro maps and the admin strip across the tops of pages and posts when I am logged in as administrator. If I change back to my old theme, they both work just fine so it’s definitely related to Newspaper theme. I have even tried disabling all the other plugins and disabling Cloudflare and it makes no difference. So it doesn’t seem to be a plugin conflict.
I’m desperate and running out of options. This is starting to crash my Google rankings as well now.
Theme config
Theme name i Newspaper
Theme version i 7.0.1
Theme database version i 7.0.1
Theme aurora version i 1.1
Theme Mobile Newspaper mobile version
Speed Booster v4.4 – Disabled – incompatible plugin detected: affiliate-link-cloaking/affiliatelinkcloaking.php
php.ini configuration
Server software i Apache
PHP Version i 5.4.45
post_max_size i 1024M – You cannot upload images, themes and plugins that have a size bigger than this value. To see how you can change this please check our guide here.
max_execution_time 300
max_input_vars 1000 – the max_input_vars should be bigger than 2000, otherwise it can cause incomplete saves in the menu panel in WordPress. To see how you can change this please check our guide here.
SUHOSIN installed false
WordPress and plugins
WP Home URL i http://www.asiantraveltips.com
WP Site URL i http://www.asiantraveltips.com
WP version i 4.5.2
WP multisite enabled i No
WP Language i en_US
WP Memory Limit 512 MB/request
WP_DEBUG False
Caching plugin WP super cache – for best performance please check the plugin configuration guide here.
I disabled all of the plugins except visual composer and I do not use any caching on my website. I did clear browser cache etc. No luck. Still the logo is floating to the left side only on the home page. The only difference between the homepage and the others is the layout/ grid style.
In google chrome when the page first loads I can see the logo in the center for a split second and then it floats left.
Hi,
@Thisguyhere,
It’s the same problem as above, Please disable all plugins except visual composer, clear cache and reset cdn files if you use it. Thenn check your homepage again without the plugins.
@Andrei,
There is no other way to install a demo besides the theme panel. Please try to install a different demo and then install the classic blog. If this fails, maybe the customization you made broke some parts of the theme so please also do a clean install via ftp and start fresh. Your content will not be lost as it is kept in the database.
Thank you!
Hello volleyumbria,
Please try to disable all the active plugins, leave just Visual Composer to active, clear all caches and install only the plugins that come bundled with our theme and rule out the conflicting plugins. It might be one untested plugin which interferes with the theme and cause this type of issue.
Please try this advice and let us know how it goes! Please notice that I have tested on my side and everything works fine.
Thank you for your message!
Dear TagDiv-Team
Even though we updated the Visual Composer plugin after the latest Newspaper update we can’t find the Instagram block in Visual Composer. Could you tell us, what we must do, in order to be able to use that Instagram block?
Best regards,
Radio Uahid
Hi,
We do not recommend using visual composer on posts as this is not tested and could provide mixed results. It can be activated from here if you want to use it anyway: http://screencast.com/t/x89t2ehtvV
Thank you!
Hello darkmesaia,
I suppose that you are referring to the fact that when you are installing the mobile theme you will get 2 different editors -> the mobile editor, like this-> http://screencast.com/t/msRGBBqQx5cV and then if you scroll down you will see the Visual Composer editor, like this -> http://screencast.com/t/LQCXgMrJw Please notice that in the mobile editor you can edit the mobile page (only with text) because others Visual Composer elements will not be displayed on your mobile theme because the mobile plugin will not render the Visual Composer shortcodes. The structure of the page with our mobile theme installed is -> Big Grid will display the posts which are placed in Featured category, your desired text which you enter in the mobile editor and the related articles.
I hope that now I understand it right what you mean. If is not, please be more specific, so I will be able to provide a more accurate response.
Thank you for your understanding!
Hi,
In the theme panel, you will find a new tab if the mobile theme is activated: http://screencast.com/t/vBRuvrVbUhTe
Please keep in mind that the mobile theme uses a predefined homepage you cannot change from the theme panel as it does not use visual composer at all. Your other pages besides the homepage (if they are created in visual composer) will not display anymore as you need to create a mobile version for theme as well using the second mce editor in page settings.
You can read more about the mobile theme here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-mobile-theme/
Thank you!