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Hello Chris, thank you for sharing valuable information. Here is something that could help with page speed:
I use a plugin called “Plugin Organizer” https://wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-organizer/ to enable and disable plugins per post/page. For instance I enable Visual Composer on homepage and on few other pages where it is needed and disable it on the rest of the website. Most plugins that I use work only on admin panel anyway so they can be safely disabled on posts and pages. This should help speeding up the website as well. I hope you will find this information useful.
Kind regards
Make sure VC is disabled from plugin panel
Delete plugin folder via FTP
Clear cache
Use WP-optimize to clear ‘transients’
Reinstall Visual Composer via FTP
Enable via plugin panel
Hi Andrei,
thanks very much for you prompt reply and I take note of your answer even if, frankly, I don’t completely agree nor understand the tone you’ve used in the answer (i.e. using often “first of all we don’t…”) because, simply, it is not needed. Maybe it is due to a misundertanding. I certainly believe you that a clean test environment could work as expected but on our site where there are real posts and real visits, someting is not going as expected. And it is a good test bed both for you theme and for the plugin coming with it in the pack. On a clean test environment one can’t reach undreds of visits and WPP stats cannot be tested enough. Moreover I can assure you that our running WordPress 4.2.2 and that the theme and its plugins have constantly updated following scrupulously your documented procedures.
As a technician (I’m a software engineer even if not full web oriented), since we use your theme on a public web magazine which gets sometime thousands of visits, my aim and role is to solve malfunctionings and anomalies (as the dicrepancies between the theme views counter and WPP plugin stats is) and not to arrogantly pretend something from you. And I believe that the tone of all my previous posts can confirm that.
I thought to use the support channel because that anomaly boggles my mind and can’t find an answer to it.
Just for an example it was not neither too much evident nor documented that the theme unique contents setting “conflicts” with the “WPP” statistics and in fact it was a my deduction so I think that everyone, each from its part, should do its better in order to solve a problem or to explain if it is not completely understood. The same applies to settings I’ve made with your help that required code hacking and that obviously cannot be documented by you.
That said, I rather thought that the stats discrepancy towards the theme view counter was due to a my fault with some settings or similar because I assumed (and now I know that I was wrong) that all plugins that come with your theme are already tested from you as, for example, the Visual Composer plugin that you clearly advice to not update indipendently from the theme because you release the plugin updates with the theme update itself (I guessed after inhouse tests). Therefore if update releases are assumed to be correct, if something seems not correct I guess that the best way (after days of tests) is to ask to the theme creator: shouldn’t have I?
So that, dear Andrei, the question is still there unanswered: why there is a >1000 visits difference but if it is not possibile to answer no problem, but it is not right to be forced to show to our users the visit counts on posts, otherwise no WPP would be available, and after to discover that that stats are wrong for some unknown reason.
Endly, anyway, I have to say that Newsmag is a fantastic theme and that I’d buy it again even if one can always improve, also with its customer annoying posts. Isn’t it?
Thanks a lot again for your help and (sometime) useful advice 🙂
Giuseppe
P.S. Maybe I’ll need of your help again in the future so hope you will be still available 🙂
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gmaio.
Hi
First of all we didn’t tested the WordPress Popular Posts plugin with the theme so I can’t guarantee that the stats displayed by the plugin are accurate when our theme is used. We tested theme’s views counter and works fine, also 7 days sorting and popular today sorts works as expected.
You can test them on a test site with this configuration:
– latest version of WordPress, v 4.4.2
– latest version of the theme available on themeforest, V 2.3.5,
– Visual Composer plugin, V 4.9 included in theme path
– Jetpack plugin if you want to use popular site wide filter
This is the basic configuration and all theme’s features works on it. Also make sure you carefully read our documentation for each of theme’s features. It is very important to understand how each feature work to know what results to expect.
As for any untested plugin I am not saying that it will not work properly with the theme. What I mean is that we can’t offer a guarantee for any results.
Thanks for your understanding and for your message!
Hello,
1)You can use this css:
.home .td-main-page-wrap{
padding-top:1px!important
}
I left 1 pixel so that it doesn not completely touch the menu. If you want it like that, simply set it to 0px
2)In order to achieve that effect, you can stretch the rows in visual composer and add background to them like so: http://screencast.com/t/ZJD3RAq6v and set a background color from design options.
Hope this helps.
Thanks.
Hello VoZz,
Please ensure that you have correctly followed all the steps in order to set your Ajax Filter, according to our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/block-settings-tutorial/ Also, please make sue that you are using the latest version of the Theme (6.7) and Visual Composer (4.11). Also, please try to disable all the active plugins, leave just Visual Composer to active, clear all cache and install only the plugins that come bundled with our theme and rule out the conflicting plugins. Please try your theme without any untested plugins because this thing could cause some js errors in the theme that create these issues.
Hope this helps and let us know how it goes!
Thank you for the message!
Hi,
Unfortunately I could not access your website: http://screencast.com/t/Ksi3nHvKfeM8
This type of errors usually occur from plugin conflicts. Please disable all your plugin except visual composer, clear cache and reset cdn files if you use it. If the problem gets resolved when you do this, it means that one of your plugins is not compatible with the theme.
Let us know how it goes.
Thanks.
Hello fakamaka,
If you want to have the custom title and colours for some desired elements, you can use Text with Title element from Visual Composer without text and you should leave just the Title, like this -> http://screencast.com/t/5Q9zTjMW and then you have to use a bit of CSS code to decrease the extra white spaces. The result you should see here -> http://screencast.com/t/vzu09EOmc
The code is ->
.td_block_text_with_title{
padding-bottom: 0;
}
.td_block_text_with_title .block-title {
margin-bottom:2px;
}
Hope this helps!
Thanks.
Hello Castle Yen,
I suspect this issue come from your untested plugins which you are using in the theme. Please try to disable all the active plugins, leave just Visual Composer to active, clear all cache and install only the plugins that come bundled with our theme and rule out the conflicting plugins. It is necessary to follow this advice because if you are using some untested plugins with our theme those can interfere with the theme and could create some js errors in your console which cause this type of problem.
If your problem is still there after these changes and if you need more assistance in this regard, please provide your website URL so I can further inspect the issue.
Hope this helps!
Thank you for the message!
Hello dartsworld,
You should try to use Author Box from Visual Composer element and you can place it everywhere you want on your page, like this -> http://screencast.com/t/Nm7fB9dJlWu and there you will have a list with all your authors.
Unfortunately, for your second request, our theme does not have such an option and I suggest you to try finding some plugins with this functionality and see how it works for you.
Thank you for the message!
Hello torsten.dreier,
Please ensure that you have used the latest version of the theme (v.6.7) and try to update your Visual Composer to the latest version of this (v.4.11) I suppose this issue to come from your system status. Please try to increase your system status parameters to the high level, according to our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/system-status-parameters-guide/
Also please try it without any plugins. Disable all of them except visual composer, clear cache and reset CDN files. If the problem is still there, you can try to switch to a wp default theme and check again to see if it’s a WP problem.
Thank you for your understanding!
Hello newtag,
Please ensure that you have used the latest version of the theme (v.6.7) and also the latest version of Visual Composer (v.4.11) without any untested plugins. Clear all cache and test it again.
If you need more assistance in this regard, please provide your website URL so I can further inspect this problem.
Thank you for the message!
Hello,
I tested this on my end but this type of “ad” will not work from the ad box as it’s not a standard ad but a js code. In this case your best bet is to use a raw js element in visual composer like so: http://screencast.com/t/DvdY31zUyRC
result: http://screencast.com/t/ms8FqhbPPcxC
Hope this helps.
Thanks.
Hello Erve
Please ensure that you have right followed the steps to add the logo for your footer section. Also, if you use untested plugins, ensure that these does not affect this functionality. Disable all the active plugins, leave just Visual Composer to active, clear all cache and install only the plugins that come bundled with our theme and rule out the conflicting plugins.
If you need more assistance in this regard, please provide your website URL so I can further inspect this problem is still there.
Thank you for the message!
Hello Ermir,
I have checked your website and saw that your Facebook counter does not work as properly. Also, I noticed that you do not have the latest update of Visual Composer. -> http://screencast.com/t/4PEo5Sf0z Please try to update this plugin (latest version is 4.11) and see how it work after these changes.
For more information about Visual Composer updating, please check our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin/
Also, you can follow the below guide for an accurate setting ->>
1) Please make sure you have the latest theme version: 6.7. If not, you need to follow this guide to update your theme: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/
2) Having the latest version of the theme is not enough if you do not update the social counter as well. You need to remove the current version you use: http://screencast.com/t/4jvRwNzK and then install the version of the plugin that comes with the 6.7 theme: http://screencast.com/t/9AKKURjTjX
You can recognize if you have the correct version of the plugin when you see the new app key settings: http://screencast.com/t/CIXxklBanNl If you do not have these settings in your social counter it means you do not have the correct version.
3)You need to follow this guide to get the requirements from facebook:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-social-counter-tutorial-2/
Please keep in mind that the social counter is not a live count. It will update once every few hours.
Hope this helps and let us know how it goes!
Thank you for the message!
Hello Namizitcha,
I have checked your website and I saw that you use a lot of untested plugins -> http://screencast.com/t/8VCzP80yUC Please try to disable all the active plugins, leave just Visual Composer to active and install only the plugins that come bundled with our theme and rule out the conflicting plugins. I saw your second menu but I cannot recreate this layout. Please try without plugins and check after if your problem is still there. Also, if you have some additional customizations that affect your menu that could cause this issue please try to disable and strat to set it your menu according to our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/main-menu/
Hope this helps!
Thank you for the message!
Hi
That space appear because you’re using page-builder+title as page template. You can remove it by changing the post template to default in Visual Composer: http://screencast.com/t/dpUUykaBve
Thanks!
Buna
Una dintre causele acestei probleme ar putea fi un conflict intre js-ul temei si unul dintre plugin-urile instalate. Incearca se dezactivezi toate plugin-urile exceptand Visual Composer, goleste memoria cache apoi testeaza din nou.
Daca problema persita verifica in consola browser-ului daca apar erori relationate cu tema, de obicei in aceasta situatie ar trebuii sa fie o eroare cu un cod 403 sau 404.
In final daca nu reusesti sa rezolvi aceasta problema trimite-ne un mesaj la adresa de email contact@tagdiv.com incluzand un link la acest topic si detaliile de logare ale site-ului iar noi vom inspecta aceasta problem in cel mai scurt timp.
Multumesc.
Hello Chucho,
Usually, these kinds of errors appear when you use untested plugins. Please try to disable all the active plugins, leave just Visual Composer to active, clear all cache and install only the plugins that come bundled with our theme and rule out the conflicting plugins. Most likely, your untested plugins interfere with our theme and could create js errors. Please try my advice and see if your problem is still there. After this, try to install your untested plugins one by one and find the culprit and then try to replace it with another one with this functionality (this is the alternative).
Hope this helps and let us know how it goes!
Thank you for the message!
Hi
This usually happens because of lazy load animation which’s script conflict with one of your installed plugins. Try to deactivate the animation from theme panel > template settings: http://screencast.com/t/Ri3mqSr9 clear all caches and test again. Also you can try to deactivate all plugins except Visual Composer and check if the problem is still there.
To be able to clear the cache memory first you need to install cache plugin. If you’re not using a cache plugin this step is no longer necessary, but in case you want to use one we recommend Wp Super Cache: https://forum.tagdiv.com/cache-plugin-install-and-configure/
Let me know how it goes.
Thanks!
I am pulling my hair out with this thing. Everything is installed properly and activated.
I am trying to use vs to create a 2/3 wide column for a video and 1/3 wide for a lead form. Somehow this thing is forcing full width on everything wrapping my form to the next line. I tried multiple other layouts with same results.
Its like Vs is forced full width on EVERYTHING, even though the text in the general template settings says that if VS is used it will override it. What am I missing?
thanks
Roger
Hello
If you want to change the font size for this kind of Visual Composer element, you have to use a bit of CSS code to do that. Please try the code below and place it in Theme panel->Custom CSS area.
The code is ->
.vc_separator {
font-size:50px
}
The result -> http://screencast.com/t/RIrRLJKy
And also, please notice that you can change the separator settings from the panel, like this -> http://screencast.com/t/G1IXy614
Hope this helps!
If is not what you mean and for an accurate code, please provide your website URL so I can further inspect it closer.
Thank you for the message!
Hi,
There are no settings for this so it will have to be made custom. You will have to know a bit of html and css to get it done.
For the first design you can use this code:
.block-title span{
background-color:transparent!important;
border-bottom: 2px solid green;
}
http://screencast.com/t/YGkfI33WR8o
For the second design you can use this css:
.block-title span{
background-color:transparent!important;
}
http://screencast.com/t/wzSvjSqlYc
And you have to edit the block and set the block title to another color besides white.
Right now the codes will apply to all of the elements. You need to target the individual classes of the blocks you want the titles to apply to. You can add extra classes to the row in visual composer to help you target elements better.
Hope this helps.
Thanks.
Really loving Newspaper so far. Everything has worked as well or better than I hoped.
I have a question about aligning four blocks in a grid on a front page. I’m trying to display posts from four separate categories in a 2×2 grid next to a sidebar. It works pretty well so far, but slight variations in title length and excerpts can cause certain blocks to be “longer” than others, causing misalignment of the row below.
Here’s a screen shot to illustrate:

I would prefer to keep the 2×2 grid and sidebar in a single Visual Composer row if possible, since the sidebar’s height matches well with the grid.
I haven’t looked too closely at the CSS yet, but was hoping there might be an elegant solution. Any advice? Thanks in advance for the support.
Hello fajrialhadi,
1)If you want to set the category for your Block used you have to use Ajax Filter option from each Block Settings, like this -> http://screencast.com/t/rFRdqK71tFqJ and the category ID you can get in this way -> http://screencast.com/t/L3WGJUsAT For more information about Block Settings, please consult our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/block-settings-tutorial/
2)If you want to include the some Blocks in Sidebar you can do it from the panel, like this -> http://screencast.com/t/tiCirt6h and for your homepage, you have to use Widgetised Sidebar, the element from Visual Composer. For more information about Sidebars, please consult our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/sidebars-tutorial/ -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/smart-sidebar-2/
3),4a)Please notice that you can have control over the layout of the page from Visual Composer, like this -> http://screencast.com/t/r9v6IxfQIp For more information about how to use Visual Composer, please consult our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-use-visual-composer/ Also, please notice that you can use what kind of Block you want, for example -> http://screencast.com/t/Wg8GMUOVhU For more information about our Blocks/Modules, please consult our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/theme-thumbs/
4b) Please notice that Related Articles is a feature of the theme and you can have control over it only from Theme panel. Please ensure that you have enabled this option from Theme panel, like this -> http://screencast.com/t/nmT851KWF For more information about this feature, please check our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/related-articles/ This kind of feature take only the featured image from your posts.
5)I suppose that you referring to the sidebar on your posts. In order to achieve as you wish, please consult Sidebar documentation as you can see above. Also, please ensure that you have enabled the sidebar option for your posts, like this -> http://screencast.com/t/46gCUiSx7Z -> http://screencast.com/t/uX6i3EmdhrQh
6)In this cases, I recommend you using Upscale Thumbnail & Regenerate Thumbnail because our theme does not enlarge the image if it is smaller than the thumb, but only crop it from center to top. In order to know the image size for this feature, please check this section from Theme panel, like this -> http://screencast.com/t/qzflV661BM
7)As I can see in your screenshot, is used a plugin to achieve that (Facebook embed-untested plugins). If you want to include the widgets into your footer, please consult our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/footer-templates/
As you can see, the most your answers have the responses in our documentation. Please trying to read it competent, trying to understand all the elements and then trying to implement these on your site. Also, you can try to check our YouTube channel, here -> https://www.youtube.com/user/tagdiv because there you can see a lot of useful tutorials, which helps you to accomplish your website.
Hope this helps!
Thank you for your message!