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Hi,
You could use Tabs element of Visual Composer for your page and add blocks to it – http://screencast.com/t/bSVLfN4al – http://screencast.com/t/ObZb6U4jD
Unfortunately this element is not available in Widgets section to be added also in custom sidebars.
Thanks!
Hi,
@vikramrawat Did you updated from version 4? Please provide more details about this and make sure you update the theme according to this guide – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ and update also the theme plugins that you use – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin/
Thanks!
Hi,
I see that when I click on that link it redirects to your homepage, but I don’t know what post it is. You have this issue only with a specific posts, as I have checked your site and clicked on few articles(standard, video) and did not found any issues. You can check this without any plugins active except of Visual Composer, clear cache and see if you still have this issue.
If the issue persist, send us an email at contact@tagdiv.com and provide more details(the link to the specific article so we can find it on your site) wp-admin access so we can take a look, paste a link to this topic so we know who you are and what your issue is.
To add ads to your homepagepage content via VC pagebuilder, you can use Ad Box block and set the ad you want to display – http://screencast.com/t/bIOp24LJrYC
For posts pages you can use the article inline ad spot and set it to appear after x paragraph – http://screencast.com/t/mG0q0d4qq
Thanks!
Try the theme docs.
Create a new blank “page” which will be your future home page; then you use Visual Composer to create “rows” and “columns” in rows.
I have a blog which is forChrome.com
I upgraded today from 4 to 6 and now i have troubles.
I can not configure the web site body. Where i can do it? I am trying to use visual composer but can not.
Hello,
I’ve tried everything I could but this just doesn’t work on my side.
I’m trying to have different sidebars on the Homepage and the Single Post view but they’re both using ht esame template options in the Theme Panel.
I’ve also tried to change the sidebar option on my Home page (I’m using a custom home with Visual Composer).
Still it always uses the same Default Widget for all the site areas, so I think after 20+ hours of headache It’s time now to ask for help.
P.S: I think I also found a bug with the “News Ticker Title” – was trying to change the font size for the Ticker Title here:
Blocks/Widgets Title
News Ticker
News Ticker title
So eventually I had to Firebug and write my own custom CSS for it.
I’m really dissapointed that things are not going smooth at all with this theme, seems like lots of things are bugged or at least “Not so easy to edit”.
Thanks.
Did you also increase the default memory allocated to WordPress in your wp-config.php file ? Visual Composer uses a lot of memory, and the default 40MB not enough. This is a very common issue with themes using VC, so something to try first if you had not already increased to 96MB or more (pref 128MB).
Hello Habhajan,
I have checked your website and found that the problem is caused by this image here:
http://screencast.com/t/jkiWFPiBbzv
There is a problem with the sidebar layout and it seems that the image container is stretched over the block element. Please try to rebuild your sidebar in visual composer and if you want to display the image as an ad you can use the ‘adbox’ element. You can read more about using other ads here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/using-other-ads/
I hope this helps!
P.S. You can also regenerate your thumbnails so the featured images will display properly.
Thank you!
Hi
You could add a specific tag for that post: http://screencast.com/t/NNQ6kZKib then use it in Visual Composer to target the post, in block settings, for every page: http://screencast.com/t/vU3GXc3g9G – http://screencast.com/t/iMj3e0yfr1fn The result would be like here: http://screencast.com/t/i6m8gtbo8
Also you can try this with a specific category.
Let me know how it goes.
Thanks!
Hi
I’ve inspected your site and believe this is caused by theme’s lazy loading animation which’s script could be in conflict with one of your plugin’s js causing this. First please try to deactivate all plugins except Visual Composer, clear all caches and test this again. If you still got this issue try to turn off the lazy load animation from theme panel > template settings: http://screencast.com/t/YW1yiBDsk5Dm and test the site again.
Let me know how it goes!
Thanks!
Hi
To add elements from Visual Composer after pagination you need to edit page-pagebuilder-latest.php file and use do_shortcode function like here: http://screencast.com/t/CrUCFPyG1v3 – http://screencast.com/t/UIx2rR45k1Mm
<div class="td-container">
<?php echo do_shortcode('[vc_row][vc_column][td_block_3 limit="6"][/vc_column][/vc_row]'); ?>
</div>
First you have to create your layout in VC then switch in Backend editor, copy the code and paste it inside the function like in the above example.
Let me know how it goes.
Thanks!
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Andrei L..
Hi,
I have problem with compatibility of visual composer with the theme.
Everything goes fine, i was configure the home page with visual composer, and after a page save, the home page break up and goes with full width without reason.
Its seems visual composer lost the margins of boxed version!
I was delete everything, and setup everything again, but in second time, with another reason, when i insert a new article, after the save, the home page(which use visual composer) breaks again.
The other pages who don’t use visual composer working fine.
You can see the screenshots below:
1)Home Page – Use visual composer: http://www.screencast.com/t/qliMz7Opgo
2)Single Article page with sidebar: http://www.screencast.com/t/LuEKVbgCeLb
Can you check that?Do you have any update of theme or visual composer to fix that bug?
Thanks.
Hi,
The colors supported by the button shortcodes are the same colors used for button element from Visual Composer – http://screencast.com/t/RxogkveK that’s why I said that I think is more easy to create it in the page. So if you want to use the button shortcode in post content, just choose your button and set a specific color(from those supported) – http://screencast.com/t/1OA6AlTs – http://screencast.com/t/Re5dGI1oEn7
Thanks!
Hello Jorge,
I assume you are talking about the related articles title. It can be changed from the Theme panel-> Translations:
http://screencast.com/t/dRPOo8OkXIs
Result: http://screencast.com/t/4t6p3Pb8Rl
If you use a visual composer block element named that way, you will have to change it’s name from block settings when editing the page: http://screencast.com/t/uszshkH4Ko
Thank you
Hi,
The quotes on blocks appear only on blocks used in one column. When you create a page using Visual Composer you can split the row – http://screencast.com/t/0wh7KX1GVs – http://screencast.com/t/fWhbPZStVwot
You can use custom fields instead of excerpt if you want this. This is how the theme was designed to display excerpt on modules, I guess it will not be changed soon(Newspaper 6 was released just for few months).
Thanks!
Hi,
Please provide your site url so I can check it using fb debugger and take a look to the og meta data.
Also note that it may take a while for fb to update the meta data and make sure you test this using just Visual Composer and SEO by Yoast active(make sure you activate og – http://screencast.com/t/vjuFXaJNPoVA ). What version of Visual Composer you use? The latest version provided with the theme is 4.7.1.1.
Thanks!
Hi
setup a custom sidebar for your home page if you don’t have one; add a text box widget from the appearance > widgets section in WP admin panel.
If you’re using visual composer for custom home page, see the how-to in building home page; create new horizontal “row” at bottom of all the other content. If you can’t do that, simpler to use a text widget in sidebar.
See the docs for how to create a new home page sidebar; you can then set that sidebar to be used in your home page layout.
But those are the broad strokes — worth playing with a bit to experiment.
Note you can make a new home page layout and mess with it, preview, etc. without actually making it live.
TagDiv support can likely help with more step-by-step; this was just an overview of one way to do it 🙂
Any theme framework using Visual Composer will have that file – it’s not technically part of theme; so hundreds of themes using VC will have that payload, but it’s the plus and minus to this kind of fancy site.
You can minify the main css file per my suggestions in my sticky post on optimization, which helps quite a bit.
Also, luckily this stuff actually gets zipped/compressed when sent to browser and cached so not being loaded over and over.
There is also code in my optimization sticky on topic of disabling VC loading on post pages where it’s not used (at least in my case).
Sadly, for highly complex and “lots of features” sites, there *is* a big payload, but not so bad — some themes make it seem smaller by loading 10 diff CSS files, where here it’s all combined.
Standard size CSS for most complex themes is actually about 550KB — not 75KB. It’s not apples to apples, it’s apples to watermelons — footprint is quite different.
But you can optimize stuff quite a bit for speed and Google pagespeed rating, which should be the main target for using large complex “feature-packed” themes like this one.
That might not have helped, but some feedback (I’ve been doing webdev 20 years and using WP 10 years, so not totally nuts over here… at least most of the time) 😉
Average size for a complex theme is actually about 550KB these days as it combines multiple sizes, shapes, options, layouts, mobile/responsive, etc.
Visual composer is also a bit big.
However the actual footprint is much smaller for web browser via gzip and also with caching in the cloud (e.g., Chrome will cache your data if enough hits come from Chrome users, etc.).
You can also manually “minify” the main CSS file using the tips/tricks from my sticky post on site optimization.
But yes, it’s a bit big for all those features people have asked for (demanded?) — so, there is a lot going on, but it’s better than loading 10 diff. CSS files as it’s actually more efficient for one “packet” …
and some data is actually inlined automatically to help with pagespeed/rating.
There was a post exchange a while back for v4 where I’d asked about what we could “take out” if not using bbpress, woocommerce, multisite, or other things to “trim it” and that would be a good tutorial for Radu or somebody to tackle in a
“what can I take out of the main CSS file”
“what can I take out of the main includes-functions file”
as those are the two big payloads other than visual composer.
Chris
Hi,
If this tweet list is a widget, you can create a custom sidebar containing it and then use a ‘widgetized sidebar’ element in visual composer: http://screencast.com/t/shT5IfBe. – and select your sidebar from the dropdown menu. http://screencast.com/t/evdDdQd5yqR
I hope this helps.
Thank you!
Hello Patrick,
Visual composer runs on rows and columns On each row you can have 1, 2 or 3 columns.
Here is a simple example of a 2 column layout: http://screencast.com/t/z4lHCl4QqT. The right one is the sidebar.
You can add elements to it using the plus (+) sign. The result: http://screencast.com/t/J7Q13ceJG
You can read more about how to use visual composer here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-use-visual-composer/
Regarding Twitter, you can read more about the Tagdiv social counter here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-social-counter-tutorial-2/
I hope this helps.
Thank you!
Hi,
I would like to add widgets I use in sidebars in a visual composer column but I can’t figure out how to do that. Could you explain how to do it ?
For instance a twitter feed ?
Thanks
PLM
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!
Hello 123xneo
This problem is caused by a plugin that interferes with our theme’s lazy load animation. http://screencast.com/t/mykoiRlA.
You have this error in your console: http://screencast.com/t/MtTJlAuIFIA
You can either try to disable lazyload or try to disable all your plugins except visual composer and see which one causes the issue.
Thank you!
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!