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Hi,
@davidewebcenter – The performance issues appeared with the latest versions of VC and only some users reported them. We decided to create a quick solution for the users who were affected by this, the Shim plugin is in beta stage and we are working on it to ensure that it functions properly with all of the theme elements. If you only use the theme elements the Shim plugin can solve this problem for you, if you also use the elements which come with VC then it’s not a solution.
For the long term we plan to create our own plugin, but it’s not an easy job so it will take some time. Visual Composer will still be available for the peoples who want to use it.
Thank you, Emil G.
Hi,
As Alin pointed using the theme’s Visual Composer plugin, that VC element along with others should not appear in VC elements list ad they all were disable by. You can check your functions file for this function and check if you have the same: http://screencast.com/t/rES76ro4
All Visual Composer elements will be added and fixed from version 5 of the theme including the post grid elements.
Please also provide your site’s URL or admin login if possible and/or if you want us to look into this to see why those vc elements appear in your editor if we have disabled them and you haven;t enabled them from your function file and you sue the VC version provide by us so they shouldn’t.
Use our email address to send us your admin login details and also include a link tot this tread: contact@tagdiv.com
Thanks
Theia Post Slider WAS working fine prior to me starting to use the Visual Composer on POSTS. Once I started using it for posts is when this issue started happening.
I went to settings and took away the ability to use VC for posts (and left it for pages), and it is now still screwed up.
Thanks,
Issue is not with theme — all themes using Visual Composer as a “drag and drop page builder” are having this issue. And this only impacts some servers. We’re using NewsMag on two high traffic sites right now; one which gets a lot of traffic every day, the other gets large hits “depending on the content.”
Not sure what “SmartMag” is as this is the “NewsMag” forum, but if you read my thread then you don’t need to worry …
a) use the theme with current Visual Composer; might not impact your site/CPU depending on how your server is setup.
b) if you have a large CPU hit you will know immediately, and you can switch to using the SHIM plugin.
c) if you have a VERY high volume traffic website (e.g., millions of page views per day) you should be building a “lean framework” which doesn’t have all the pre-built options baked in, as this is not as efficient as a lean framework where you have as little as possible — e.g., TIME magazine is running on a version of twenty-fifteen theme with some custom plugins to manage editorial matters. No page builder, but lots of stuff running via cloud for fast “edge loading” via the Automattic premium platform. In that situation you would be custom building a theme to fit your needs not buying a $50 off the shelf product.
d) in our case we chose the TagDiv folk to redo our news network sites because 16 months ago when looking around they were one of the VERY few who had some clue about pagespeed optimization beyond so-called “SEO READY” … meaning, some thought given to page speed and not just “feature bloat” with some meta tags built in. We had built our own lean framework which was a pain pre-bootstrap, in 2011; went to Woo Canvas in 2012; went to TagDiv end of 2013 (has it been that long?).
But like all CMS platforms where you have a platform running on top of php, then theme(s) running on top of that, then plugins and hooks going into that, there is always a dev/test process on your end to see what works, what needs to be massaged, and what won’t work at all in your particular environment.
If you’re starting a NEW news site, I don’t think you need to worry about high traffic at this stage, as it takes awhile to build that unless you’re using bots or entirely click-bait with paid adwords per story to drive that.
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so, if you reads my thread you know
a) they have a fix NOW that works for those with high CPU issues
b) not all users of Visual Composer have an issue
c) the folks who make VC (not TagDiv) may optimize or fix memory issues in future version; TagDiv has NO control over that beyond working with the WP Bakery developers on the issue.
d) they may “roll their own” sideways version of a page builder which is more ‘lean’ at some point, but obviously that takes a bit of time to develop.
So, have fun and build your site 🙂
We used the Visual Composer version that came with the theme download. ‘Post Grid’ is one of the available options in the editor. So it seems that some incompatible options have not yet been removed from Visual Composer.
You talk about the WPBakery Visual Composer plugin ?
Because when i want to upgrade to the latest version it ask me to enter a CodeCanyon Visual Composer license key. But i didn’t have that.
http://bm-integrateur.com/uvb/monde-des-bouchers/bouchers-francais/hugo-desnoyer/
I use the element tab at the end of the page.
Thx
Hi,
Please deactivate all plugins leave only Visual Composer plugin active, clear cache and check if you still have this issue. Also please check this without any css/js minifications.
I also tested this with latest version of the theme 4.6.3 and and latest version of Visual Composer plugin tested and provided with the theme files (4.4.4). Please make sure that you also use the latest versions.
Thanks!
Hi,
1. Please clear cache if you use a cache plugin and your browsers cache.
2. You have to use custom css in Theme Panel > Custom Css to change:
*Current menu item – http://screencast.com/t/Gcy8WaNfXqFR
.sf-menu > .current-menu-item > a, .sf-menu > .current-menu-ancestor > a, .sf-menu > .current-category-ancestor > a {
background-color: red;
}
* Hover background color for menu item – http://screencast.com/t/U9fmTXb7OSA
.sf-menu > li > a:hover {
background-color: blue;
}
*background color for submenu – http://screencast.com/t/Qk5OG7dN8UCY – http://screencast.com/t/fMJgD1qtayP
.sf-menu .sub-menu {
background-color: red;
}
*hover subcategories in mega menu – http://screencast.com/t/qLGsETvKyWP8
.td_block_mega_menu .td_mega_menu_sub_cats .cur-sub-cat:hover {
background-color: #CB8E1F;
}
3. Unfortunately the theme doesn’t have an option to add logo image there, you will need custom modification for this and we cannot provide custom work at this moment, sorry!
4. Please follow this solution to display more subcategories in the megamenu – https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/sub-categories-number/#post-48648
5. Unfortunately Newsmag theme has only 2 formats like you already know. If you need to add more post formats please take a look here – https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats and try to add more formats in theme functions: http://screencast.com/t/7tKL3tcQiu
6. Not sure what you mean, please provide more details.
7. You can remove this code – http://screencast.com/t/PXj2Z7pxq3yJ – http://screencast.com/t/8IEfHItJXfv
Or you can hide it via custom css – http://screencast.com/t/zzEfIvhLC
.td_top_authors .td-author-post-count, .td_top_authors .td-author-comments-count {
display: none;
}
8. Unfortunately we did not tested THEIA POST SLIDER or any similar plugin so I cannot recommend any.
Please check this without any plugins active, leave just Visual Composer and THEIA POST SLIDER active, clear cache and see if it works.
Thanks!
Well… looks like some of your images are NOT actually there …
404: http://meteoserwis24.pl/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15045201-100×65.jpg
The plugin doesn’t “destroy” your thumbnails and images only moves JS to footer and enqueues elements for better page loading.
Suggest:
a) turn off all plugins except visual composer
b) clear server cache; refresh CDN or similar if in use
c) if thumbs not back, use the regenerate thumbnails plugin
My presumption on this is that the shim will be for those folks like us who — for whatever reason — end up with a CPU spike of doom with current versions of Visual Composer running full time if we get upsurge in traffic — like 100x normal. For those without the CPU issue, likely not a big deal. So, this is a solution for that — but *not* a full-on replacement for VC.
From the hints that Radu has made, I think he has it in mind (well the TagDiv team) to come up with possible sideways solution — basically their own version of VC, essentially to not use the VC product at all, but with their own coding since I can imagine there would be some odd licensing issues and they are not the dishonest sort who would reverse engineer VC then bypass WP Bakery folk and use their tech. So, presumably they would come up with their own framework but MUCH “lighter” than how VC does it, where probably 70% of VC stuff isn’t used by most folk (in our case anyway).
Just my impression of where that might go.
I think this “fix” is there for those of us who need it but not a “hey everybody — stop using VC” — which is still needed to build out the layout for home page in first place.
Right now this just takes on the complaint I’ve had the past 18 months with VC, where I’ve often suggested a “design mode” and “deploy mode” … meaning “everything on” for design, then at deploy only use the 20% of stuff you’re actually using. Why load all that crap you don’t need with every load of home page. Kind of like having every option in Bootstrap but only using a quarter of the functions would be dumb. Same idea.
But I ramble ….
working for me so far, and CPU/server happy as a cat in a new blanket with paws full of catnip. Well, I might be exaggerating … 😉
While this should be obvious …. and assuming you already checked all your Yoast settings, but:
be sure to turn OFF the “remove stop words” setting in Yoast SEO as that is known to cause issues since it does in fact change the actual permalink on the page.
May not be related to your issue. But I did notice on at least 2 of our sites with a Yoast plugin upgrade that got switched to “on” by default, which we do not want.
The conflict with Visual Composer and Yoast SEO is an issue not yet resolved by the two plugin makers, apparently which seems to have started after all the XSS patches done to WP and various plugins.
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This reply was modified 11 years by
simchris.
Hi,
Not sure about the accordion shortcode, please provide wp-access so we can check it and send you wp-admin login details via email at contact@tagdiv.com and also provide a link to this conversation.
We are aware of the VC buttons elements issues. This happens as the Visual Composer the classes have changed and the buttons that we haven styled lost their css, we have this on our todo list and we are working on it unfortunately we still have incompatibility issues regarding VC style. Note though that all Visual Composer elements have been restyled in the newspaper theme version 5 and all incompatibility regarding VC elements have been fixed.
You can find a solution for this in this topic: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/buttons/#post-21804 or use this custom css code in theme panel > custom css section: http://screencast.com/t/SWo34rkap8 – http://pastebin.com/YwyC14Zp
Thanks
Hi,
I see you use an very old theme version (1.7) while the latest version is 4.6.3 now available on themeforest: http://themeforest.net/downloads so you need to change this sign theme’s customizer: http://screencast.com/t/ZIeLRKDWf2q If this cusomtizer isn’t working for you then you would have to update your theme and use the latest version’s features and panel to change the copyright date and text as you like.
To update the theme please follow the theme update guide paste below and make sure you backup your current theme an WordPress installations so you can revert back to them if something goes wrong: https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
Use thew instructions from this guide and update the theme to the latest version: https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-documentation/ – download the latest theme from themeforest: http://themeforest.net/downloads then use the FTP method and remove the old theme files and upload the new ones. After this you’ll or you can use the Visual Composer plugin to build you pages/posts content and layouts: https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
Make sure you go trough all theme’s documentation here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-documentation/
If you don’t want to update the theme then you can change the copyright text and date hard coded and replace the $tds_footer_copyright variable with a string 'Copyright 2022 - your text' like this: http://screencast.com/t/JR6vKdsX – http://screencast.com/t/yE0HIIS2
Thanks
Hi,
Please disable all plugins leave just Visual Composer active, clear cache and check again if you still have this issue. I have checked your site and found this js error in console – http://screencast.com/t/9HobsyP6Ir Please disable also js/css minifications.
Please test your pagespeed https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ and try to fix those errors. You can find out more about this in our documentation – https://forum.tagdiv.com/page-speed-guide/ and also Christopher topic help – https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/ Also please disable unnecessary plugins.
You can use a static homepage if you want, create your homepage and used like a blog page just set to page template with articles and it will display like a blog – http://screencast.com/t/hIqIyj7NL7Sp you have also options to display your latest articles – http://screencast.com/t/0oJuZEsqVJ – http://screencast.com/t/z0UAyvqNze
Thanks!
Hi,
Please deactivate all plugins, leave just Visual Composer active, clear cache and check again if you still have this issue. If your pagination works, activate your plugins one by one and see which one caused the problem.
Thanks!
Hi,
Please deactivate all plugins except Visual Composer, clear cache and check again if you still have this issue.
If you don’t have this issue anymore, activate your plugins one by one and see wich one caused this issue.
Thanks!
Hi,
Do you use Visual Composer version licensed to the theme? Or did you buy it?
For the moment some Visual Composer element don’t work fine with the theme and they are disabled from functions to not appear in backend. So if you have enabled post grid, it may not work properly that’s why it was disabled.
All these issues will be fixed in version 5 of the theme.
Thanks!
I’m trying to use the ‘Post Grid’ from the Visual Composer, in a Page.
Here are my settings for the Post Grid. You can see I have set the grid to be two items wide (right-click and open image in new window if you can’t see!):

However, the items all appear full width (edited to add – I added a sidebar, which isn’t reflected in the settings screenshot above):

What’s wrong here?
Hi,
From what version of the theme did you updated?
Please make sure that you update Visual Composer plugin as you use an old version – http://screencast.com/t/uIcAqCJKEu The latest version of Visual Composer that you can find in /plugins folder from theme files that you have downloaded from themeforest. Please try to upload it via FTP and also delete the old js_composer folder before upload it.
Thanks!
Hi,
Look for the error.log file, usually you can find it via ftp or c-panel, if you have access to it send me a copy, you could use pastebin – http://pastebin.com/
Also try to disable all plugins (except for Visual Composer) and see if the issue is still there.
Thank you, Emil G.
Hi,
I have tried to access your site but it doesn’t work – http://screencast.com/t/NcXlXhg7C
Please also check this without any plugins active, leave just Visual Composer active, also clear cache and check if you still have this issue with mobile menu.
If you use child theme, please also check this with the main theme and if it work please make sure that your child theme is also updated to the latest version.
Thanks!
Hi,
1. Please use do_shortcode function after pagination in the archive, category and page template and display a custom ad there: http://screencast.com/t/epSdJBuFR5 – http://screencast.com/t/FAbXy7GEe4d
Result: http://screencast.com/t/amRJfbxy
2. The theme doesn’t have an option to display social share on page and you will need custom modification for this. Unfortunately we cannot provide any custom work for the moment as we work hard on development, updates, fixes and support so the time and resources don’t allow us to provide custom work. Also you can add likes button in pages – http://screencast.com/t/buJaJuGEomS7
3. You can add block 12 (with “Read More” button) in your page please see our demo: http://demo.tagdiv.com/newsmag/block-12/
4. Please provide your site url so I can inspect this. Also you can check this without any plugins active, leave just Visual Composer active, clear cache and see if it works.
Thanks!
I have fixed the visual editor problem by changing https setting in my browser (used javascript debug console to see which js couldn’t load), but options are still not saving in theme panel
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This reply was modified 11 years by
bsullivan.
They have been delayed by several things, those impatient amongst you might not be aware of :
a) XSS fixes for WordPress
b) API changes to YouTube
c) solutions for things like Visual Composer CPU/memory crashes
Crappy food takes no time at all; creating the perfect meal takes planning/testing and taste-testers.
I’ve been helping with ‘c’ — ‘a’ has been ongoing patches in recent weeks, ‘b’ new issue; and others not mentioned here.
This is why they didn’t make the end of April they were “hoping for.”
For those who don’t program, you should be aware this process isn’t like painting a house; it’s like painting a house where the walls keep moving, and the type of materials used for the walls may require changes to the kind of paint, halfway trough painting one wall.
Stay tuned – they will have it when they have it.
Last gasp … is
(assuming you tried deactivating your other plugins first; some people having issues with YOAST latest edition and conflict with Visual Composer 4.5 on some servers; issue with those plugins not theme — see the support threads on wordpress.org for yoast, for more info)
1) increase default php memory for WordPress in your wp-config.php file to 256MB. I’ve found, oddly, that for some reason, on some setups, changing the amount of memory via theme panel and php.ini does *not* actually increase amount of memory WordPress will actually use … adding the setting ALSO in config file makes difference.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP
or
2) fully delete the js_composer folder, reinstall either the latest version from theme, or install version from prior theme version.