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After that we were forced to return to the old theme because the new version of Newsmag had problems with the visual composer plugin becouse it used too much memory of the server, we decided to restore Newsmag, but without the visual composer plugin. It looks like a blog and not a magazine, but we hope that the TagDiv technical can solve this problem as soon as possible. We wanted to ask if the same problem occurred with the Newpaper Theme or is exclusive to Newsmag and if you plan to solve this problem.
thanks a lot
Hi,
@sportskp Could you please provide more details on this as I’ve tried to recreate this using Yoast’s latest version and the Visual Composer version 4.4.4 and had no errors when generating the Yoast Sitemap.
Please let me know and also try without having other plugins active and make sure you also use the latest versions of both plugins, theme also and test again.
Thanks
Hi,
Not sure how that happens. Could you please try to remove and reinstall the VC plugin and make sure you install the latest version from the full theme /plugins folder: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
Let us know how it goes and also make sure that you empty all caches and purge files if you use CDN host.
Thanks
You might check with YOAST SEO support threads on WordPress.org for quick checkup.
Obviously the theme can’t update Yoast SEO in any way; as it’s not developed by TagDiv; nor is Visual Composer.
See thread on WordPress support page for the plugin:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yoast-and-visual-composer
this fix may not apply to your use case, but apparently still some issues even with VC 4.5 and Yoast 2.1:
I found that letting the SEO WordPress "Main Keyword" empty on the backend of my homepage makes everything fine.
Hi All,
I’ve have noticed WPBakery Visual Composer has caused an issue with my theme when it comes to generating the Yoast Sitemap. It appears blank or memory errors are thrown everytime its active.
Is there any resolution?
And just to clarify for all … issue is with Visual Composer and *not* with the theme files; meaning 1.71B is not the culprit, nor was 1.7 — it’s entirely something with VC which causes major system issues when say a page is getting 15,000 hits at once; multiply that by 20-100 pages in a one hour period, and system throws a wrench.
1.4 was ROCK SOLID; 1.5 didn’t have major hiccups. Version of VC included with 1.6 started the issues for us. And version with 1.7 killed the box (or tried to anyway).
So I only have this problem with visual composer, particularly the vc_asset_url function…
its calling my other websites complete directory URL by using this
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://urbanmusichq.co/wp-content/plugins/home/admin/domains/beatzmag.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/assets/js/js_composer_front.js'></script>
when it actually is suppose to use
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://urbanmusichq.co/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/assets/js/js_composer_front.js'></script>
Any suggestions? It use to be doing it to my CSS file but i manually added the CSS file in.
HI, just to give you an idea ….
our site CaliforniaNewswire.com running the shim “beta 2” is right now trouble free; although I have not yet switched on mod_pagespeed but will be doing that today — it shouldn’t cause any issues.
By comparison, one of our other sites eNewsChannels.com – running 1.6 + VC got a huge influx of traffic last night, and some scraping from various syndicators, and our CPU went to
Time: Wed May 6 23:12:58 2015 -0400
1 Min Load Avg: 53.57
5 Min Load Avg: 14.23
15 Min Load Avg: 5.33
Running/Total Processes: 107/1111
Based on the Apache error log, that was all from that ONE site, being scraped from “54.160.202.74”
9-0 22697 0/51/52008 W 9.85 3 0 0.0 1.12 399.32 54.160.202.74 enewschannels.com HEAD /news/news-made-in-the-usa/ HTTP/1.1
One index page being scraped for all the headlines, used 9.85% of the CPU (!). And, um them be like QUAD XEON processors, too.
So, it’s pretty clear Visual Composer when ‘under load’ really whacks the system!
Hi all,
I’m working to make the visual composer shim work better and it will be released here in 1-2 days.
@mrmorrison @mattrock – we had searched for the slowdown issue for almost one month now. It appears sometimes on bigger sites but we where unable to reproduce it here. Chirs S helped me by testing the visual composer shim and it looks like it works…. so the slow down can be from visual composer.
I’ve searched a lot in visual composer for what may cause this but it looks like I have to look deeper. The plugin is damn HUGE, it’s bigger than our themes and it’s not our code so it’s hard to debug. Especially that we did not find anything unusual on the callstack traces / memory traces.
Chris thanks a lot for the feedback and help, I will analyze the stats from the email and I will get back to you.
Hello,
I’m trying to use the homepage template without latest posts + pagination, just a Visual Composer content.
So I’ve created a sidebar with it: http://take.ms/HqLwp
But strangely, it doesn’t work as smart sidebar: it doesn’t stick to the screen.
So why? Does smart sidebar works only if it’s a regular sidebar made of widgets, not with Visual Composer? But I just wanted to create my page from scratch using the blocks I need. And I like the layout of latest post I use: http://take.ms/dggDm
It’s way better than the default layout the template with latest posts and pagination produces.
Please help me here.
Thanks.
Hi,
Did you updated the theme from an older version than 3.7? What theme version and Visual Composer version do you use?
Please provide more details about this and when this issue appeared.
Thanks!
Hi,
I have checked your video, so please check this without any plugins active, leave just Visual Composer active as in your video you have some plugins activated. If you don’t have this issue anymore please activate your plugins one by one and see which one caused this issue. Also I saw that you are not using the latest theme version 4.6.3.
If you want to update please follow this guide and use FTP method – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme/ and update also plugins that come with the theme’s files from /plugins folder.
Thanks!
Hi,
Unfortunately I can test this as we use the latest theme version and also the last update of the plugin. You can check this without any plugins active, leave just Visual Composer and Woocommerce active, clear cache and check if you still have this issue, maybe there is a conflict between plugins.
If this doesn’t work you can use custom css to hide it: http://screencast.com/t/LiesniWd
.single-product .loader {
display: none !important;
}
Or update your theme as I said we cannot test old versions of the theme with plugins. Also if you want to use that version of the theme you ca hire a professional to customize it for your needs(new versions of Woocommerce, also theme’s plugins).
Thanks!
Hi,
have not done this yet; been too busy; next thing on my to do list is actually working with Radu on testing a “shim” for our server to not use Visual Composer with Newsmag 1.7.1B, which crashed one of our sites and we had to remove. That’s the big deal right this moment.
For time …
likely going to try adding this to the single post template we’re using, after the date grab and before views eyeball:
<?php echo get_the_time(); ?>
ref
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_time
I don’t use the visual composer, so please tell me how to add the title as h1 in code. And since we’re on this subject, tell me how to add the article titles on the front page with the h2 tag. From a SEO perspective, it’s a big miss to not have these with h1 and h2 tags.
Hi,
I suspect it refers to the h1 tag which is missing from the page, add it using a Visual Composer text block or use the Homepage – with title template – http://screencast.com/t/gPl2da2W1Prm – the code in the template it looks like this – http://screencast.com/t/1HFARiUDU4
Thank you, Emil G.
I actually have a copy of the visual composer for myself for other projects. Can I use my updated copy or will that knock out your customisations?
Just trying to think how we can resolve this quickly as she can’t update or add posts right now using VC
Thanks
Hi,
Above your Latest Articles (and sidebar) you have a row where you display your ad. This space is normal because the sidebar cannot go up if there is a row and this sidebar appears with Latest Articles – http://screencast.com/t/crl0PjlEk
So please edit your page and remove that row and if you want to add that add to the sidebar please use widgets section and add it to your sidebar – http://screencast.com/t/OeQVItsaQAc
Please take a look at our documentation – https://forum.tagdiv.com/page-templates/ when you use a page template with articles list this will be added automatically on your page and you can add blocks and sidebar to your content using Visual Composer for example – http://screencast.com/t/NW7u0tzdz0G or use only blocks for page sidebar – http://screencast.com/t/57yXwPL22r
Hope this helps!
Hi,
1. Just the one form the wp-content > plugins folder and please always make sure you backup your WordPress and theme install: https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
2. Yes, best would be to disable all plugins, then delete the Visual Composer plugin and install within theme files > /plugins folder. Please use this guide: https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
3. If you don’t use any cache plugins then go ahead without concerning this aspect.
4. 1. Edit your wp-config.php file and enter something like:
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '96M');
WordPress memory can be different to the server – you need to set this regardless of server memory settings
http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP
2. If you have access to your PHP.ini file, change the line in PHP.ini
If your line shows 32M try 64M:
memory_limit = 64M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (64MB)
3. If you don’t have access to PHP.ini try adding this to an .htaccess file:
php_value memory_limit 64M
4. If none of the above works then talk to your host.
Thanks
Hi,
I have checked your site and you have a js error in console – http://screencast.com/t/3yopneKMhVe and also block ajax pagination doesn’t work.
Please deactivate all plugins, leave only Visual Composer active, also clear cache and check if you still have this issue. If don’t have the issue anymore, activate your plugins one by one and see which one caused this. Also you can check this without any css/js minification.
Thanks!
Hi,
Please try this custom css in Theme Panel > Custom Css – http://screencast.com/t/jAXZVpuwryc
.header-logo-wrap {
float: right;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-right: 30px;
}
You can change to a template without articles like Homepage Blank and add blocks via Visual Composer – http://screencast.com/t/rrHDX6TuIT so it will be displayed only blocks that you add to your page.
Please also consider that unfortunately the version 5 of the theme will not include rtl support. You can still use the theme as it is but unfortunately you cannot updated it as you will lose the rtl support or you can update it and make yourself the necessary adjustments needed. If you can’t use the theme we can offer a full refund, just send an email at contact@tagdiv.com and we will explain the procedure.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
Thanks!
Hi,
Did you activate it from Visual Composer settings also for pages? – http://screencast.com/t/mbX5B6rUjZ2 – http://screencast.com/t/x9zPDrzWahax
We recommend to be used for pages templates as in posts it may cause some issues so it is better for post content to be used by default.
Yes, we update also Visual Composer plugin after we make some test with our theme(we also use full version with no modifications) and it will be included in new version of the theme, you can find it in /plugins folder.
Thanks!
I’m sure I’m one of the few people that actually use templates and tabs in Visual Composer. I even bought the Templatera plugin to do my own templates. There is a weird bug between v4.4.2 and v4.4.4 with tabs and templates in VC. In v4.4.4 when I add a template that has tabs, it for whatever reason adds 2 extra blank tabs. If I delete these 2 tabs, the GUI for the tabs actually changes positions and moves to the bottom, rather than the top of the tab content. I put together a short video demonstrating this. I have ruled out the Templatera plugin being the cause of this since the latest version doesn’t have this issue. It’s only if I use VC v4.4.4. If I downgrade VC to v4.4.2, everything is fine again.
Any ideas?
Also, I still have this issue with VC.
Hi, well … it looks like there is some fundamental incompatibility with the 1.7x fork of NewsMag and/or Visual Composer – and our system. I was having repeat server hiccups the past 14 days on/off again, which I thought “might” be related to the update we did of mod_pagespeed around the same time as installing NewMag 1.6 on one of our two highest volume sites.
After numerous “turn things off and see what happens” … I ended up switching the high production site back to an icky version of our old Woo Canvas layout without all our customizations (e.g., it won’t keep sidebar on iPad portrait, home page sucks, etc.) — and we rolled back mod_pagespeed one version. Server returned to normal.
Only normal minor php green to yellow doing something like regenerating 10 years of content thumbnails or republishing 15,000 pages of static content (.shtml/SSI) on our #1 site (not running WP, except old version of Newspaper for my personal blog with 10 entries or less!).
Okay — so, today, thinking we’re back in black — I installed NewsMag 1.7.1B, switched on Visual Composer, switched on Newsmag, switched back on our home page from draft, set that as static front page. Within 30 min. server went from typical ‘2″ load to “32” load and starting kicking me CPU warnings.
Time: Sun May 3 18:41:33 2015 -0400
1 Min Load Avg: 22.51
5 Min Load Avg: 10.53
15 Min Load Avg: 6.12
Running/Total Processes: 31/1043
As the above went to “32” while I was refreshing on server console, I had to restart Apache, then “Killed” visual composer, switched theme back to Woo Canvas (waaaah! Canvas….) …. server back down to normal:
CPU usage
Last 1 minute 1.02
Last 5 minutes 1.19
Last 15 minutes 1.06
Not sure yet what to do. NewsMag 1.4 and VC were rock steady, 1.5/1.6 started to see some increase in issues, 1.7 in any flavor kills us entirely and is not usable for our particular system.
My options right now seem to be:
a) try using theme without Visual Composer, try the custom home page blocks method with widgets; see if server will eat that without choking
b) build a new theme ourselves based on bootstrap 3 + siteorigin … (waaaah!)
c) go back to hacking a custom version of Woo Canvas (waaaaah!)
d) go on vacation and let everything just melt and go out of business … (hmmm… tempting …)
So, was supposed to be working on my ecom system on Sunday, but dealt with this for six hours. Too much fun.
Not much of a simple solution on this one, for me, at least.
I suppose I could switch on the 1.71 theme without VC and see what happens…. hmmm…..\
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CPU GenuineIntel, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz
Version Parallels Plesk Panel v11.5.30_build115130819.13 os_RedHat el6
OS CentOS 6.5 (Final)
System Uptime: 202 day(s) 00:35
PHP 5.4.22-28.el6.art
MySQL 5.5.33-20.el6.art
Seems like maybe I need PHP 5.5 to use the new version of these things.
Hey Chris,
I didn’t add in the new JS_composer…that is likely the issue. I will try that, and then if that doesn’t work, I will try what you suggest.
I have WPengine – a couple questions:
1) There are 4 areas in Filezilla that contain the js and js composer. First wp-admin contains a folder labelled “js”, then wp-includes contains a folder labelled “js”, then under wp-content > plugins contains a folder called “js_composer” and then under wp-content > Themes > Newspaper contains a folder called “js” —> do I need to delete all four? Or do I just delete the folder called “js_composer” from the plugins, and then add in the new folder there?
2) How do I start up without any plugins, if once I delete and re-add the visual composer, none of my pages work? Should I disable all plugins, and THEN delete the visual composer?
3) Turn off all caching? I have WPengine as my hosting company, and I think they deal with the caching, no? I do not have any caching plugins – how do you shut off your caching?
4) Again, I think I would have to talk to WPengine about the RAM, yes?
Sorry for all of these questions, I really appreciate your help. My site is pretty active, and so I get pretty stressed when the site doesn’t work because it affects traffic flow majorly.
Thank you.