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Just a comment.
Note I bought both themes so I could try both ideas out and see which worked best.

Newspaper has the “wide layout” while Newsmag has a little narrower fixed layout and the next generation of TagDiv’s framework. The next version of Newspaper (5.0) this Spring will presumably still be wide screen/responsive, but will incorporate many of the coolness created for Newsmag.

They both use Visual Composer for the big grid stuff, but obviously they are different due to the different widths/height and structure of overall page for the various @media sizes.

The demos provide a good experience of the differences between the two themes “right now” … but the NEW version of Newspaper in near future will be very nice, based on imagining the best of both current versions. 🙂

Need to use Visual Composer to create the layout as I mentioned in your other post on the same topic. You can simply update the ongoing topic, you don’t need to keep starting new ones, btw. 🙂

You need to use visual composer.

You don’t need to keep posting the same topic over and over, btw.

Hi, Radu
thanks; was afraid of that. I don’t want to use visual composer for anything in posts/pages, but it might be okay for the home page. Not a big problem or anything. 🙂

After 20 years of web development I’ve come to NOT want to rely on any plugin or framework too much as things come/go then don’t work anymore, etc. So, for example I still have posts from early days of WordPress where the tags were inserted at bottom with [tags ] … well, when that changed, I now have couple of years of content with bracket tags at bottom of posts.

Visual Composer is not a bad thing to standardize on as a theme seller, however since I’ve got websites that have been around longer than 90% of the web, I’ve gotten a little jaded on things. I ended up standardizing on Bootstrap for a lot of things, as they did excactly what we were doing around here of having small batches of code we’d re-use for things like accordions and tabs, and whatnot; and they put it all together, so that was great for us since it was pre-packaged and had classes all set for use.

I also used shortcodes for buttons years back, theme dev went DOA with WP3, now all the buttons were [button] and don’t work. So, not going to trust that for anything tied to theme/or VC. Color me paranoid 🙂

Right now I would not want to use visual composer for posts in any way as if they go under, in 5 years, my sites would have 5 years of broken elements, and I’ve seen that happen too many times now to “rely” on that for anything other than, say, the homepage or category page tops — as you’re very nicely doing, hence my adoption of the theme(s) you’ve been doing.

For example, I would not use shortcodes to change colors, create tables, or anything like that in a post.

I’m not sure if WordPress has a built-in responsive table class, but if not, that would be something GOOD from Bootstrap 3 to keep in your own framework as it was a nice solution for having a table that couldn’t entirely collapse become a fake inline frame with horizontal scroll. I guess I should actually play around with it. 🙂

In any case if you have a cheat sheet for your icon font to be able to use in content, similar to FontAwesome spans, that would be super cool. 🙂

And yes, having a more flexible grid for the layouts than how bootstrap does it, is great for the borders, and boxes, and all that. Nice job!

Chris

Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately it’s not a matter of file size, but a matter of server resource usage. An minimal load of 3% jumps to 90% with this new version.

As for returning to previous version of Visual Composer, I can only download latest Newsmag from Themeforest and included Visual Composer package. Is there a resource for downloading older versions?

I believe a better course of action for you would be checking the CPU usage of Visual Composer and warning the developers. Perhaps your test load is too low, because when 500 to 1000 concurrent online users visit your homepage, it’s load on server becomes too big. We are using your theme on our site which recieves millions of pageviews per month, not a small personal blog.

I can’t warn developers because I have no license, as I’m using the bundled version that comes with the theme. I’m aware that this is not a directly Newsmag or tagdiv caused problem but you are responsible for your choice of bundled software and it’s nearly an integral part of creating a nice homepage for your theme. Since you have a deal of distributing it with your theme to increase user experience, it should be your duty to keep it positive.

Thanks,

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Ha, yeah, stupid me. Removing the function to insert http or https would have been smart.

BTW; that fixed it. 🙂

I’m guessing that function doesn’t work for roboto for some reason when used in the admin panel, even when loaded via https; so on page or post the “not all files secure” pops up. Super annoying on the visual editor stuff as you have to accept all to get stuff to load properly then it saves a draft of that.

So, minor fix for next time around.

I warned you I’d be acid-testing the WooCommerce stuff! (Sorry!) 🙂

After the latest update to visual composer our server CPU usage skyrocketed so we had to disable it. Have you tested it’s resource usage before including it in the latest package? We can’t use it in its current load. We are on dedicated hosting with very little usual load and tested it in different hours -loads of the day. Even the service provider sent us a mail regarding system resource usage of the bundled plugin. We had no such problem before the Theme update to 1.5 and bundled Visual Composer plugin.

Kind regards,

I am reluctant to update the theme now. Why does the Visual Composer use so much more memory? The whole changing of VC element names or running an SQL command isn’t something I want to do, because if it goes south, I don’t want to be left with a non-working web :-/