Visual composer’s main CSS file (js_composer.css) isn’t getting loaded on my site. I saw this post about adding custom CSS to compensate: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/buttons/
But I don’t want to use a workaround like that; I’d just like the .css file to get loaded. Will this be fixed in the next version? Thanks!
Hi,
Last theme update(4.6.1) had solved Visual Composer issues with WordPress 4.1. So you can use the latest version of WordPress.
Thanks!
Hi,
I’m not sure what causes this that is why it would help to inspect the site so I can figure out what is wrong.
The slider breaks like that when the style sheet of the page is altered like width of it.
I suggest you also remove the Visual Composer plugins then install it from the plugins folder that was provided with the theme files when you’ve downloaded it from themeforest and make sure that you install and use the 4.3.5 version of the plugin.
Use this guide to update the VC plugin: https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
You can also check the demo via IE and compare it with your case: http://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/
Let me know if you still have this issue afterwards and how it goes!
Thanks
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This reply was modified 11 years by
Lucian.
Hi,
Thanks Chris!
@saucestevo
Please make sure you also test this without any plugins active and leave just Visual Composer plugin active and also empty cache then check again.
As Chris also mentioned In some cases this turned out to be due to the tagdiv speed booster plugin as this plugin moves the css and js automatically to the bottom of the page.
We suggest to deactivate all plugins to make sure this doesn’t happen due to others plugins you use and if this issue persists please let me know and also provide your site’s url.
Thanks
Hi,
Not sure how your site was designed before so I’m not aware of what colors/layouts/fonts that have changed. I have noticed though that some additional classes and css have been added by the VC plugin.
Please make sure that you remove the VC plugin then use this guide: https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/ and install the plugin from the /plugins folder that was provided within your theme files.
Let me know if you have this issues afterwards.
Thanks
The “big slide” shortcode (visual editor) breaks when Google Analytics by Yoast is activated. Is this something that can be fixed? I would really like to use both items.
Yes, that is normal. The size of the font used in the admin panel is not the same as you might have on the website, and the theme is responsive, so the “actual” width will vary as far as word-wrap.
Again, the visual editor is not a “what you see is what you get” editor like you have in print publishing; it’s an “approximation” … it’s not “pixel accurate” … partially because the WordPress admin uses CSS from WordPress, while the actual page uses CSS from the theme.
So, the value in the visual editor is in doing elements like alignment, pre-viewing photos and videos, or MP3 audio, bolds, italics and other “presentation formatting” … but it is *not* a 1:1 view of the actual page. This is true of WordPress and always has been.
So, in your last example, it’s working correctly. You cannot manage exactly where line breaks are, or word-wrapping as the font and kerning, and so forth may vary based on the device being used.
So, on one device you might have 7 words, another 6 words and the 7th word goes to next line due to letter spacing, kerning, and the space between letters (not to date myself here, but I went to Compugraphic Typesetting school in 1985… so kind of savvy on font issues).
Upshot; based on your screen shots above… you’re just fine. 🙂
@kronos Thanks a lot. I tried and it looks as expected. The problem with this method is that it inserts short-codes in the post bodies and if we decide on changing themes in future, there will be a lot of ugly shortcodes visible to users (due to the WP Bakery Visual Composer) So a theme template will be a preferred solution. We burned ourselves before by depending too much on plugin based feature. That said your suggestion does help a lot.
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This reply was modified 11 years by
arnieswap.
I’m running two Apple 24-inch cinema displays at 1900×1200 but my issues are slightly different from yours. I only use the visual editor when pasting in MS Word files for articles. The rest of the time I use the text editor as I need to be able to manually enter a div class, or whatever. My issues are where something is conflicting even with the simple use of a <br> tag in the text editor, and <p> tags don’t seem to work either. I can only line this up with the visual editor bleed-over for the whole post page. And of course I could be totally wrong. But, on a WooCanvas site I am using <br> and <p> tags and they all behave as expected; not with Newsmag.
CORRECTION: I am NOT having this issue on my sites which use NEWSMAG and do not have WooCommerce running. I just tested that. Some element of the visual editor code is conflicting with the WooCommerce post page, likely due to the extra meta boxes added by WooCommerce. So, this seems to impact pages, posts, and products.
Weird thing is there is no console error on the pages themselves, so it’s totally a back-end thing.
Will be happy to help debug this for WooCommerce, but I realize this is different issue than what @daimpa is experiencing. Suggestion to @daimpa …. do a screen capture video showing the issue, if possible to best illustrate the situation. In my case I will experiment with turning some things on/off with WooCommerce to sort out what is causing my problem as well as the http element not loading via https in the visual editor page. I have separate ticket for this – and apologize for polluting this thread. 🙂
Hi,
You also need to update the VC plugin. Please use this guide to update the Visual Composer plugin and upload the plugin from the /plugins folder which was provided with the theme files and use the FTP method to do it: https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
The VC version tested and included within the Newspaper theme files is version 4.3.5.
The theme was tested using the latest version of WordPress (4.1) and the VC plugin also so you can also update WordPress to the latest version without worries.
Thanks!
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This reply was modified 11 years by
Lucian.
Hi,
You don’t need to update Visual Composer plugin, because we will provide updates on a regular basis, after we test the plugin for theme compatibility we include it in the latest theme update, inside the ../plugins folder: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
Also please read here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/how-to-update-visual-composer-2/
Thanks!
Alin,
Please note that the MegaMenu is designed to work only on categories(with/without subcategories): https://forum.tagdiv.com/menus-newsmag/
MegaMenu also has a feature to embed a page as part of the menu for a custom look:

I need to put a lot of automakers in the submenu and the way MegaMenu would typically do a vertical list for sub-menu items doesn’t work for me. This is functionality provided by the plugin itself.
When you use this functionality in conjunction with a page developed with Visual Composer and you are browsing a bbPress forum, you get the above broken sub-menu.
Mark
I’d start by disabling plugins. I had the same issue due to a plugin conflict with Themewich shortcodes. About the only one I can tell you is not causing your issue is Easy Social Share Buttons (I use that plugin on this theme without any issues). I’d be surprised if the Thrive Visual Editor plugin isn’t causing you some problems, though. Check them all.
Good luck.
You can do that with Visual Composer. Go to Settings > Visual Composer and turn it on for Posts. Then, on the posts you want centered like that, turn off the sidebar and go into the VC backend editor, change the row layout to 1/4 + 1/2 + 1/4 and use a text block in the center column. If that’s too narrow, just remember the row layout is any combination using fractions larger than 1/12. So 1/8 + 6/8 + 1/8 would give you a wider center column for text than 1/4 + 1/2 + 1/4.
It won’t allow you to go full-width with images throughout the post, as in your example, but that’s because this is a newspaper/magazine theme and that feature is more creative or photography.
But it will produce the desired layout without much effort and no coding. Play around with it a bit.
Have not been able to determine what is loading via http when switching to visual editor on post or product pages. Everything on the site uses forced 301 redirect for any http requests, so nothing can load via http on our domain; however the admin panel is loading
Oddly Newspaper theme running in different folder on same domain, doesn’t throw any error when editing post in visual mode.
Might be a WooCommerce thing. I will have to try that next.
🙂
Hi,
run into some issues with the theme mods to the post editing, when using WooCommerce in particular.
1) when editing a product, or post, and switching to visual editor, while in *https*, something loading is not being loaded via https and causes a browser warning (site wide is https) to okay load of insecure content; creates autosave point. In visual editor, elements like bullet points in unordered lists don’t render, but are shown indented but not actually indented on page preview or publish.
2) unable to properly manage some elements in text editor, where some tags don’t function properly. In other words, the theme is “monkeying” with the ability to actually enter HTML properly like line breaks and the <br> tag in particular.
3) the divider line in visual mode is actually distracting when trying to edit content, and option to remove that or toggle off is actually now desirable while I tolerated it originally.
So, is there an option or function I can use to force “disable” the divider line and/or element modifying the post page?
Having this issue with td speedbooster plugin “off” or “on” and no major plugins running during dev cycle (meaning Yoast SEO off, social media stuff totally off, no mod_pagespeed running, no minification, no site caching, etc.).
Taking a look at that so far, I would say it should do what is may say it does, but also some problems noted in the comments from users where people can still detect things, so may have limited value. It seems cheap enough, and if you’re more interested in that vs theme features, why not buy it and try it.
Also note if you’re using Visual Composer, you would likely not be able to hide that fully, and I see some issues from their support with things like contact forms.
I’m also doubtful that the tagdiv speed booster will work with that plugin.
What we do to hide a lot of WP stuff is using Yoast to hide some stuff, but then we run mod_pagspeed which hides all comments, we hide the versioning via functions.php, and we remove the pingback script. In most cases we also move the uploads folder. So, you might hide all the other stuff and people could still search for sites with xmlrpc.php or license.txt — did you remove that already? How about readme.html ? Is that still on your site?
There is also some bbpress style sheet data and woocommerce code you likely would need to manually remove from the functions and td booster functions.
There is no “one click” or “one plugin” way to fully hide WordPress. People who want to hack your site could likely figure it out through various methods. However, it’s better to concentrate on other security measures and only use highly validated plugins and code, vs trying to fully hide use of WP. With all the VIP sites now running WP (time magazine!), etc., there are much bigger fish in the sea than there used to be.
I would advise “caution” on a live site.
On a test site, why not just try it out ?
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This reply was modified 11 years by
simchris.
my Visual Composer License Key is not working ? I bought this theme but till now i didnt use it’s code
Blog : http://coolneeds.com
@Emil G
Depends on old theme vs new theme ….. obviously.
If you look at a snapshot of your old theme post page layout, count how many queries are being done for each section of the page. Do the same with the new theme.
For example on one of our sites, we changed the sidebar module to NOT show thumbnails with each item on the “latest items” list. We chose not to use megamenu. Etc.
Themes are not apples to apples unless identical layout and number of queries per page.
Visual Composer does add some overhead, sadly. But caching and mod_pagespeed, etc. help with that.
Not sure if that helped in any way, just some food for thought 🙂
Hi,
Unfortunately is no option for this, the block has been designed to work on pages, so it can be added only on pages using Visual Composer plugin.
You can try this solution, but will appear to all of your posts that are using that post template:
Use pagebuilder to customize your block, then switch to classic mode and get the shortcode: http://screencast.com/t/YgZ9wlj4U3
Now use echo do_shortcode('your shortcode') and place it in you post template like this: http://screencast.com/t/7Rrq0TMI
Result: http://screencast.com/t/hODdwqN0wlc
Thanks!
Hi,
I have inspected your site and seems that you are right, the post excerpt which is not added causes the post images to come one after another because they are set via css to float to left.
Please also try this without plugins to make sure that this is not due to any of them and also empty cache, purge files then try again.
Also please try to ad the same post content in the visual editor then save your post and try if this still happens.
You can also use this css to fix this:
.td_module_11 .td-module-thumb {
clear: both;
}
.td_module_11 {
min-height: 220px;
}
Please let me know!
Thanks
Theres a problem here.
I has used the “homepage – with background” template. Theres not the Big Slider on the visual editor.
Where can I edit this feature?
Hi,
Please also try this without any plugins active, leave just the Visual Composer plugin active then check again. If you have this issue please use contact@tagdiv.com to give us wp-access and send you login details and also provide an URL to this tread or specify your issue in details.
Thanks
Hi,
Unfortunately there is no option for this if you are displaying for your front page latest post. Visual Composer plugin works only on pages, so if you change to front page static: http://screencast.com/t/sm1LGx0DV and you build an Homepage you can always add that block above the footer.
For example I use a block 5 for Latest Articles, a Widgetised Sidebar and Block 16 for Latest Videos:
http://screencast.com/t/I1QDWDrg
For your setting on block 16:
http://screencast.com/t/Tv1OAQhv9XO
http://screencast.com/t/ZjJ61rph7A
http://screencast.com/t/b8sUu7ogV
Hope this helps!
Hi,
I have checked yours site and also noticed the slow functionality of search feature and that it’s also not working. I’m not sure about this as this should work fine as I have also tested this and found no issues with it.
Please also make sure you update your VC plugin, you are now using the 4.3.4 version and the version we have included with the latest theme version(4.6.1) is 4.3.5.
I also suggest to check this without any plugins active, leaving just the Visual Composer plugin active, as this could happen due to other plugins which you use.
Please use this guide to update the Visual Composer plugin and upload the plugin from the /plugins folder which was provided with the theme files: https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
There is no option to disable search only if you edit this file an remove it’s code like this:
* http://screencast.com/t/B7a7kAoA4EQ
* http://screencast.com/t/x9yeu6aN2UrC
Regarding the rev slider issues please make sure that you remove the current plugin that you have and install it from the plugins folder of the theme files.
Also noticed that you are not using MySQL but Microsoft SQL which I’m not sure that is compatible with revolution slider plugins and send this error. Have you used this plugin before on this host?
Please let me know how it goes!
Thanks