- NewsmagHow to use the Visual Composer plugin
- NewspaperFlex Block Builder and Flex Loop Builder
- NewspaperModules Builder in Newspaper Theme
- NewspapertagDiv Shop
- NewsmagtagDiv Composer Tutorial
- TutorialsFrom WPBakery to tagDiv Composer
- NewspapertagDiv Composer Tutorial
- TutorialsDefault Block Settings Guide
- NewspaperCreate Custom Code with the browser’s Inspector or the Live CSS Box
- NewspaperCompare theme files – Winmerge tutorial
- NewsmagWhat’s included in Newsmag theme package
- NewsmagNewsmag documentation
- NewsmagBlock settings tutorial
- NewsmagHow to update the WPBakery plugin
- NewsmagCustom ad spots
- NewspaperHow to update the WPBakery Page Builder plugin
- NewspaperBlock settings tutorial
- NewspaperPost Formats (for TinyMCE)
- NewspaperFont Customization
- NewspaperBackground Introduction
Yes; you can update the plugin by itself.
Theme docs are super useful also:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
I tried to update WPBakery Visual Compose and the following error occurred:
“To receive automatic updates license activation is required. Please visit Settings to activate your Visual Composer”
Question: Do I need to buy an extra license for WPBakery Visual Compose to use the Newspaper theme?
Thank you for your response.
Marcel
It works for me in IE8 on Windows XP.
However, this was with WordPress 4.01 and not the latest 4.1 released yesterday and last version of Visual Composer.
It’s possible WP 4.1 added something which would cause the theme not to work, or it could be related to the bugs in Visual Composer related to WP 4.1 — have you updated your copy of Visual Composer to the NEW version of VC released today 11.19.14 from the theme download for Newsmag? That might fix it.
From the update released today, the changelog shows 1.3 to 1.3.1 is the result of:
[ V 1.3.1 ]
– updated visual composer to V 4.3.5 (this version of the plugin is compatible with WordPress 4.1)
I actually already own the plugin separate from the theme. I’ve already updated the plugin to its newest version as well. I did this early this morning in fact.
I just want to clarify that there was nothing else updated outside of the plugin as I’m currently deep in customizing the theme for my live website, which will replace the current version of the theme already in use on my site hopefully by Monday. If in fact there were no additional updates/changes, I plan to just change the name of the style.css file from 1.3 to 1.3.1 since it wouldn’t make sense to re-upload the files only to write over my edits (yes, I’m using a Child theme).
Thoughts?
Is it possible to have a block that is the size of module 7 to use in the visual editor for the homepage?
Hi,
1. If you don’t have it right after the Visual Composer settings you can enabled it from here: http://screencast.com/t/JOoTWenz then set it like this:http://screencast.com/t/xM66rzjlQQJ
2. We will consider adding an more detailed video tutorial about this in the future, until then please provide more details about the issues you have when using the smart lists and also provide an URL so we can check also check/inspect this if possible.
3. Besides theme’s implementation regarding SEO we also recommend the use of WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin and follow this guide for higher ranking for wordpress sites: https://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/
4. Please send your site’s URL so I can also inspect this and also provide a screenshot of the exact layout you have used.
5. Please use this guide on how to update your theme and use the FTP method and upload the theme files via FTP: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-theme/
6. An contributor is only capable to add/edit and read posts: http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Contributor so if you want them to also add media you should change the role to author or editor.
Hope this helps!
Thanks
OK SOLVED!!!! It took me hours…. literally two days of work to narrow this down. Basically there are two database entries that could be put into the WP_OPTIONS table that specifically relate to WordPress Bakery’s Visual Composer.
In my case the two database entries specifically set parameters for the Columns and Rows of WPB’s Visual Composer. Of course components of “Pages” built on this theme use the columns from the Visual Composer.
Deleting those two entries will fix the problem.
This is likely going to be rare for most, unless you are moving directly from Newspaper and had configured some Column and Row functions in the Visual Composer.
I found this by installing a fresh copy of WordPress onto the same NGINX system and comparing the database entries in the old and new instance.
I imported the old database tables into the new one to see which one broke it. Once the options table was imported that caused the rendering issues. Going through hundreds of lines, I found the two responsible.
Easy way to find them is search for an “Option Name” with %___% wild cards in phpmyadmin. Use this specific term “wpb”.
You may get several options listed in rows in the output. The ones with Column and/or Row specifically in the Option Name should be deleted.
Actually you “can” delete all related options but keep the “wpb_js_templates” option as that is common to both a fresh install and a legacy install.
Well, now rendering is fixed for pages and columns and rows work as expected! Yay.
PS: This has nothing to do with NGINX. I confirmed the exact same issue is present on both Apache 2.4.10 with MPM-Prefork and PHP-FPM.
OK SOLVED!!!! It took me hours…. literally two days of work to narrow this down. Basically there are two database entries that could be put into the WP_OPTIONS table that specifically relate to WordPress Bakery’s Visual Composer.
In my case the two database entries specifically set parameters for the Columns and Rows of WPB’s Visual Composer. Of course components of “Pages” built on this theme use the columns from the Visual Composer.
Deleting those two entries will fix the problem.
This is likely going to be rare for most, unless you are moving directly from Newspaper and had configured some Column and Row functions in the Visual Composer.
I found this by installing a fresh copy of WordPress onto the same NGINX system and comparing the database entries in the old and new instance.
I imported the old database tables into the new one to see which one broke it. Once the options table was imported that caused the rendering issues. Going through hundreds of lines, I found the two responsible.
Easy way to find them is search for an “Option Name” with %___% wild cards in phpmyadmin. Use this specific term “wpb”.
You may get several options listed in rows in the output. The ones with Column and/or Row specifically in the Option Name should be deleted.
Actually you “can” delete all related options but keep the “wpb_js_templates” option as that is common to both a fresh install and a legacy install.
Well, now rendering is fixed for pages and columns and rows work as expected! Yay.
PS: This has nothing to do with NGINX. I confirmed the exact same issue is present on both Apache 2.4.10 with MPM-Prefork and PHP-FPM.
Hey , I purchased the NEWS MAG theme , it works great.
Just while Setting up , i m a complete non-techie guy and thus came across few queries , I M ON A URGENT NEED FOR THESE TO BE SOLVED , hence posting these together. i m priority wise posting my doubts below the UNIQUE POST & SMART-LISTS are the top to be solved ,Please help me out.
1. On my homepage , i have several blocks!
I have a BIG GRID >> all categories , which is sorting posts according to LATEST POSTS.
below that i have several BLOCKs which are displaying single category according to LATEST POSTs.
Now whenever i publish a post , it appears twice on the screen , once in the GRID and other in the catagory BLOCK.
check the screenshot : 
How do i enable unique post option in news mag , so i don’t have redundant posts on my homepage.
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2.For some reason, Even i m unable to make Smart Lists, Read and Followed the documentation , but the alignment of the smart lists is not coming proper , It would be great if i could see a small video tutorial on your YOUTUBE CHANNEL on how to create SMART LISTS. Thank you.
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3.I had seen in the template feature list that the theme has SEO support, How does SEO work, consider i have a post whose article is “15 THINGS TO DO IN A CAFE” , so how do i make sure that the user on Google search for “WHAT TO DO IN CAFE , CAFE , BORED..”
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4 While using Visual Composer ,whenever I insert a ROW and in row layouts i use the dividing it in two equal columns , the the border of the separator is extending till the bottom of the page. I tried the no border thing in row settings , but din work out for me.
See this screenshot : 
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5 Unable to Update it the theme , error comes UPDATE FAILED.
See this screenshot : 
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6 The contributors on my website are unable to upload media images , can i know how can i change and add the functionality through WORDPRESS of my contributors too should be able to upload media.
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THANK YOU.
Hi,
We haven’t had any similar reports and we also haven’t made any tests using on an Nginx sever configuration, so I can’t offer you an exact answer on that, but if your web server causes this I suggest you also go trough you server configuration.
Please also try to remove and re-install the Visual Composer plugin and check if this happens again.
Thanks
Just upadted my wordpress installation from 4.0.1 to 4.1 and WP Bakery’s Visual Composer is broken.
Trying to move any element around freezes the mouse pointer in the move cursor and bugs out the VC element you are tying to move around, freezing it and leaving it unable to be edited or clicked. Happens on new pages and old pages. Tried, IE, Chrome and Firefox.
http://www.oscarmariobeteta.com
the page is restricted, if you provide me an IP address I can enable you access & give you log in info for you to check.
Hi,
Please also try this without any plugins active which can cause conflicts and leave active just contact from and Visual Composer and check again. This should not happens as I have also tested this and found no issues with this.
Please also make sure that you have a sidebars set for your page. If you still have issues with this please try this layout for your page and check the result: http://screencast.com/t/rUyGydqsM3jW
Result: http://screencast.com/t/b9WUoaXD0S
Thanks
hi, thanks again! No need to be upset. You helped me anyways. I hope the theme support give me a hand on this one because adsence code is ok and can’t be modified (becuase of TOS) , in my other sites work just fine. I am pretty sure this is happening because of visual composer.
anyways i will keep researching…..
S
It think this is because of the responsive setting of visual composer, naturally Google search has the button at the right and i also have the search box set to be short but VS is enlarging it to fit the whole column. Not sure i understand what you propose, can you explain in more detail?
Thanks a lot!
Hi,
@Vishal Please make sure that you install the theme right and use this guide for that: https://forum.tagdiv.com/installation-newsmag/ and use the FTP method to upload the theme into themes folder then activate it from appearance > themes panel.
After this Install the Visual Composer plugin (required by the theme to work well).
Please let me now if you still have issues with this.
Hope this helps!
Thanks
Hi,
I have checked your site and seems that your accordion items don’t contain any anchor(link) tags: http://screencast.com/t/H8dFaBGDIO
I suggest you go trough plugins’s settings and check for an option to place link on posts or something similar.
You can also use the Visual Composer post carousel:
* http://screencast.com/t/ewz384sRO
* http://screencast.com/t/rNRaJ5q9JUNn
Hope this helps!
Thanks
Hi,
You could use the shortcode function to do it and add your content directly into post’s template file, like this: http://screencast.com/t/WQAlNNPrz
You can build a block with visual composer then switch to classic mode then add it to the template using the same method like for the custom ads above:
You can more info related what you would have to do it here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/a-few-questions/
Hope this helps!
Thanks
First off, I own both the Newspaper and Newsmag themes and they’re great. Thanks for putting together such great themes.
For my local News website I am only going to have two types of posts, News and Ads. They are going to be posted in a simple “Block 13” type list only. I hope to have it alternate with an ad, then a story and repeat..
I need some way to stylize the advertisement posts differently than the news posts. I can do this building a page in Visual Composer with multiple blocks, which allows me to stylize the advertisement blocks differently. ( http://christopherpayne.ca/development/02.jpg )The problem is, I cannot use the infinite scroll, or load more stories because I need both types/blocks to alternate. With those functions they are only within one block.
I am hoping to post 20+ stories (10 articles,10 Ads) a day so I dont want to build out one long page in VC with 20 individual blocks. That would be a huge page to load.
I guess what I am asking is:
Is there a way to have different styles of posts within the same category? This would work great, as I could just have everything in one category.
if not, Is there a way to build my multiblocked pages so that there is some sort of page system at the bottom? I hope to not have the site loading 30 posts all at the same time.
I hope that this makes sense. I really love this new Theme, and it is so close to working exactly how I need it to.
Thanks so much,
Chri5
Hi,
Unfortunately the related posts function can be used just on posts page template.
You could use the shortcode function though and build a block with visual composer then switch to classic mode then add it to the template using the same method like for the custom ads above:
You can more info related what you would have to do it here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/a-few-questions/
Hope this helps!
Thanks
Hi,
You could do it but you will have to add them hard coded as unfortunately the theme doesn’t have an option for that.
Here are the theme’s header files located: http://screencast.com/t/kyTBlUnRoo ..edit the one you use and you can use the do_shortcode() function to add your widgets using shortcodes and build them via Visual Composer, here is an example of how you can build and implement a shortcode into a template: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/how-to-add-custom-widget-below-post/#post-30389
Hope this helps!
Thanks
Right. You cannot auto-update the “bundled” version of the Visual Composer plugin which comes free with the theme vs spending $20 additional. The bundled version is only updated when the theme itself is updated, and is tested to be compatible with the theme.
1) you don’t need to put in a license key if you use the bundled version of VC that comes with theme
2) you cannot “auto update” the bundled version, as it’s not provided by the folks who make VC. Setting on the Visual Composer plugin can be ignored as they don’t apply in this instance – those settings would only apply if you bought a license to the plugin, so you can simply ignore them. 🙂
Kind of confusing, but this is how all the theme developers who “bundle” a version of VC with the theme do it.
Plus to that you save having to buy a license, and you can be assured that 99% of the time the version included with the theme will actually work.
I just discovered d probs here… Lack of understanding…. There is a funtion dat is located in settings > visual composer… And there there are 3 toggle pans…. Settings, shortcodes and one other…. The middle one u wuld see a box asking for evanton Api secret code… Evanton user name … And visuall compuer linecen key .. So u can get latest theme update direct to ur blog and dashboard from evanton.. Theme update nt visual compuser update..
You don’t need a license key for this theme.
You may find it useful to peruse the “documentation” for the theme.
See the links on right side of this page “Documentation > Newsmag” for more help.
Specifically, this help doc will answer your questions on licensing:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
You cannot “auto update” the version of Visual Composer which is “bundled” with the theme, as it’s a bulk license, not an individual license per user. The only way to update it is to wait for next theme update, which will have the tested/approved bundled/licensed version with it.
Please whats the Visual Composer license Key for this theme, i want to set an option or funtion that enables auto theme update on my blog and its requesting for visual compuer lienece which is located in the theme file but had not purchased it externally as a single plugin in evanton – Themeforest
Bumps don’t do anything.
The theme cannot suddenly cause something to stop working.
1) did you update something else recently that might have broken Visual Composer?
2) did you try removing the visual composer plugin (js_composer) from your plugins folder, then reinstall the version which comes with the theme?
YOU SHOULD BE USING THE VERSION WHICH IS INCLUDED WITH THE THEME FOR SITE TO WORK PROPERLY AND IT DOES NOT NEED A LICENSE. REMOVE YOUR LICENSED VERSION AND USE THE ONE INCLUDED WITH THE THEME, WHICH NEEDS NO LICENSE KEY.
See the theme docs for more info on using Visual Composer with the theme and licensing information:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
If something “suddenly” stops working, this is due to action on your part or something you have installed, updated, or modified. The theme isn’t secretly changing things behind your back to turn things on and off. It’s not technically possible.
