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Normally we convert ALL fonts to Open Sans (with Newspaper, anyway); so typically we would open the style.css, search/replace all fonts to what we want, then edit the functions.php … but now would edit the td_fonts.php to REMOVE all the google fonts not being used; this ensures they don’t “print” in the head/foot of the posts online.
I have not yet done this for the fonts.
For our sites we have to do the following each update
1) update the hook for the post views to “views” from existing field
2) edit the search file to remove breadcrumbs (I don’t need those on indexes for each story)
3) edit functions.php to put various elements for us at bottom, such as changing default compression for images/thumbs, adding note to poke hackers trying the lost password function, turn off XMLRPC elements in header, remove Yoast from menu bar in admin, hide header elements like versions, hide use of visual composer, etc. — many common “optimizations” for WordPress sites.
4) edit header to remove the section for video thumbnails and this stupid thing
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo( 'pingback_url' ); ?>" />
5) optimize the fonts, by doing the aforementioned house cleaning on style css file, and removing the extra google font calls.
Your mileage may vary đ
Hello,
If you had the Newspaper theme, you need to replace the Social Counter and the Visual Composer plugins with the one from the Newsmag archive.
Both themes don’t use the same plugins.
Hi,
You need to try this without plugins first as this may occur due to a plugin which you are using and causes this js error: http://screencast.com/t/eTzzZQNhe
Make sure you disable all plugins then empty cache and check again for this. After this make sure you enable the plugins back one by one so you can notice winch one is causing this.
You can switch to site.min.js by activating the speed booster plugin but I doubt this will solve the js issue you have, you can also try that and see how it goes but make sure you have only the Visual Composer active when you do that.
Please let me know what you find!
Thanks
Hi,
Yes, sorry for the delay and sorry for the inconvenience as apparently we haven’t made the changes need to the Visual Composer plugin. We will release a patch with a fix this week. This happens when you use the custom templates added to the Visual Composer so you need to build you own page and add elements to the page.
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Hi,
Please make sure that you disable all plugins leaving just the WPBakery Visual Composer plugin active then empty cache and/or purge files if you use any cache plugins or CDN host services then check again for this as this.
Please also note that the speed booster can cause issue when used with other plugins.
Thanks
Hi,
I have checked your site and found this js error on your console which could cause this: http://screencast.com/t/IZzsirCKd2 so please make sure that you disable all plugins leaving just the WPBakery Visual Composer plugin active then empty cache and/or purge files if you use any cache plugins or CDN host services then check again for this as this.
Please let me know of what you find.
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I’ve forgot to point out, that I use WordPress 4.0.1 and Visual Composer 4.3.4.
The setup of wordpress is clean, I just installed your theme with necessary plugins.
Make sure you upload only the main theme files; donât install the âall filesâ zip from ThemeForest⊠that has docs, psd files, plugins, etc.
You want to install the smaller of the two files on Themeforest, if youâre installing via theme panel with .zip.
BEST WAY TO INSTALL WP THEMES:
Ideal way is still to
1) unzip theme folder âNewsmagâ on your HD
2) upload via FTP/SFTP to your /wp-content/themes/ folder
3) upload the plugins unzipped to /wp-content/plugins/
4) switch to default theme from your old theme
5) turn off *all* running plugins
6) clear your cache(s), turn off caching (!),
7) activate the Visual Composer plugin
8) activate the new Newsmag theme
9) launch the theme panel
10) reactivate only the plugins you 100% need to make sure they work (some plugins WILL NOT WORK properly with WP 4.01 until you update the plugins!).
Clear the cache in your WEB BROWSER FULLY and restart web browser; this clears any CSS/Java used by your previous theme admin, and theme, so that you see the new CSS/JS properly (seriously, this is cause for huge number of âmy new theme doesnât load rightâ or âadmin panel doesnât have any boxes!â errors).
If youâre running WordPress older than 4.0 be aware there is a very serious cross-site scripting vulnerability (e.g., WP 3.9.2). You should be running WP 4.0+ to use this theme properly.
This is standard practice for switching to a brand new theme and good habit to get into doing it this way to ensure you clear cobwebs on old, and cleanly move to new.
Hope that helps! đ
Chris
Make sure you upload only the main theme files; don’t install the “all files” zip from ThemeForest… that has docs, psd files, plugins, etc.
You want to install the smaller of the two files on Themeforest, if you’re installing via theme panel with .zip.
BEST WAY TO INSTALL WP THEMES:
Ideal way is still to
1) unzip theme folder “Newsmag” on your HD
2) upload via FTP/SFTP to your /wp-content/themes/ folder
3) upload the plugins unzipped to /wp-content/plugins/
4) switch to default theme from your old theme
5) turn off *all* running plugins
6) clear your cache(s), turn off caching (!),
7) activate the Visual Composer plugin
8) activate the new Newsmag theme
9) launch the theme panel
10) reactivate only the plugins you 100% need to make sure they work (some plugins WILL NOT WORK properly with WP 4.01 until you update the plugins!).
Clear the cache in your WEB BROWSER FULLY and restart web browser; this clears any CSS/Java used by your previous theme admin, and theme, so that you see the new CSS/JS properly (seriously, this is cause for huge number of “my new theme doesn’t load right” or “admin panel doesn’t have any boxes!” errors).
If you’re running WordPress older than 4.0 be aware there is a very serious cross-site scripting vulnerability (e.g., WP 3.9.2). You should be running WP 4.0+ to use this theme properly.
This is standard practice for switching to a brand new theme and good habit to get into doing it this way to ensure you clear cobwebs on old, and cleanly move to new.
Hope that helps! đ
Chris
If Visual Composer is activated from an other theme may this cause this issue.
Try delete Visual Composer plugin then active WP temporary theme then back try to active Newsmag and of course the fresh Visual Composer plugin right after.
I hope this may help you. Good luck.
Hello
The wdgetised sidebar in the visual composer strips out sidebar header formatting. Have a look here in the right sidebar: http://www.bookofburlesque.com/burlesque-shows/. There are two headings ‘about book of burlesque’ and ‘advertisements’. Both are showing as plain text and looking at the source code I see that there’s no headings used at all. Help!
Hi Lucian,
I have taken your suggestion and deactivated all the plugins except visual composer again today and cleared the cache however I still had the errors. I even re-uploaded the theme as per your instructions to no avail. I have again deactivated the plugins and left them off so you may have a look. I can grant you access to the backend if you need it. Email me at tammy at icidici.com (spelled out to prevent spam) and I will send you a user name and password. I am roughly 5 hours behind you so I can have the email sent to you by early afternoon your time. This site is technically live so I cannot leave the plugins turned off for an extended period of time. I have also used one of the homepage templates that can be located at http://www.icidici.com/temp-2/ but again the slide does not work. Thanks for your help.
Tammy
Hi,
I have checked your piste and found this 2 errors in your console which could generate this: http://screencast.com/t/eAa98k8UZ
Please make sure you deactivate all plugins, leaving just Visual Composer active, then empty cache and/or purge files if you use any cdn hosting services or cache plugins and check for this again.
Please let me know of what you find!
Thanks
Hi,
Please try to deactivate all plugins, enable only Visual Composer and UserPro plugin and check if this issue is till there.
If you still have this issue try to find an alternative here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/feature-request-members-access-areas/ or contact plugin’s author on support page: http://codecanyon.net/item/userpro-user-profiles-with-social-login/5958681/support
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It might be funny, but since I bought newspaper theme and it gives visual composer free. Can I use it on a demo site running some other theme? đ
Hi,
I have checked your site and found this js errors in your console: http://screencast.com/t/B2o72MJfd which cause this problems. Please make sure you deactivate all plugins leaving just the Visual Composer plugin active then check again.
After you disable all of them enable it one by one to see which one is causing this.
Please let me know!
Thanks
Hi,
Please make sure you use this guide any updated the theme manually via FTP: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme/
Please make sure you updated the theme right then check if you still have this same issues but without any plugins active, leave active just the Visual Composer plugin.
Please let me know if you still have issues!
Thanks
Hi,
You have to customize it to look good for you. Make sure you go trough all it’s settings and adjust it to look good. You can also add and use a custom css class if you need it to style it some more, like I did here: http://screencast.com/t/auY537xS8
Unfortunately in the last version of Visual Composer we also lost some of the classes as they have changed and some Visual Composer elements 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.
Thanks for understanding!
Hi,
Please disable all plugins leaving just the Visual Composer active then empty cache and/or purge files if you use any cache plugins or CDN services and check again. If this still isn’t working please check your console for errors and also make sure your theme settings are saved. If not you have to increase the max_input_vars = 1000; value inside the php.ini file to max_input_vars = 5000;.
If you donât have access to the php.ini file please contact the host administrator and let him know about this issue.
You could also updated the theme if the settings aren’t saved as we have made some changes in the latest versions so this won’t be needed anymore.
Hope this helps! Please let me know!
Thanks
Hi,
Make sure you edit your homepage, you will find after the Visual Composer drop-down panel, search for “Homepage latest articles” and “Homepage loop filter” fields. If you don’t find them make sure you have them checked from Screen Option, like here: http://screencast.com/t/R5vS8l6D0q6
Hope this helps, please let me know! You should also go through our documentation, you can find many useful info about how to best use our theme and it’s features.
Newspaper documentation
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hello,
I have an issue on my multi site with 2 theme both with visual composer, my main site uses an older version and the developer modified customize it and will not up date it to the new VC. Newspaper which I’m also using in this multi site overrides the older VC for one of them has to go or the plugin file you provide needs to be renamed, but I do not know where and how to rename it, please advise.
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Hi,
I can see from your screenshot that your are trying to activate the Visual Composer plugin which doesn’t need to be activated.
Please use this guide to activate the theme: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-activate-the-theme/
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Hi,
Sorry for the delay.
1. Have you tried to change your file permissions? You can read more about how to achieve this here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions
2. Regarding plugins you should also be able to update them after you managed to solve your file permission issue. The speed booster plugin when activated automatically moves the style sheets and js files to the footer so that is why you had css issue when you activated it as this plugin can cause conflicts when used with other plugins so make sure you check this without any other plugins active, just enable the Visual Composer plugin and the speed booster plugin.
You can use this guide for your page speed: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
And also follow this tread where you can find solutions to many issues you can encounter regarding page speed: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/pagespeed/
You can use this contact@tagdiv.com if you want to send your login details.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
Hope this helps!
Thanks
Hi,
@sxuttv Please try deactivating all plugins empty cache and check again laving just the visual composer plugin active then reactivate the plugins one by one.
Please let me now what you find, also please let me now what version of WP you use.
Thanks Christopher!
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i can’t disable the Visual compose because the whole theme is breaking
