6.6+ update

There’s an update today – what are the changes guys?

I love this theme, but this is my #1 annoyance, the changelogs, blog, etc. are way out of date and there is zero way to know what’s included in any of these updates.

Likewise!

Me either …

Following… Did a lot of custom coding so I want to know if it’s worth updating and redoing tweaks.

How to update newspaper?

John

Hi, Newspaper 6.7 includes:
– new: Visual Composer plugin updated to the latest version 4.11
– new: Revolution Slider plugin updated to the latest version 5.2.2
– fix: Theme Panel fixed the structure for categories that have multiple branches(subcategories with their own subcategories)
– fix: Visual Composer 4.10 – Video Player resize problem for aspect ratio 4:3 and 2.35:1
– fix: removed some old Visual Composer detection code from td_wp_booster_functions.php, it was causing an error in certain cases
– fix: improved the Visual Composer detection code inside the default page template file, it was triggered when the shortcodes didn’t have unique names(ex. Woocommerce shortcodes)
– improvement: Authors box widget/block – added user roles option, now you can set it to display only the desired role(s) – https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
– other: to keep the theme size under 8MB we removed the Revolution Slider install from the Newspaper->Plugins section. You have to install it manually – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-install-revolution-slider-v5/
– other: removed unused code from “page-pagebuilder-title.php” template file

The Update is the 6.7 ….

Info about the unprovement ….

@John58 Install the Envato WordPress Toolkit plugin, it makes it super easy.

From the changelog – not certain if up to date or not:

Newspaper theme
Here is a list of all the changes between v 6.6.5 and v 6.7

Modified files – 12 files
page-pagebuilder-title.php
page.php
style.css
includes\td_config.php
includes\plugins\js_composer.zip
includes\shortcodes\td_block_authors.php
includes\wp_booster\td_global.php
includes\wp_booster\td_wp_booster_functions.php
includes\wp_booster\wp-admin\panel\views\td_panel_categories.php
includes\wp_booster\wp-admin\panel\td_view_theme_plugins.php
js\tagdiv_theme.js
js\tagdiv_theme.min.js

Deleted files – 1 files
includes\plugins\revslider.zip

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[ Version 6.7 ]
– new: Visual Composer plugin updated to the latest version 4.11
– new: Revolution Slider plugin updated to the latest version 5.2.2
– fix: Theme Panel fixed the structure for categories that have multiple branches(subcategories with their own subcategories)
– fix: Visual Composer 4.10 – Video Player resize problem for aspect ratio 4:3 and 2.35:1
– fix: removed some old Visual Composer detection code from td_wp_booster_functions.php, it was causing an error in certain cases
– fix: improved the Visual Composer detection code inside the default page template file, it was triggered when the shortcodes didn’t have unique names(ex. Woocommerce shortcodes)
– improvement: Authors box widget/block – added user roles option, now you can set it to display only the desired role(s) – https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
– other: to keep the theme size under 8MB we removed the Revolution Slider install from the Newspaper->Plugins section. You have to install it manually – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-install-revolution-slider-v5/
– other: removed unused code from “page-pagebuilder-title.php” template file

[ Version 6.6.5 ]
– fix: WooCommerce 2.5 compatibility + various styling issues
– improvement: Visual Composer plugin updated to the latest version
– improvement: Revolution slider updated to the latest version
– improvement: theme panel status now shows the loaded demo information
– improvement: footer logo title and alt attribute is now configurable from the theme panel
– improvement: faster servers that serve the files for the one click demos

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“no way to know ….” ? seems like some info was included in the download, at least my copy. ?

How to update: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/

Thanks.

Any news about the error in the search results?

My results are something like this:

wp booster error:
td_api_base::mark_used_on_page : a component with the ID: td_module_search is not set.
/home/bambinia/public_html/pizzaeimpasti.it/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/includes/wp_booster/td_api.php

wp booster error:
Missing module: td_module_search
/home/bambinia/public_html/pizzaeimpasti.it/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/loop.php

Thanks guys!

Be sure to update the plugins included with theme, with any theme update.

Hi Chris,
where can I find the Revolution Slider updated plugin, if I updated by Envato-Toolkit?

Will my theme settings remain persistent?

They will certainly remain intact.

Confirmation of smooth update via FTP method. 🙂

I never use the Envato Toolkit as it can have issues with ownership permissions. I personally always always update via FTP as it also allows me to grab the entire site for download as extra backup sans dbase. So, I’m no help on that one, sorry!

Hello

I can´t update. I have downloaded the zip file as always, then I have overwritten the Newspaper folder but when I go to Theme Panel, the version showed is 6.6.5 and not the current 6.7.

What is going wrong? I have seen a folder “patch_6.6.5_6.7” with some files. Are these files which I must to overwrite?

Thanks

Albert

So many questions here are through people not reading instructions with the greatest respect – it doesn’t sound like you’ve followed the process – it’s really easy and clear in the documentation on this site my friend.

In Appearance – Themes – activate Twenty Fifteen or similar

Delete Newspaper from this screen

Upload your new newspaper zip

Activate your new newspaper theme

Them read about how to update plugins for the theme

You don’t just upload and overwrite the theme you can’t have two instances of it at the same time

@PatWire Although I agree that deleting the theme is the way to go, their own documentation says that it’s okay to overwrite the files.

https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/
“Step 6 – Drag and drop the new “Newspaper” theme folder into “your site/wp-content/themes” and overwrite the existing files.”

@PatWire I have read all instruction and all documentation about how to upgrade the theme and several ways to do that.

As @ned4spd8874 has said, there is an option in documentation which explains that you can overwrite the “newspaper” folder. I have done it five or six times previously without any problem, but I can´t update now. I don´t know exactly the reason.

Yes I see apologies

If you look at the style.css file it does say v 6.7

Obviously you need to clear your cache prior to upload, then clear cache after update in both site/cdn (as applicable) and browser.

You can often “over-write” in place, however this can sometimes lead to confusion if there are files removed and no longer used. Deleting old folder and upload new one is best practice, and that’s how WP does it when installing its own content.

Up to you – if it WORKS for you, then keep doing it. If not, do it the clean (proper?) way of deleting old folder(s), upload new ones.

Often you can do this in place without changing to Twenty Sixteen first if your transients work properly, as if done quickly, you’re hiding the update from WP while you do it. Then when you login it automagically is loading the new files (transients are mini-caches).

Good luck all!

In style.css file says v.6.6.5, so I suppose that the transfer has failed. I will try again, but I have already tried twice. I hope it can be updated correctly, because it´s really strange. I didn´t have this problem previously.