Hi, I’ve got a bit of a mission on my hands in that I need to remove all my shortcodes, contained in my posts because this theme doesn’t have a migration mechanism. Not that I was expecting that, but I have found some themes do.
Anyway, I really want tabs in my posts and have ended up doing a mockup of a page using visual composer here: http://dev.tech-knowhow.com/2017/01/set-roon-audio-bridge-picoreplayer-raspberry-pi-hifiberry-dac-pro/#1483657727692-588765df-8139
I’m concerned about where the post data would be stored using this method. I have confirmed it is theme agnostic, which is nice, so I wouldn’t have this problem again, provided I stick with Visual Composer. Nevertheless, I’m not sure if other plugins and things would be able to reference the data correctly, I’ll do a test soon, but fairly confident it won’t be able to, potentially resulting in even more pain later.
So I have this amazing Newspaper theme and can’t use it due to the migration work required.
I’ve set it all up at http://dev.tech-knowhow.com and the original site is https://www.tech-knowhow.com
I understand I have support from Visual Composer through this theme, could someone please find out for me what is the recommended way to have custom post types such as what I’ve made here? I could just purchase support for Visual Composer if needed as I had that with my original theme anyway.
Thanks,
Hello,
Unfortunately if these tabs is what you want to achieve then you will have to use visual composer on posts and add the tab each time you create the post as there is no way of changing it if you add it in a post template. Simply activate visual composer on posts and place the tab element in the post content. The post data will always be stored in the database of WP
Thank you!
Thanks, I realise the data is always stored in the database, my question in that area is where in the database. I was worried that the post text would not be able to be referenced by other plugins, themes etc. So far it seems to work though.
What I really need is a decent tab plugin, which I haven’t managed to find, which would take someone elses shortcodes. I’ve found one that very very nearly does that, but it looks ugly. I have to say I’m surprised that your theme, which is so highly rated does not include such a basic capability. That said, this experience has created an extremely strong dislike for shortcodes with me, so I’m keen to never use them again. Or at least use something like Visual Composer that is somewhat theme agnostic. Using VC for posts and pages, probably means I barely need the tagdiv theme though, maybe I should have just left it as it was given I already own VC.
I guess this is the problem with pre-made themes, good generic capability, but not good for specific things, although this one is clearly quite basic.
I’m disappointed.
Hello,
If you just want to ad tabs on posts you can do so using visual composer. I;m not sure what themes you used before but each theme has it’ s own custom elements and shortcodes and it;s impossible for another theme to detect them and render anything. If for example you use our content blocks and want to switch to a different theme, you will never be able to use our content blocks shortcode with any other theme out there because our blocks are made custom. They are not compatible with other themes, plugins, etc. Plugins are built on the standard wordpress code. Themes have custom element which plugins cannot recognize. On he other hand visual composer is the most widely spread plugin so the visual composer shortcodes will work on any theme if you use the same plugin but agaon, visual composer shortcodes will not work with another builder unless it is specifically created to do so.
Thanks
