Hello,
I’m tasked with keeping our website running and am very much not a developer or IT pro so, please, be gentle.
I’m seeing notifications from jQuery informing me of code depreciations on our site (which uses Newspaper 9.7.3). According to the folks at WP Engine, three plugins they are built into the theme (newspaper, tagDiv composer, td-cloud-library) are running code that is deprecated and no longer supported. They’ve suggested we need a theme update that should contain the new security and performance update to clear these errors, but I was told by the person that developed the site that updating the theme would ‘break’ the site. I know I can test a theme update in the staging environment we have to assess exactly how ‘broken’ the site would be, but I’m not sure what exactly I need to get in order to upgrade. Do we purchase the newest version? Is there a patch for older functionality?
Any insight into this will be warmly welcomed.
Hello!
First of all, please make sure you have a backup done and then you can update the theme and the TagDiv plugins also.
Please take a look for this advice before updating: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/action-required-please-read-how-to-update-to-the-newspaper-theme-v-10/
I recommend you to make a backup and update plugins and the theme via file transfer, so that you don’t face any error: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/
Please double check if you have the latest version of the PHP, WordPress, theme and plugins(11.3): https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-how-to-update-a-plugin/
Let me know the results!
Thank you!
