Demo Content

I purchased the newspaper theme last night and there are many things about it that I am impressed with. Having said that, the demo content is not one of them. The demo content is horrible. When it is installed the end result is a Homepage heading in the menu and contacts. The pages don’t look anything like the demo being advertised. I understand that some images might be copyrighted but then similar sized ones should be put in their place. Often when someone buys a template, their hope is that can reuse the ideas being displayed. In other words, many would just like to change the content but keep a similar structure. In its current form one has to re-invent the wheel. The other purpose of demo content is that it allows the user to reverse engineer pages to learn how to do something new.

I was wondering if anyone had any comment on this?

i am finding the same issue. after looking at the initial demo content i bought the theme and i feel let down as it doesnt look near as advertised 🙁

++ If you also need the xml files of the demo you can make a request for it on email and we will send it to you.
Can you supply a full demo? Could this be used to do a full DB import? (meaning all pages and menus???)

Theme demos on Themeforest are designed to show you an “example” of how the theme is used, and then in the case of TagDiv themes pre-set “stacks” are provided as pre-defined styles and layouts for changing the style without having to program that all in yourself.

The demo data isn’t designed to give you an entire website of content to use; only jump-start you in setting up your own content. This means you still need to make your own choices on how to build out a menu, or create your own categories, etc.

If you request the XML file from tagdiv they will be happy to send you the basic demo content to import. They don’t provide you “everything” as the photos are not owned by TagDiv and may be licensed only for their use — this is common with *all* theme developers using licensed images to create demo examples on Themeforest, hence the notices about terms of use on demo content all over Themeforest.

If you look at my previous comments, I recognized the copyrights on photos. My question is whether or not they would give me all the menu and article content / layout. Again we get these things because what is presented has given us ideas. Other wise we could simply download a bunch of fonts and plugins and do the whole thing ourselves.

I have bought many themes over they years and most of the time they do give you a sufficient amount of demo material. Recently I bought “The7” theme and it is a good example of my claim.

Yes, so why not send the email to get the demo content download file?

I’m presuming you’ve already done that, so presumably a non issue.

All the demo styles are built-in you just activate from the “import styles” at bottom of theme panel, which presumably you’ve already played with.

My question is whether the XML file would give me all of the content and layout.

Yes, I have played around with the demo styles. Again styles and a template are 2 different things.

I know how to make a menu also. That wasn’t the point of my post. I was after LAYOUT.

Templates are built-in to the theme, which you specify in your preferences in the theme panel and when creating a post. You don’t need to import templates, they are included with the theme. A “style” and a “template” are two different things.

You can import the demo content which has fake stories, and uses the default layout of the theme.

I’m sure TagDiv will get back to you next business day to try to better answer your query.

Upshot – the layouts are included with the theme — open a post and note all the options for layouts; note the theme panel for layouts and note you can specify default template for posts and over-ride that on per-post basis.

Demo content with using layout 4, won’t make all your new posts layout 4, you need to specify that as your choice for default and/or CHOOSE which layout template you want to have when CREATING a post.

The layout for any post might be based on the actual content you post — a demo story with 3 photos would look different than a new post you create with 2 photos and no drop cap, etc. — as I’m sure you likely already know.

But wait for TagDiv to help, I guess you’re not “getting” my attempt to help on how to explore the built in LAYOUTS you already have — the demo content doesn’t add to that, it just uses the built-in LAYOUTS to populate dummy content. You already have all the LAYOUTS from the demo!

Enjoy! 🙂

I am totally familiar with what you are saying. I just wish that you would acknowledge the value in being given a complete demo. It does present, time-saving and learning opportunities via example. I don’t think that can be debated.

If all that doesn’t matter, then they should be presenting this template the way that it unpacks on install and not something that has been dressed up.

++ Upshot – the layouts are included with the theme — open a post and note all the options for layouts; note the theme panel for layouts and note you can specify default template for posts and over-ride that on per-post basis.

++ But wait for TagDiv to help, I guess you’re not “getting” my attempt to help on how to explore the built in LAYOUTS you already have — the demo content doesn’t add to that, it just uses the built-in LAYOUTS to populate dummy content. You already have all the LAYOUTS from the demo!

Yes, and I already have had a couple occasions where that layout had issues. Now if I had their sample I could start reverse engineering things to try to determine what was different. I didn’t post until I played around for a bit and saw issues that I had to spend time resolving. I would have just been as well off, had I not installed the demo content because that in its default state is an UGLY mess.

I am not the only way that feels this way by the way. I am just a bit more outspoken on the matter.

Anyways I appreciate your time but wish you would acknowledge that a certain percentage of the population feels the way I do. You might feel that I am a fool but not everyone that feels the same is.

Again…I have understood what you are saying from the beginning. I merely have a difference in opinion on presentation.

Incidentally, if the demo pages aren’t important, can you explain to me the difference between Newsmag and Newspaper?

apologies if I was the one ‘not getting it’ 😉

Hey Lucian, I really appreciate it. Thank You so much! This will help me out a lot.

Chris, I hope there are no hard feelings. I didn’t mean to be abrasive, but I was a bit frustrated trying to explain something. I realize that everyone has different perspectives.

I appreciate your taking the time to respond and it is obvious that you have made a big contribution to this community. I am sure that people here really value your help.

–Dan