Error After Updating To Current Newspaper Theme (6.6.5)

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I had a site that had Newspaper 4 still installed on it somehow, and I tried to update it to the current 6.6.5 version. The error says this:

wp booster error:
Please update your [tagDiv social counter] Plugin!

How do I correct this?

The social counter plugin is showing that it is in fact current.

Thanks,

Antione

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Hello atw101,

In order to achieve the best results after you will install the latest update you have to follow some rigorous steps like this -> you have to delete both of your themes, child theme, and main theme. All your customizations from your Newspaper 4 child theme will do not work because all the files from this were changed in Newspaper 6 and as the main theme and also you lose all changes.

Newspaper 6 is a whole new theme so an update from 4 to 6 may cause the same issues as switching to another theme (but we did try to maintain compatibility where ever possible).

Always make a full backup of your current installation – https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups and then do a clean update, meaning that we recommend that you delete the old version of the theme before uploading the new one – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ update also the plugins that come bundled with the theme files from the /plugins folder. In the “how to update” guide is specified that you will have to run the script that will import from database your settings.

The shortcodes have been changed so old ones will not work anymore. Please note that old files customization or custom CSS will not work with the new version and you will have to adjust or re-add them.

Bottom line is that newspaper 6 is a whole new theme built from scratch.
Unfortunately, you will have to clear your agenda and spare a bit of time to adjust all your settings to the new version of the theme.

If you have already Newspaper 6 and you want only to do the update to latest version, you should make this without any problem. All your customization are recorded in the database which is not affected by this update.

Hope this helps and let us know how it goes!

Thank you for the message!

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