Hi. It is a while now since I last modified my static homepage where I have my visual composer with all my content. The content is still displayed fine when you enter the website, but when I enter my homepage to modify it, I don’t have anymore all the visual composer buttons, and when I press on ”New element”, the popup with all the elements appears, but when I press on no matter which one, it does nothing. I want to add an adbox between 2 of my categories.
Can it be the same issue that other users experience too, meaning that the plugin is not up to date? The problem is that I can’t follow the instructions you give for updating the plugin, because this means I will have to readd all my content all over again and this isn’t a viable option.
Ok, can you answer me please, it is a very urgent matter, and this is very irritating issue. On top of it, I can’t update the visual composer without money. If I check the zip file from Newspaper/includes, it appears that the file hasn’t been modified since 2014, although the Newspaper theme is updated to version 4.5.
Hello justmevalthemar,
I suppose that you are using the Newspaper 4.5 version, right? Please notice that the latest version of our theme is Newspaper 7 that come bundled with the all required plugins (Visual Composer ->4.11.2, Social Counter 4.0). I suppose that you are using the latest version of WordPress (4.5.2) and please notice that the version 4.5 of the theme are not tested with this. I recommend you to update your theme to the latest version. Please follow the steps below in order to achieve best results in this regard.
In order to update from newspaper 6, you need to delete the old theme altogether and copy over the new theme via FTP. Then simply run the update script from the welcome screen: http://screencast.com/t/NXxqfbe4T
Before the update make sure you do 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 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.
You will have to re-apply a few settings though as some elements change their order and number such as blocks or post templates so a post template from newspaper 4 for example post style 3, will not be post style 3 anymore but a different number.
You will only have to allow a half hour to restore your site to it’s previous setup.
Thank you for your understanding!
