What’s the clearest, simplest guide to update Newspaper?
(or better yet, what do I need to do to update?)
I have Newspaper v7.4 (at least according to my Welcome page in WordPress.
Though when I look at my downloads page it says Newspaper 8.
Meanwhile, I got two different emails:
1. [CodeCanyon] Update available for ‘Visual Composer: Page Builder for WordPress’
2. [ThemeForest] Update available for ‘Newspaper’
Normally, I would just click stuff and try to follow, but last time I did, it messed up my site for a while — apparently there was some dependency on the Visual Composer — yet there was some agreement between Newspaper and Visual Composer licenses, and upgrading one outside the other caused problems (and was confusing.)
This first mail looks like it tells me to update Visual Composer to v5.4:
” Hi jdmeier,
We’d like to let you know that an update to your item Visual Composer: Page Builder for WordPress by wpbakery is now available in your Downloads page.”
The second mail looks like it tells me to update Newspaper to v8:
” Hi jdmeier,
We’d like to let you know that an update to your item Newspaper by tagDiv is now available in your Downloads page.
Remember: you need to be logged in to download the update.”
How do I do this hassle free, and how do I avoid breaking stuff between Visual Composer and Newspaper?
I care a lot because I’ve run Newspaper on multiple sites for what surprisingly might be a couple years now already.
JD
Hello,
In order to make a theme update hassle free, you should first know what the new update brings most important. If you update to newspaper 8, please note there is a new page builder that will activate automatically and it will create layout issues together with visual composer. You have been usign VC up to this point so now you have a choice.
1. Either continue using VC
2. switch to the new page builder and re-create your pages with it from scratch as it is a must
visual composer will still receive updates but we will not be adding any new elements to it from now on. We will develop our theme based on the tagdiv composer.
Only use 1 page builder though and disable the other no matter the choice made.
Once this is out of the way, you can simply use these guides:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin/
Thank you!
