Need clarification on pages besides home page after upgrade to v. 8/tdcomposer

Hi, just curious about pages on my site other than the homepage that I’ve created using visual composer after upgrading to v. 8 of the theme. I understand that I have to reset the homepage, which I did as a test and was actually quite easy, but what about the rest of the pages on my site? I have four or five that use visual composer; will those all need to be rebuilt as well? Unless I am missing it, there is no way to create something with more than three columns using the tagDivcomposer, which is going to be an issue for me Thanks for any clarification you can provide.

OK, got it. I still don’t understand why you replaced an established builder with over 2 million users with something you apparently spent a lot of time creating yourself, which meant you could not spend as much time adding features to the theme itself, like enabling the controlling of ads by category or any of the other things paid users have been asking for. No one really needed or wanted a new builder and there are plenty of other builders out there besides VC that are far more capable than the builder you guys have created. One of the things about this theme that I always liked was the fact that it DID integrate with VC quite well, which also allows us access to the hundreds of free and paid VC add-ons available out there. I feel that you have not taken into account that even though we users are a newspaper or magazine, and many pages of our sites are used to present groups of articles, article loops, individual posts, etc. there are many other aspects of a publication that have nothing to do with “news” content (about us, customer service info, submitting news/ads, historical info, etc. etc.) Now we are stuck with a limited builder that does not have the power of VC and cannot be extended, and that breaks the theme upon upgrading. I had been hoping that at least some of the features users had been asking for would be part of the 8 upgrade but it turns out there are no new features ;-( It seems like you guys have taken what, at least according to my research, was by far the BEST newspaper/magazine theme out there and you’ve actually limited its capabilities and functionality for the sake of implementing a more customized builder. Having the builder work on the front end is nice, but there was nothing WRONG with the combination of v. 7 and VC at all. You have removed a great deal of functionality in terms of the builder component of this theme, and given back almost nothing to the users. I wish you would reconsider this, and allow the theme to work as before with VC OR with your new builder and give us the option to choose one or the other, or forget about the new composer and instead work on adding truly useful new features to the next version.

Thank you for the response, Bogdan and that is why I am asking for clarification. When I upgraded to v. 8 as a test, it broke my home page and all the other pages I had created using VC. So I rebuilt the home page, then I disabled the new TD composer and my home page was blank at the top again. It does not appear that I can use v. 8 w/o the TD composer being loaded, and that is not mentioned anywhere in the guide to upgrading. Are you saying that if I upgrade the theme to 8, and then immediately disable the TagDiv composer, my pages will no longer need to be rebuilt and I can still use VC as I did before? If that is the case, there is no issue but I wish this was explained somewhere on the site. If it is and I missed it, could you please direct me there so that I can apologize for my previous comments?

Thank you, Catalin. Maybe I am not understanding the documentation fully, but NOWHERE does it say that I can immediately disable the TagDiv Composer and just use VC, it seems to imply that we no choice but to start with a broken home page, fix that, fix the other VC-based pages, then disable VC and start using the new composer. I wish you had made that clearer, like maybe this:

IF YOU WANT TO STILL USE VISUAL COMPOSER
Note that Newspaper 8 does NOT require the new TagDiv Composer to work. If you want to continue to use Visual Composer as before, simply disable the new TagDiv Composer as soon as you activate the new theme, and leave Visual Composer enabled. Your home page will no longer be broken, and you will not need to rebuild that or any other of your pages.

Is that a fair description of the process? Again, my apologies for misunderstanding but I could not find the above procedure documented anywhere on the site.

Hi, Catalin. Unfortunately that’s NOT how it works, I deleted the entire theme as a test, then downloaded v. 8 and installed. Before I even looked at my home page, I immediately disabled the TagDiv Composer plugin, and then went to my home page, which was gone. So in spite of what you are insisting, I cannot use Visual Composer for my site and must use the new TagDiv composer, which is why I was voicing my complaints before, so I will ask this as a question: How do I continue to use Visual Composer for my site and NOT use TagDiv Composer at all?

Thank you, Catalin. I have sent credentials to the above email address.