Hey @neotrope, I don’t see many people saying it here but you’re a badass, you know? Thanks for the continued help over the last year. You really provide context that would otherwise not exist.
I had to move on from NewsMag for my site shortly after what was thought then to be an issue 1.7 was discovered. And I’ve since realized that the limited width of NewsMag was a major problem for my content. But it looks like Newspaper will get the benefits of the hard work tagDiv and you are putting into this issue, so I’ll check out Newspaper v5 as soon as it’s out.
Just can’t beat the quality and stability of a tagDiv theme for a WordPress news/magazine site.
Anyway, thanks, Chris.
Damn, meant to say, for those thinking this might be an issue with NewsMag or Newspaper, that the issues with Visual Composer being discussed in this thread are not unique to tagDiv themes. I’m also using A-Bomb by 007Theme, aka Ridwan Reedwan, which uses VC 4.4.4 and is very similar to NewsMag/Newspaper, and experiencing the same kind of load issues. Not as bad as NewsMag 1.7 was for me on the same site, but tagDiv integrates VC with a lot more features than the A-Bomb theme does, so it makes sense that it drains a bit more.
@Bryson T
well gosh and thank you kind sir!
I always feel like I’m giving back. On the old forum I used to haunt for our ecom system there was always this one guy providing all kinds of “dumbed down” info for us newbies and it was often the only way I could figure something out.
I guess I kind of took on that role ’round here for a bit. Sadly my time here will be coming to an end as it does from time to time where I ‘disappear’ for a month or two, but often I have time to “haunt” this forum as I’m often stuck doing things during the day where I have tiny little windows of nothing to do but wait … and I can only stomach so much on Facebook or checking out autoweek.com, etc. — so I circle back to here. And sometimes I see a question … and think .. HEY! I had same issue, I know what to do !
Since TagDiv has great support, I really do NOT need to do that 90& of the time (obviously!), but sometimes I do have a unique perspective having done this so freakin’ long now.
In any case, thanks for the kind words (how DO I get a ‘tip jar’ on here???) (kidding)
Peace out 🙂
lol Tip jar. Funny.
But seriously, it helps. More than anything else, though, I think the things you take the time to put out there (see various sticky threads you authored in both NewsMag and Newspapers support forums) make so much of a difference because even great support doesn’t have time for everything. Kind of helps tagDiv work more on these new updates everyone is beyond ready for while you have taken care of plenty of support requests for them by passing on your own experience.
Much appreciated. And not often enough expressed.
Earlier today had VC 4.3.5 loaded and active with NewsMag 1.7.1 on a dedicated server with the same site that I had problems before. Did not use VC, as such, to create or edit any new pages but checked the CPU over a 6 hour period and had no hyper-actively to see!
So thanks, that is looking good as a solution for now.
@ShowbizCool
wow…. awesome news. 🙂
ALSO:
since it got buried a bit …
LUCIAN … when you can, note my item a few posts back this thread about updated code for hiding the SHIM on post page meta to not load CSS every page.
Was trying not to start new thread which would confuse a lot of folks 🙂
(but I will if I have to … nyah hah hahhhh!)
Hi Chris, the original code does not work for the shim style because I’m using another id for the css (td-vc-composer-css-shim)
Here is the code that will remove the css form js composer and also from my shim on single pages.
function dequeue_visual_composer_css() {
if (is_single()) {
wp_dequeue_style('js_composer_front');
wp_dequeue_style('td-vc-composer-css-shim');
}
}
add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'dequeue_visual_composer_css', 1003);
Thank you kind sir and grand wizard! 🙂
🙂
here is an improved shim (1.0 Beta 3): https://forum.tagdiv.com/files_for_users/td-visual-composer-shim.zip
– fixed an issue with column calculation on 1/1 full width rows
– added vc_separator shortcode
– added vc_column_text shortcode
– added vc_raw_html shortcode
the plugin it’s still a bit messy but after we finish the new Newspaper I will make it much better. All the shortcodes that are supported now are with minimal support 🙁 (ex: no designer tab support yet / no custom visual composer css support).
@Chris … do you want a beta version of Newspaper? Let me know and I will sent it via email.
Regarding the possibility of installing VC 4.3.5: I’ve read it’s not compatible with yoast SEO. Plus, are there some different short codes from 4.4.2 and 4.3.5?
Also, want to know, my website has a good traffic, but less than 1000 articles and only about 10 pages. I’ve used VC elements only on pages (homepage included). This reduces the possibility that I will face CPU problems?
From what I read, I can’t use shim version as I’ve custom CSS added to pages and several VC short codes.
Hi,
@daimpa If you don’t experience any issues using most recent versions of Visual Composer you should use the plugin as it is, more so if you have custom VC css as for the SEO by yoast conflict note that we have tested it and we aren’t aware of any issues when using the 4.3.5 version and the seo plugin. Please let us know if you have detailed info on this.
Thanks
