Hello,
I’ve updated my site’s Newspaper theme to v9.75 as well as all plugins and WP. The included WPBakery Page Builder plugin v.5.7 is installed and visible in ‘Edit Page’ view.
Even with all non-Newspaper plugins turned off my website home page layout is jumbled and some secondary pages are blank. See original, pre-update site here; Marketwisetrader.com. The post update, development clone updated version is here; //mkdv.meta-morphos.es
The WPBakery post page layouts seems to have survived. Secondary pages for ‘Store’, are blank whether WooCommerce plugin is on or off.
I built the site’s page layouts using WPBakery Page Builder. When I now view the page layouts back end view with WPBakery selected, the row and collum layouts with blocks looks correct. When I preview the same pages however, image sizing is off, and row/collum and block location is out of order.
Could you view this and suggest how I can correct this?
Will the back end editor, WPBakery be phased out in the future?
Will there be a problem in the future if some pages are ‘legacy’ having been built with WPBakery, and others built from front end with TagDiv Composer?
Thanks,
Lon K
Hello,
Please use this solution to fix the single image issue:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/using-wpbakery-page-builder/
Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience.
Hello Bogdan,
I added the ‘tdc_map.php’ file but there was no change in my home page or secondary pages.
Suggestions?
Updated Development site: //mkdv.meta-morphos.es
Original site: //marketwisetrader.com
Could you answer the questions at the end of my last post?
‘Will the back end editor, WPBakery be phased out in the future?’
‘Will there be a problem in the future if some pages are ‘legacy’ having been built with WPBakery, and others built from front end with TagDiv Composer?’
Lon K
Hi,
Replacing that file from the composer with the new one, should work. I have tested it again, it works for me on my end. This fix will be included in the coming theme update, which should be released in the following days.
You could try it again, delete the old file, and upload the one, in the tagDiv composer plugin – http://prntscr.com/nuaa5c
Sorry for this inconvenience, it will be fixed permanently in the next update.
At the moment, from what I know, there are no plans to exclude the WPBakery from the theme package. If that should happen at some point in the future, there will be notices ahead of time.
We tried to fix as many conflicts between the composers, most of them were fixed. Pages can be built with either one, but there could be problems in some cases. For example if a page built with WPBakery containing WPBakery specific elements, is edited with the tagDiv composer. The page could be damaged then, and the WPBakery elements removed (if this should happen you could try and return to a previous page revision).
If you have more questions, let us know.
Thanks
Hello,
I updated to the latest Newspaper version (v9.7.3) and it appears to have corrected the enlarged single image problem on the home page.
I’ve tested removing all custom CSS and margin/padding on WP Bakery layout blocks but still have an unresolved layout issue on the home page. The top right text block will not locate in the top row, right column location as in the WPBakery layout. I would attach a screenshot but don’t see that option here. See the original non-updated site for correct location of that block at Marketwisetrader.com
I placed a second text block with default text in the same location but it also bumps down to the next row just like the original which has stock market quotes in it.
A second unrelated issue on home page is that I can’t get the footer to display. I selected display footer for home page in the theme panel.
Could you provide suggestions for fixes to these two issues?
Original layout: //marketwistetrader.com
Cloned dev version with all updates at: //mkdv.meta-morphos.es
Thank you,
Lon
Hi,
From what I can see it doesn’t fit there. There is a margin left set in WPBakery I believe, on this column – http://prntscr.com/nxfuj9 which pushes the element next to it down. Removing that margin left should align those two elements correctly
– http://prntscr.com/nxfv5d
Also I see there are negative margins set in WPBakery for that whole row
– http://prntscr.com/nxfwde
Those shouldn’t cause problems, just that it looks wider than the other rows.
The footer does not appear in a couple of pages, because of code entered in the theme panel custom CSS section – http://prntscr.com/nxfy7c
if you modify or remove that code it should appear.
Thanks
Hello Simion,
Thanks very much for analyzing the home page and picking up on the CSS and spacing settings that were throwing off the layout.
I adjusted and now have the home page in good shape.
Could you view all the secondary pages on the site? (mkdv.meta-morphos.es) For unknown reasons it appears that a copy of the complete home page now displays on each secondary page, starting at the bottom of that secondary page and scrolling down.
How do I remove this?
I have a question about WooCommerce. Do you have any suggestions for setting up those store/cart, etc. pages so they are most stable?
I don’t think I have the ability to adjust page layout on WooCommerce pages using either of the page layout editors, correct?
Thank you,
Lon K.
Hi,
I see it. The homepage displays a footer template, but all the other pages seem to display a footer page. It is unusual because it can only be one or the other, not both. Please check if there is a page set in the theme panel footer settings
– http://prntscr.com/ny9k5k
If there is no page set there, try to clear any cache you have for the website. Could be a cache related issue.
Woocommerce allows custom pages for shop, cart, checkout etc. You could build pages with the composer and set them. To display woocommerce elements in them, you can use shortcodes
– https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-shortcodes/
Shortcodes can be entered in the composer, in column text elements. A similar topic here
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/how-to-display-products/
Thanks Simion,
Yes the theme panel footer setting was set at home page. It wasn’t clear what the setting was for. I thought it was to say which page the footer setting would target.
I’m experimenting with translating WP Bakery layout pages into Composer layout pages.For best results should I just completely rebuild WP Bakery pages? From initial experimentation it doesn’t appear that Composer recognizes blocks previously placed by WPBakery.
Thanks for your help.
The footer page can be used if you want to display a page in the footer, instead of a footer template. It will affect the whole website. The predefined footer templates are limited in some ways, so in this case a page designed with the composer for example, can be set to display there.
That depends, for example if the pages contain theme provided elements, like blocks and grids, these should work regardless of the composer used or being active. But if the pages contain specific WPBakery elements like tabs, accordions, masonry grids, these won’t be recognized by the composer. The same would happen if a page contains composer specific elements, and it is edited with WPBakery.
Hello Simion or other Newspaper tech assistants,
I’ve been working on updating my website to the latest Newspaper version which has included trying to transition from using WPBakery to TDComposer for layout. I’ve rebuilt the Home page, About, and, Store pages but have been dissapointed with how difficult it is to accomplish what I want with TD Composer.
1.) Many of the valuable layout blocks present in WP Bakery are absent in TDComposer including the dozen WooCommerce blocks and widgets. I’ve tried but don’t find an easy way to customize the WooCommerce Store page layout using Composer. I loaded a WooCommerce shortcode plugin but don’t find any way to view it or use it when rows and columns are setup in Composer.
#2) Managing fonts has always been crazy in Newspaper. The fine granulations of font options for customization of the module, blocks, templates, articles, & headers, is almost too much to keep straight. Often when a setting change is made, it fails to affect the target line of text. Currently, despite using the Firefox page Inspector tool to track down the error, I can’t find the source of the font error for display of the post article titles in Blocks 8, 2, & 11 on my home page. They are now too large.
Somehow my attempt to standardize the site’s font styles and sizes, by adjusting settings in the Newspaper theme panel, has over-enlarged those titles. In the theme panel I don’t see any setting source for the faulty ‘Old Sans, 32px, 400, 26 line-height’attached to the titles.
I setup a new home page using Composer and added the Block 8. Despite inputing various font style data, there was no change registered on the fonts displayed in that block. The same error persists. How do I track down the source of such Font issues? Should manual font settings made in the Composer blocks, override Theme panel font settings?
Could you assist?
Thank you,
Lon Kaufmann
Current clone site: mkdv.meta-morphos.es
Hi,
1. It is true that WPBakery has dedicated Woocommerce elements, while the composer does not. It does support Woocommerce shortcodes however, as I mentioned above
– https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-shortcodes/
Shortcodes can be entered in text elements, like the column text. The column text element can display shortcodes. Blocks can also display products, although they can’t be filtered only sorted – http://prntscr.com/o1ap44
2. The theme has general font settings in the theme panel, and also more specific font settings per element in the composer. These specific settings will override the general settings.
I have inspected the website and I see the problem. The font size CSS seems to be coming from a custom stylesheet from a plugin – http://prntscr.com/o1arjv
– http://prntscr.com/o1arob
That code will override the theme CSS. You could remove that code from the plugin, or disable it.
Let me know if you have more questions.
Thanks
