tagDiv Composer Problem

Hi,

I have installed Newspaper 8. My Posts looks great like this: https://wernsworld.de/screen/right.png
But when I activate tagdiv Composer it looks like this: https://wernsworld.de/screen/wrong.png

When I edit the post with the Visual Composer and change to Classic Mode there are the following Text where I have added single Images: [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]

I have deactivate all plugins and clear the Cache with W3 Total Cache but it doesn’t worked.

I need help 🙂

Thanks, Werner

Important Note: Do not use both page builders on the same page!

Read carefully here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/visual-composer-tagdiv-composer-transition/

Hi,

I have the same issue on my site. Just activating the tagdiv composer leads to errors in all of my posts that are using VC. The content goes full width and the sidebar lays over the content.

regards,
Norman

Yes, you want to use one or the other NOT both.

TD Composer is new option to use in place of VC; but not 1:1 replacement. So, you may need to adjust any pages/home page built with VC if switching to TDC.

Thanks for the reply. I get that I can’t use both composers on the same page. But right now I can’t even activate both plugins without having errors on my website.

So it is definitely not possible to:

1) only use VC on all old posts and just leave them as they are
and
2) start using tagdiv composer on every new post?

I really do have to recreate and republish everything in my site again?
In that case I cant’t switch. I just can’t recreate everything from the scratch. Even if it takes just 3-5 minutes per post/page it would cost me several days.

regards,
Norman

Norman, I had the same issue. I actually love Visual Composer — it’s one reason why I switched from another theme that had its own custom page builder to Newspaper. I loved that Newspaper used VC.
When I recently installed version 8 and activated the Tagdiv Composer my pages and posts were messed up.

When I deactivated it, my site worked fine again. So I can’t see how it’s possible to have both VC and Tagdiv Composer plugins activated without there being problems.

Plus, Tagdiv advised me to switch to their composer because from now on the support will be for that (and not for Newspaper with VC).

I’m not sure what to do. I don’t want to take time to reformat my entire website right now in order to adapt to Tagdiv Composer. But I also don’t want to use a theme with VC if it’s not supported. It’s a conundrum!

• This reply was modified 9 years by travisnw.

AGAIN: you cannot use BOTH plugins same time. Period.

If choosing to use TD Composer, you will need to
a) NOT activate VC under plugins panel !
b) adjust any/all existing pages built with VC, as TDC not 1:1 replacement.
c) then, all FUTURE new pages would be built with TDC

Put another way, imagine Visual Composer went out of business and TD made their own version to maintain compatibility with WP moving forward, but not direct replacement as some elements are ‘owned’ by VC as it’s their commercial code.

Or, put another way – say you like some of what VC did in making cool home page layouts, but VC crashes your server, especially if you’re still on PHP 5.4 — this would be suitable replacement for much lighter weight, less resource heavy, version to do “mostly” the same thing. And, it’s also got less code complexity and “bloat” and therefore far less likely to have the security flaws which have popped up once in a while with VC.

(I don’t work here.)

Hi Chris,

thanks for answering again. Especially as you are not working here and do it on your spare time 😉

AS tagdiv composer can not be used for posts (ONLY pages)
I can not simply switch off visual composer
AND start using tagdiv composer
because I would ruin the look & feel of all of my posts.

Or do I oversee something and tagdiv composer is also useable for posts?

best,
Norman

Dunno. I never used VC for posts, as for just such an issue as this.

I think there is a ‘conversion’ tutorial, someplace where one could do search/replace in the post meta via phpMyAdmin (just like if moving from http to https where one needs to replace image URLs — same idea).

Presumably if you have a
[VCshortcodexxx] my neato content [/VCshortcodexxx]

you could search/replace with
[TDCshortcodexxx] my neato content [/TDCshortcodexxx]

* in theory… *

On the plus side — it’s simpler to move to TDC than say, oh, SiteOrigin, or similar, where *nothing* would be compatible.

No reason to not use VC if you like it — it was just major resource hog on my dedicated server, so Radu made a ‘shim’ for us originally; which of course has evolved into the TD Composer — basically it’s the custom blocks CSS they came up with to fit their site design, along with some additional stuff like slider, so one could build a home page layout, without the bloat of VC.

However, it doesn’t have the hundred plugin/hooks/expansions of VC – obviously.

For now, I believe TD is providing it as an option … if you want it, but not required to if you don’t. For some people it’s a major “woo hoo” and for others “meh.”

Hope that helped a little.

🙂

“I lurk for free ginger bread cookies in my tip jar… still waiting …. “

@neotrope That actually seems genuine since TD Composer and VC have almost same style. Apart from the buttons, you will have to recreate them for sure. There’s a shortcode for buttons though in format.

I don’t know but i have really not seen any great difference between TD Composer and VC. They look alot alike but the plugin of VC seems to be heavy abit.

Stay with VC for sure. Disable TD, it would be total mess re-creating all posts now. As for VC you should know, you can’t properly use mobile theme with it. Try not to use VC in posts for now.

• This reply was modified 9 years by drvarun5179.

I’m confused… Allow me a simple question:
Can Visual Composer and the new TD Composer exist together or not?

I did read a the guide in the sticky post on this forum and it says that i have to rebuild all my existing pages. I thought: you got to be kidding me! I have no time to rebuild all pages and i don’t want my pages, my links, my seo to change. I’m a conservative guy… well when it comes to my site lay-out that is.

Thanks for answering this.

@henrib

answered it twice now.
I’m out!

Hi Catalin,

I would really like to try out and switch to TD Composer. But unfortunately I used VC Composer for pages and posts. Using both composer is not possible. But as TD Composer is exclusively for pages I can not use it to recreate my posts with it.

How would you proceed in my case? Any suggestion helps?

regards,
Norman

Thank you.

Thanks for the advice. I have deactivated VC and activated TD Composer. When I create a Page and start the TD Composer there is only a blank screen and I can’t drag and drop elements to the page. https://wernsworld.de/screen/td.png

Any advice? thx 🙂

I have the same problem.

Now it works 🙂

I have replaced W3 Total Cache by WP Super Cache (Recommended by TagDiv).
And I have solve the “WP Memory Limit” problem. Check Menu: Newspaper/System Status (Third point from button). There is a link to a guide if the light isn’t green.
I hope it works for you too.

Thanks.
I’m back to version 7.8. For now, I’ll wait.

My caching pluging is WP Super Cache, VC is deactivated and the System Status is OK, but TD Composer does not works.Blank page.

TD composer and visual composer are conflicting. You must choose if you use tag div composer or visual composer. Shame it is no possible both.

I know it but I want to use only the TD Composer. VISUAL COMPOSER IS DEACTIVATED.
I try to create a NEW PAGE, once I click on “TagDiv Composer”, I can see the elements, but I cannot move any to any page on the right. It shows a white page on the right but no element can be moved there and I get the message “The current page hasn’t been created by Tag Div Composer”.
Yoast SEO is also deactivate

Now, it works. The problem was the SSL certificate.