Hello everyone
I notice after this update a lot of users are in troubles and i think its necesary to explaint what to do in one unique post.
Every time tagdiv launch a big update, 1 to 2, 2 to 3, 3 to 4, 4 to 5, 5 to 6, 6 to 7, etc. everybody experiences a lot of issues because are a lot of differente code in the theme and everybody has different configurations and setups on your sites. Its impossible to made this kind of update just whit one clic.
In my experience this is the correct way to Update to Newspaper 8 in 7 Steps
1) Download the theme
2) deactivate every plugins
3) upload the theme via FTP and overwrite. Or set default wordpress theme, delete newspaper 7 and upload the new update.
4) activate the theme.
5) Go to theme panel and clic on install demos, now select your prefer demo and uncheck “include content”, then clic on install button. This will overwrite all settings and set the demo style on your site.
6) YES, you need to configure again your site whit your logo and preferences.
7) activate plugins one by one and check if some plugin produces some problem.
Thats all. You will have not problems ussing this mettod and just take 10 or less minuts
Regards
> upload the theme via FTP and overwrite.
No. It is better to first completely remove via FTP the folder with theme from hosting (your site/wp-content/themes/Newspaper) then upload the new version from Envato.
(sorry for my poor English) ))
Unless I am misunderstanding, it is not just 10 minutes to do #6 “configure again your site with your logo and preferences” that can take days to get everything reconfigured back the way you had it, IF you are even able to do it at all completely. Is there no export/import of your NP7 settings? Thanks.
Yes, you can import and export preferences, (theme panel + import/export) . But here is the problem when is a big update there are some incompatible settings and this is how you get a little problems 😛
You can do a fast copy of your setting if you capture your screen on every part of your theme settings (can be a video whit camtasia or only images). And when you made the update just copy your settings whit the video or images.
This would work IF you use the theme as is it.
For those who have custom code, it’s a whole different story.
TagDiv should be more conscientious about the number of updates they release, especially when there is no real updates made, just cosmetics.
