Hi,
My site was originally setup using the TagDiv Standard Pack. Now want to transition entirely to Cloud Templates but unsure of the process. Is there a tutorial to guide users through this?
Questions that come to mind:
- When the site was first created, we used a prebuilt demo as a foundation to work with. Should that demo be uninstalled?
- Creating new headers and footer cloud templates – is there a way to import the standard header and footer as we have them configured, or must we start from scratch?
- Page Templates (Homepage and Page) – are these necessary if the pages are already built manually using composer?
- When a cloud template is imported, it automatically scales to fit the width of the site. Is there a way to change that width site wide? I assume the width is derived from the original installed demo.
Thank you for any guidance.
Hello!
You can install any demo without content. If you install the demo with content, then, of course, it will replace all your content and design as well. If you install a demo without content, then it will replace the previous design.
You can return the previous design only if you have a backup.
You can import only some sections or templates of your current-designed pages from those demos. The template’s manager is in Cloud Templates. You can preview the demos here: https://demo.tagdiv.com/select_demo/newspaper-prebuilt-websites/.
There are the header and footer recreated from the default PRO demo. So, you can use them, and they are cloud templates that look similar to the default ones.
If you do not like any demo style, then you can create a page from scratch by installing a blank page and customizing it in the tagdiv composer. Please check out this video about how to create a website from scratch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoGQ0d5kIBg
Please check the differences between cloud vs default templates from our guides:
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/design-post-pages-using-cloud-library-templates/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/design-post-pages-using-default-templates/
We recommend to use cloud/PRO templates in order to have the possibility to edit them with the TagDiv Composer which contains a lot of functions and features, please check our tutorial here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-composer-tutorial/
More documentation about the cloud templates is here:
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cloud-library-templates/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/design-post-pages-using-cloud-library-templates/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cloud-library-category-templates/
You shouldn’t install a page template if you like the one you have.
Yes. You can manually customize any cloud template with the tagdiv composer.
We have some settings for the rows and different stretch sizes: https://www.screencast.com/t/bsbB5P97A
Make sure that this setting is disabled as here: https://app.screencast.com/FOwnXv63emAOR
Thank you!
Hi Bettina,
Thank you for the advice.
One more question: is there a way to quickly find/list all of the existing blog posts using a standard pack template?
Before we disable the standard pack we need to find all those posts and move them to a different template. Can’t find an easy way of doing this so any help would be appreciated.
Hello!
Please go to the Newspaper -> Theme Panel -> Categories -> https://app.screencast.com/6dtdqT2DtRRYF Choose a pro/cloud templates for your categories and their posts. You need to install a pro/cloud template from the Cloud Templates.
Thank you!
Brilliant, that’ll do the trick nicely. Thank you, Bettina!
Hi Bettina,
Unfortunately, the above suggestion doesn’t seem to work.
I’ve set the template for the category, but posts within that category that have previously been assigned a standard pack template aren’t being updated.
Is there a way I can generate a list of all the posts using a standard pack template?
Hi,
We can take a look at this and investigate the issue. Please contact us via email at contact@tagdiv.com and provide the following:
– wp-admin URL and credentials
– cPanel URL and credentials
– a link to this topic in order to identify you
Thank you!
