I followed the instructions here to update (via FTP) the Newspaper theme from version 4 to 6:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/
Before that, I had updated WordPress to the latest version (4.4.1), together with most of the plugins. Everything had worked after that.
However, after I then updated the Newspaper theme, the site layout looks completely randomized. Please see the screenshot at
Activating and registering Newspaper 6 as instructed did not help, except that the warning message seen at the top of the screenshot disappeared.
Actually, the front page changed after I registered Newspaper 6, pls see
The texts on the site’s front page are the same that now, strangely, appear in Visual Composer’s “Backend Editor” mode!
Note that I also updated Visual Editor as instructed.
Hello,
This issue occurs when updating from newspaper 4 and not running the update script. Please follow this guide when updating from version 4: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ and please follow the steps provided for version 4 upgrade.
Thank you!
Hi Bogdan,
Where can I find the update script?
On the page you link –
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/
– there are references to an “import script”, but no link to the script.
Thanks for clarifying this.
The script used to show up in the admin panel as shown in the screen shot on the upgrade page linked to. Check the main welcome page for NP6 to see if it’s still there (they might have removed it from the “latest” version … dunno …).
Hello Vesa,
Please ensure you have downloaded the latest version of the theme ->Newspaper 6.6.4 because the scrip link is available from there.
Thank you for the message!
Hi Catalin,
I have downloaded the themeforest-5489609-newspaper.zip file, which contains the latest version of the theme.
Is there a “run the script now” prompt (or similar) during the installation at some point, or how do I actually run the script?
When I previously installed the theme, I don’t remember seeing a prompt to run a script.
Thanks for clarifying this.
Hello Vesa,
You have to run the script AFTER you have installed the latest version of Newspaper (6.6.4). Please read carefully our documentation because there you have all the method explained step by step.
Hope this helps and let us know how it goes!
Thank you for the message!
Hi Catalin,
I do understand that I will run the script *after* installing Newspaper 6.6.4.
You wrote “Please ensure you have downloaded the latest version of the theme ->Newspaper 6.6.4 because the script link is available from there”.
As you can see I have downloaded the latest version:
http://oi66.tinypic.com/2w750n4.jpg
Could you please tell me which folder in the download contains the script link?
I cannot run the script after installing Newspaper if I don’t know where I can find the script. 🙂
Or does the script link appear in the WordPress admin panel after installing Newspaper 6, as Chris suggests above?
Thank you for your patience and guidance.
I think I figured it out…
I used the “Update the theme via WordPress” option, and then ran the update script. However, the layout still is not what it used to be:
Hello Vesa,
I have checked your image and saw that you do not have Visual Composer installed. Please try to update it to the latest version and also and the other that come bundled with our theme. Please try to redo your menu because on the 6’s version was changed and differs slightly from 4’s version. Also, please provide more details about what kind of layout do you want to have so I will be able to provide a more accurate response.
Thank you for the message!
Hi Catalin,
I appreciate your continued help.
I had to restore a recent backup. Maybe you could have a look at our current layout and contrast it with that in the picture.
I do have Visual Composer installed; it’s just not the latest version. The funny thing was that the settings seemed to be correct (=the same as before theme update), yet for some reason there were additional, unwanted categories like “Latest articles”, “The most popular posts” and “Popular category” (all in Finnish, of course) at the bottom of the front page. They were not there before the update.
I also noticed that my translations were missing.
TagDiv’s instruction video says “Delete the old version of the theme.” At that stage I deleted the “Newspaper 4 child theme”, which was active. Afterwards I have wondered if I should have deleted the Newspaper 4 main theme, not the child theme. Which should one delete?
Note that I have made customizations to a number of php files – for example, td_block_8.php – and added customizations in the CSS Editor. Does this cause problems when updating?
Best,
Vesa
Hello Vesa,
In order to achieve the best results after you will install the latest update you have to follow some rigorous steps like this -> you have to delete both of your themes, child theme, and main theme. All your customizations from your Newspaper 4 child theme will do not work because all the files from this were changed in Newspaper 6 and as the main theme and also you lose all changes.
Newspaper 6 is a whole new theme so an update from 4 to 6 may cause the same issues as switching to another theme (but we did try to maintain compatibility where ever possible).
Always make a full backup of your current installation – https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups and then do a clean update, meaning that we recommend that you delete the old version of the theme before uploading the new one – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ update also the plugins that come bundled with the theme files from the /plugins folder. In the “how to update” guide is specified that you will have to run the script that will import from database your settings.
The shortcodes have been changed so old ones will not work anymore. Please note that old files customization or custom CSS will not work with the new version and you will have to adjust or re-add them.
Bottom line is that newspaper 6 is a whole new theme built from scratch.
Unfortunately, you will have to clear your agenda and spare a bit of time to adjust all your settings to the new version of the theme.
If you have already Newspaper 6 and you want only to do the update to latest version, you should make this without any problem. All your customization are recorded in the database which is not affected by this update.
Hope this helps and let us know how it goes!
Thank you for the message!
I’m trying to upgrade to Newspaper 6.6.5 from Newspaper 4.6.1.
I have problems with the shortcodes, I thought the update script would replace all old shortcodes in my posts with the new ones but that didn’t happen?
For example td_block7 this shortcode is an old one and isn’t replaced in any of my 200 posts.
How can I fix this?
Seems like shortcodes in pages has been fixed but not in posts
Hello,
Unfortunately the theme does not handle the shortcodes in your posts. They are added ‘by hand’ and not by the theme. They are typed in when you create the post. Sorry for the inconvenience but there is no easy solution to edit the shortcodes inside your posts.
Thanks.
P.S. we have changed the shortcodes for qoutes and dropcaps, now they use html. We tried to add them but on some cases there was a chance for errors to appear and we decided not to include them in the script. Please try to add the following code at the end of the functions.php file – http://screencast.com/t/OWxqEsYVK – http://pastebin.com/7yme4TLv
Thanks.
Hi Catalin, thank you for the detailed explanation. We’ll stick with Newspaper 4 for now.
