Updating to Newspaper 10.4 – problems?

I just updated to Newspaper 10.4. Beside the theme I have 45 different plug-ins.

After installation I had to manually purge the cache for WP Super Cache.

Apart from that no issues so far. Here is the change log:

[ Version 10.4 ]

new: tagDiv CSS Analyzer Tool (beta) – For the first time in the Newspaper Theme, we’re introducing a free and awesome tool that analyzes and removes all the unused CSS from the page, supporting your effort to make your website faster. The tagDiv CSS Analyzer Tool works in stages. First, it removes all the unused CSS, then, from the final clean CSS, it generates the Critical CSS and automatically moves the non-critical one to the bottom of the page;
new: 2 New one-click installable PRO Demos created with the tagDiv Cloud Library & tagDiv Composer:
new: School PRO – View Demo ;
new: City PRO – View Demo ;
new: WordPress 5.7 compatibility;
new: Smaller CSS files – We’ve moved the individual CSS on the components where it is used to make the specific elements load faster;
new: Added help video tooltips on the shortcodes options in the tagDiv Composer page builder;
new: Added the disable Google fonts for mobile option in the Theme Panel;
new: tagDiv Standard Pack is no longer required on new theme install;
new: Updated WPBakery & Revolution Slider plugins to the latest version;
improvement: Web Core Vitals – We’ve made a general theme revision for Web Core Vitals to improve Performance, Accessibility, and SEO. In some cases, you’ll need to make particular revisions to get better results;
improvement: We’ve removed the CSS style from the Cloud Library plugin. Now, all style is moved on the components where is used;
improvement: Flex blocks – Added extra Review Stars options;
improvement: Applied Animation/Lazy Load effect on the Revolution Slider images;
improvement: Added Lazy Load animation on the Image Box and Inline Single Image element;
improvement: Added width and height attributes on the Inline mage and Fancy image elements;
improvement: New options to change the SEO Title Tag on various shortcodes;
improvement: New options to add Gradient & Shadow on sticky rows;
improvement: Added “Time ago” option for blocks;
improvement: The Inline Text element now recognizes footer shortcodes;
improvement: Removed left/right margin restrictions for the column/inner column;
improvement: Smaller Newspaper font – some icons are now converted into SVG;
improvement: ‘rel’ option for logo URL;
improvement: ‘rel’ option for social share;
fix: Food Recipes demo fix – meta info on modules was hidden from CSS;
fix: Front page offset issue on the Mobile Theme;
fix: Some string translations on the Mobile theme;
fix: Undo/redo history in tagDiv Composer due to memory limit on local storage;
fix: WPML notices;
fix: Saving theme panel backups;
fix: Title styles on the Single Comments;
fix: Background image upload in the panel when the image has caption;
fix: Prevent sending XSS injection in block ID – courtesy to Toan Nguyen & Truoc Phan;
fix: Shadow issue on row dividers;
fix: Ad title position;
fix: Some translation strings;
fix: Open modal login from comments shortcode without the panel option;
fix: Width and height attribute on header logo;
fix: Twitter social counter;
fix: Multiple warnings and notices.

Category pages that have no content are no longer working.

The menu is not working and there is a big Q in the middle of the page.

The update broke my site BIG TIME. The prebuilt theme was gone as were all the tweaks made to the layout. The iframe code we use for advertising blocks in the widgets was gone. Out logos were gone.

I was able to restore the website back to yesterday’s backup…

This is how a category page looks like if there is content:

https://imgur.com/a/X1s9OVj

This is how it looks if there is no content:

https://imgur.com/a/MOEhhHy

Clearly the updated theme is not working as it should….

How do you fix this problem? Apart from this I have not seen any issues yet.

I had to revert back to 10.3.9.1 and drop 10.4 for now. I have several empty categories and as can be seen from the screen shots above this breaks the entire menu for some reason.

Error 500 after update. Mobile version work ok. After deactivating “tagDiv Standard Pack”, site starting to work but with errors. When trying to edit home page, showing this error:Error at zones: 6(models) : 0(dom). The model does not match the content Current state has involved an issue. You could try an UNDO operation (CTRL+Z / CTRL+SHIFT+Z)

Site with 10.4 and default prebuilt theme
https://opticaljournal.com/Newspaper/Newspaper-10.4b.jpg

Site as restored with backup to 10.3.9.1
https://opticaljournal.com/Newspaper/restored29Mar21b.jpg

• This reply was modified 5 years by dnf67.

Jesus, what a total mess! The developers has a lot of things to fix. What a meltdown!

I updated accidentally and suffered a lot. I lost everything and back to 10.3.9.1
Note: Theme is not updated since December 11th, 2020.

Since updating to 10.4, my site is no longer displayed. Blank page.

WP Super Cache might have to be emptied? I also had a white page for a while and I think it was due to the cache updating in the middle of the update or similar.

Can someone from tagdiv explain how to fix this?

https://imgur.com/a/MOEhhHy

Yeah, I got same problem in Category view.

Cmon tagdiv team..

The only problem we have observed so far is social share icons are not displayed on mobile and AMP pages.

OK. Deactivated supercache, social counter, speed booster
after that enabled and it helped a bit

EDIT – Yeah, for 10.3.9.1…
for 10.4 nothing helps

• This reply was modified 5 years by tominjsh.

Looks like VC composer is creating some problems. Disabled and now everything looks +/- fine

Problems with sharing buttons here too

upgraded to 10.4 and everything worked. Loading was also improved better with the CSS selector. Unfortunately I had to go back to 10.391 because the AMP pages were giving so many errors. Having had to install the WP AMP PLUGIN together with the MOBILE (before I only had the second to travel light and it worked very well) the graphics had changed and the pages had many errors. I tried to clear cache, plug in put and remove plugins but nothing changed. Even in the end the mobile PLUg had disappeared, despite the fact that from the plugin page it gave me activated there was no longer even the option in the theme panel : “MOBILE” disappear… . then new system with AMP with uglier graphics, anonymous, in a broken page and full of errors. I hope it settles soon because the new update was terrific as a loading improvement (from 15 to 55 mobile, from 60 to 96 desktops) doing nothing. Thank you

Same problem, waiting for restore now with fingers crossed

Can you please tell me how you reverted back?

Damn I was wrapping my head around the issues I’ve faced after the update. Thank god I’ve found this post, reverting to 10.3.9.1 fixed it for me.

Please test your updates before sending them live…

@amanda:
shure, it is easy:
in admin panel: newspaper > welcome > updates
below, where you see “newspaper time machine”
then you choose the version you are shure worked well
then “install version”

ps: it is possible to find very little differences from before update, but in few minutes you have same site of before

So the category bug has been fixed? We just need to reinstall tagDiv composer?

I reverted to the old theme as well. Far too many bugs right now and I don’t have time to fix all the issues.