Hi,
I’m writing here because I implemented Newspapper for a client, and i’m having performance problems.
The official requirements for the theme states that Godaddy should handle 2000 daily visits. I’m using the most expensive of the shared hosting plans on Godaddy, the site has less than 7500 monthly visits and WP Super Chache is running, but the CPU can’t handle the traffic.
I installed the “Query Monitor” plugin to find the queries that are consuming resources, and it seems that the problem is in Visual Composer:
The site is: http://www.goldevestuario.com
Could you please help me understand why in my case the theme is having trouble dealing with so low traffic?
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Leonel Frattesi
Looks like the site is still using v4.6.3. It is at v6.5 now. Maybe updating it would help. Just a thought. Also, Visual Composer with that version is 4.7.4, which is better to fix a vulnerability in earlier versions. Check documentation on updating theme and Visual Composer.
Hi
I’ve checked your site and noticed that you’re using V 4.6.3 of Newspaper and V 4.4.4 of VC. We received some reports in the past regarding the high CPU usage with this version of VC. If you want to stay with this version try to downgrade the VC plugin at V 4.3.5 which require lower resources.
If you want to use the curen version of Visual Composer plugin available with the theme, then you need to update the theme to version 6.5.1 which has support for later versions of VC plugin and it’s also included within full theme’s package.
The current version of the Visual Composer included in theme’s package (4.7.4) has been tested and works fine. Also the plugin has passed through a major update, lots of security vulnerabilities have been fixed
If you decide to update please follow this guide: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ backup your current install, run the import settings script, update plugins and check the result. You can always get back to the previous working theme version if something goes wrong as long as you backup it but doing the update as instructed the theme should work fine.
You should also consider into the process at the following aspects:
– backup your current theme/WordPress/database: https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
– setup a maintenance mode and you can use a plugin for that.
– empty all caches/purge files if you also use CDN host then disable any services of this type until you switch to the new theme
– disable all plugins
– install the theme then install the required plugins
– switch back the rest of the plugins and start other services
Hope this help.
Thanks!
Thanks Andrei.
I followed the instructions and updated the theme, but I have found a problem:
All the pages that use Visual Composer are now showing all elements as “Text blocks”, with the shortcode inside. I send you a few screens so you can better understand what I mean:
Backend:
Frontend:
Thanks!
Hi
There are a few thing which must be considered when you update from V4 at V6 of Newspaper theme.
Newspaper 6 is practically a new theme, the whole code was rewritten so make sure you made a clean update, meaning that we recommend that you delete the old version of the theme before uploading the new one, more details can be found in our update guide: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ 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.
Hope this help.
Thanks!
