1. Upload the new theme or the patch over your existing theme.
2. Please make sure to delete the /newspaper/wpbakery folder from after you update the theme.
3. Install the required pagebuilder plugin
Your instructions forgot step 2.1 in which the following occurs…
http://screencast.com/t/z7i9FL4drV2F
WTF? Tried all again and nothing. Whole site, front and back end, show these errors. Tried uploading the wpbakery folder from 3.6 again and all is fine, but I can find no composer plugin in the files, nor does a message for the required plugin show up anywhere on the site.
Could this be an issue of using the child theme????? Site broken on 3.7, complete failure.
try to delete the whole theme, upload it back and upload the plugin..it should work 🙂
Stand by on this. Seems FTP client is hung… Looks like it grabbed the 3.5 -> 3.6 update instead. Rebooting and checking settings and will update if that was the issue.
My fail. Please delete. No issue.
Hello. I have a question. My WP install shows I am using version x of Newspaper theme. I can’t find the patches to go from version x to 3.8. I realize I can reinstall everything, but there are quite a few customizations I don’t want to lose in the processing of updating.
What is the best approach to this in your opinion? It looks like you had similar issues.
Thanks.
Philip
Not exactly the kind of issue I had… I messed up.
For your problem, unfortunately, you must upload the whole theme fresh since you missed the patches – that’s the most sure-fire way to get it done.
If your customizations are in all in the Custom CSS tab of the theme panel, then they are safe in the database.
If your customizations are all in the child theme files then they are safe from a full install of the parent theme.
If your customizations are all in the parent theme then you have just a few choices and none are great.
1. Never update the theme again, which also means you can’t upgrade to WordPress 3.9 as 3.6 and below of the theme aren’t compatible with WP 3.9
2. Best Option – Move your customizations to the child theme and Custom CSS of the theme panel so you don’t lose them on future upgrades to the parent theme ( Here’s Newspaper child theme documentation – https://forum.tagdiv.com/child-theme-documentation/ )
3. Worst Option – copy all of your customizations to Newspaper 3.8, meaning you’ll have to do that with each update
4. You could go through all of the updates since version X to 3.8 compiling a complete list of modified files, but if you miss one your site will likely break ( 3.7 had a major change, see https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-v-3-7/ for instructions to convert the Visual Composer to a plugin )
Wish the news could be better. Good luck.
No problem. I appreciate your insight based on your own experiences. I am going to go the Child Theme route. Should have from the start, but neglected to put it in place from day one.
Thanks again.
Philip
It’s a pain but take your time to do it once and things are just much simpler from there. Don’t forget to activate the child theme.
