One of the biggest advantages of Newspaper are the many demos. That gives us, site creators the opportunity to change the look of our sites.
But there are some – I believe serious issues.
1. When I change the demo, all custom and non custom sidebars are gone. Only the default stays. And that is very annoying, specially for sites with thousands articles like mine. Do I have to check one by one the articles and find out which article is without sidebar? Because custom sidebars created previously are gone.
2. Same with menu. One has to create a new one.
3. Some wp categories are lost. For me, every time I change demo, video category ( to mention one ) is gone. That means Ill have to to go through about 1.000 articles and add to each one the category.
Otherwise, Newspaper I like a lot. Please let me know if there is a solution for me at this moment. Thank you
Hi,
1. The sidebar widgets should be moved in the inactive sidebar section
– https://www.screencast.com/t/leGAmP4U7la
Uninstalling a demo or installing a different one would be considered like changing the theme I believe. So all the sidebar widgets will be moved in the inactive section, by WordPress, not deleted. Then they have to be re-added in sidebars and the sidebars set again.
2. The menus are reset as well, menus you created won’t be deleted but you will have to set them again from the menu location management setting for example.
3. Only the categories the demo imported will be deleted, along with dummy posts, theme panel settings etc. Uninstalling a demo will remove everything the demo imported, including categories if you installed it with content. Categories you created won’t be removed.
There will be some work to be done when you switch demos, setting sidebars again, the menus etc. I can’t say if something can be done in this matter and stop this from happening.
Thanks
1. You are talking about sidebar widgets, but I’m referring to sidebars. For example, if I create a custom sidebar (regardless of how many widgets) this sidebar will be gone with the new theme. And this is a problem, as all posts related to that sidebar will be with no sidebar.
2. Regarding menus. I think the fact that I only added categories or links to your menus (e.g primary) is the reason for my problem. So I need to create a new one and give it a name. Mea Culpa!
Thanks a lot for your time and keep up the good work!
Hi,
1. The sidebars will be removed, the widgets will be moved in the inactive widgets section. The sidebars will have to be recreated and the inactive widgets inserted in them. Then set the sidebars in categories, posts etc.
Quite a lot of work when changing demos, only recreating all the sidebars and setting them all again could be very time consuming.
2. That will be the case, anything the demo imports will be removed when it is uninstalled. So the menu will be removed as well. Create new menus and set them.
Please let us know if you have more questions, or you need help with something.
Thanks
Hello,
I write here given that the subject is similar.
Today I tried to change the demo of our website (from College to Health), after the daily full backup of our hosting service.
A big issue and potentially unrestorable happened and I want to share here for the community too! I was fortunate at the end, but guys!
I have last version of Newspaper installed.
Here’s what I did:
1. uninstalled College demo
2. installed Health demo “with content”
3. cleared browser cookie/cache and refreshed the url
4. the website changed a lot and it had many box/areas of health in addition to the website content.
5. I decided then to restore the website with the full daily backup
6. cleaned browser cookie/cache and reloaded the url.
7. College demo loaded but with mixed content, the website is not the same anymore (!!!!!) Usually with a full backup in the past, I was able to restore layout errors to the functioning backup version, so this was unexpected.
8. I contacted my hosting company and they were surprised too!
9. From WordPress Area, the NEWSPAPER version seems INACTIVE, it asked to insert the activation code (!!!!) as shown here https://imgur.com/a/dCN4OCA. In addition, College demo DID NOT have the uninstall “button” available, so it seems that NO demo was installed (!).
10. they replied to do this: to move your files to another folder or delete them and then restore from the Backup Tool. After that, go to PhpMyAdmin and drop the tables of the database for your website there and restore the database from the same date from which the website files were restored.
11. I did not know how to do that and asked for their help. In the meantime, after around 1 hour from the last backup, suddenly, the website restored previously to the last version, without manual work of our hosting provider.
12. the message asking “please activate the theme” disappeared.
Anyway, hope there should be a safer way, in the future, to see how the website look with the new demo without these big issues.
I found there are big difference in loading time of some of your demos, but I don’t know if it can be trusted or not. I mean, if College has a 4.8 second loading time with Gtmetrix compared to 1.8s of Health, basically, Health demo is generally much faster of College or it depends by how the page is designed?
https://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper_college/
https://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper_health/
Thanks a lot for reading!
Hi,
We just made some checked and for everything seems to be god, may you have an isolate case, if you want, we can investigate it.
The theme actuation can be target when you uninstall a demo, this will remove all the settings from theme panel, including the licence key, but when you restore the backup, this should be set back.
Yes, the page speed depend on the page design and what it contain, also the most important part is the optimization of website.
Thank you for your understanding and sorry for the inconvenient!
