@Catalin Thank you – I saw that minimum versions are not helpful. My host does not even offer PHP 7.2 yet. They do offer PHP 7.0.28 or 7.1.13.

What we need is to understand if Newspaper is compatible with PHP version 7 (yes ?) and more usefully which versions if that is possible. From what you have listed it looks like PHP 7.2 is compatible but I’m just checking because the requirements section was never updated and I would expect to see something (other than minimums) noted over there.

• This reply was modified 8 years by dialogcrm.

Hi @catalin Any chance you can update the requirements section for Newspaper over at https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/ ?.

Running Php 7.1.13 and it seems to work ok but I don’t want any surprises.

If you look at your images you will see this href=”#”

You need to add links where the # symbol is currently. WP Bakery Page Builder was replaced in version 8 of Newspaper.

I would use text view and drop those links in manually but it might be time to upgrade to a later version of the theme and get TD composer running. The principle will be the same.

I got a 500 error when I first tried. Upgraded memory from 40 to 64mb in wp.config that helped and I was also able to complete the upgrade to 8.7.

define( ‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’ );

With Server 500 errors it is also good to regenerate .htaccess file to make sure that is not causing an error. Do that by saving the permalinks again before you start the upgrade.

For the record I used CPanel upload and extract to do the upgrade. I used FTP and the Envato Market plugin previously but I think it was the memory config in my situation. 8.6 worked with 40mb and it looks like 8.7 needs 64Mb at least.

Check your security settings. Are the images on the same server or a remote one.

It was replaced by TD composer in version 8. See https://tagdiv.com/newspaper/ scroll down to Version 8.0

OK so 3 new plugins that I probably don’t want. The fix for PHP 7.2 that sounds good but I couldn’t find anything about other versions of PHP 7 in the requirements unless that has been updated very recently. Is there any chance that the demo section can be decoupled from the theme updates? It is a lot of extra space and just more code that could contain security errors. Once a site is up and running the demo’s are of little interest. Pretty please 🙂

• This reply was modified 8 years by dialogcrm. Reason: spelling error

Have a look at this link https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/no-one-at-tagdiv-should-be-sleeping-right-now-8-7-upgrade-a-night-mare/#post-217241

He says he has a copy of 8.6.

Ideally you should be able to download it from envato account.

Yes it does but that is not really a useful image. There has to be an easier way to add placeholders that won’t be over written. You are not answering the question here. The placeholder should be customisable much more easily.

If there are images there you can also use ‘Auto Post Thumbnail’ plugin to select the first one to be featured image.

@Simion C. If you replace any of the placeholder images surely these will be over written during a theme update. Yes we can use a child theme but it is a bit more complicated when you replace images in an existing path name. I’m guessing there is a way to do this by loading that image folder separately. Any tips please?