@Simion,

Just wanted to put it out there. If there’s a chance to make Newspaper more user-friendly, if you don’t ask, you’ll never get. Tell the designers thanks for making Newspaper such a great feature-rich theme. Hope to see the toggles in a future update!

Thanks,

Jerrad

I wish there was a way to allow me to add this modified file to my child theme. When I do, it doesn’t work. The only way it works is by modifying the file in the main theme which means I am going to have to remember to do this each time I update Newspaper. How about adding the option to toggle On/Off social networks for authors in the theme panel Social Networks tab? Just put the switches to the left of each network name.

Will do. Thanks

@Chris – Thanks and I agree it’s pretty easy to use if you know HTML, but I have a lot of authors on these websites whose minds would explode if I showed them this code they had to use every time they wanted to create an accordion. They have gotten pretty used to using the easy drag and drop tools of Visual Composer. Just click the button for the element and add in the content. The reason we went with Newspaper in the first place (over 3 years ago) was it had all these great drag and drop tools, was easy to use, and looked fantastic and professional. It was an easy sell to my school district to go with Newspaper.

Now it looks like I need to do research again on plugins and themes… hopefully just a plugin this time that will give me the functionality of adding accordions and tabs easily without the use of HTML and shortcodes PLUS+ work with TD Composer. I’ll share if I find something.

Totally understand you not wanting to make a copy of visual composer and be your own plugin, however it puts me in a difficult position to transition to TD Composer if I don’t have the ability to create accordions and tabs in the same manner.

Do you know of any compatible plugins that can give me those elements in combination with TD Composer?

That’s what I thought. Do you guys have any plans of adding CSS animations (such as bounceinup), accordions, and tabbed content to the elements selection in TD Composer? One of my websites has a lot of pages that use accordions and tabbed content elements.

Thanks Catalin. Just curious, what is the long term plan for Newspaper’s support with Visual Composer?

I updated one of my sites this morning and all my settings were still there.

Child themes don’t work this way and with good reason. Especially for the fact in how child themes work, you would essentially be loading the same theme twice which would make loading your site extremely slow. Let me explain what I’m talking about.

With a child theme, you still need to have the parent theme (Newspaper) installed on your website… just not activated. The child theme needs to be the active theme. With the child theme active, WordPress knows that Newspaper is the parent theme and to load it first when the visitor loads your site. The child theme loads second the altered theme files after the parent theme loads.

Many users only use functions.php and style.css files in their child theme to make changes to their site. If there are other changes needed for your site that can’t be accomplished using these two files, then you need to find the file in the parent theme that needs editing, COPY it to your child theme folder (put it in the same location where it is in the parent theme… create folders if you have to), make the necessary changes to the file using your favorite code editor, and then upload it to your site using FTP.

When Newspaper updates, you will want to use a program like Diffmerge to show you the differences between the updated parent theme files and the current version of your child theme files. That way if there’s anything profoundly different, you can update your child theme files accordingly to prevent breaking something on your site.

TagDiv has resources on how to use a child theme and has a starter child theme you can download, make changes, and upload to your site. Check them out.

I have an update… it’s not the whole section as I stated earlier.

When I comment out just line 398, the problem is fixed.
wp_enqueue_media();

I just figured out where the conflict is happening with Gravity Forms and Newspaper… which may also be in the same place for Newsmag!

Using Google Chrome Developer tools, I was able to trace back the error to the td_wp_booster_functions.php file where there’s some code for “css for wp-admin / backend”. It’s just this CSS code that seems to be causing the issue because I tried commenting out the javascript section and it didn’t help.

When I commented out the lines 382-399 and uploaded the file to the server, I was able to use all the tools on the Gravity Form pages which I wasn’t able to before. Of course now that I have done this, the Newspaper settings pages are not styled correctly and are completely non-functional.

Which wp-admin pages does this CSS script need to load besides the Newspaper/Newsmag admin pages = Welcome, Plugins, Install Demos, Support, System Status, and Theme Panel? Is it needed on post type edit screens? Is there a way to modify the code below to make it work on the required pages and not load on other plugin settings?

add_action('admin_enqueue_scripts', 'load_wp_admin_css');
function load_wp_admin_css() {
//load the panel font in wp-admin
$td_protocol = is_ssl() ? 'https' : 'http';
wp_enqueue_style('google-font-ubuntu', $td_protocol . '://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Ubuntu:300,400,500,700,300italic,400italic,500italic,700italic&subset=latin,cyrillic-ext,greek-ext,greek,latin-ext,cyrillic'); //used on content
if (TD_DEPLOY_MODE == 'dev') {
wp_enqueue_style('td-wp-admin-td-panel-2', td_global::$get_template_directory_uri . '/td_less_style.css.php?part=wp-admin.css', false, TD_THEME_VERSION, 'all' );
} else {
wp_enqueue_style('td-wp-admin-td-panel-2', td_global::$get_template_directory_uri . '/includes/wp_booster/wp-admin/css/wp-admin.css', false, TD_THEME_VERSION, 'all' );
}

// load the media library - necessary for block widgets with image params
wp_enqueue_media();
}

Thanks,

Jerrad

I decided to deactivate the Mobile Theme plugin. It was preventing our custom content that we designed using VC to not display on phones. Sorry to open the can of worms for nothing.

Thanks – Jerrad

When I don’t have the Mobile Theme plugin activated, my stylings and logo appear on the wp-login.php page for all devices including phones.

When the plugin is activated, it goes back to being the WP default wp-login.php page for phones only. Tablets and desktops see my custom login page.

@gh03083 I am interested in your solution too. I need to get this plugin working on my site as well. Thanks

I’m getting the same errors in my PHP Error Log but the only differences are I’m using PHP 5.6.9 and I had the default post template set to Style 8. As you can see below, my default template (single_template_8.php) is listed just as lethow’s default template (single.php) is listed in their code.

WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near 'WHERE AND comment_parent IN (3158,3159,3160,3164,3165,3178,3179,3183,3184,3190,' at line 1 for query SELECT wp_comments.comment_ID, wp_comments.comment_parent WHERE AND comment_parent IN (3158,3159,3160,3164,3165,3178,3179,3183,3184,3190,3224,3292,3323,3334,3383,3409) ORDER BY comment_date_gmt ASC, comment_ID ASC made by require('wp-blog-header.php'), require_once('wp-includes/template-loader.php'), include('/themes/Newspaper/single_template_8.php'), comments_template, WP_Comment_Query->__construct, WP_Comment_Query->query, WP_Comment_Query->get_comments, WP_Comment_Query->fill_descendants

I was struggling trying to use this too, but found a workaround which is mentioned on the plugins FAQ page.

All you have to do is change your theme to one of the WordPress default themes, go to your Menus settings panel and configure the menu items you want members only and/or by role, save the menu, and then go back to your Themes settings and reactivate the TagDiv theme.

It’s a pain to have to do it this way but it works!

I just sent an email to contact@tagdiv.com giving you information on how to view my website.

Thanks – Jerrad

Andrei,

Where are you located exactly? We have some countries blocked to our server so you may be getting redirected due to our security settings.

In the meantime, I’ll try your recommendation during the evening hours and see if I’m able to narrow down what’s going on. I’ll report back soon with what I find.

Thanks,

Jerrad