OK thanks. Actually I see the 7.3 version comments are closed, which is to say that’s the old version. So my fault.

Other comments still apply, accepting your points.

Thanks, I realise the data is always stored in the database, my question in that area is where in the database. I was worried that the post text would not be able to be referenced by other plugins, themes etc. So far it seems to work though.

What I really need is a decent tab plugin, which I haven’t managed to find, which would take someone elses shortcodes. I’ve found one that very very nearly does that, but it looks ugly. I have to say I’m surprised that your theme, which is so highly rated does not include such a basic capability. That said, this experience has created an extremely strong dislike for shortcodes with me, so I’m keen to never use them again. Or at least use something like Visual Composer that is somewhat theme agnostic. Using VC for posts and pages, probably means I barely need the tagdiv theme though, maybe I should have just left it as it was given I already own VC.

I guess this is the problem with pre-made themes, good generic capability, but not good for specific things, although this one is clearly quite basic.

I’m disappointed.

So the good news is that with a bit of work, I have now in Visual Composer a nice Post Page template, the way I want it, in dev (obviously bits of the site will be broken etc. You can see it at the link below.

Visual Composer list the front end editor as a major feature, but the terminology is highly confusing and I don’t think a front end editor is the same as editing a post with their editor. There are also custom post types referred to, which seem to be all preset, but I’m not sure.

The main concern I have, is doing it like this I don’t know where the data is stored and therefore what other things might break, what sort of design challenges this brings. I understand I have Visual Composer Support through this forum so could someone please ask the question, what is the recommended way to utilise post type templates with Visual Composer?

I’ll start a new thread to ask exactly that question.

http://dev.tech-knowhow.com/2017/01/set-roon-audio-bridge-picoreplayer-raspberry-pi-hifiberry-dac-pro/

Hi, I purchased your theme yesterday, I have been hunting around for this info since then having not realised I now have a shortcode migration issue. Apparently this is not uncommon and some themes now offer a migration script for shortcodes (apparently not yours).

I use tabs on my post pages (as seen here) now which is nice as it keeps everything above the fold (multimag theme) and makes the user experience a lot nicer than having long or paginated posts. What I REALLY want (for some time now) is a post template that ‘pre’ sets my post page format to include the tabs so that other writers don’t need to be stuffing around with page setups. Keeping a consistent look and feel is extremely important to the reader.

I will try enabling Visual composer on posts in my dev site to see if that works. So far though, it looks like I’m going to have the daunting task of updating each page manually, or pay someone to write a script, but have no idea where I’d even go for that.

I mention all this because there is clearly a market for migrating shortcodes and it seems the tagdiv team are not as advanced in this area as others. Maybe you can integrate something into your new Visual Composer replacement that handles this.