Matt Pramschufer To change the color of the text you can do the following
.td-author-page {
color: #fff;
}
I am not sure of changing the “No posts to display” text as there is no filter for that you would have to update the page template.
Matt Pramschufer Hey artprojectgroup,
I too ran into the same issue with the latest version of WP Bakery. What I had to do was uninstall WP Bakery and use the one that is included with latest Newspaper Theme in /code/plugins/js_composer.zip once I did that and refreshed the page, I was able to edit blocks once again.
Matt Pramschufer I would check your Child Theme header in the functions.php I did the same thing but I was using an older child theme and it was throwing errors.
Matt Pramschufer .sf-menu > li > a {
padding: 0 10px;
}
You can add that to your live CSS, you can change the 10pm to something smaller if you would like. An no, I do not know anyone that works with Google Designer.
Matt Pramschufer Vlad,
This is another example of you not even reading the support question. He is asking how to speed up the Admin Area TagDiv Composer, NOT the actual frontend of the site. Suggesting him to measure his page speed and follow some generic tips is a waste of his time.
Byzmo,
First thing I would do is try to disable all plugins to make sure there isn’t another plugin causing the slowdown. If there is not, another item I would look at is your current hosting plan. I would try to increase the memory allocated to wordpress admin take a look at https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP you can add a define( 'WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT', '512M' ); to your wp-config.php and see if that helps. And finally, since TD Composer is all javascript, another thing would be to check your browser extensions or to try a different browser to see if that increases your speed at all.
Matt Pramschufer Hey there, let me know your URL of your site and I can send you the snippet of CSS to add to your theme to reduce the spacing. TagDiv support has gone down hill drastically. I too have spent hundreds with TagDiv and have over 30 clients using the Newspaper theme. With their latest version of the TD Composer plugin were nothing can be overwritten, due to poor decisions made by their developers, and their sheer lack of support, I am looking at alternatives as well.
Matt Pramschufer Actually I fixed this issue myself by adding the following to the CSS
// Fix for Galleries
.td-doubleSlider-1 .td-slide-item .td-slide-galery-figure img {
width: auto;
height: 100%;
}
Matt Pramschufer That setting is already off.
Matt Pramschufer Hey Vlad,
I JUST uploaded those gallery images, the theme was already active when I uploaded the new gallery images. Regenerating thumbnails only helps if you just switched themes or something along those lines.
Matt Pramschufer In case anyone stumbles onto this… There is no way to customize without risking changes being overwritten when TD pushes updates.
Catalin L. May 8, 2019 at 7:54 am
Hi,
Most of the theme files were moved into the tagDiv Composer plugin as per the requirements of Envato: https://help.author.envato.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000472383-WordPress-Theme-Requirements, as we wrote an article on that subject. In the future, if you need to make some changes over those core files, you need to check the files from here -> https://www.screencast.com/t/Pu345nqP If you need more assistance in this case, please open a new topic at our support forum from here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/forum/newspaper/
Thank you!
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AvatarMatt Pramschufer May 9, 2019 at 3:39 pm
So does this mean that you have to edit the core plugin files directly!? I have made changes to the footer and various part of site through child theme template customizations, how are these suppose to be added now without editing the core plugin files?
Example. I have a child theme and have
childtheme/parts/footer/td_footer_template_14.php
I have added an above footer widget area to this file, and now this is gone. How would I re-add this functionality?
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Catalin L.Catalin L. May 10, 2019 at 7:36 am
Hi,
Most of the theme files were moved into the tagDiv composer plugin as per the requirements of Envato: https://help.author.envato.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000472383-WordPress-Theme-Requirements.
We wrote an article on the subject here: https://tagdiv.com/updating-the-core-of-tagdiv-themes/
Moving forward with such requirements, a child theme will only work with functions.php, and style.css, as there are very few files left in the main theme as Envato, requires all functionality to be added through plugins. From now on, if you want to make some changes over the footer theme templates, you need to edit the code from here -> https://www.screencast.com/t/RqUdpKc8 Also, if you need more assistance in this case, please open a new topic at our support forum from here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/forum/newspaper/
Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for understanding!
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AvatarMatt Pramschufer May 13, 2019 at 4:59 pm
That does not help at all. What happens when you update the TD Composer plugin? All of the updates that were done to those would be replaced.
This is NOT going to work for continuous development using the Newspaper theme.
There are ways to incorporate locate_template() within a plugin so that you can still maintain the functionality of overriding core templates.
This is not an inconvenience this is a DEAL BREAKER for utilizing this theme going forward with new clients, the flexibility and customization of this theme just went from 90% down to 0%.
Catalin L.Catalin L. May 14, 2019 at 7:53 am
Hi,
The Newspaper theme update brings a change for the customers that use WP Bakery Page Builder with our Theme: when you’ll be updating to the Newspaper 9.7.2 version, you’ll need to activate the tagDiv Composer to keep the Newspaper theme functionality you’ve previously used. Otherwise, you will have basic WordPress functionality, complying with Envato WordPress Requirements – https://help.author.envato.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000472383-WordPress-Theme-Requirements.
Please note that activating the tagDiv Composer doesn’t mean that you are required to use our custom page builder on your website. You can use the WP Bakery page builder as you did before the update. We recommended you to do not use the tagDiv Composer and WP Bakery page builders on the same page though, because you cannot edit with WP Baker blocks and shortcodes created with tagDiv Composer or vice-versa. Regarding your customizations, if you have made and have affected some of the theme core files when you will make the theme update, all of these files will be overwritten. You need to make a full backup and then, all these customizations should have to be implemented again to the core files.
Thank you!
AvatarMatt Pramschufer May 14, 2019 at 9:19 pm
Catalin,
Your response has nothing to do with the issue I proposed. I did not say anything about WP Bakery.
The theme has no hooks at all to implement customizations on a plugin level, and now the functionality of customizing page/post templates has been removed without introducing a new method to make those customizations.
Your answer of just “hack the core files” is absurd. You can not really believe that your customers are going to think this “cowboy coding” way is going to fly in 2019?
Is there someone on your development team or someone higher up that you could connect me to?
I have built out over 20 media publications using the Newspaper theme, all of which have customizations. If I make changes to the TD Composer plugin and you push out an update, it is only a matter of time before all of those customizations are lost.
Catalin L.Catalin L. May 15, 2019 at 8:12 am
Hi,
Sorry for the inconvenience! In your case, if this update will affect your websites, the best solution is to keep the old theme version (9.1) for them. This can be downloaded from here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/important-new-update-newspaper-9-7/ Please notice that we try doing our best and where we find a way for this case, we will make an update with this, sorry! At the moment, there is no such thing, sorry!
Thank you!
Matt Pramschufer If anyone stumbles onto this and you add code via a plugin you could use the following, as you need to fire the filter AFTER the theme has been done setting up. In my case below, I didn’t want to remove them all, I just wanted to display some of them.
/**
* Remove Extra Social Profile Fields.
*/
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'filter_contact_methods' );
function filter_contact_methods() {
add_filter( 'user_contactmethods', 'filter_tagdiv_social' );
}
function filter_tagdiv_social( $services ) {
$services = [
'mail-1' => 'Public Email Address',
'phone' => 'Phone Number',
'facebook' => 'Facebook',
'instagram' => 'Instagram',
'linkedin' => 'LinkedIn',
'twitter' => 'Twitter',
'youtube' => 'YouTube'
];
return $services;
}
Below is a list of the current extra_contact info that TD outputs
[behance] => Behance
[blogger] => Blogger
[dailymotion] => Dailymotion
[delicious] => Delicious
[deviantart] => Deviantart
[digg] => Digg
[dribbble] => Dribbble
[ebay] => Ebay
[evernote] => Evernote
[facebook] => Facebook
[flickr] => Flickr
[forrst] => Forrst
[googleplus] => Google+
[grooveshark] => Grooveshark
[instagram] => Instagram
[lastfm] => Lastfm
[linkedin] => Linkedin
[mail-1] => Mail
[myspace] => Myspace
[path] => Path
[paypal] => Paypal
[pinterest] => Pinterest
[reddit] => Reddit
[rss] => RSS
[share] => Share
[skype] => Skype
[soundcloud] => Soundcloud
[spotify] => Spotify
[stackoverflow] => Stackoverflow
[steam] => Steam
[stumbleupon] => StumbleUpon
[telegram] => Telegram
[tumblr] => Tumblr
[twitch] => Twitch
[twitter] => Twitter
[vimeo] => Vimeo
[vk] => VKontakte
[windows] => Windows
[wordpress] => WordPress
[yahoo] => Yahoo
[youtube] => Youtube
[xing] => Xing
Matt Pramschufer For anyone stumbling onto this post and actually looking for an answer, take a look at this quick plugin I created for this.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/pramadillo/newspaper-post-templates.zip
I was simply asking support if they could point me to any documentation on this, which IS a super easy task. It is basically
class newspaper_post_templates {
var $plugin_url = '';
var $plugin_path = '';
function __construct() {
$this->plugin_url = plugins_url('', __FILE__); // path used for elements like images, css, etc which are available on end user
$this->plugin_path = dirname(__FILE__); // used for internal (server side) files
add_action('td_global_after', array($this, 'hook_td_global_after')); // hook used to add or modify items via Api
}
function hook_td_global_after() {
td_api_single_template::add('biz_people',
array(
'file' => $this->plugin_path . '/biz_people.php',
'text' => 'BizPeople Template',
'img' => $this->plugin_url . '/biz_people.png',
'show_featured_image_on_all_pages' => false,
'bg_use_featured_image_as_background' => false,
'bg_disable_background' => true,
'bg_box_layout_config' => false
)
);
}
}
new newspaper_post_templates();
Matt Pramschufer Catalin,
You have a tutorial / help link for create a custom block, I am looking for something similar for a custom post template.
Matt Pramschufer Yeah, that article is only for using their Cloud Library Page Builder which doesn’t allow for custom fields. I am looking to be able to create a new post template which would be displayed in the meta box on the edit/create post screen which users can choose from.
Matt Pramschufer Anyone?
Matt Pramschufer Tsedaka,
I use Thrive Leads on a ton of sites which I use the Newspaper theme on. What seems to be the issue you are running into?
FYI. https://greenmagazine.com https://csdecisions.com are just two recent ones.
