No, I did not and thanks for asking. I decided to stay on Newsletter v7.8 and Visual Composer v5.2.1 for the time being. Traffic and Google Adsense revenue are back to normal and better than ever.

Eventually, I will try one more time to upgrade to v8.x (probably after the next release), except this time I will rebuild my pages using the new tagDiv Composer and see what happens. Not rebuilding my pages using the new composer and upgrading to v8 may have created the problem. I’m hosting of Flywheel, so I can install the upgrade and rebuild the pages in a staging environment and push it out to production when I’m done.

If I encounter another downturn in traffic and Adsense revenue after upgrading a second time to v8.x, I’ll just roll back to v7.8 again and start looking for a new WordPress theme. Theme upgrades should be relatively seamless and should not result in performance degradation. I will post a follow-up after I upgrade.

Hi Simion C,

Thank you for getting back to me. I thought the drop in traffic may have been temporary as well, but after 10 days I had no choice but to roll back to v7. This is a serious issue for me because it impacted not only traffic, but revenue as well. I lost money on Adsense and from affiliates that I will never be able to recover.

I reviewed all of the material you sent and we did everything by the book. Google Analytics code was fine, page speed was great, and the only other change was installing version 8. The only thing we didn’t do was implement your new tagDiv Composer because I don’t have time to rebuild all my pages.

I do need to get Text Block editing working again so I can update content, so I need your help. Let me know what additional information you need.

Thanks,

John

Hey guys, I appreciate your interest, but unless you have had first hand experience with this exact issue, and specifically with v8, please let the tagdiv support team respond to this issue. I have a backup copy of the version I deployed and I’m available to assist tagDiv in troubleshooting the problem. I have since rolled back to version 7.8.