I have updated both the newspaper theme and visual composer plugin and still no luck. Please help me find a solution. I am in the process of selling the site.

Hello Chris,
I bought this theme because it appeared to be an out-of-the-box solution that is well supported. Your answer does not take the matter forward for me. Please note that I am not a developer.

I am changing themes from Elegant Themes Lucid to Newspaper.

I have read your docs – watched the video – and then done this again and again. Here’s what your docs say:

– If you want to use a demo, install it and that’s it. There is no information about setting the home page etc.
– If you want to design your own page (Page Settings > Homepage – How to build and set it) – Create a home page – design a page – set the page. This is not what I want to do.

In WordPress I have a pre-existing page named “Home” with the content below in the editor. This content does not change when I switch to Newspaper with the Newspaper demo (without content) installed:

“et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=”Sidebar” orientation=”right” area=”sidebar-1″ background_layout=”light” remove_border=”off” /][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_blog admin_label=”Blog” fullwidth=”on” include_categories=”229,14,18,25,19,26,27,28,29,30,31,65,32,13,1,103″ show_thumbnail=”on” show_content=”off” show_more=”off” show_author=”on” show_date=”on” show_categories=”on” show_pagination=”on” offset_number=”0″ background_layout=”light” use_dropshadow=”off” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” /][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=”Sidebar” orientation=”left” area=”sidebar-1″ background_layout=”light” remove_border=”off” /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]”

This looks like Lucid code to me and installation of the demo should override this content, but I’m not sure if this is how it works.

What is the best solution? Can I create a second page? If so what should I call it and how do I get the correct code for it?

I am working on the live site, not in a production environment. I need to keep my site running on the old theme while I make changes to content that doesn’t work with the new theme.

I have three sites to change over and would like to move ahead as soon as possible.

Thank you in advance

Update: The problem appears to be coming from my home page settings in Settings > Reading > Front page displays – “latest posts” is selected. What should it be set to?