Well, useful to download the zip files from your themeforest account, view on hard drive by opening the zip… then upload the version via FTP.

Version I downloaded has the updated style sheet. Also where I got the changelog info 😉

There is no activation key. It’s ‘bundled’ version which works with the theme. You don’t need to “activate” it other than turning it on from the plugin page. You don’t have a separate license for the plugin, in other words.

There is updated version of visual composer included with today’s theme update. 🙂

If you look at the style.css file it does say v 6.7

Obviously you need to clear your cache prior to upload, then clear cache after update in both site/cdn (as applicable) and browser.

You can often “over-write” in place, however this can sometimes lead to confusion if there are files removed and no longer used. Deleting old folder and upload new one is best practice, and that’s how WP does it when installing its own content.

Up to you – if it WORKS for you, then keep doing it. If not, do it the clean (proper?) way of deleting old folder(s), upload new ones.

Often you can do this in place without changing to Twenty Sixteen first if your transients work properly, as if done quickly, you’re hiding the update from WP while you do it. Then when you login it automagically is loading the new files (transients are mini-caches).

Good luck all!

You need to install just the newsmag theme folder, not the “all files” zip.
Best to LOOK inside the zip folder you download before trying to install on server.

From the /plugins/ folder from the themeforest zip file download … at least that is how I do it.

You shouldn’t, but good to make backup of that stuff anyway. 🙂

I always update theme via FTP which seems to work better. Remember to update plugins, too. Most of that can’t be done from WP panel.

Heh. I just posted on the update thread about that — I never use it as there is often a weird permissions error based on who “owns” the folders, such as Apache or FTP user. So, I only use FTP myself. Best “safe” way to do it.

I never use the Envato Toolkit as it can have issues with ownership permissions. I personally always always update via FTP as it also allows me to grab the entire site for download as extra backup sans dbase. So, I’m no help on that one, sorry!

Be sure to update the plugins included with theme, with any theme update.

How to update: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/

From the changelog – not certain if up to date or not:

Newspaper theme
Here is a list of all the changes between v 6.6.5 and v 6.7

Modified files – 12 files
page-pagebuilder-title.php
page.php
style.css
includes\td_config.php
includes\plugins\js_composer.zip
includes\shortcodes\td_block_authors.php
includes\wp_booster\td_global.php
includes\wp_booster\td_wp_booster_functions.php
includes\wp_booster\wp-admin\panel\views\td_panel_categories.php
includes\wp_booster\wp-admin\panel\td_view_theme_plugins.php
js\tagdiv_theme.js
js\tagdiv_theme.min.js

Deleted files – 1 files
includes\plugins\revslider.zip

=================

[ Version 6.7 ]
– new: Visual Composer plugin updated to the latest version 4.11
– new: Revolution Slider plugin updated to the latest version 5.2.2
– fix: Theme Panel fixed the structure for categories that have multiple branches(subcategories with their own subcategories)
– fix: Visual Composer 4.10 – Video Player resize problem for aspect ratio 4:3 and 2.35:1
– fix: removed some old Visual Composer detection code from td_wp_booster_functions.php, it was causing an error in certain cases
– fix: improved the Visual Composer detection code inside the default page template file, it was triggered when the shortcodes didn’t have unique names(ex. Woocommerce shortcodes)
– improvement: Authors box widget/block – added user roles option, now you can set it to display only the desired role(s) – https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
– other: to keep the theme size under 8MB we removed the Revolution Slider install from the Newspaper->Plugins section. You have to install it manually – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-install-revolution-slider-v5/
– other: removed unused code from “page-pagebuilder-title.php” template file

[ Version 6.6.5 ]
– fix: WooCommerce 2.5 compatibility + various styling issues
– improvement: Visual Composer plugin updated to the latest version
– improvement: Revolution slider updated to the latest version
– improvement: theme panel status now shows the loaded demo information
– improvement: footer logo title and alt attribute is now configurable from the theme panel
– improvement: faster servers that serve the files for the one click demos

==========
“no way to know ….” ? seems like some info was included in the download, at least my copy. ?

Theme has always shown the views in the admin panel for WordPress when looking at the list of posts, when the counter is turned on from theme panel. Since version 1.0.

There is a hook to disable showing the view counts in the admin panel, but leave the counters visible on the actual posts, but I don’t recall what it is. You could search if you want, and/or wait for TagDiv to reply.

Just heads up it’s “normal” to see the views, and always has been, in the WordPress panel. You can “hide visibility” from the visibility toggle, and some user role plugins allow you to hide that from the plugin that sets what is visible per role (e.g., admin = yes, editor = no).

Obviously trying to make it so we end up with

amp views = 50
desktop / mobile responsive views = 150

(*)eyeball = 200

using same count function without javascript so we don’t end up with 2 diff data fields, but ONE counter being called depending on the CSS template loaded (normal or amp).

Or, would we want to just make a new function like AMP_counter and put in functions file, which calls all the update_post_views stuff,

then do something like

do_action( 'amp_post_template_head', 'process_AMP_counter' );

Anyway … need help when you have the time 🙂

would something like this work ?

do_action( 'amp_post_template_head', 'process_post_view_counter_key' );

do_action( 'amp_post_template_head', 'process_update_page_views' );

something like that ?

FYI

Support Hours (GMT+2)

Monday – Friday:
8:00 AM – 17:00 PM

I think you need to contact them at > contact@tagdiv.com
include link to this thread and also your purchase ID/ license ID.

(( I don’t work here. Just long time user across a large news network in the U.S. ))

As with most themes, always best to use modern HTML to simply create a table, basic CSS3/HTML5 code.

Best to avoid funky shortcodes or plugins that create arbitrary styles as they won’t move to future themes/content layouts.

I usually use a table class of ‘table’ which is also used with bootstrap and most/many themes have some default style for that

e.g.,

<table class="table">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Month</th>
<th>Savings</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<td>Sum</td>
<td>$180</td>
</tr>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>January</td>
<td>$100</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>February</td>
<td>$80</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

I don’t work here, but that’s how we do it on our sites 🙂

Basically create a strategy of the images thumbs you will actually need based on the block sizes actually used, plan to perhaps use more of the same module/block than a whole bunch, then turn off all the image sizes for blocks you’re not using from the theme panel.

Also, trick we use here is making the two smaller sizes in the WP > admin > media the same as the most popular block sizes, which cuts two sizes out of the images also.

Upshot, if you have 5 thumbnail sizes used, you will get 5 thumbs made for each image uploaded.

Also, another trick we use here, for images ONLY placed inside of posts, we just FTP them to our media folder, and then just load them by name in the HTML of the post. 🙂

You’ll probably recognize my little photo being a pest in the FB group once the tech rolls out… I seem to be a “bug magnet” with this stuff, as with the AMP roll out 😉

Use the beta plugin from Automattic, much like the AMP plugin as best solution.

Since these are “edge” technologies, it’s not practical for theme developers to hack themes on weekly basis as the respective tech rolls out.

Using a plugin that is agnostic is really best solution and Automattic is on the front of everybody with this stuff since they go to the dev conferences and have a more direct relationship with FB than theme devs do, and they have the big money clients like TIME on WP VIP.

And of course ‘register your interest’ with FB so they will inform you when it’s rolled out, including joining the FB group for the tech, per their guidelines/docs/confirmation email.

TagDiv support should be back by evening/morning to check your issue if you have not solved it by then 🙂

Well, again – likely good to disable all the extra plugins other than those which came with theme, and check your htaccess file for hacks, and figure out why your site is loading jquery from somebody else’s website which has nothing to do with the theme.

View your page source once you do that to see if the jqery properly loading from Google … only you can debug what you’ve done that is causing your problem.

If 10,000 sites running TagDiv themes don’t have this issue and you do, not really a bug in the theme.

Best of luck !

Too true 😉

Theme doesn’t load jquery from the site you’re linking to, it loads it enqueued as part of the theme and is loaded from WordPress install as part of WP or from Google CDN…

so, if modernmettalurgical is not your site, then you either got hacked or you mis-installed your theme somehow.

Meaning if your site is xingato.com, then jqery should load from
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js'></script>

So, not sure how you got jquery to load from somewhere else unless you changed it ?

Why are you loading stuff off modernmetallurgical if that’s not your site ? If you copied the theme from somebody or if it’s a pirate version that might be the cause. Was unable to view source on a demo page which is also not normal.

Check the page source for the theme demo to see where jquery should be loading from.

So, man, I guess I misunderstand what the hell you have going on over there.

TagDiv will likely follow up but looks like you don’t have your site configured properly and you may wish to do a clean install from proper download from ThemeForest account, and disable some of the wonky things you have running like sandboxed iframe, hiding page source, etc., that are not needed (you realize anybody can just capture the code loaded into browser which bypasses turning off the view source function, right?

Anyway, I don’t work here, so sorry for butting in. 🙂