Kitt
I was looking to do this also.

Did you try the provided hack provided by Lucian, starting by editing the style 7 file?

http://screencast.com/t/EkldU6NPgqN

You have to edit the file per his example by moving the block of code to the desired location in the appropriate file for style 7; there is no theme setting to do what you want.

Would love to see how that works for your site?

Weird.
The version of the theme I downloaded from ThemeForest on Dec. 19, has version 4.3.5 of the js_composer file

AH HA!!!

the version in here was v 4.3.5
Newspaper-tf/plugins/js_composer.zip

while the version in here was v 4.3.4
Newspaper/includes/plugins/js_composer.zip

so, some folks were not entirely crazy.

Are comments also enabled in the WordPress settings under discussion?

Try using the theme with just the Visual Composer working alone; turn off *all* other plugins.
Then try turning on WooCommerce.

See bottom of the docs:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/menus-newsmag/

You need to create a page first; then enter the page ID when creating the menu items.

Obviously they should make a video on how to do this 🙂

This is the custom CSS I’ve been using for blockquote on our sites going back quite some time with Newspaper and now with Newsmag:

blockquote p { font-size:20px !important; line-height:26px !important; text-align: left !important; padding-left:20px;}

You need to install the latest Visual Composer version bundled with the theme. This was the purpose of the minor update for the theme which came a day or two after 4.1 was released.

See the site docs right side of page on how to update Visual Composer. Lots of other great help for the theme, too.

You need to use a tool like Yoast WordPress SEO or XML Sitemap Generator to create an XML sitemap. I know of no WordPress theme which has a built-in XML sitemap generator, nor does this theme. Some themes can build an “on page” sitemap, but this is unwieldly for a magazine site as there is no point in having a single page with potentially thousands of links. A non XML sitemap was useful before the XML sitemap era, but now this is done with XML sitemap. So, either XML Sitemap Generator plugin, or Yoast WordPress SEO plugin would work.

The Yoast WordPress SEO plugin is “recommended” if you wish to do proper SEO including control of META tags, OG tags, Twitter Card elements, custom titles and meta descriptions for archive pages, etc., *and* setup and submit XML sitemaps to your Google Webmaster account.

Why not install it and try it? (Yoast SEO). You can always uninstall it without hurting anything.

wordpress seo by yoast best way to do seo with theme.

As with all normal wp themes, posts are for articles and pages are for info pages like about, privacy, etc.

This is also how the demo is setup.

No worries. We’ve all done that at some point 😉

Look at the theme docs, right side of the page.
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/

Great place to start to learn using this theme.

Bottom of theme panel – import stacks.

See link to theme docs on right side of this page.

@Stefan
likely good idea to open new thread vs opening old one.

Best place to find BBpress support is on the BBpress site/forum, as BBpress is designed to work with all themes, and so the compatibility with WP 4.1 is likely due to BBP needing update:

See – https://bbpress.org/forums/

Themes
bbPress 2.x plugin for WordPress has built-in theme support. All required elements such as front-end editing are included. This means that all functionality will work, even when a theme has no specific bbPress templates or code included with it. To get started customizing bbPress see Theme Compatibility.

Theme Compatibility

Codex Home → Theme Compatibility

bbPress 2.x has built-in theme support. All required elements such as front-end editing are included. This means that all functionality will work, even when a theme has no specific bbPress templates or code included with it.

All bbPress compat can be overridden using a theme or another plugin. Check bbp-theme-compat template wrappers for what a normal theme should include.

To customize bbPress:
The directory “wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/” contains the directories “bbpress”, “css”, “extras”, and “js”, and the file “bbpress-functions.php”.
•The “bbpress” directory contains template parts. Copy any of them into a directory named “bbpress” in your themes root, so it looks like: /wp-content/themes/%your-theme%/bbpress/
•The “extras” directory contains optional root level page templates, to make life a little easier when customizing; copy any you want to use or modify into the root of your theme. eg. /wp-content/themes/%your-theme%/
•The “css” directory contains style sheets that work with the default markup. Copy any you want to modify into a directory named “css” in your theme’s root. eg. /wp-content/themes/%your-theme%/css/
•Basically, you could copy the entire ‘bbpress’ and ‘css’ directories out of bbPress’s default template directory, and into your theme, and bbPress will use the ones located inside your theme instead. Pretty neat, eh?

Read the PageSpeed topic for more information on all my suggestions for optimizing the theme. Try viewing back to front to find most recent posts in that thread. You might also be able to search by “image optimization.”

add_filter( 'jpeg_quality', create_function( '', 'return 50;' ) );

Translations info from theme docs:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/translation/

WordPress Codex:
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language

I found using the method of changing the compression level in the fuctions.php file works best.

Latest bundled version is in the plugins folder when you download theme from Themeforest.

19.12.2014 – ver 4.3.5
– Compatibility with WP 4.1

Been there! 🙂

Happy Holidays!

🙂

Admittedly, I don’t use Revolution Slider with WordPress myself due to these various issues. We do use the HTML version (not running on WordPress) for our main business site, but it doesn’t have the various problems of the php/WP plugin version.

Still, lots of people using it with the theme without any issues, but you know how it goes, not everything works the same for every setup.

I’ve also posted in both forums on various occasions the situation with Revolution Slider vulnerabilities, so it’s not “news” at this point:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/revolution-slider-hacking-info-2/

The version of Revolution Slider included with NEWSMAG 1.3 is: Version 4.6.5 SkyWood (02nd December 2014)

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Try turning off all plugins except visual composer.

Did you clear all site/CDN caching, and web browser cache?

You can also try my “migrating from newsmag to newspaper” sticky topic for updating theme, as this also works for moving to the theme first time 🙂

Yes. You can ignore that.

1) the version included with theme is bundled version – please see the site docs which are super useful in understanding how to use this theme: (see link right side of this page!)
https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/

2) the version included with theme may not be the exact latest version, and so there may be times when you see a note that new version is available; however you cannot update as you don’t have a separate license, but a bundled license which is updated with each theme update. The bundled version does not need license, but is only updated with theme as it must be tested for compatibility with the theme custom functions and some custom modules.

UPSHOT: You can ignore the note about needing an update — you don’t have to update, it’s just telling you there is one.

The latest version for the theme, is found as part of the theme download on Theme Forest in the plugins folder for the theme.

(NOTE: TagDiv have tried to included code which stops the “nag” from appearing, but it doesn’t seem to always work, hence why you might or might not see notice about “update available.” But, see the theme docs!)

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Full desktop works on “mobile” tablets, like iPad.
It would be illegible on a phone.

This is how responsive design works; you typically have three sets of breakpoints for desktop, tablet, and phone.

You can modify those by editing the style.css file, remove elements, etc.

So, you could experiment with that to get what you want, but this is a responsive theme, designed to provide the best experience on mobile phones of only showing a single column for better PageSpeed and ease of use for phone users. The iPad/tablet view shows the full site, just condensed in width.

You can manually upload via FTP to the proper folder, and insert URL on the logo page and then press Save.

You can also upload via the media manager, then choose that image(s) from the set logo page in theme panel.

The theme cannot replace one image with another randomly. So, you may want to check your site/system setup, and make sure the image you’re uploading has a unique name. If you upload an image with existing name, WordPress will often rename it -2 or -3 etc. to not over-write existing image, and then the existing image with same name would load. e.g., “logo.jpg” would not be wise naming choice. Usually something like My-Site-Name-300×90.png would be advisable.

Just as FYI, you should delete *all* optional plugin you don’t use for *any/all* WordPress site(s). And don’t activate ANY plugins you don’t actually use (e.g., Jetpack, or Rev Slider – which had a notable security flaw prior to Spring 2014, but is *not* an issue with the version included with Newsmag!). Also evaluate “recommended” “suggested” and “required” as distinct different meanings with plugins that come bundled with themes.

Revolution Slider is a great plugin, used by all kinds of famous and large websites, as well as many WordPress sites. For some themes, it’s as popular as Visual Composer, as it’s one of the top such plugins to do fly-in words and slogans (which show up as SEO text on a home page, on top of images) and things that used to be done with FLASH; so it’s not “bad” inherently, but like all plugins has some caveats that one needs to keep up on and consider possible performance issues. It’s more commonly used with a business, ecommerce or corporate layout and not so much a magazine site. But, of course, not everybody who buys a magazine theme wants to actually do a magazine.

Yoast WordPress SEO has had some bugs from time to time. WordPress core has had major security flaws (one of our sites and Al Gore’s website got hacked the same day, back in the day before Automattic got “big” and became more security fanatical); technically WordPress 3.9x was hackable under certain circumstances.

But, I’ll take WP over Drupal any day of the week. I still chuckle when the folks who were making Drupal made such a big deal about open source, better than WordPress, we’ll change the world, etc., and then the “get Firefox” website running on Drupal was famously hacked and defaced. “Oh yeah, we should consider security, too.” … um, duh!

So, good idea to keep up to date on what is going on with plugins. Some are just maintenance releases (e.g., Visual Composer does update because everybody wants a module with blah + blah; doesn’t NEED to be installed). Some updates fix flaws or because a WP update BREAKS the pugin/theme/other plugins in some way (e.g., WP 4.1).

With WordPress – full dot revisions (3.9, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2) bring changes you should double check for plugin compatibility before commit. WP minor dot revisions almost always should be done (e.g., 4.01, 4.02, etc.) as these often have security patches and fixes, and this is easy to look at from the WordPress.org site on WHAT was updated.

Sorry, didn’t mean to get on a soapbox on Christmas morning. 🙂

Happy Holidays to all! 🙂

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