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We’re introducing the intuitive Right-Click Menu in the tagDiv Composer page builder. Gain full control of your site with a whole new range of options and a natural way to create pages, articles, and layouts. With Newspaper Theme version 9.1, you can open any page or template right on the frontend and access a set of commands to enhance your experience while designing your website.

Clear, Duplicate, Delete, Copy, Paste, Save as Element are just a few of the new functions available. These features significantly reduce your development time!

What is the Right-Click Menu?

For example, open up the tagDiv Composer on a page or a Cloud Library template. Now, right click on an element, row or column and inspect the new menu that shows up. Each option brings you new possibilities for design:

• The first three choices are the Copy and Paste tools. They allow you to duplicate rows, columns, elements and move them to different pages. Also, choose where to place the copied items: above or below.
• Copy Style and Paste Style help you move the adjustments made on a specific object to another one of the same type. Therefore, any adjustments to the text format, colors, overlays, paddings or margins can be transferred over with a single click.
• Reset Style instantaneously clears all alterations such as colors, fonts, margins, paddings, and so on. As a result, the section reverts to its default settings.
• Save as element allows you to keep any adjustments made to an object as a shortcode item. Hence, even if the browser gets closed, you can bring it back in a new page from the “Add Element” list. Locate it in tagDiv Composer then drag and drop it on the layout.
• Delete option instantly tosses your undesired item into the trash. This is much faster than dragging it to the bottom right of the page in the tagDiv Composer. Try it out!
• Duplicate makes a copy of any element and instantly places it below. Right now, you can not use it on columns.
• The Clear command performs a wipe of an entire section. It deletes everything except the row or column.

Here’s why you should use the Right-Click Menu

Take into account the amount of time spent each time you design a new page or template. Now estimate how much you would save up by using these new commands. Duplicating items can be done without copying the shortcodes anymore. Do it with a few clicks.

The Right-Click Menu is intuitive and allows you to earn more time to create new ideas. Erase multiple items through the use of Clear. Moreover, the delete option is right there for use, too.

No need to remember or write down the numbers assigned to the padding and margins anymore! Be consistent through the page and your website by copying the styles of elements.

How about a little test?

Add a new page from the Admin Dashboard. Now, open the page through the Newspaper Theme’s page builder, the tagDiv Composer. Drag a Flex Block 1 into the page and modify its appearance: text formatting, padding, margins, colors. Did you obtain the perfect look? Great!

Now, right-click on it to bring up the menu. Select the Save as element action and name it. The item is then stored as a shortcode in the tagDiv Composer library. Why not test it? Right-click the block you’ve just saved, and choose the delete option.

It’s gone! No worries though, just click the Add Element button and scroll down the list to the bottom. Your item appears under the name you’ve chosen for it. Drag it onto the page and notice that all of your settings and filters have been saved with it. If you log out and close the browser, the shortcode remains there. You can access it each time you need it from the tagDiv Composer page builder.

Keep in mind that this is just the tip of the iceberg. The new Right-Click Menu makes the creation of new layouts more straightforward than before, so keep on using it!

Think of the Right-Click Menu as an Asset

While designing, integrate the new update’s features into your workflow. Access the Right-Click Menu to make tasks, such as duplicating items, simpler and way faster. Newspaper Theme continues to improve its user interface to give you the best experience while building your website!

Stay tuned for further updates of the Newspaper Theme, and write us in the comment box below mentioning how the Right-Click Menu helped you! ✨

Have you ever struggled to get an exact section copied to another page? The tagDiv team has come up with a simple solution. The 9.1 update of the Newspaper Theme will bring you an entirely new list of commands by right-clicking in the tagDiv Composer page-builder. Two of these are the Copy and Paste tools.

Easily duplicate an element or section of your page. Move entire portions of the layout to different templates or pages, right on the front-end of your website. Say goodbye to the old fashioned way of copying items through the shortcodes and embrace the brand new feature for effortless results.

Access the new Copy and Paste tools

Open any page or template through the tagDiv Composer and right-click on a row, column or particular element. A new menu pops up with various options ready for you to use. The Copy and Paste tools are there, too!

How does it work? Once you select an element, a section, a row or column, you can copy and then paste it on a different page in a different tab, or on the same page. When you do, it gives you the option to place the content above or below the chosen spot.

By using the Copy and Paste tools, everything from links, text, images to the style of the item or section are duplicated. This includes any adjustments made to the element, such as colors, text formatting, paddings, and margins.

Uses for the Copy and Paste tools

Wondering what to do with these new commands? Here are some fun ideas for you to try out:

• Copy a row with all of its elements and navigate to a different page. On the front-end editing section, right click and then choose Paste Before or Paste After to place a copy below or above a different item.
• Use the tools to duplicate elements easily without having to drag and drop them again from the tagDiv Composer.
• If you have several templates imported from the Cloud Library, easily add the same section to each and assign them to different posts. You could easily have multiple Single Post Templates, each designed differently, yet with one consistent aspect: a row containing the author’s name, date, and social network links.
• Position the duplicated items above or below another item for your convenience and ease of access.

Details, details, details

Let’s start a more thorough explanation. Add a new page or Cloud template. Now, since this is a test, name the page whatever you want. Open the tagDiv Composer on it and add a Title for the page, and a Flex Block 1.

Modify the margins, padding, text formatting, add colors to the title, hide or show elements of the meta info, exactly like you desire. Moreover, remember you can always revert any changes with the undo button! Once you obtain the perfect layout, Save the settings. Now, let’s move the created row with all of its elements on a new page. Therefore, right click on the row and select Copy.

Navigate to a new page and choose where to add your row. This time, with the command menu opened, pick between Paste After or Paste Before. One choice places your copied row below a different element while the other above it. Don’t confuse it with the Duplicate option, since the copy and paste tools come with position functions and work between tabs.

You could also use the Copy and Paste tools for a consistent design across various pages. No need to drag and drop the same element multiple times on a page! Use the new menu to duplicate it.

Benefit from the Copy and Paste tools

Knowing how to take advantage of these two new features should increase your productivity while designing your website. So, reap the benefits with Newspaper Theme: multiply various elements on a page, choose to place them above or below different parts of the layout, move your content around faster than ever before!

If you’ve tested the new tools out, tell us of any new surprising advantages to using them in the comment box below! ?

When building and designing a new page, creating multiple elements with the same aspect may prove tedious. The Newspaper Theme v 9.1 helps you reduce the development time by cloning the appearance of a section with the brand new Copy and Paste Style features. It improves your workflow and gives you more time to focus on creating the content for your website.

What are Copy Style and Paste Style Features?

The new update of the Newspaper Theme brings a new and intuitive functionality. With the tagDiv Composer open, right click on any element on a page, and you should notice a string of new commands show up. Together with them are the Copy Style and Paste Style features.

The role of these two new options is to transfer the styling of a section to another in the blink of an eye. Hence, if you have a two, three, maybe even four buttons on a page, you can design one, copy the look and apply it to the others. It works with all elements of the same type, for example, two Posts Loops, Flex Blocks 1, Author boxes, and so on. Consequently, the title’s color gradient, the colors, the text formatting, the padding, margins, borders are all going to be copied to the other element you choose.

Why use Copy Style and Paste Style features?

There are many reasons to use these brand new functions, so why not give it a test and try them out:

• Having multiple elements that need a uniform look has never been easier! Reduce the time spent on designing with the new menu pop-up menu.
• No need to write down the padding, the text formatting, the hex number for colors that you’ve used on the same element to multiply it. The Copy Style feature does it for you!
• If you open different pages in different tabs, you can still transfer an element’s properties from one of the pages to the other. However, it has to be on the same domain, so if you have two sites using Newspaper, you can’t transfer the styling in-between the two for the same elements.
• Create different looks for each device in a more natural way with the new Copy Style and Paste Style features.

More in-depth

Update the Newspaper Theme to the 9.1 version so you can benefit from this feature (alongside many others in the Right-Click Menu). Now, open the tagDiv Composer on a blank page. Add a row and split it into 3 columns. Drag and drop an Author Box element and a button. Now customize your Author Box and make it appealing.

What about making the Author Photo bigger? Maybe change the photo radius, too. You can give the text a different color, modify the size, line-height, tracking, and font-family, too. If you make a mistake, use the undo button to go back to the previous design. Before you move on to do the same to the next two author boxes, right click on the altered one. Choose the Copy Style option. Now, open the menu on the non-modified author box and this time click Paste Style. That just transferred your adjustments, didn’t it? Awesome!

For the buttons, how about you give each button a URL, icon, and text? Now, start designing the first one. Button style, colors, gradients, hover colors, text formatting, create it the way you like. Done? Great! Right-click the newly adjusted element and select Copy Style option. Move your cursor to the second button and choose Paste Style. It’s that easy!

Results and opinions

Try these two new features right now! Remember, you can use them in-between tabs, too, as long as the pages are on the same domain. Now, it’s easy to maintain a consistent aspect for multiple elements with these impressive right-click features.

Test it out with the Newspaper Theme, and tell us how much time you’ve saved ⏳  by designing multiple sections in a row!

Finding the right, modern design for your WordPress website can be quite a challenging task, yet, with the new five Flex Blocks and the powerful Newspaper Theme, everything becomes easy. In traditional web design, blocks are used to display the posts and articles in a specific layout for the audience.

A Flex block, however, gives you a lot more room to personalize the content and control every detail of its appearance. Take a dip into how the new Flex blocks can make your site’s layout unique and more original.

Welcome to the New Flex Blocks

Browsing through the tagDiv Composer elements, you’ll find 5 Flex blocks available to use. With them, you can easily recreate all the past 25 blocks from the Newspaper theme but with more flexibility than ever before. Drag and drop a Flex block right where you want and play around with the settings.

Here are a few things you can change about the new Flex block:

• Choose the number of posts to display
• Filter the content you would like to show by Categories
• Modify the radius of the featured image of the article to create rounded corners or even perfect circles
• Select the desired font families for your excerpt, article title, meta info, or even the category tag.
• Adjust the padding and spacing of each element to obtain the ideal form for your Flex block
• Show or hide the category tag, author name, date, comment number or/and excerpt

Change everything about the Flex block easily within a few clicks. Take a look at the settings in the Layout tab and experiment. If you don’t like the results, you can quickly go back to what you had before. To do so, press the undo button or hold ctrl + z.

Endless design possibilities

Did you know there’s an easier way to get the perfect section for your page? Navigate to the tagDiv Cloud Library and browse through the “Blocks” panel. Found something you like? Import it with a single click, and it will be dropped into a blank page. Now set up the page to look as you want it to be.

Alternatively, you can open the tagDiv Composer on an existent page. Press the Load Template button to access the Cloud Library. Choose the block you want, and import it to your page. Drag and drop it where you want, and you’re done.

Why the new flex blocks are perfect for your site

If you’re still having doubts about using a Flex block on your pages, here are some reasons to help you decide:

• Versatility. A Flex block comes with a lot more settings than a regular block. You can play with it to change the look and feel of your page.
• Simplicity. Flex Block 1 comes with a Premade Style Presets button that brings you various, modern designs for the same element with a few button clicks. Our team developed them based on the latest trends in post styles to make your creative effort seamless.
• Fluidity. The new Flex blocks are user-friendly and responsive. This means that you control the way your content appears on each device. Use it to catch your audience’s attention.
• Originality. Style the Flex Blocks to create an entirely new and unique result easily by modifying the settings in the Layout tab. You can start with the image radius, padding, and spacing. Then add a divider between your modules and change the font family.

Final thoughts

Experiment and have fun with Newspaper Theme! The new feature should ease your workflow and give you more choices to design the layout of your pages. It also brings you more freedom to express yourself. Also, don’t forget to keep it mobile-friendly as it is an essential factor for your audience 🙂

Have you used the new Flex Blocks, yet? Comment down below to share your thoughts on them and how they impacted your workflow.

A preset is a series of settings that change the design of the element you’re working with on a page or article. The Newspaper Theme, with its latest update, introduces multiple presets that allow you to adjust the style of the Flex block. Simple, just like turning a switch on or off. The settings modify the internal CSS code to give you a spectacular result without any effort.

Through much research, our design team has created them based on the latest trends. They work well with one another, just like peanut butter and jelly.

What can you do with Premade Styles?

Imagine how much time you can save by trying out what would look better in an instant. Let’s say you alter the padding of the box, the vertical alignment of the posts’ images, and change the font families to suit the rest of your website’s.

The Premade Styles feature lets you experiment with different looks for your blocks easily. There’s no need to change each setting in the Layout and Style panel to test different designs. You can do everything within a few clicks.

How to use Premade Preset Styles

All you need to get started is a working Newspaper 9 Theme and Flex block 1 on your page. Once you have these, click on the element. Then in the top left corner of the General panel, you can see the Premade Style Presets button. Press it.

Now you can access a list of predetermined looks and switch between them to test whatever works best for you. For example, start by changing the font family, the alignment of the text, the size of the title or even the aspect ratio of the featured image. You have the option to show or hide specific elements such as the excerpt, author name, category tag or even the comments.

For further adjustments to the block, navigate to the Layout or Style panel and play with the settings until you get the perfect layout. If you need any further information about the Flex Blocks, check out this blog post.

In Conclusion

The main difference is that now you can quickly test new looks by just accessing these settings. If you already love creating unique layouts with Newspaper Theme, you can still make adjustments the same way you were used to.

Feeling creative? Customize your Flex block as you like it. Don’t forget to post the results in the comment box below to share it with us and our audience.