tagDiv themes have been developed with performance in mind, with every feature having a well-established purpose. Newspaper or Newsmag themes give you the possibility of building everything you were always trying to achieve with your website. The Newspaper and Newsmag WordPress themes come with required plugins and optional ones included, such as tagDiv Composer, tagDiv Cloud Library, tagDiv Social Counter, tagDiv AMP, Revolution Slider, and more. Besides the plugins that come bundled with the news themes (for which you do not have to pay extra money), there are some standalone plugins that are compatible with the tagDiv themes. In the WordPress > Dashboard, you can see the list of the plugins compatible with the Newspaper Theme, respectively, with the Newsmag theme.
Both themes are fully customizable and come with flexible, intuitive features. Sometimes this is not enough, and customers want to extend the themes’ functionality by installing different plugins regardless if they are tested or not with Newspaper or Newsmag. In this article, we’ll take a look into what exactly is the plugin compatibility, the ups and downs, as well as the recommended and tested plugins that work seamlessly with the Newspaper theme and Newsmag theme.
What Plugin Compatibility Really Means?
Standalone plugins, similar to the themes, are developed and improved by their authors. Based on their activity and customer feedback, some of them are more often updated. Also, on the market, you could find free and premium plugins to install on your WordPress website. The free plugins that also have a premium version are more likely to be a reliable software addition to your website. “Ensuring plugin compatibility is essential to protect your site and help your plugins work together to bring the best user experience on your site. Compatibility is also important for any plugins you purchase and upload the file to your admin dashboard,” notes Bluehost in their how to check the plugins’ compatibility with your website.
Recommended and Tested Plugins
Before we release any update of our Newspaper theme or Newsmag theme on Envato ThemeForest market, our development and support teams are testing the themes with the latest versions of the recommended plugins. Newspaper and Newsmag are optimized to integrate out-of-the-box with the following 13 plugins:
WP Super Cache
WP Super Cache is a free cache plugin that generates static HTML pieces from dynamic WordPress websites to reduce server resources. This plugin helps you cache posts, categories, and tags, and deliver visitors the cached version increasing the page loading speed for the end user.
bbPress
bbPress is a free GPL plugin created by the WordPress community to easily build forum discussions. It’s a flexible and lightweight plugin that also allows you to create multisite forums.
Font Awesome 4 menus
The Font Awesome 4 menus plugin is meant to show icons to your menu items before or after your link text by using a ‘fa-(icon name)’ class or classes. It will wrap your link text in a <span> so you can show or hide it, without any markup added or CSS knowledge. You can also use it in your content.
Contact Form 7
With this plugin, you can create and customize as many contact forms as you want, including text, number, data fields, checkboxes, reCAPTCHA, and more to help your users easily communicate with you. It is a free plugin you can support by purchasing an add-on plugin.
BuddyPress
With this free and open-source community platform, you can install on your WordPress site to build an online community (for your organization, university, school), with user profiles, groups, activity streams, and notifications.
Jetpack
Jetpack is a freemium plugin that ensures your website’s security. Some of the most important tools that come with this plugin are spam filtering, attack protection, daily/real-time website backups, malware scanning, and others to keep your site safe.
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is an open-source eCommerce plugin that extends your WordPress functionality and transforms it into an eStore. It has dedicated features for the products, cart, checkout pages, secure payments through different channels, and so on. WooCommerce is a free plugin, but if you want more functionality, you can choose from a list of 400+ extensions to extend it.
Orbit Fox
Orbit Fox is a multi-functional plugin helps you extend your WordPress website functionality through social sharing, menu icons, uptime monitor, and other modules.
WordPress Yoast SEO
This is a freemium plugin that helps you improve your content’s visibility on search engines by using proper titles, meta descriptions, Schema.org implementation, XML Sitemaps functionality, and more.
WP GDPR Compliance
According to the European Privacy Regulations – GDPR, this plugin helps you comply with the current regulations. It allows you to use multiple tools to let visitors allow/deny the way you’re handling their personal data on your site.
WP User Avatar
The WP User Avatar plugin gives you the possibility to use custom images from your Media Library as avatars, and also those uploaded through Gravatar.
HubSpot All-In-One Marketing
This is a premium plugin for content management, email marketing, live chat, forms, pop-ups, and more tools to help you build great customer relationship management.
WPML
WPML is a premium plugin helps you create multilingual websites by translating taxonomies, menus, pages, posts, custom types, or template’s texts in multiple languages.
Why You Should Use the Tested Plugins
Every website owner wants his website to perform at its very best. But what happens when something goes wrong? When you’ve worked a lot to write great content, mix and match elements on the frontend to get the wanted results, and after you save the page, something isn’t right. You’ll say that the elements are rearranged and that the tagDiv Composer keeps loading, so you’ll assume that the theme is doing it, while this is all about a plugin conflict that was not tested with our theme. Do you think it’s a singular situation? Not really. This can happen every time you install a new untested plugin.
According to recent Kinsta WordPress statistics, there are over 55,000 plugins in the WordPress directory. Besides, there are the ones that are outside the WordPress repository and are available in free or premium versions.
What Can Untested Plugins Do on Your Website?
Plugins that are not tested with our WordPress themes can ruin your website and all the work you’ve invested in it. We’ve made a list of the most common sceneries you wouldn’t want to happen to you and your site. Untested plugins can:
- cause conflicts with the tagDiv Composer page builder and the tagDiv Cloud Library
- crash your website and give multiple errors
- grant site access for hackers, if plugins are not constantly updated
- the support team behind a WordPress plugin cannot provide support if a theme has not been fully tested with the plugin. In this case, both us or the plugin’s support team cannot assist you with technical issues.
- change how a feature works, but in a distinct way than other plugins.
- might be developed to work with a different WordPress version.
- be poorly-designed or badly coded.
- overlap with plugins already installed on your site.
In case you have untested plugins installed on your Newspaper or Newsmag websites and encounter an issue that is not related to our WordPress themes, we recommend you to use another environment to deactivate all your plugins and install the required plugins. Reactivate other plugins one by one and test your website on the frontend to see when the unusual situation appears.
What If I Really Need an Untested Plugin? What Should I Do?
There are cases when you might need to use an untested plugin with tagDiv themes. You could send us an email, and we’ll add it to the list of plugins and test it with the Newspaper or Newsmag themes. This action will take a while, because we receive multiple requests, and choose the ones that are most popular. Meanwhile, you could create a staging WordPress website or a testing copy of the live website, and install the plugin to test it out. If the tested plugin works as expected with our themes, you can move it to the live website.
Conclusion
We know that WordPress plugins give you extra functionality and that you may tend to use multiple ones, even if you do not necessarily need them. The multitude and variety of plugins can also ruin your site’s overall performance, security, reliability, and speed. Some good practices advise you never to exceed 20 plugins installed on your website and use a maximum of five if your website is on cloud or shared hosting. However, there are reputable websites using many more plugins that are all compatible with their database, resources, and HTTPS requests; and still maintain the website’s performance at high standards. This depends on how good you are with technical stuff.
Can you recommend a suitable plugin for me as a tutorial? I want the sidebar to contain sections of the guide, and when I click on a section, it will open the guide with that category. thank you
Hi,
That depends. Maybe it could be done with theme elements, or maybe it will require using a plugin. I suggest to contact us via our support forum or to send us an email https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-theme-support/ and there please provide an example of what you would like to do exactly.
Thank you!
Hi,
I would like to know if the template is compatible with the AMP from AMP Project.
Hi Mihai,
Thank you for commenting. Yes, both Newspaper and Newsmag themes are AMP compatible. If you have more pre-sale questions, please let us know by email at contact@tagdiv.com. We’re happy to assist you! Have a lovely day 🙂
Reviewer plugin (by Michele Ivani, EvoG) and latest version Newspaper 10.4 seems to be not compatible (tagdivcomposer). Previous version was running smoothly. Could you please be so kind to check?
Hi Alessandro,
Thank you for reaching out to us. Unfortunately, the mentioned plugin was not tested with the Newspaper Theme, and sometimes conflicts between them appear. I’m sorry for the inconvenience! We can’t test all the plugins unfortunately, or make sure that theme updates do not affect them. Here you can find the list of recommended and compatible plugins. If you need any help, please let us know via forum or by email, as the blog area is not associated with the Customer Support Department. We’re always ready to help! Thank you for understanding. Have a lovely day 🙂
Hello, I want to copy the quick view and get this deal button on each posts of dansdeals.com , Is it available in tagdiv (Newspaper theme) ?
Hi! Thank you for your interest in our theme. Sure, you can have any buttons you would like, as the Newspaper Theme is entirely customizable on the frontend. You might take a look at these buttons examples, all created using the Newspaper WordPress template – https://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper_crypto/buttons/. If you have more questions, please drop us an email at contact@tagdiv.com. Thank you! Have a lovely day 🙂
Olá, boa tarde, gostaria de saber porque o tema não carrega as imagens, apenas se aumentar a resolução do site, isso na opção de MODELO DE BIBLIOTECA EM NUVEM sem template, quando coloca o template PRO, carregas as imagens e dai o menu nao funciona, alg pode me ajudar? obg.
Hi! Thank you for reaching out to us. I’m sorry to hear about your inconvenience. If you need any technical help with your theme, please include your inquiry into an email via email at contact@tagdiv.com and provide all the details, screenshots, as well as website’s login information. We’re looking forward to helping you. Unfortunately, the Blog area is not assigned to the Customer Support Department. Thank you so much for your understanding!
Hi,
I’m using Newspaper 10 now and I also want to use WP Rocket for caching than WP Cache. What’s your opinion about the current compatibility of Newspaper with WP Rocket?
Regards,
Hi,
You can use other caching plugins if you want, it isn’t mandatory to use the super cache. Install the rocket cache, and try different configurations with settings it provides, while testing to see if the website looks/works fine. Some settings could cause problems. Overall the plugin should work fine with the theme. I don’t have a guide for configuring the rocket cache unfortunately, at this time. Maybe one will be done in the future.
Thank you!
Hello friends, what about the Rankmath SEO plugin? Is also fully compatible? Thank you and best regards.
Hi,
Should be compatible if you prefer using it. Even if we recommend certain plugins, that does not mean that other plugins will surely not work. Please try the plugins you prefer.
Thank you!