tagDiv Composer is the first-page builder ever created for blogs, news and magazine websites. Designed to help you be more creative and more efficient, tagDiv Composer allows you to build, edit and shape your pages right on the front end, easier than ever, seeing every change instantly.
We developed it from scratch to give you the best performance while making the transition from Visual Composer plugin as smooth as possible.
How to move your pages to tagDiv Composer:
- Step 1 – Install both the Visual Composer and tagDiv Composer plugins.
- Step 2 – The page has to be recreated using the new page builder. You will have to build a new page and edit it with the tagDiv Composer replicating your original page (made with Visual Composer).
- Step 3 – Save the page. Replace your homepage with the newly created one. You can always revert to the original page if you encounter any problems.
Important Note: Do not use both page builders on the same page!
What’s different?
The most obvious difference is that tagDiv Composer runs on the front end. We are not using a skinned Visual Composer like other themes, as we opted to develop and implement our own front page editor. This allowed us to optimize the speed, the user interface and also the features to work seamlessly with the Newspaper theme.
To make everything easier for you, we built our shortcode parser, and we are using the same shortcodes as Visual Composer for all the custom blocks, big grids, rows, and columns. The differences come from the shortcode attributes. For example, we have implemented an easier and totally different way to use the CSS box than in Visual Composer.
We advise you to use only one of the page builders to create a page. If you try to use the two builders on the same page, this is what may happen:
- Any shortcode attributes that are different will be lost when the page is saved (for example row background, CSS box style, and others)
- tagDiv Composer will strip all Visual Composer’ specific shortcodes like the buttons, media grid, and tabs.
- Visual Composer cannot load our custom attributes like the CSS box and backgrounds.
What’s the same but improved?
All the blocks are mapped the same way in both plugins. This means that custom components have the same shortcodes regardless of the builder you are using.
We have spent a considerable amount of time designing the user interface for tagDiv Composer. We refined every detail to create an intuitive interface. With this builder, a new user can create a page in minutes without reading the documentation or tutorials.
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