Newspaper theme, starting from version 11, if not activated is outrageously violating the GDPR, GPL and WordPress licencing itself. It is doing that by redirecting visitors to an unauthorized page which intentionally violates all the GDPR and GPL rules and initiates visitors to think they’re on pirated or untrustworthy website. It’s practically forcing you to register. I suggest that you keep your theme non-activated or modified if you don’t use version 11 and up.
Forcing users to send information by registering their original product key and sending it to tagDiv servers is an act of law violation by all means.
If you do use version 11 and up, then you should use a workaround through this PHP file: td_ajax.php
In order to “activate” Newspaper theme 9.7 and up (currently 11.x), your steps are:
- navigate to
wp-content/plugins/td-composer/legacy/common/wp_booster/td_ajax.php - Then find
if (self::self_check($id, $ec, $ad) === true) { - Change it to:
if (self::self_check($id, $ec, $ad) === false) { - Then save the changes.
- Next, login to your dashboard, visit the Newspaper > Theme panel > Activate theme
- Then, jump to the bottom of the page and click where it says something like “Activate the theme manually”.
- After that enter whatever you want as your envato and tagdiv keys and click Activate.
- Done
Me funcionó, gracias.
You are welcome.
Thanks a lot bro. Worked fine for me….
Great.
thanks for it.. i successfully activated the theme… is it safe to activate theme like this and is there will be any problem or not .. please tell me
Worked for me.
no td_ajax.php in wp_booster folder, in version 9.7.4
If it is not there then you have some old theme version. Or it could be the case that you have got your theme from a shady source. My solution applies to original theme.
I would also suggest to check again, carefully.
Thanks Bruh, worked like magic
You are welcome.
thanks youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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you are awsome
Thanks.
Thank you very Much
No problem Iliyas.
hello I did it but not active
Impossible. You did something wrong, or your theme is downloaded from a shady source. If you can’t figure it out then hire a developer, or buy the original theme.
Cheers
Thanks you so much for this guide! Works perfect (v.9.7.3)
Have a nice day
Np, thanks.
December 1st 2021, the latest newpaper 11 no longer having manual activation button
I am not aware of this. I would have to check your statement, and if true, then I might post the workaround.
For now, you can always activate your theme using any older theme version which supports manual activation, and then update the theme with the new version.
He is correct. New version (Newspaper 12 if I’m correct) doesn’t have the manual install anymore.
Mr Ken, what he said is true. Even the older versions which has manual activation has been blocked and one can no longer do it successfully.
Hi. The older version when modified doesn’t check anything with the server, if it does then the activation would have failed.
Hi, thanks a lot for your article. I have a Newspaper theme (v 10.2) and I have now updated it succesfully according to your method. Now, I wanted to know whether I can now update the Newspaper theme to the latest version 12 or is it not possible? Thanks in advance.
Hey. Sorry for late reply, I was very busy. You should be able to update it. Just to be safe, test it first somewhere locally.
After this update, I can’t install prebuilt template of the Newspaper theme, as the installation button which shows once you hover over a template has been removed. How do we beat that?
Um, buy a license? 😀
I might dive into this, but this hack was intended for those with license, but not wanting to register for privacy reasons.
Now it looks like we are forced to register in order to use prebuilt templates. This is kinda anti-GDPR.
For those with license: you can just register another domain for staging/developing purposes, and import prebuilt templates. As for those without a license, for now, I have no new hacks.