Theme upgrade to 1.9

Resolved MrNickSheppard
(@mrnicksheppard)

12 years, 3 months ago

Possibly a naive question but if I upgrade to 1.9 I want to make sure I don’t break anything as made quite a lot of mods to my site. All CSS changes are in custom CSS so I think they should be preserved and would just lose any changes made through the UI? If anything unexpected happens is it possible to roll back to 1.8…or do I need to upgrade at all and can I just stick with 1.8?

My site is here http://cardtherapy.co.uk

Thanks

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Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)

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12 years, 3 months ago

You could make a backup of your database first
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups#Database_Backup_Instructions

Were modifications made to any other file than style.css?

Theme Author Konstantin Kovshenin
(@kovshenin)

12 years, 2 months ago

It’s always best to upgrade, as there may be security issues involved in future updates (not 1.9). The update from 1.8 to 1.9 should not break any of your custom CSS, but if it did, please let me know.

Thread Starter MrNickSheppard
(@mrnicksheppard)

12 years, 2 months ago

OK thanks…only small issue stripped out custom font files from theme folder. Guess no way round that just back-up?

Theme Author Konstantin Kovshenin
(@kovshenin)

12 years, 2 months ago

You shouldn’t have any additional folders or files in the theme, those should all go in your child theme, and when the parent theme updates, the child theme stays intact.
SandraDehue
(@sandradehue)

12 years, 2 months ago
Hi,

I just installed a child theme for expound (great theme, thanks a lot) and everything works fine, except that the primary menu doesn’t display properly. That is, it seems to diplay the content for a screen reader (?)

When I compare the site code using expound vd expound-child the difference is that with expound-child the code is:
```
<header id="masthead" class="site-header" role="banner">

    <div class="site-branding"></div>
    <nav id="site-navigation" class="main-small-navigation" role="navigation">
        <h1 class="menu-toggle toggled-on"></h1>
        <div class="screen-reader-text skip-link"><a hre…
        <div class="menu-menu-1-container"></div>
    </nav>
    
</header> 

Using expound the code is:
    <div class="site-branding"></div>
    <nav id="site-navigation" class="navigation-main" role="navigation"></nav>
    

</header>
```
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The files in my expound-child folder are:
style.css
(added rule for ul.blok related to extra widget area)
index.php
(to define the extra widget area)
featured.content.php
(to register the extra widget area)

Nothing else.

Help is much appreciated!

Sandra
esmi
(@esmi)

12 years, 2 months ago

@sandradehue: If you require assistance then, as per the Forum Welcome, please post your own topic.

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