Checkboxes Disappeared with new theme

  • Robyll

    (@robyll)


    10 years, 7 months ago

    hello,
    first of all, Im still new to wordpress and Web Design in general so please excuse if Im missing something elementary here.

    the new wordpress theme i installed changed the look of the signup form, and now there are two major issues:

    1: the checkboxes for the Multiselect Checkbox and Radiobuttons are gone
    2: the Submit button is small and weirdly placed now.

    how do I fix that ?
    Where do I need to look to find the classes that define these properties/ buttons?
    I got Filezilla now but I dont know where they are located and what to change/add when I find them)
    Also: as far as I understand I need to create a child theme, but I have yet to find a comprehensive guide on what a child theme actually is, how I build my own and Implement it.

    this is my site
    http://gymn2016.apps-1and1.net/participatetest/signup

    please help.

    also: How do I search the Support forum for previous posts???? where is the “search this plugins support topics” fields !?!? (I might be blind, but I just dont know)

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/participants-database/

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  • Plugin Author xnau webdesign

    (@xnau)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Changing themes will sometimes have unexpected effects, and usually the best place to go to address these issues it the theme support forum. The issues are specific to the theme, so your chances of finding a specific fix there are better.

    I took a look at it and it wasn’t easy to see what the problem is. The theme developer will have a better idea what their theme is doing to the display of those checkboxes and radio buttons.

    Searching forum posts is frustrating for all of us. It’s a complaint that it raised here frequently, and there is no real good answer. The best you can do is include the name of the plugin with your other search terms, but this doesn’t always work well.

    Thread Starter Robyll

    (@robyll)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    where can i find the submit_button class in the files?
    could i further define it, in order to stop the Theme from applying the default styling for a Button?

    Thread Starter Robyll

    (@robyll)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Ok so I solved the part where the checkboxes disappear.

    Thanks to sterndata in the #wordpress IRC channel.

    In the themes reset.CSS file (accessed via FTP) I deleted lines 103 and 106
    which were:
    -webkit-appereances: none;

    after that the checkboxes appeared, i just hope i havent broken anything important.

    for Information the Theme that created this problem Is called Khore by Showthemes

    Plugin Author xnau webdesign

    (@xnau)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    That’s good info. -webkit-appereances: none; is a non-standard property, so probably it was doing different things for different browsers.

    To change the class of the submit button, you need to use a custom template. There is a function in the template:

    <?php $this->print_submit_button(‘button-primary’); ?>

    You can change the argument to get a different class on the button.

    How to Create Custom Templates

    Another approach is to use CSS to override the theme styling in that form, you’ll need to add a selector so it won’t affect other buttons on the site.

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