Hi Bill…I just went to your site that shows the highschool photo. Is there a chance I can get you to switch back to the parent theme and I will take a quick look at the source code?
Thread Starter
Bill
(@66atomsadmin)
Hi Shaped Pixels, Sorry for the delay. I was out of town all yesterday–grandson baseball tournament. I will be here until about 11:30a Central Time, when I leave for today’s games.
The site is switched back to the base theme.
Thx,
Bill
Hi Bill…no worries. I went to the site and I see the facebook icon. Are you still not seeing the icon for facebook?
Thread Starter
Bill
(@66atomsadmin)
Hi Shaped Pixels,
I see the dark green circle. It changes to a lighter green circle when it is hovered over. But, there is no white “f” in the circle. In other words, no change in behavior.
Thx,
Bill
That is odd because it shows up for me, which is a white “f”. However, perhaps try clearing your browser cache and see if that helps. Also, if you have another browser, try that one. Also get a friend to go to your site and see if they see the facebook icon.
If you add other social icons, do they show up? Try adding a couple more like twitter and pinterest:
http://twitter.com
http://pinterest.com
Thread Starter
Bill
(@66atomsadmin)
When you say “it shows up for me” do you mean on my site when the child theme is active?
I have recently cleared by browser cache at least 15 times while working on this and another problem, including just before I wrote my last post here, and most recently just a few seconds ago. I went back to the parent theme, and verified that the “f” is visible on the home page, then changed back to the child theme, and verified that the “f” is not visible (same URL, obviously, so no cache issue, I think).
I originally became aware of this problem when another user came to the website and couldn’t identify the FaceBook icon.
The active plugins are jonradio Private Site, Ninja Forms, and WordPress HTTPS.
Can you tell me which choice in the Color list is the one responsible for the white “f”? At this point, I cannot identify where the FaceBook icon came from at all, probably I added it earlier from some plugin, but that plugin isn’t active now. How can I delete the icon?
Thx,
Bill
It shows up on both for me (the parent theme and your child theme), but I think I know why….I have font awesome on my computer as a font, so it shows up. So this gave me an idea as to the problem…your child theme is not loading the font awesome stylesheet (font), hence the missing icon(s) for you and others.
Can you paste the code from your child theme functions.php file here? It should have something like this in it:
<?php
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
}
?>
Also, make sure your Font Awesome setting is checked. Go to Appearance >> Customize >> Site Options
Look for the setting for “Load Font Awesome” and make sure it’s got a checkmark in the box next to it (this is for your child theme settings).
Thread Starter
Bill
(@66atomsadmin)
Yes, my functions.php was correct. And, YES, checking the unchecked Load Font Awesome choice worked, the “f” showed up immediately!
Thanks VERY much for the help, and for sticking with me until the solution became apparent.
Thx,
Bill
You’re very welcome Bill!
…not to worry, I wasn’t going to leave until we had this solved 🙂
This also made me think that I should have a better troubleshooting section on my site setup tutorials at Shaped Pixels. So I made a note to plan this when I begin redesigning my site.
