Help with Updating Child Theme from Github (-master)

  • natecovington

    (@natecovington)


    6 years, 3 months ago

    Hi, I’ve got a site that is using the WP Bootstrap Starter theme and I had trouble with updating the theme so I had to roll it back to a previous backup.

    WP Bootstrap Starter version 2.5.2 installed. Trying to update to 3.3.2.

    The issue seems to be related to the child theme because I downloaded the WP Bootstrap Starter theme but the folder includes “master” because I downloaded it from Github and didn’t notice the “master” was included in the child theme folder name.

    /public_html/wp-content/themes/wp-boostrap-starter-child-master/

    When I ran the update, the site seemed to lose my customizations. For example the main menu got stuck in ‘mobile’ (hamburger) mode and I wasn’t able to make it work in desktop mode.

    I also lost the Font Awesome library when updating, e.g:
    /public_html/wp-content/themes/wp-bootstrap-starter/inc/assets/fonts/FontAwesome.otf

    Can someone point me in the right direction with this?

    Do I have something wrong with Font Awesome and I need to move it to the child theme somehow?

    Also do I need to rename the child theme so it updates properly?
    /public_html/wp-content/themes/wp-boostrap-starter-child/

    (removing the “-master”)

    Thanks in advance!

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by natecovington. Reason: include versions of theme
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  • Theme Author Afterimage Designs

    (@afterimagedesigns)

    6 years, 2 months ago

    Hi @natecovington,

    With regard to your issue, it seems that you’re trying to update a child theme. Unfortunately updating child theme will remove your settings/customization on the previous child theme. The parent theme needs only to be updated not child theme. That’s why there is a parent and child themes. If there’s a customization on the site, a child theme must be used and not be updated to prevent loss on the customization.

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