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  • I have been building a website over the last few months and have used the Magazine Basic theme. My website was almost finished and after
    I edited a page today in the update section it told me there was a newer version available so I clicked to update and its all gone wrong! Everything I had done has been lost – all the side bar content and layout has gone and even some of the main content has totally been lost. All the footer and header layout has also gone as well.

    I need to be able to go back to the layout I had this morning before I did the update.

    What is the easiest way for my to do this as I have lost a lot of work and I am panicking now.

    MAny thanks in advance for any assistance.

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  • Unless you kept a backup copy of your customised version of the theme, there is no way to get the custom version back. This is one of the reasons why we recommend that you never edit the theme itself but create a child theme for your changes instead.

    Thread Starter billjosh

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    Hi Esmi – thanks very much.

    I don’t have a backup copy of the customised version but I do have a back up of theh databse which was automatically created every week.

    SO does this mean I have to go back in and redo everything?

    Also what I dont understand is that some of the pages have the content still there and some of the pages seem to have been totally lost – are there any instructions on how to import the last back up?

    SO does this mean I have to go back in and redo everything?

    Yes but this time, use a child theme. Neither a theme update nor a WordPress upgrade will affect your content. Have you checked your site’s database to see if the “missing content” is still present in there? Your hosts should be able to assist you in accessing you site’s database.

    Thread Starter billjosh

    (@billjosh)

    Ah OK – I see – well what a bummer!!!!!!! all that time wasted 🙁

    I dont know how to check the sites database to see if the content in still in there. I will speak with Hostgator tech support and see what they can do to help.

    I have gone in through the Cpanel and imported the lat database back up from last week but the only page thats there is the home page. Al the rest have disappeared!

    Hugely frustrating.

    I will have a look a the details for the Child theme as this seems to be the thing I need to do to prevent this from happening again.

    thanks very much.

    The same thing happened to me, but I was able to restore it by activating another theme, deleting magazine basic, and then re-installing an older version of magazine basic and activating. The files for the old themes are here. http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/magazine-basic/developers/. I used 2.7.9 which was what I had before. I had to redo the menu and the sidebars, but once I was on the old theme it wasn’t too hard to restore it to close to the way it was before. At least it’s close enough that I like the new one as much as the old one and can’t remember the difference.

    Thread Starter billjosh

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    Thanks Chanandaaron – very helpful – I have downloaded the zip file for 2.7.3 as I cant remember exactly which version I was on.

    I have been onto Host gator support and they have helped me to establish that the last database back up is now fully working as it should. All the content is there on the pages but of course all the layout of the sidebars, headers, and footers is lost.

    My old site did look similar to yours but I am not using mine as a blog – just a website.

    I am feeling a bit better but still gutted that I didnt spot the message that told me that I would lose everything if I installed the latest version!!!!!

    What is the procedure for re-installing the older version of the theme please? I am using Hostgator as the hosting Co and they have CPanel

    Thanks v much .

    still gutted that I didnt spot the message that told me that I would lose everything if I installed the latest version

    This is the case with ALL themes – which is why we recommend that you use a child theme. You also need to ask yourself why the theme’s developer updated the theme. Was it to fix some bugs? Or a security issue? Running an older version of a theme is, inherently, dangerous.

    Thread Starter billjosh

    (@billjosh)

    Thanks Esmi – I will certainly have a look at that as I have almost finished a second website and dont want the same thing to happen again.

    Lesson learned there then!

    Thread Starter billjosh

    (@billjosh)

    I do have another question – is it better to get the site looking how I want and then create the Child Theme or does it not matter if I am doing all the updating in the child theme?

    You should not touch the parent theme. All of your changes should be in the child theme.

    Thread Starter billjosh

    (@billjosh)

    Excellent – thanks again 🙂

    Thread Starter billjosh

    (@billjosh)

    hooray – I think Chanandaaron I think you have hit the nail on the head.

    I have done what you suggested and downloaded your version of MB and did and then installed that version after deleting the newest one and my site is almost back to what it was along with the side bars, footer, header image etc etc!!! – its not quite perfect yet so now I know how to upload previous versions I have downloaded all the previous versions back to 2.6.1 and I am going to experiment .

    Once I have it correct I will then create the child structure as mentioned.

    Version 3 is what is causing the problems with the layout.

    Thread Starter billjosh

    (@billjosh)

    Hi Esme & Chanandaaron

    Having been up till 3am this morning I think I have finally managed to get everything back to how it was or as close to it as I can remember and wanted to say again thank you for all your help – massively appreciated.

    I did at one point use one of the previous versions of the magazine basic theme and the site looked almost exactly the same as it did originally and even had the pictures in the sidebars still being there but the footer code was not there that I had installed so I then installed another version and totally forgot which version that one was so had to go back and add the pictures manually.

    Anyway it seems that the 2.7.9 version is the one that is the right one for me and I got there in the end. I am not finished adding content yet but the site is back to how I wanted it before I crashed it yesterday.

    So again a very big thank you to you both for your help.

    OK now to look at the Child Theme stuff

    Thread Starter billjosh

    (@billjosh)

    Ah well now I have an interesting problem – I have followed the instructions for creating the child theme and it was all going swimmingly until i activated the theme – in the preview it look identical but when it is activated I have lost the top menu heading and the right sidebar with the pics and contact form

    I must have done something wrong in the style.css coding

    This is the code I have created and I wondered if I have misssed something out

    /*
    Theme Name: Magazine Basic Child
    Theme URI: http://themes.bavotasan.com/our-themes/basic-themes/magazine-basic
    Description: Child Theme for Magazine Basic theme
    Version: 2.7.9
    Author: Bill Stokoe
    Author URI: http://themes.bavotasan.com/
    Template: magazine-basic
    */
    @import url(“../magazine-basic/style.css”);

    It looks fine on the live preview but when I save and activate it, the top menu is not there and the right hand sidebars are gone as well. it also states This child theme requires its parent theme, Magazine Basic.

    everything else looks OK – any thoughts on the problem?

    That all looks fine to me. I’m not that familiar with the parent theme. Do you have to set up the top menu & sidebars in the main theme? If so, you’ll probably need to set them up again for the child theme.

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