Hello
I have been trying to edit a php file and every time I make the changes the plugin becomes “inactive”. I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it again but this did not help.
All I am changing is a colour within one php file of the plugin. Any suggestions how I am best to make the colour change? Or how to fix the inactive to active status?
Apparently there’s no such thing as a child plugin.
Maybe this article will be useful – http://wptavern.com/how-to-extend-a-wordpress-plugin-without-losing-your-changes
The plugin I installed is PDF Product Catalogue. At one point it was working and I had changed the button colour to one I liked, but the PDF download was not displaying correctly from the options I had chosen. Specifically, it was not using the short description for each product nor displaying the SKU. To change the button colour I did change the HEX colour in the button php file – just a couple of numbers. It turns out that by doing this is made all the files inactive. When you go to the editor, there will be an (active) or (inactive) next to the file name.
I’ve tried deactivating the plugin, but it didn’t fix the problem. I’ve deleted and reinstalled to new download of PDF Product Catalogue and it managed to keep all my settings as I had previously set it up.
I’m not a developer so writing code from scratch is not in my abilities.
Please, any advice how I can use this plugin or is it now useless?
If you just want to change the colour of something, you can probably do that by adding one or more CSS styles to the stylesheet in your child theme, in which case there’s no need to edit the plugin.
If you have queries about that specific plugin, find out whether there’s a support forum for it and ask this question there.
