is this just an issue of the Live Preview option
There are no current issues with the live preview functionality. What happens if you switch to the original parent theme?
Thanks for your quick response.
If I switch to the parent theme, my site is messed up. It’s saying “Nothing found. Ready to publish your first post?” and gives me my menu.
The reason for this is probably because in my child theme I changed posts to pages and I “deleted” the upper menu and am using the circles for navigation on my homepage…see Cameron Lab
When I click the “Live Preview” button for the 1.07 version of Spun, it shows me exactly the same view as when I activate the current parent theme. So either the Live Preview cannot “see” my child theme, or when I update to 1.07 it somehow will prevent my child theme from working.
Thanks again.
If I switch to the parent theme, my site is messed up. It’s saying “Nothing found. Ready to publish your first post?” and gives me my menu.
Have you published any Posts? Are you using a static front page?
I changed posts to pages
Sorry? How did you do that?
Yes, I have a static front page and no, I haven’t published any posts.
Everything on the website is published using pages. Since we’re using it as a regular website and not as a blog, the info isn’t updated that regularly and we don’t want any comments etc. I figured going for pages made the most sense (after reading up on the general purpose of pages and posts).
I changed posts for pages using a solution someone posted on this forum. If you want me to, I can look it up.
In my child theme, I currently have my child css sheet and then a content-home.php, index.php, functions.php, content-research.php and a research-index.php. The last two are for generating a circle menu based on child pages on the research page of the website.
This pretty much explains it although I didn’t change the parent index.php file but added and index.php file to my child theme.
Is that the only change you made?
No, I did quite some changes in my child css (too much to mention, but it mainly deals with the positioning of certain elements and removing some stuff I didn’t want).
Next to that, I changed the content-home.php file, so that the page titles are printed over the images in the circle and I added a content-research.php file to do the same for the child pages that generate the menu on the Research page.
All these changes are contained in a child theme folder so I didn’t make any changes to the parent theme itself.
Just a quick update for anyone who was wondering. After backing up everything including my database, I decided to upgrade the Spun theme even though the live preview showed errors.
As far as I can tell, my website still works fine so I think the Live Preview is only able of showing you a preview of the updated parent theme and cannot take the child theme into account.
But I’m happy and this thread can be marked as Resolved. 🙂
