Abigailm
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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [evolve] Parallax Slider on MobileI use the bootstrap rather than Parallax slider but I was able to get text & buttons where I wanted for various screen sizes through custom CSS.
You just need to style things a little differently for each screen size — these are the conventions being used for styling in the parent theme:
– Responsive Dynamic Definitions
— Min-Width 992px – Desktop
— Max-Width 782px – For Admin Bar
— Min-Width 768px – Tablet
— Max-Width 767.98px – Landscape Phone
— Max-Width 575.98px – Small PhoneI’d recommend sticking with those conventions and then fiddle with text size & positioning for each version until you get things the way you’d like.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [evolve] Sticky header issueDonna, on my installation, I have the logo showing in the sticky header but not site title or subtitle. So I don’t know why you are seeing title/subtitle– probably something in the site customization options. The problem with Evolve is that there are so many options that can be tricky to find the one you need.
But I can help you with the logo. I liked having the logo on the menu so was happy to leave it there, but I wanted it smaller — so I edited my child style like this:
.sticky-header img {max-width:120px;}But if I wanted to get rid of it entirely, then the easiest way would be:
.sticky-header img {display:none;}I’m guessing the old “display:none” trick should also be able to get rid of the unwanted title & subtitle tag, if there isn’t a way to fix it through the customization settings.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [evolve] 3.8+ Download?Glad you solved the problem.
Just for future reference, there is a plugin called WP Rollback here:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rollback/This will let you “roll back” to any previous version of a plugin or theme that is maintained in the WordPress repository. And does exactly what it say: you simply chose what version you want, click on it, and in a couple of minutes you are back to wherever you were before the upgrade.
You can actually also use this to roll forward as well.
Here’s another recommendation for a plugin:
WP-Staging – https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/This one is really cool — it makes a complete and fully functional copy of your wordpress site in a subdirectory of your existing site, to use for staging. The nice thing about that is not only can you work on an identical site that is hidden from public view, but you have the existing site still live for side-by-side comparisons.
So you can then fix everything in a leisurely way.
I was every bit as frustrated as you are with the changes from 3.84 > 3.9 — however, this is the process I followed:
1. Created Staging Site
2. Kept careful notes of all Customization changes on the Staging Site
3. Also created an updated child style.css file on the staging site.When the staging site was ready, I put up a maintenance page on the live site, updated the site, followed my notes to replicate all changes, uploaded the replacement stylesheet — tested– and had the live site back on line within an hour.
The staging plugin also has a premium version that will push everything back to the live site, but my preference is to do it manually.
I do have everything running fine with the new version now.
I can give you a quick pointer with nav bar issues, though I can’t know whether this was an issue with your theme. If you have customized your nav bar with your own CSS, you need to know that the names for some classes and ID’s have changed with the new version.
However, the main style.css for the parent theme is quite beautifully written and annotated — it even has a table of contents — so I found it easiest to just remove all of the old customizations for evolve from my child style sheet, and use the new stylesheet as a reference to see what I needed to change.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [evolve] Question – Archive Page TitleThank you!
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [evolve] New Update fried the siteBut why get a plugin when 1 line of code will do it?
The advantage of the plugin is that it provides a way to specify different upgrade rules for the core, theme, and various plugins. It may also allow you to set the theme to auto-upgrade for minor releases, but not major (but I’m not sure if that is an option).
I think it is particularly valuable for plugins because can pick & choose which to auto-upgrade. But there is also a huge security risk with auto-upgrades from the wordpress free plugin repository…. so even that is something to be careful about. I think the update plugin also will create a log of updates, which might be very helpful for debugging if a site has suddenly developed problems but it’s not clear why.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [evolve] New Update fried the siteActually, there is a long history with the evolve theme of updates causing display problems on sites. I think other developers would have been more likely to retire an old theme and put out a new one with a change to a different framework. But of course that would have its own set of problems.
My main point is that I learned long ago to NEVER auto-update themes, particularly evolve – or any other theme where substantial customizations have been made, even to a child them. Any update to a theme has the potential of messing up settings — so best to do the update manually when there is time to check and confirm that all is working properly.
But best practice for a major theme update is to run it through a development site first, if possible; and if that is not an option to first backup, then apply the change, and choose to complete the update when there is time available to troubleshoot and repair.
I haven’t tried it, but this plugin might be a good option as a way to get better control over the update process.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/stops-core-theme-and-plugin-updates/Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [evolve] Problems with update 4.9.7@romik84 —
So you actually didn’t report any issue yet?
Right.
I am asking for instructions on what to do to avoid problems.
I can see that there are other brave people who are quite willing to do an upgrade that makes a total mess of their site, and then spend as many hours as they need in order to clean up the mess. But I prefer not to have a mess in the first place. So if I will need to make modifications to my child theme’s functions.php file, I thought it would help to know in advance.
If you think the file should work as is, that’s fine, too — all you have to do is say so.
I can see from other posts that you are still working on some other problems with the new code, so I won’t be upgrading to v3.9 in any event. I’ll wait until the other kinks are worked out.
Perhaps you might consider putting up a webpage with instructions as to some steps for anyone upgrading from version 2.8x to 3.9x to follow, particularly if using child themes. It probably will help if you let people know more clearly about the removal of contact form functionality as well (so one step before upgrade for many people would be to revise their contact page).
- This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Abigailm.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [evolve] Problems with update 4.9.7The website is running 3.84 — I haven’t tried to upgrade to 3.9 —I can’t afford downtime so I am asking for info ahead of time, and then I plan to try the upgrades first on a staging site. Do you still want website URL knowing that?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [evolve] Problems with update 4.9.7@romik84 — yes, I copied that code snippet exactly from the top of the functions.php file for the child theme.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [evolve] Problems with update 4.9.7@romik84 – can you please tell me the exact changes I need to make to my functions.php file for the child theme to work.
Again, here is the code I have:
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_enqueue_styles' ); function theme_enqueue_styles() { wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' ); wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css', array('parent-style') ); }Please explain exactly what change will need to be made. I don’t know what “update that parent theme css slug” means. I need EXACT instructions as to what to change in my existing code.
What will need to be modified to make sure that the child theme will continue to work?
- This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Abigailm.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [evolve] Problems with update 4.9.7Another question re the version 3.9 update — I can see from the changelog that you have removed the contact form from the theme.
If I were to copy the 3.84 contact.php and place it within the page-templates directory of my child theme, would that still work? Or should I redesign my contact page using a plugin like Contact Form 7 prior to upgrade?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [evolve] Problems with update 4.9.7@romik84 — can you at least give some guideline as to what, if anything, I would need to change for my functions.php for my child theme? I do not have the same configuration as Donna (it looks like she used a plugin to create her child theme, while I set mine up manually a long time ago).
With 3.84, my child theme is set within functions.php as follows:
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_enqueue_styles' ); function theme_enqueue_styles() { wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' ); wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css', array('parent-style') ); }So would I also need to make changes for an update to 3.9?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [The WP Remote WordPress Plugin] maek.it site offline?The site has been restored… whois now shows domain registered for another year.
I just it gets chalked up to someone forgetting to pay a bill.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Bug? WordPress User Search Function breaks siteBut it’s not as if all of the posts/pages simply were corrupted. Rather, they were moved to trash — so the site worked, but just came up with a “not found” error. (Not the server error, but the page within the theme that showed the error). Menu settings were also messed up (so theme displayed, but not the regular nav menu). And all posts/pages were still there and could be bulk-restored from trash. (I played around a little with the backend functions before doing the full restore from backup)
So basically there was a cascade of problems/issues triggered by a search, which affected more than the table that was searched.
I checked the mysql error log for the site, and nothing showed up there. And nothing in the PHP error log.
Anyway, for now it remains a mystery. Just one more reason that it’s a good idea to regularly backup all sites. I’m feeling shy about using that search function again — but if I do I’ll turn on “debug” first and see if that provides information and post again if the error recurs.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Bug? WordPress User Search Function breaks siteAfter I restored from backup I ran both optimize & repair– so if there had been a problem, it would have been fixed. (I did run “check” again just to verify).
So yes, corrupt database seems the most likely reason for a problem when running a search query…. but that still doesn’t explain why I would see posts & pages trashed. Or would that be something that wordpress would do automatically in response to the deletion of all active user accounts?