john kimon

I’ve tried quite a few themes and they’ve all ended up having one problem or another. I’d just about managed to figure out how this theme could work for me but I really don’t want that boring static image at the top and do need a sliding gallery of some sort, so I will have to look at other themes. Back to square one!

Again, esmi; thanks for your help and patience.

Yes, it’s there with all the other php files – sidebar.php, search.php, page.php, header.php, functions.php and so on; and there’s nothing in it.

I think I get this. I read somewhere else that the only files you really need in a child theme are the index.php and the style.css.

Still, for my purposes all I want to do is make a minor, minor modification to the parent theme and I can’t even find the code in the parent theme to do this; which seems a bit ridiculous.

I’ve gone through all the files in the theme and I can’t find the code – which is showing up in html (using the Developer tool in Safari) as:
<div class=”itx-featured”>
<div class=”ui-widget-header cont”>_</div>

This code relates, if you go to the theme (I’ve got the site on local host at the moment, so can’t link), to the image box with the flower in it, which I want to delete and replace with a slider gallery.

I’ve posted there as well – I’m covering all bases.
Actually, what I’ve just discovered is that when I’ve got the Developer tools open in Safari I can highlight stuff I want to delete and just hit the delete key on my keyboard and the offending item disappears.

What I’ve now got to figure out – unless someone would be kind enough to help me – is how to find those bits of code in the parent theme and delete them from there. I’m also having trouble copying over my functions.php file from parent theme to child theme – functions.php in child theme just whites everything out – so I want to sort out this problem before I proceed, because I understand it’s not a good idea to start deleting stuff from the parent theme. Is this right?

Thanks

I’ve got the site on a local host at the moment as I tinker with it, so can’t give you a link; but, as I said above, it’s the Calotropis theme I’m working on and what I’m trying to do is remove the static image/feature post on home page and replace it with a slider gallery.

Here’s the shortcode I posted into an index.php file, which I copied into my Calotropis child theme:

[cvg-gallery galleryId=’3′ mode=’showcase’ limit=’5′ /]

This was the only code in the file. It didn’t do anything.

I’ll go through that link on shortcodes now, see if it helps.

Thanks

Can someone please respond to this. I don’t think I’m asking how to perform brain surgery. To be honest, I’ve posted a few basic questions on this support forum and not got much help. Am I on the wrong forum? Is there another forum or a better forum I should be on?

I’ve pretty much come to the same conclusion. It’s just that I’m completely new to wordpress and I’m following the Lynda.com course and the tutor’s take was that you start with twenty-ten and you can do whatever you like to it – including playing with its columns. Besides, there are some good features on twenty ten that I wanted to keep and would have lost had I gone with one of the news themes out there; but I’m going to do this now. Oh, and I thought changing columns might not be that convoluted, but it seems it is, particularly for someone not familiar with wordpress and so on.