Karen Rempel

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  • Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Recent automatic 4.4.2 update changed my theme settings
    Thread Starter Karen Rempel

    (@karen-rempel)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Hi James,

    Thanks again for your prompt reply.

    I re-read the original thread, and what the posting said was:

    Karen: “Does WordPress automatically update the theme thereby overwriting my changes?”

    esmi: “Not automatically”

    Karen: “So this made me wonder if it might automatically update the theme as well.”

    esmi: “No – only minor core security updates. Not themes.”

    esmi did give the advice you have given about using child themes. As I mentioned to you previously, I tried using a child theme, it didn’t work, and I gave up after a few hours of tinkering. I did not intend to update the 2014 theme, and never did, so I never ran into issues with my changes being overwritten, UNTIL NOW.

    BTW, I do backup my files regularly, but thanks for making me sound stupid.

    I still maintain you should not be messing with footer.php and style.css files when you update the WordPress core software. The footer and styles are content, not platform.

    In any case, I play nicely in the sandbox. Kudos on the twenty sixteen theme, which this incident caused me to update one of my sites to. I have given a shout-out to WordPress twice on my site now:
    http://karenrempel.com/welcome-to-2016/
    http://karenrempel.com/welcome-to-2015/

    Regards,
    Karen

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Recent automatic 4.4.2 update changed my theme settings
    Thread Starter Karen Rempel

    (@karen-rempel)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Hi James,

    Thanks for your prompt reply.
    “Unfortunately, that’s just not true, I’m sorry, it’s why we always recommend child themes: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes”

    I have had WordPress sites since 2008 and this is the first time my theme has been changed by an automatic update. I am certain I read in your documentation a while ago that themes are not touched.

    And I did try using a child theme but it didn’t work, wasn’t simple, so I reverted to changing MY files directly. You shouldn’t be able to change my css or footer files!

    Thanks for the tips on how to avoid this, but you really haven’t acknowledged the inconvenience you’ve caused. I know this is a free service, but you really shouldn’t be able to change how my site looks.

    Now I will have to set aside many hours to do additional work because of the update. If you want people to allow your automatic updates you really shouldn’t impact theme style elements. It is way beyond the purview of a supposed security update or bug fix. I for one have edited my wp-config to disallow the updates in future.

    IMHO

    Karen

    Forum: Themes and Templates
    In reply to: How do you turn off the hyphen word breaking at the end twenty fourteen theme?
    Karen Rempel

    (@karen-rempel)

    11 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks, CrouchingBruin. Sounds easy enough to copy my CSS if I upgrade.

    Andrew, as per your request I created a new topic at:
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/managing-changes-to-stylecss-in-twentyfourteen?replies=1#post-5791431

    Forum: Themes and Templates
    In reply to: How do you turn off the hyphen word breaking at the end twenty fourteen theme?
    Karen Rempel

    (@karen-rempel)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    I tried adding the recommended code to the end of my style.css but that didn’t work. The only thing that worked was deleting all the offending hyphen: auto and word-wrap lines from the stylesheet.

    Is there a problem with editing the .css directly if I don’t manually update twentyfourteen? Does WordPress automatically update the theme thereby overwriting my changes?

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