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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Bones Theme and LESS@lonniehb, Are you compiling the styles.less file? If you’re just compiling the file that you made the edits in, some of them will throw up errors because the variable is being defined in other mixins that aren’t necessarily imported into the present stylesheet you are working in. Once you compile the styles.less/styles.scss file, it should compile correctly.
You can save your less/scss files to keep the changes you have made, and if you try compiling some of them, they will compile if everything ‘needed’ is contained within that specific document, but this isn’t really necessary because the styles.less/scss file will import the all of the mixins/’other less/scss files’ under one file and output everything to styles.css.
I use Crunch for my compiler b/c it’s free and it’s an adobe air app, which is really lightweight and works extremely well, but it only works for Less, not Sass. I use mac, but I believe the air apps work independently of OS.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Overriding stylesheets in theme library folderI completely removed both the parent and child themes, re-uploaded the parent, reworked the child theme from scratch, re-uploaded and the issue still remains. I’m totally stumped… but it does indeed show in front end dev tools that the WP site is in fact loading the stylesheet from the parent directory, even though the child theme is activated and is working as normal from the back-end admin console. The child theme has to be set up correctly because it is working from the admin end, but the site just seems to bypass it altogether when it loads in the browser.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Overriding stylesheets in theme library folderYou are right. Although my theme in the admin panel is currently set to the child theme, and the editor under my appearances menu allows me to pull up and edit the child theme, the child theme doesn’t seem to be loading and this seems to be the reason why it isn’t affecting/overriding as I’d expect it to. That’s weird, because if the child theme was set up incorrectly, my thoughts would be that it would be broken and unable to be loaded in the admin… I had experienced this once or twice when I first started using WP.
Guess I better double check this to see if maybe there is a discrepancy… although in the past it would just be broken. Maybe I have a path or something set incorrectly.
I’m going to take a closer look at this…
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Overriding stylesheets in theme library folderNot sure what you mean. Are you talking about the WebInk plugin? This is actually Extensis’s endorsed method of incorporating their WebInk font service into a WP blog. I’m not really settled on it though. It seems to add a bit of bulk to the head.
I am still kind of green to webfonts, but my understanding is that if you use @font-face, you have to have a font-file hosted remotely on your server. I think this requires purchasing the font family outright, which licensing can be pretty expensive and limited on certain fonts. However, the font-services seem to allow you to license fonts at a pretty reasonable price per client per year, so this is more palatable for small biz clients.
If you have any other suggestions, though, I’m certainly open to education on this, but I believe this is likely best on another thread or forum perhaps. You can email me links to nathan(at)thought-well.com if you have any suggestions.
For now, I turned it off as well as other plugins (GravForms, ACF, WooDojo) to see if maybe this is causing any issues w/ the aforementioned issue. It still persists 🙁
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Overriding stylesheets in theme library folderThe sitelink is here, for now: http://www.summithme.com.php53-3.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/
I checked the order, and although it looks like the links to my style.css and other css files come after the parent-theme’s linked sheets, the parent-theme’s stylesheets are having a strange tendency to override styles that follow, whereas those links that come later link to styles that should be overriding the first styles declared. This is evident in the webink plugin I am using. I set my html, body and p elements to use fonts designated by the webink plugin. Although the header pulls in these styles after the page loads the parent theme’s styles, the parent theme’s styles are still taking precedence in some instances, judging by what I’m observing using Chrome dev tools and firebug.
I appreciate your input, and if you have any ideas, I’m all ears.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Overriding stylesheets in theme library folderI had tried the !important rule, but didn’t meet w/ any success. Also, I went back and bumped up specificity a bit, but this isn’t working either.
I changed “.caret” to “.navbar .nav .dropdown-toggle .caret” as my selector.
I’m going to take a look at the header.php file and see what is going on. I wonder if it has anything to do w/ the order of which the page is inheriting the stylesheets.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Unable to change font via cssTry dropping the period from “.body” As of now, you have <body> as a class, where as it’s actually an element, so the period is not needed.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: [Image Widget] [Plugin: Image Widget] Add Widget to HeaderI too would like to know how to do this. Is there a shortcode or something that could be used to insert into my child theme’s header.php file where I can set up the classes for the div I want the plug in to ‘inject’ the banner into? I’m trying to set up a registration campaign, and while hard-coding the campaign into the header.php file is one route, I’d like to widgetize it so that others can make edits in the future. This app seems like it could fit the bill, but I have to figure out how to get more control over where it places the banner.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Contact Form 7] [Plugin: Contact Form 7] Mobile File Attachment UploadNow that you mention it, it’s probably more of a mobile OS issue—which will probably require a mobile optimized site build to allow this capability from the form.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Uploading Existing Local WordPress to Hosted DomainTim, it looks like you are on to something. I came back this morning and the site is up, but it’s under the Twenty Ten theme and I hadn’t even adjusted any settings, yet. Apparently, the theme I had been using on the local site I made is no longer working, as WP is saying it’s broken, so it’s reverting to the default theme.
I guess I will try uploading the theme to WP to see if I can get it to work again.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Uploading Existing Local WordPress to Hosted Domainmaoski, you are correct—I did use GoDaddy’s PhpMyAdmin tool rather than the one through MAMP on my system.
Likewise, the technician had me change the Permalinks under the general setting from the localhost:8888 to the hosted web url that we were uploading the site to.
tim, I will try switching the theme to see if this works…
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Uploading Existing Local WordPress to Hosted DomainThe _db_backups folder/directory is on the external hosted server, just to clarify.