Aldehyde Theme Update Ignores Child Theme

  • Resolved iskye.silverweb

    (@iskyesilverweb)


    9 years, 7 months ago

    There was a notification to update the theme on our website, so we updated the theme. After the update, the look of the site is completely changed, as if our child theme is being completely ignored.

    We had a dark background with the content area being a lighter background and very light grey text. Now there is an off-white background with content area white and text is the light grey so it’s hard to read. We also had a specific font for our header area and sidebars. The font seems to still be used in the blog headings.

    Icons and sidebar widget items are lime green – they were black or a shade of grey previously.

    The look is completely different, ruined. It is as if the child theme is being almost totally ignored.

    Is there something that needs to be done with the child theme to get it to be used? Any help would be much appreciated. Site is https://www.icarusstudios.co.uk

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Your Child Theme is active on your site. What isn’t being applied from your Child Theme style.css file?

    Thread Starter iskye.silverweb

    (@iskyesilverweb)

    Thanks for your reply. I had background colour set to a dark grey, with light grey text. If you look at the pages in the site, I am seeing off-white background with white content area. Why?

    The social media icons are lime green.
    The tag cloud items are also lime green.

    These things were not the case before.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    In your Child Theme style.css file, the only style I can see that applies a black colour is this:

    #comments li.comment {
color: #000;
}

    That applies a black colour to the text of comments.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    I’m sorry I misread your comment!

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    What I guess happened was that originally CSS modifications were made in the parent theme style.css file. A Child Theme was created after. Then the CSS modifications were transferred into the Child Theme, but looks there were some left over that were erased in the update.

    Thread Starter iskye.silverweb

    (@iskyesilverweb)

    I wish I could show a small image of what it looked like before.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    I believe you ?? We can help if you have queries like, “Here’s my CSS, why isn’t it working?” – Do you know of styles in your Child Theme style.css file that are appearing to be ignored?

    Thread Starter iskye.silverweb

    (@iskyesilverweb)

    Does Aldehyde disable the use of the Customizer in the admin? I get a blank page when I try to go there with the child theme active. I went to Appearance – Themes, then click on the ‘customise’ button on the child theme since that is the active theme. I get a blank page when I click that.

    That puts me back to using the theme editor on the child theme and when I attempted a CSS change, it didn’t appear on the site, so now I’m wondering if I have to track down all those portions of the pages to identify those elements where I have to put in all the customisations that seem to be gone.

    Thread Starter iskye.silverweb

    (@iskyesilverweb)

    Sorry, you are replying so quickly I miss your replies when I compose mine!

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    I get a blank page when I try to go there with the child theme active

    That’s odd, when I checked before it showed that your Child Theme style.css file was loading on your site. Are you getting a blank page in the dashboard and not on the front-end of your website?

    Thread Starter iskye.silverweb

    (@iskyesilverweb)

    Wen I try to go to the customiser in the dashboard, I get a blank page. Not even the customiser sidebar is visible.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Does the same thing happen with all your plugins deactivated?

    Thread Starter iskye.silverweb

    (@iskyesilverweb)

    I found one plugin that appeared to conflict and deactivated it. I’m really not happy about the change from using the them options to the wordpress customiser. It appears that we are able to customise much less than before.

    Would access to the customiser address styles that appear to be set in the main.css file? The massive changes to the look of the site appear to be due to changes in the main.css file and those styles don’t get overridden in the style.css sheet.

    Unfortunately, WordPress’s new rules require us to use Customizer, instead of Theme Options. I am sorry that you do not like it. I am working Hard on making it as better as possible.

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