Automatic Theme Updates

What theme are you using? Can you post a link to your site?

Thank you for chiming in. . .I am using Firmness for which there has not been a ton of support. I have an under construction page up so I have to remove that so you can see. On my way home. .will unlock then.

As for now, Firmness was updated on Jun 27 at 8:50 am. I don’t know why my customizations did not hold for my child theme. I can see that all of the things I did via their “forms” do not seem to show up in my stylesheet. I don’t understand why a theme would be designed this way??

Hi Stephencottontail,

The site is: https://www.cnatutorplus.com

Thanks,
TWS

When you refer to your customizations, are you referring to changes made in the Customizer under Firmness Theme Options? If so, those are saved in the database and they only apply to the theme that created them. Unfortunately, you’ll have to redo those changes in your child theme, the same way you did when you set up the paren theme.

Actually, strike that last post. I just tested it and theme options set in the Customizer do carry over between the parent and the child theme. I apologize for the mistake.

Hi, so if the theme options set in the customizer do carry over between the parent and the child theme, then what happened to my customizations? Strangely, the homepage went to default, re: color changes, and latin text etc. And now, last night I made changes again to the color in order to rebuild, and the changes only show up when I am in the dashboard. When I go to the live site, it is as if nothing has been changed.

How did you test it and verify that the customizer changes carry over between the parent and the child theme? This is strange as this is NOT my result. Again, my homepage is back to default.

Thanks for your responses. Any help is so very much appreciated! ??

Hmm, should I be customizing while the Parent theme is activated rather than the Child theme? Not understanding this theme. . .

Okay, I’m going to again take back part of my previous post, now that I have a clear picture of what’s going on. It appears that when Firmness was updated from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5 (the current version), the theme author stopped using Options Framework to manage theme options and instead moved all of those options to the Customizer, and didn’t update the code to pull the old theme options from the database. So when you update from version 1.0.4 to 1.0.5, you do lose all of those customizations.

Now that you’ve got the parent theme updated to 1.0.5, though, you can still use your child theme to make customizations, although you’ll now be using the Customizer instead a dedicated theme options page.

Yes, I believe you are right. Seems strange not to update the code so as to migrate all of the customizations from the old theme options in the DB.

So now I am using the Customizer but when I make and save the changes, they are only apparent when I am logged in and looking via my Dashboard. When I log out and go to the site live, my changes are not there. I know it is not my cache as I logged into the site from a different computer and none of the changes were there.

The Customizer does not appear to be making the changes. . .have you experienced this? Any thoughts?

I was thinking about uploading the old version to see if I could see my changes and copy them to the child with the new parent but that still doesn’t resolve why the new Customizer is not making the changes to the site. . .

Thanks for thinking about this with me. It is really helpful!

Is your host caching your site as well? Have you tried force-refreshing your browser (see your browser’s documentation)?

Can you temporarily enable debugging and see if any errors appear? Also, ask your host if they have PHP error logs.

Sorry for the delayed update. . .family and Holiday festivities found their way into my schedule . .

I successfully loaded the prior version, 1.0.4 and was able to manually pull my customizations and transfer them over to my child theme powered by the new parent, 1.0.5.

I temporarily renamed the new theme, uploaded the old, activated the child via the old theme and retrieved my data. In the backend, I renamed the old theme and gave the new theme the Firmness name again. I then opened the child them via the new parent theme, updated the customizations and saved.

Site is now updated.

I attempted to turn off automatic theme updates by editing code in wp-config-php. I am not an expert and do not want to spread misinformation so please google how and/or look in the Codex for help. Perhaps a knowledgeable member can chime in with the code?

Thanks!
TWS

To enable automatic updates for themes, use the following:
add_filter( ‘auto_update_theme’, ‘__return_true’ );

I changed “true” to “false” in the wp-config.php file.

Is this correct?