Love and hate this theme.

Hi Scott,

However. This theme is so over developed it is very difficult to customize. In order to overwrite css you have to use the WP built in CSS editor instead of the child style.css file. The child theme’s css is still overwritten by the main theme-options file.

1. Set your dynamic styles in theme options.
2. Visit the website, inspect the code, copy the dynamic styles from head of the theme into your child theme’s style.css. Disable dynamic styles.
3. No more overriding issues.

(If you think that responsive.css still overrides styles, import it at the top of style.css of the child theme, disable it in theme options.)

If there are only a few styles, you can also just use !important instead.

Almost everything has :before and :afters.

It’s pretty much only used for Font Awesome icons, and the small “pikes” on the social icon bubbles/comment count. It’s the only good way to add FA-icons to default widgets (If you know any other method to add them, feel free to share). It’s also used to keep div structure as clean as possible.

A little more thinking about the options like being able to use RGBA instead of Hex colors would really go along way.

I have even left in a code example of how to use RGBA values in /functions/dynamic-styles.php on line 60. Although it’s not used by any of the default styling options, it’s there just as reference for people like you. So, it has fully functional rgba values, which can be used for any styling options.

// rgb values
$color_1 = ot_get_option('color-1');
$color_1_rgb = alx_hex2rgb($color_1);

So you would just do:

{ color: rgba($color_1_rgb, 0.7); }

as an example.

Combo-breaker after 73 5-stars. You could’ve asked on the support forums about the rgba/override ??

Thanks for the info. Don’t get me wrong. The theme is pretty awesome. I have only been working with the PHP side of development for a couple of months. And after a lot of theme activating and de-activating I think there are some issues with plugins not being updated to work with WP 3.8. So hopefully some of the issues that I’m running across are part of that. like I said your theme got me 80% there. Now I’m just fumbling through the php and js scripts which I’m not so good at.

cheers.

And with response like that I’ll add another star to the theme. Keep up the good work.

Gotcha, and I understand it can be annoying when customizations aren’t working out because of overrides etc. I’ve been there.

Thanks for the increase with a star ?? (not sure if it saved though!)