Option Tree no longer visible in Super Skeleton Theme admin

I also have proof of purchase, not that MDNW @makedesign seems to give a damn. I’m about to pursue a legal course.

Hi guys! I really do apologize as I’ve been out on medical leave for nearly a month now dealing with some serious issues. I’ll be patching the theme shortly, but what you can do in the meantime to resolve this is manually install the latest version OptionTree before you install the theme and it should work properly. I do apologize for the huge inconvenience – we’ve pulled the theme from ThemeForest temporarily until I am physically able to get back to work and add the patched version of the plugin.

@makedesign. Still waiting for the 2.1 patch. Still without a way to update my footer widget as the area where I’d normally drag widgets to has gone missing.

Things like the Add Media and Screen Options buttons aren’t working because of this theme (version 2.0.2 & 2.0.5) and I can’t find a download location for the latest version 2.0.7 anywhere. How can a theme be allowed to interfere with core wordpress functionality so much??

My only option at the min seems to be use another theme and that’s not right. I’ve paid for this one.

I suggest you hire someone to sort out issues in your absence?

PS – get well soon.

@makedesign — Looks like you’ve abandoned this theme. No patch, no support, and both sites I set up using the theme are broken with no way to edit content. Lesson learned – don’t fall victim to the quick fixes of paid themes.

I have to say I’ve used a ton of paid themes over the years and this is the first that’s let me down so badly.

PS – I found a workaround for the media uploader problem. The Featured Image uploader still works for some reason and can be used to embed media in a post/page.

super skeleton uses option tree in “theme mode”, this requires the plugin to be installed at the root of the theme. To use the latest option tree I removed option-tree from my plugins directory. I replaced /themes/super-skeleton/option-tree with the latest version of the plugin and initialized option tree with the following lines in functions.php:
add_filter( ‘ot_show_pages’, ‘__return_true’ );
add_filter( ‘ot_show_new_layout’, ‘__return_false’ );
add_filter( ‘ot_theme_mode’, ‘__return_true’ );
load_template( trailingslashit( get_template_directory() ) . ‘option-tree/ot-loader.php’ );
load_template( trailingslashit( get_template_directory() ) . ‘functions/theme-options.php’ );

Wow, this actually works! Add Media button works again.

Thanks

The new version of Option Tree crashed my site, when I activated it. I also am running the Reaction Theme super skeleton. Don’t know how to fix this.

@gvertlieb OptionTree is not the problem. The way the Super Skeleton theme integrates OptionTree is and Brandon (@makedesign) doesn’t seem to be interested in creating a patch or have time I suppose. Which is really unfortunate as he was an early adopter of OptionTree and helped with bug testing a few years back. Now all you guys are irate with broken web sites and it reflects poorly on OptionTree, and that sucks!

Somebody send me a copy of the Super Skeleton theme and I’ll patch it – this is getting ridiculous. My email is derek[at]valendesigns.com

Sent

@reverbstudios The theme you just sent already comes with OptionTree and if you’ve installed the plugin version there’s going to be a conflict. You can’t run them both at the same time without issues.

Sorry, that’s the way the theme comes, I didn’t add it! I personally have the plugin version removed and am using the theme version at the minute as per jjwalkers post above.

@reverbstudios I installed the theme you sent and there were no errors unless OptionTree the plugin is installed and activated. Do you have some other issue I’m not aware of?

For everyone using Super Skeleton. If you want to upgrade OptionTree you must do it from inside the themes root directory. Alternatively, you can comment out or delete lines 31, 32, 35, 36, and 42 in functions.php so OptionTree is no longer in theme mode and then you could use the plugin.

To update OptionTree in theme mode, download the latest version and unarchive it. Then replace the option-tree directory in the theme with the new one you just downloaded.

As far as I can tell, there’s no patch needed for super-skeleton-2.0. However, I would remove the ugly styles it adds to OptionTree by commenting out line 42 in functions.php like so:

//add_action('admin_head', 'ot_custom_style');

Those custom styles look terrible with WordPress 3.8.

I’m going to say this one more time so everyone is on the same page.

You cannot run OptionTree in plugin AND theme mode simultaneously or the sky will fall on your head.

Ok, the penny has dropped for me! I’ve reverted to using the plugin version of option tree and commenting out all the theme version crap. That’s my problem sorted thanks man.

PS – keep plugins out of theme folders!?