Restoring old coding after update

  • Greetings,

    I (finally) updated my WP to 3.8.1. Additionally, I just updated my “The Cotton” theme from 1.1.4 to 1.2.1. I had a lot of custom coding that a friend helped me with to get The Cotton to where I wanted it to be. When I did both of the updates, I (not shockingly) found that the custom coding disappeared. I am a total coding dolt and I was able to restore my original backup .sql but in doing so, it said that I now have to download the new The Cotton theme again. My question is this: once I update the theme (again), which (old) files (with my custom coding) do I need to transfer back over in order to get the site back to where it was before the updates? Does that make sense? Which files “hold the coding”?

    Thanks for your help!

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  • My question is this: once I update the theme (again), which (old) files (with my custom coding) do I need to transfer back over in order to get the site back to where it was before the updates?

    This really all depends on which files you edited. If you still have all your custom coding (that you did in the theme folder), it’s probably better to use the entire “old” theme. To update the theme to the latest version and then overwrite some files with older versions again, won’t make things better, really.

    It’s too late for this now, but in order to avoid situations like this again in the future, you should look into using Child themes. When doing that, you can update themes and everything without running the risk of overwriting custom code.

    Thread Starter enrique620

    (@enrique620)

    Hi there.

    Thanks for the reply.

    I was able to restore my backup and for the most part, things are running the same with one exception. If you go to ericlendlproductions.com, the home page loads very strangely. If you press on the black and white “eric lendl productions” logo, the page reloads to the right page. How do I make it load correctly?

    Thanks.

    Eric

    Thread Starter enrique620

    (@enrique620)

    I guess I want to be able to have my own home page, not sure TheCotton Options Home page. My one loads correctly.

    Thanks.

    Eric

    I think this may have to do with a known bug in Chrome where custom fonts are not properly loading on a page until you refresh or make some other action in the page: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=336476#c40

    Thread Starter enrique620

    (@enrique620)

    Hmmm, I see.

    Well, is there a way to redirect to a particular page, instead of going through the TheCotton how page? How do I code around that?

    Thanks.

    Eric

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