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Does anyone know if this bug has been cleared up on Atahualpa yet? I would like to update but am scared to do so for fear that I will have this problem again.

Thanks!

The latest (3.6.7) version of atahualpa still has the bug but if you know where to locate the css.php file on your server, it was a simple cut and paste job to update it. I have a dummy version of my blog on a subdomain for testing stuff out and I tried it there first – admittedly I’d have been terrified to do it to my main blog straight off but once I’d seen it work ok on 2 other subdomains of test sites I knew it was ok. I’d never edited any of my back end files before!

Thank you SO much for replying! I can probably figure it out w/ my hosting company. I guess I should ask them about the dummy version of my blog as well? I didn’t know you could do that. If you have a moment, do you have tips for either of these? (subdomain dummy and if my hosting co would know about the css.php file?) And have you thought about moving to a paid theme? I have heard that there might be better service on those. Thanks in advance!

Just create another site on a subdomain (assuming your hosting package lets you) and build it with same theme, plug-ins etc. It only needs a couple of posts of content for you to see how various updates will affect layout etc. Doing this lets you try out complicated stuff without being scared you’ll break the main site!

Hi Cupcake, I like your idea, I am going to pass it along to my students as it is simple and straight forward solution.

The one I use is to have two copies of the them. For example if you have one folder called atahualpa you can have another folder called atahualpa-test

Load atahualpa-test with what you want to test and switch theames to the test. If it doesn’t work, switch back in a second and you have lost nothing. You can even run on the test while modifying your main theme.

However, for building with a complex theme, I like your idea better, as this could take days… or you may want to build a whole new layout! Great idea Cupcake!

I have a (slightly off topic) question for the people following this thread…

Atahualpa was originally designed in the days before automatic updates. Anyone who has built an Atahualpa site with custom headers, custom logos, custom favicons or custom functions, knows doing an automatic update is a nightmare you will not forget! Likewise the them dev team is working hard on a new PAID theme, so real updates like non FTP sites (upload images via WP Image Uploader) or multi-sites or automatic updates or custom functions are all in the new theme you need to pay for, the old theme is just basically maintained with new versions of WordPress, but it is still very very powerful.

There are a group of developers “out there” (myself included) that have real solutions for all this and extra bells and whistles too! We have file sharing etc, and among ourselves we have hundreds of WordPress Blogs. In fact, among ourselves, we joke about a
Super-Atahualpa. Recently it has been suggested that we actually release this… Super-Atahualpa! Of course we would find a good new name to avoid confusion name… Right now it is called “To Code!”

The idea is that we would keep it current, any patches would added to a point release and you could fix it with just an automatic update…

We just wonder if anyone would like a FREE theme as a fork of Atahualpa that was designed to be easier to use?

The main goal would be an expanded Theme, more features, and easier to use for newbies and people with less experience. No “patching” (my wife is afraid “to code” as she calls installing a patch or bug fix).

Plus, being a cooperative theme (fork) it would allow many new features,from different programmers, tried and true – and tested too!

So give me a yea or nay… should we make a new free and cooperative fork of Atahualpa, easier for people to use that have little coding experience, and with expanded features and abilities?

Thanks for you time… you opinion matters to us. If we make this new them or not is really in your hands… We are listening. Remember this code is already written for us… I personally have it working on over 3 dozen sites. With over 40 years of writing code, we do it easy, should we share with you so this is easy for you too?

Want to vote on this? Go here…

https://alantait.net/2011/07/31/to-code-the-new-atahualpa-wordpress-theme/

I’d just like to say thanks to cjhmdm and alchymyth for passing along the solution from that other forum. It worked for me!