gamerdarling

Yeah, I’m now leaning towards the developer having done something specifically to make it so that you don’t create child themes because they charge for an upgraded option that allows you to do things as basic as changing the footer color. Guh. I already needed to modify way more than that to make the theme be what I wanted anyway.

That’s annoying, I wish it had just come with the tagline in the description telling me not to create a child theme. I’m happy to respect their copyright, so I’m not going to try and find a way around it, but now I’ve wasted a lot of time trying to make it work.

Then I really don’t understand why I would be seeing this issue on the child theme only…Shouldn’t it be exactly the same functionality as the parent theme?

I haven’t done debug mode, I haven’t actually edited any php, just some CSS changes in the child theme. The php file up there was the front-page.php file from the parent theme. But since it works when I switch to the parent theme, I’m thinking I’m mistaken about it being the problem.

The folder renaming thing didn’t work. But it does work if I switch themes.

I am working out of a child theme I’ve created. When I switch back to the original theme the front page works correctly, so clearly I was mistaken about it being an issue with that file…When creating a child theme is there a specific php file that you need to copy into the child theme for this to function correctly? It’s odd, because everything else seems to be working…

Same result with all plugins disabled. I’m new to WP coding, but looking at the front-page.php of the theme I’m using it doesn’t seem to have anything that would display a specific pages content in it. It seems to load some widget areas if they’re active, check for layout to see if it needs columns and then load recent posts with no handling for content when a static front page is used. Is that normal? Here’s the code:

<?php
/**
 * Template to show the front page.
 *
 * @package ThemeGrill
 * @subpackage ColorMag
 * @since ColorMag 1.0
 */
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

   <div class="front-page-top-section clearfix">
      <div class="widget_slider_area">
         <?php
         if( is_active_sidebar( 'colormag_front_page_slider_area' ) ) {
            if ( !dynamic_sidebar( 'colormag_front_page_slider_area' ) ):
            endif;
         }
         ?>
      </div>

      <div class="widget_beside_slider">
         <?php
         if( is_active_sidebar( 'colormag_front_page_area_beside_slider' ) ) {
            if ( !dynamic_sidebar( 'colormag_front_page_area_beside_slider' ) ):
            endif;
         }
         ?>
      </div>
   </div>
   <div class="main-content-section clearfix">
      <div id="primary">
         <div id="content" class="clearfix">

         <?php
         if( is_active_sidebar( 'colormag_front_page_content_top_section' ) ) {
            if ( !dynamic_sidebar( 'colormag_front_page_content_top_section' ) ):
            endif;
         }

         if( is_active_sidebar( 'colormag_front_page_content_middle_left_section' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'colormag_front_page_content_middle_right_section' )) {
         ?>
            <div class="tg-one-half">
               <?php
               if ( !dynamic_sidebar( 'colormag_front_page_content_middle_left_section' ) ):
               endif;
               ?>
            </div>
            <div class="tg-one-half tg-one-half-last">
               <?php
               if ( !dynamic_sidebar( 'colormag_front_page_content_middle_right_section' ) ):
               endif;
               ?>
            </div>
         <div class="clearfix"></div>
         <?php
         }
         if( is_active_sidebar( 'colormag_front_page_content_bottom_section' ) ) {
            if ( !dynamic_sidebar( 'colormag_front_page_content_bottom_section' ) ):
            endif;
         }
         if (get_theme_mod('colormag_hide_blog_front', 0) == 0): ?>

            <div class="article-container">
               <?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>

                  <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

                     <?php
                     if ( is_front_page() && is_home() ) {
                       get_template_part( 'content', '' );
                     } elseif ( is_front_page() ) {
                       get_template_part( 'content', 'page' );
                     }
                     ?>

                  <?php endwhile; ?>

                  <?php get_template_part( 'navigation', 'none' ); ?>

               <?php else : ?>

                  <?php get_template_part( 'no-results', 'none' ); ?>

               <?php endif; ?>
            </div>
         <?php endif; ?>
         </div>
      </div>
      <?php colormag_sidebar_select(); ?>
   </div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

I’m trying the folder renaming suggested in the other thread as well, but that file seemed suspicious to me? Thanks for linking that thread, I tried searching for stuff related to this issue, but most of the threads I found were more than seven years old. >.<

Thanks for the tip WPyogi. ??

Turns out that in one of the php files there’s an inline setting controlling the size of the images in addition to the CSS. I didn’t find it initially because everything in the files is named balloons and it took me awhile to realize that they weren’t being created in the header file under “masthead” header the way the generated source was leading me to believe when I inspected the element.

They’re actually created in the footer.php file for the theme. If you’re going to adjust the image size you have to adjust it there as well. (That same setting also controls the image referenced for *some* browsers so if you’re swapping them make sure you do it there too. Otherwise it’ll work for some users and not others)

Thanks for checking on that, I wouldn’t have even thought to look at the plugins! I’m in chrome, and I think I’ll try a different one if they update the setting and it still doesn’t work. ??

https://alinkbetweenhearts.com/wp/

The host is a small orange. I kept googling after creating this thread and I’m thinking maybe server side caching so I put in a ticket.

//Ahhhh.. You are on the wrong forums.. Looks like you are using WordPress.com’s service. You can visit https://en.forums.wordpress.com/ and post there about your issues.//

Thank you. I’ll try complaining over there. ??

//If you have an issue with something you purchased, I would be looking in that direction and not here.//

Yeah, I was sort of hoping that either one of you guys would have a link to somewhere to put in a ticket at wordpress.com, or that maybe they monitor these forums and might reach out to me as a result of me posting.

Sorry, it has to be someone at wordpress itself.

I was using their hosted service because I got confused while setting things up(I’ve used it before but it’s been awhile). They have a premium package upgrade to do domain mapping that I ended up buying. When I figured out that what I really needed was to just install it on my own servers I got that taken care of, and went back to their hosting service and put in the request for a refund. I got this: https://screencast.com/t/pTySDQEn

That link takes you to a page that allows you to search their guides. Not actually contact support. =/