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In case anyone else is having this problem – after trying almost everything in the forums and the codex I contacted my web host and they fixed it from their end. There was a server update to default php 5.4. that caused the disruption.

I’ve noticed this error from Firebug – can it be the cause?

“NetworkError: 404 Not Found – https://gayliawagnerdesign.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php”

I have no idea what this means though, or how to fix it.

I also added the following to my wp-config.php file –

define(‘WP_HOME’,’https://example.com’);
define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’https://example.com’);

Also did nothing to fix the problem.

ste_barrett – thanks for your input. i tried that, but it didn’t work for me. i’m guessing the issue is that everything under Appearance/Theme Settings loads after the child theme’s style.css, and there are a lot of options under there for this theme. so if i need to modify one of these options i can only do it via Appearance/Theme Settings/CSS. a bit of a drag….

konradS – thanks for all of the information. i created a custom sidebar in my child theme but i was unable to move it below the top menu bar for some reason. as a temporary solution i modified a left sidebar with some CSS and that’s working for now:) if i have any further questions i’ll let you know.

Thanks, konradS, you answered my question. I’ll consider purchasing the pro version so I can edit the .css more efficiently.

Another question for you – is it possible to change the location of sidebars on different pages? For instance, on my Blog page I would like the sidebar on the right, but for my Collections page I have a different sidebar that I would prefer to be on the left, with nothing on the right. There seem to be a number of plug-ins that will let you change the sidebar content from page to page, but I can’t seem to change the location from page to page.

Nope, still have to add !important. When I examine the code with Firebug it looks like the last instructions it loads are from “www.gayliawagnerdesign.com#3”. Any clues as to what or where that is and how to adjust the hierarchy would be greatly appreciated!

Update – it seems that the style.css sheet must load before the changes made via Appearance/Theme Settings/CSS. If I label something in style.css with !important then the edit overrides what has been done under Theme Settings, if not it doesn’t. Same with Appearance/Editor, which does sync correctly with style.css in the cPanel. Going to be brave and test what happens if I remove all code from Appearance/Theme Settings/CSS. Hopefully that will resolve the issue.

Additional info – I’ve tested editing the .css for a plug-in installed in my child theme via the cPanel, and there was no problem doing that. AND the changes showed up immediately so it’s not a cache issue. Nor is it a permissions issue – both .css files are at 777.

website – https://www.gayliawagnerdesign.com

Oh. Oops. Feeling a little silly now. Thank you so much for pointing that out to me. I had been going a little crazy trying to figure out why nothing seemed to happen when I would add to the style.css for my child theme…. Everything seems to be working perfectly now. You’ve been a great help, and I’ve been really impressed with your responsiveness both to me and to others. And your patience! I’m sending a donation to you directly. Thanks again!

Ok, exactly as I thought – when I copied and pasted the CSS into the CSS page in “Theme Settings” in the Dashboard the plugin started functioning normally again. But now the pager and nav buttons aren’t showing up at all (not even hidden in the upper left corner) so I must have the image paths wrong. Huh, I wonder if you’re right and I don’t have the child theme activated. Yikes! I’m sending you my login info – please take a look because I’d hate to lose all of my hard work when an update comes out! (You will see that the child CSS sheet has code in it, but that’s because I’ve basically just been using it to store a copy of my changes.)

I tried deleting it, recopying it, and changing the permissions (upping them from 644). Nothing has worked. I’m wondering if this is an underlying problem caused by the parent theme – Custom Community. For some reason the child theme will not read the style.css sheet that’s in the child theme folder. It only reads the CSS if I add it directly to the CSS page in “Theme Settings” in the Dashboard, and those changes do not get saved to the child theme’s style.css file at all. Do you think I need to copy all of the code from the plugin’s CSS styleheet and paste it directly onto the one in “Theme Settings”? All I’m trying to do is change the color of the pager buttons.

Almost forgot – website is https://www.gayliawagnerdesign.com/.

Ok, to give you a little more info – everything works fine when I have Meteor Slides using the CSS from its own plugin file. But as soon as I move its CSS file to my theme’s CSS file the nav and pager buttons totally disappear, even though I’ve copied over the .png files to my image folder. Changing the paths from (‘../images/buttons.png’) to (‘images/buttons.png’) does nothing. Oddly enough, I can see what I think are all of the buttons clustered together in the upper left corner of the slide box as the slide fades out. I have no idea why they are up there, I haven’t adjusted any of the positioning. Please help!