sydbarrett74

Your suggestions to remove the comments—I instead put those in an accompanying .txt file—worked.

My reasoning for putting a ?> at the end of the child theme’s functions.php was to match the opening <?php (I guess I was wrong).

The first tutorial specified that I should add style.css and functions.php…

The other tutorial I used said to add a custom header function to functions.php…

The gist is here:

https://gist.github.com/sydbarrett74/928eb2104370c230a64af9e3a1144686

BTW, thank you so much for your assistance. ??

OK…here is what I have determined. The problem stems from my use of a child theme. I am doing so because I want to create a custom header widget area and don’t want my custom changes to be overwritten if the theme gets updated. I complied with the documentation on WP.org to create the child theme, so I don’t know what I’ve been doing wrong.

This may be related, but I’m trying to go into Themes -> Appearance and add a header image to my theme, and when it loads the library for me to pick the image, I get the dreaded spinning cursor and it never loads the image library. I’ve kept this page up for hours, with the spinning cursor just doing its thing. The same thing happens when I try to add images to a slideshow plugin. Is my installation seriously borked?

I upgraded to 7 and unfortunately I’m getting the same error. ??

FYI, my host is Network Solutions, and I’m using the shared hosting package (so I don’t have access to Apache settings and logs, for example).

I tried to ‘prettify’ the output above as much as I could. ??

PHP Version	                   –5.3.29-pl0-gentoo - For performance and 
                                   security reasons, we strongly recommend 
                                   running PHP version 7.0 or higher.
MySQL Server version	           ✓5.6.37-82.2-56-log
JSON Extension	                   ✓Your PHP install supports JSON.
MySQL utf8mb4 support	           ✓Your MySQL version supports utf8mb4
                                   –WordPress' utf8mb4 support requires MySQL 
                                   client library (mysqlnd) version 5.0.9 or 
                                   newer.
Communication with www.remarpro.com   ✓www.remarpro.com is reachable from your server.
HTTPS status	                   –You are not using HTTPS to access this 
                                   website.
Secure communication	           ✓Your WordPress install can communicate 
                                   securely with other services.
Scheduled events	           ✓No scheduled events have been missed.
Background updates	           ✓No version control systems were detected.
                                   ✓Your installation of WordPress doesn't 
                                   require FTP credentials to perform updates.
                                   ✓All of your WordPress files are writable.
Loopback request	           ✓The loopback request to your site completed 
                                   successfully.

I finally solved the problem by installing a plugin called myStickymenu. It doesn’t do what I want perfectly, but comes close enough given the limits set by WP’s architecture.

position: relative is the default behaviour. That’s not what I want. I want the header to remain fixed, but the visitor to be able to scroll through the container’s content. What I want essentially is to emulate the old 1990’s behaviour of having multiple frames with an invisible border between frames.

https://www.comptechdoc.org/independent/web/html/guide/htmlframes.html

I removed the padding-top line and the #header is declared as position: absolute in the style.css of my child theme. The header is still overlapping the top bit of my container. If you click on the ‘About Rev. Paula’ link, you’ll see what I mean.

I would be curious as well. I would love to have an API to import events programmatically rather than having to key in the data manually. Maybe this is something only available in the Pro version. ??