Search Results for 'child theme'

[Martin]

Martin

#3693

Yes, I have got a child theme and put the header.php into the right folder

[Ben Ritner]

Ben Ritner

#3692

Did you do this in a child theme? did you copy the header.php into a templates folder of that child theme?

Ben

[Jeff]

Jeff

#3674

Hi Ben,

All sites up and running with premium theme. One with a premium child theme, and two with just premium.

Thank you for your valuable assistance!
Jeff

P.S. I hope it’s ok for me to close this thread as RESOLVED.

[Ben Ritner]

Ben Ritner

#3620

I removed with the intent of replacing in a tutorial. I was seeing that a lot of people who didn’t need a child theme were using it because they thought it was necessary since it was in the downloads. Felt like it was creating too much confusion for people who don’t understand what a child theme is.

Ben

[Daniel]

Daniel

#3610

Hi Ben,

why did you remove the child theme in the first place? gives me trouble here 🙁

Thx

Dan

[Dominic]

Dominic

#3563

Hi Ben
I was experimenting with the theme options and changed all my page templates to “fullwidth.”
When I tried to change them back to “default” the sidebar never showed up.
Even when switching the page templates to “sidebar” they remained at full width, even though the template selection indicated the template was either default or sidebar. I’m not using any custom css code or a child theme. Any ideas?
(The home page layout still lets me choose between fullwidth and sidebar, it’s just the rest of the pages that refuse to go back.)

[Dominic]

Dominic

#3563

Hi Ben
I was experimenting with the theme options and changed all my page templates to “fullwidth.”
When I tried to change them back to “default” the sidebar never showed up.
Even when switching the page templates to “sidebar” they remained at full width, even though the template selection indicated the template was either default or sidebar. I’m not using any custom css code or a child theme. Any ideas?
(The home page layout still lets me choose between fullwidth and sidebar, it’s just the rest of the pages that refuse to go back.)

[Ben Ritner]

Ben Ritner

#3499

Yes, Export while the free is active.
Yes either the premium or premium child will work fine
Yes you just need a folder with a style.css file and the code above to create a child theme.

Ben

[Jeff]

Jeff

#3497

Thank you for the quick response. Just to clarify…

– I presume I should export settings from the free child theme which is currently active?
– then should the settings be imported into the premium theme or into a new premium child?
– should the css you provided go into a new premium child which I will create after activating the premium theme?

Thanks.

[Ben Ritner]

Ben Ritner

#3489

Hey Jeff,
It’s in my long list of todos to write a post about child themes and post a link to a basic set up. I meant to do this when I removed the child theme that was on the downloads page, but it’s been pushed aside as I’ve been focusing on some heavy feature updates. Anyway I’ll really try to get this done asap.

For now, the premium and free actually run different core code, The free is still on bootstrap2 and the premium has been updated to 3. With that change you will want to copy the code from the footer.php file in premium and add your customizations to it or the layout won’t work quite right with the premium… In line with that the premium uses a different table then the free, so you will want to export your settings from within the theme options and import them into the premium. There is a little tutorial for that here: http://docs.kadencethemes.com/virtue/#freetopremium

Below I’ve pasted the basic css for your child theme style.css file. If you have questions let me know.

Ben

/*
Theme Name: Virtue – Premium Child
Theme URI: http://themes.kadencethemes.com/virtue-premium/
Description: Child theme for Virtue – Premium theme
Author: Kadence Themes
Author URI: https://www.kadencewp.com/
Template: virtue_premium
Version: 1.0.0
*/

[Jeff]

Jeff

#3488

I purchased premium 2.0.2 yesterday and would like to upgrade from a free theme child I was using. I only used theme options except for one minor footer customization. In reviewing the forum entries, it seems there may have been an official premium child theme at one time in the past, which could be downloaded from the Kadence site. But I don’t see a child theme download available now. There are a number of plugins to create child themes. Do you recommend any of these? Ultimately I just want to transfer current free child settings to premium child theme.

[Jeff]

Jeff

#3488

I purchased premium 2.0.2 yesterday and would like to upgrade from a free theme child I was using. I only used theme options except for one minor footer customization. In reviewing the forum entries, it seems there may have been an official premium child theme at one time in the past, which could be downloaded from the Kadence site. But I don’t see a child theme download available now. There are a number of plugins to create child themes. Do you recommend any of these? Ultimately I just want to transfer current free child settings to premium child theme.

[Ben Ritner]

Ben Ritner

#3469

Well this is possible, It’s a pretty messy because wordpress doesn’t have built in feature for this.

I can help you with the code, your going to need to involve a child theme.
First why not create a separate category called featured? Then rotate the latest from each category into that category?

Can you post the plugin you were using? What to take a look at how they set it up. as I said from what I read it’s pretty messy to get this, along with very heavy on the server.

Ben

[Dominic]

Dominic

#3386

Hi Ben,
I made the child theme and included your code in the .php file but the tags in the tag cloud don’t show up. The Tag Cloud title shows up and the tag cloud div container does show up in firebug, there’s just no tags inside it.
Any thoughts?

[Rehana]

Rehana

#3178

Hi Ben,

Thanks so much for your advice! I’ll ge some resources and research on how to create the child theme as you suggested and figure my way around recreating the design specs.

And thank you for the custom css for the social widgets, did exactly what I needed it to do.

Thank you once again!

[Ben Ritner]

Ben Ritner

#3172

It looks like the designer directly edited the main style sheet and main code. I’m not sure how they imaged you would even update your site with the free version. There is no way of pulling the custom code out without knowing exactly what changes have been done. If I were to do it I would start from scratch and create a child theme and code all without even trying to figure out the changes. I would just look at your site and recreate that.

In the end you need a designer if you don’t know the code and development. You need someone who will develop a child theme for you so you can keep updating overtime. I can help you with little things like the social icons but to get the site with the same design as yours you need to get someone who can code it.

here is the custom css for the socail icons:

.virtue_social_widget a {
display: block;
float: left;
width: 15px;
text-align: center;
line-height: 15px;
padding: 5px;
background: rgba(33,205,10,1.0);
margin-left: 3px;
margin-bottom: 3px;
color: #444;
-moz-border-radius: 8px;
border-radius: 8px;
}
.virtue_social_widget a i {
color: #fff;
font-size: 14px;
line-height: 15px;
vertical-align: middle;
}

Ben

[Ben Ritner]

Ben Ritner

#3152

The child theme will pick up the theme options automatically.

1. Just need to create a folder named virtue_child or whatever.
2. create two files in it one names styles.css and one named functions.php
3. In the styles.css file add this:

/*
Theme Name: Virtue Premium Child
Theme URI: http://themes.kadencethemes.com/virtue-premium/
Description: Child Theme for Virtue Premium
Author: Kadence Themes
Author URI: https://www.kadencewp.com/
Template: virtue_premium
Version: 1.0
*/

4. And in the functions.php file add this:

<?php function kad_product_tag_cloud($args) {
  $args = array(
    'smallest' => 16, 
    'largest' => 28,
  );
 return $args;
}
add_filter( 'woocommerce_product_tag_cloud_widget_args', 'kad_product_tag_cloud'); ?>

Ben

[Dominic]

Dominic

#3151

Well that opens up a whole other can of worms!
Looks like I need to read the documentation on Virtue child themes.
One quick question, if I make a child theme, will all the changes I made to the current parent theme using the the built in tools automatically transfer over to the child theme or do I have to export the current settings and import them using the child theme?

[Ben Ritner]

Ben Ritner

#3150

Yes, it will be replaced. Making a child theme and putting this into the functions.php file in it would be best 🙂

Ben

[Dominic]

Dominic

#3149

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
I feel like I should know the answer to this question, but is the functions.php file replaced during theme updates?
Does changing that file mean I need to make a Virtue Premium child theme?
-Dominic

[Ben Ritner]

Ben Ritner

#3107

Hey,
1. I just updated this so here are instructions: http://docs.kadencethemes.com/virtue/#freetopremium

2. Yeah you don’t want to just copy code and override premium. That won’t work. To restore you need to know what was done and you need to understand the code enough to know how to correctly code it in. With any kind of overriding of the theme you should be using a child theme for those templates.

3. Most of the color settings are in the theme options if there isn’t an option for it then you need to write a little css and add it. If you post what you want I can post the code you need to add to your theme options custom css.

Ben

[Ben Ritner]

Ben Ritner

#3097

Well you might want to update the theme first as a lot of new features are out, You can find the new version on your my account page. Make sure to look at this post too because the theme options have changed: https://www.kadencewp.com/updating-virtue-with-new-options-panel/

As for the languages, you need the files to be in the main theme folder. in the lang file. The child theme lang folder won’t be used.

Ben