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  Public Ticket #738726
Child theme
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  •  1
    Margaret started the conversation

    I am using the main theme - I did not load the child theme - is this a problem?

  •  1,593
    Barry replied

    Hi Margaret

    The child theme is recommend to use when you are customizing the code from the theme itself. For example; If you make changes in the parent theme style.css and update the theme after some time all the changes will get overwritten. With the child theme you're extending it and then customize it so your won't lost anything.

    All your content, pages, and changes from the customizer won't get overwritten on a theme update. It is only for code customizations.

    Best regards,
    Barry
    QreativeThemes.com  |  WordPress Themes

  •  1
    Margaret replied

    Thanks - I think the only thing I will have to change in the css is the green colour to the blue I am using. If I download the child theme now and install it will all the work I have done so far be overridden?

    thanks again for all the help

  •  1,593
    Barry replied

    Hi Margaret

    I think you don't need a child theme because you can change the theme colour scheme in the customizer via Appearance > Customize > Theme Options. A child theme basically get installed and used for any additional code customizations that don't get covered by the theme as default.

    If you do need to use the child theme you can install it without losing all the work. The only thing what could happen is a widget in the footer that get empty from its content and need to be added again. But your posts, pages or adjustments in the customizer won't get overwritten or lost.

    Best regards,
    Barry
    QreativeThemes.com  |  WordPress Themes

  •  1
    Margaret replied

    That's great - with the colours I have changed the main colours via Appearance > Customize > Theme Options however I notice some headers, bullet points etc are still green so I was assuming that is in the css?

  •  1,593
    Barry replied

    Hi Margaret

    Can you point me to the URL? Because all the green colors in the theme can be adjusted within the Theme Option panel.

    Best regards,
    Barry
    QreativeThemes.com  |  WordPress Themes

  •   Margaret replied privately
  •  1,593
    Barry replied

    Thank you, that makes it clear to me.

    On the services pages you can adjust the color within the Visual Editor as textcolor.

    The small text color can be changed via Appearance > Customizer > Theme Options > Custom CSS with the following rule:

    .jumbotron.carousel .carousel-topheading { color: #yourcolor; }

    The galleries are a bit harder because the color need to be changed on two locations I will describe the steps for each.

    The hover 'view gallery' button
    - Go to Ess. Grid -> Item Skin editor
    - Below the skins click on the pagination page 6
    - You will see 2 The Landcaper skins, follow below steps for each
    - See attached screenshot for specifc steps to change the color
    - Save grid settings on the top right corner of your screen

    The navigation arrows
    - Go to Ess. Grid and edit specific grid
    - Click on the Skins tab
    - Click on the small button named 'Edit Skin', a modal will popup
    - Then edit line 65, 67, 77 to your color and line 91 to your hover color
    - Save settings

    Best regards,
    Barry
    QreativeThemes.com  |  WordPress Themes

  •  1
    Margaret replied

    wow Barry

    thank you so much - that is fantastic!

  •  1,593
    Barry replied

    You're welcome

    Let me know if you have any questions.

    Best regards,
    Barry
    QreativeThemes.com  |  WordPress Themes

  •  1
    Margaret replied

    I have added this .jumbotron.carousel .carousel-topheading { color: #63b1e0; } but it does not change the colour. Not sure what I am doing wrong. screenshot below

    sorry!

  •  1,593
    Barry replied

    Hi Margaret

    Did you save the settings to make the changes live? I viewed the source code of your website and didn't see the custom included CSS line.

    Best regards,
    Barry
    QreativeThemes.com  |  WordPress Themes

  •  1
    Margaret replied

    Yes I did Barry - see the image below

    sorry no doubt I have done something stupid :(

  •  1,593
    Barry replied

    Hi Margaret

    Can you provide me a login in a private comment? I will take a closer look

    Thank you

    Best regards,
    Barry
    QreativeThemes.com  |  WordPress Themes

  •   Margaret replied privately
  •  1,593
    Barry replied

    Hi Margaret

    No problem.

    I just copied the CSS line into the customizer and it's blue now.

    Best regards,
    Barry
    QreativeThemes.com  |  WordPress Themes

  •  1
    Margaret replied

    that's great - thanks. any idea what I was doing wrong :(

  •  1,593
    Barry replied

    I copied the same CSS line as you, you didn't do anything wrong :) 

    Probably the customizer was not getting the value from the CSS field, in some way..

    Best regards,
    Barry
    QreativeThemes.com  |  WordPress Themes

  •  1
    Margaret replied

    Barry

    this goes back to the issue of whether I should be using the child theme. I want to get rid of comments, author name and things like that - do I have to change css, or templates to do that and if so should I use the child theme?

    Following that if I use the child theme now will I have to re-do colour changes etc that I have been making to the main theme/

    thanks

  •  1,593
    Barry replied

    Hi Marget

    This is all possible with custom CSS. 

    Comments
    - Delete them all under the Comments tab in the WordPress admin. 
    - If you click the Pages tab in the admin menu you can 'quick edit' a page. There you will see the checkbox of 'Allow Comments'. Uncheck that and save the settings. The comments are now no displayed

    Where do yo want the author name removed? I will provide some CSS for that.

    Thank you

    Best regards,
    Barry
    QreativeThemes.com  |  WordPress Themes

  •  1
    Margaret replied

    thanks Barry - I see why people rave about your support :)

    I got rid of the comments and see where I can uncheck them on the quick edit.

    I have attached an image from the top of a post. I would like for the "author name" and the "0 comments" not to show up. Is that possible? I thought there might be a check box

  •  1,593
    Barry replied

    Hi Margaret

    You can use this CSS for it:

    .post-inner .post-meta-data a:first-of-type,
    .post-inner .post-meta-data span.round-divider,
    .post-inner .post-meta-data time,
    .post-inner .post-meta-data span.author { display: none; }

    Best regards,
    Barry
    QreativeThemes.com  |  WordPress Themes

  •  1
    Margaret replied

    wow now that is super fast - I have inserted it but left the date in

    thanks again Barry

  •  1,593
    Barry replied

    Edit: Fixed the screenshot for the comments. see the attachment.


    Best regards,
    Barry
    QreativeThemes.com  |  WordPress Themes

  •  1,593
    Barry replied

    In the source code I see this:

    .post-inner .post-meta-data a:first-of-type,
    .post-inner .post-meta-data span.round-divider,
    .post-inner .post-meta-data span.author { display: none; }

    Can you try to remove that and add this:

    .post-inner .post-meta-data a:first-of-type,
    .post-inner .post-meta-data span.round-divider,
    .post-inner .post-meta-data time,
    .post-inner .post-meta-data span.author { display: none; }

    Best regards,
    Barry
    QreativeThemes.com  |  WordPress Themes

  •  1
    Margaret replied

    will that take the date off - I want the date left there.

    or does this line refer to something else?

    .post-inner .post-meta-data time,

  •  1,593
    Barry replied

    I'm a little bit confused now :)

    This page is fine now? http://alaea.asn.au/wordpress/notices/ 

    A single post page is displaying only the date now http://alaea.asn.au/wordpress/notice-0082016-all-members-small-aircraft-licencing/ So it's fine too?

    Best regards,
    Barry
    QreativeThemes.com  |  WordPress Themes

  •  1
    Margaret replied

    sorry I can't seem to open the screen08.jpg ...

    BTW final questions - I hope!

    is there supposed to be two blog page layout options? Grid and list? I can't see anywhere to pick a layout option - and should the whole article be showing like this?

    my blog page:

    http://alaea.asn.au/wordpress/notices/

    also any idea why my day in opening hours changes at about 3pm to the following day - I have checked the times in my wordpress settings - seems odd.

    thanks again

  •  1
    Margaret replied

    PS our emailed crossed - the author and comments issue is great :)

  •  1,593
    Barry replied

    I added a new screenshot, see attachment.

    The blog layout option is only available for the page where the blog post page is assigned to. You can choose which page to display the blog posts via Settings -> Reading. When setting the 'Post Page' then the blog layout option metabox will display below the editor on that specific page.

    The opening hours are checking the time settings from your WordPress install under Settings -> General. It's checking the local time with PHP if they are accord the WordPress time settings.

    Best regards,
    Barry
    QreativeThemes.com  |  WordPress Themes