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Hi Ismael,
Thanks for your help. I’ve finally tracked down the template version (based on fewest different files between clean theme and website theme files) and appears to be v2.9.2. Here’s a list of the changed files:
\config-templatebuilder\avia-shortcodes\logoslider.php
\config-templatebuilder\avia-shortcodes\postslider.php
\config-templatebuilder\avia-template-builder\config\meta.php
\css\base.css
\css\custom.css
\css\grid.css
\css\layout.css
\css\shortcodes.css
\framework\php\class-breadcrumb.php
\framework\php\class-framework-widgets.php
\framework\php\function-set-avia-frontend.php
\includes\comments.php
\includes\helper-main-menu.php
\includes\helper-responsive-megamenu.php
\includes\loop-author.php
\includes\loop-comments.php
\includes\loop-index.php
\includes\loop-search.php
\js\avia.js
\archive.php
\footer.php
\functions-enfold.php
\functions.php
\header.php
\page.php
\search.php
\searchform.php
\single.php
\style.css
\template-builder.phpAs you can see there are quite a few! i’m going to try to pull these out into a child theme along with the base pages etc that call some of the includes to ensure they are including the child theme files and not the parent theme. If i can get that working i’ll then try to get it working with the updated theme.
Any tips would be appreciated. Let the fun begin ;)
Hi Ismael,
Yea i was afraid of that, and figured that was the only route.
The dev has vanished so no luck contacting them. What do you think about this solution, at least to try to get things working:
- Diff the current theme folder with a vanilla copy of the same version to get a list of files that have changed (at least get an idea where that changes have happened)
- Remove the theme folder and replace it with the vanilla theme keeping theme name etc
- Create a child theme based on the diff’d files only (will also need to copy in supporting files and strip out whats not needed)
- Get site working with the child theme, then update the master theme folder with latest version
- Fix any incompatibilities to get the site working with the latest theme version
Sounds like a bit of work but might be an option if i can get the child theme to override the master theme properly.
Do you think it might be the way to go?
Hi Yigit,
I’ve updated the initial post with correct deets.
That’s the problem, the theme has been modified directly by a previous developer instead of creating a child theme so i’ll lose the customisation if I update the theme.
Maybe i can just update the logo element list part instead which should preserve the other changes – and fix the missing slider content. Which files should i start looking at (the postslider.php has been modified, and it seems this would be the first place to look, but not sure).
Thanks for your feedback.
James
