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Hi Yigit,
i just followed your suggestion on my previous (closed) thread about using a child theme to keep the changes to my actual site when Enfold releases a new update.
I followed the link you gave me on the tutorial to get the Enfold Child Theme, install it and import the parent settings.
Unfortunately the import of the parent settings produces changes in the outcome of the new site using the child theme .
I tried to revert to the original Enfold theme, yet the mistakes are all there and the site now looks slightly different from the correct way it was just a few minutes ago.
That’s quite an issue and a damage. How can I get it back the way it was before? And how can I make sure the child them looks exactly the same as the parent so i can actually use it and preserve any future changes?
Thanks.
Antonio
Hey Antonio!
What kind of changes were produced? I have just checked your website and could not notice anything. Please elaborate
Regards,
YigitThanks Yigit :-)
I was actually able to restore the regular version with the parent Enfold theme.
In the Child theme the changes are the following:
– the menu on top of the page includes all pages, not just the ones that make part of the original menu, so there is a justaposition of hyperlinks that looks really bad.
– there doesn’t seem to be the correct colored buttons and hyperlinks as in the original styling section: they all remain green as per Enfold default, instead of being the custom color I selected to fit in the site.
– the divider bar in the blog is no longer 75% as before, but maybe I suppose I have to redo the change within the file with the code you gacve me, since it’s a different theme, right?Those are the first tings i saw. I couldn’t keep the site that way so i didn’t have time to investigate further and restored the original parent theme.
It would be very useful to have the child theme running as the parent, but if I can’t get it, it’s kind of useless to me and I unfortunately have to redo all the custom changes manually everytime there is a new Enfold theme update (which is quite bothering).Thanks for your quick feedback.
I really appreciate.
AntonioHi!
When you switch to a child theme you are technically switching themes. All theme settings are saved to your currently active theme by its name.
So WordPress loads Enfold and pulls the options saved for the Enfold theme in the database. When you activate a child theme you are using Enfold-Child which is completely different data. So your menu, theme options etc will not be loaded by default.
We added a button on the main theme options to import in your parent options to make the transition easier as it will import in the theme options you set in the parent.
Quick Edit: WordPress specific options still need to be re-saved.
Regards,
DevinHi Devin,
i am not sure I understood. If you mean that after installing and activating Enfold Child theme there is a button that allows you to load all Enfold parent theme settings, it is what I have clicked and then I saw a website which looked 90% like the parent but had those things that didn’t match (button styling colors and all the oages in the menu like I specified above). I followed the link Yigit kindly provided me in another thread (http://kriesi.at/documentation/enfold/using-a-child-theme/)
If you meant something different, I am afraid I do not understand what I need to do to have the child theme look exactly as the parent Enfold theme I currently have.
Where do I go wrong?
Thanks.
Antonio
The parent import settings will import in what you have on the parent them. WordPress settings, like the menu, still need to be manually set by you.
Thanks for clarifying, Devin.
The style settings though were not imported correctly. All the buttons and the hyperlink keep having the default green in Enfold and not the blue I set as standard in the Parent theme.
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