socket footer has disappeared after recent update

Hi Rikard:
The site seems to be working fine except the logo has disappeared in the header. Can you help get it back?

Hi again:

I have at least 3 other sites that are experiencing issues after updating the theme to version 4.8.6.4! This is a real problem; hope you’ll be updating the theme with a more blanket fix soon.

The two issues are
1) the footer socket disappears on sites with customization in the child theme, and even on the staging3.evictionlegalhelp.org site where you replaced the header.php, the logo is gone in the header.
2) on other sites (without child theme customization in the header.php file), the logo has disappeared in the site header.

Fortunately, I have only updated the staging sites for each of these so far.

Other client sites that I maintain that have issues since updating are:

https://staging1.massclavc.org (This site is missing the socket footer)
http://dev.kummerconsulting.com/consulting (missing the logo in the header)
https://staging2.mlac.org (missing logo in header)

I’ll include the credentials in the private content. Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi,
Thanks for the theme update to fix the missing logo; that’s working fine now on all the sites.

But I’m having a problem with updating the header.php file in my child theme on this site ( with customization in the child theme header.php):

As manhattanctr mentioned in this feed, in your new header.php file there is no closing php ?> after this:

<?php

if( isset( $avia_config[‘temp_logo_container’] ) )
{
echo $avia_config[‘temp_logo_container’];
}

do_action( ‘ava_after_main_container’ );

but when I appended my customization, I had to add one. Now I have 2 site headers! But if I remove the closing php ?> that I added on Line 257, the header.php file throws an error on Line 259 where my customization begins.

I don’t know the reason for not closing the php ?> but I can’t get my customization to work without closing it. But closing it creates a double site header.

Can you help?

I had someone write the code but as far as I can tell, it starts on Line 83 in the old_header.php file, and continues to the end of the file. I’ve attached it in the private content section.

It’s purpose is to do a search by county on the Service Providers page.

Thanks.

Rikard:
This code worked perfectly in the child theme until this latest theme update. The developer is no longer available and this is not at all an easy thing to change. I am fairly certain this is an issue of placement; i.e. the code worked when I added it, but it created 2 headers. So the issue is the changes you made to the theme, and where the code needs to go to avoid the double header.

In terms of your question about where the custom code should be added, I referenced the old_header.php; it was at the end of the file. If the code in private looks like the script I want to add, did you try adding it? I’m not sure where I should put it in this new header.php file, especially since the new header.php file does not have a closing ?> tag. I’d appreciate if you can add it in the correct place; then I can see whether it works. Thank you for your help solving this issue.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by bkatzdesign.