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If I update WordPress to v3.9.2 will it cause an issues with my Enfold theme & my customizations?
Also, I know this has been asked & answered but if I update the Enfold theme when a new version is out, will that do anything to my customizations? I’ve seen many posts about child themes, but I am new to the themes & new to WordPress as well so could you help me understand child themes & how to use them & if that is even what I would need to do in order to keep my customizations in tact when updating themes and/or WordPress?
Thank you so much!
Hey WalstonNet!
Thank you for using the theme.
If you did any modifications on wordpress itself then it will be removed. All of the theme options will be preserve though. If you want to keep all customization on the theme intact, please use a child theme. Refer to this link: http://kriesi.at/documentation/enfold/using-a-child-theme/
Regards,
IsmaelThanks Ismael. I just read through that link & a couple others, and unfortunately I am still totally lost. The part that is confusing me is the actual creating of the child theme. I just don’t understand it. I did the export in the settings, and also downloaded a child theme, not sure what that part is about, it looks like it just has css & function files.
Is there someone you could recommend, or do you guys have a paid service maybe where I could give you the login & have you do it for me? I can usually do this stuff, but I am lost on this for some reason. Thanks so much.
Hey!
The WordPress update should have no effect on the theme. Its a security update so go ahead and update asap :)
We don’t have any premium support but you can hire a WordPress developer for a one hour consult over at Codeable. That way you can get all of your questions answered one on one.
Also take a look at http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
Regards,
DevinYeah, it actually updated all by itself not long after I got the message that it was available, which I am actually not too happy about. I would like to have control over that. Do you know where I can change the setting for that so it only updates manually?
Ok, if I can’t figure it out myself I guess that is what I will have to do [not til payday unfortunately].
How often does the Enfold theme update, is there an update coming out any time soon? If there is an update coming soon then I’ll need to get the child done very soon. What does an update (WP or theme) effect exactly? I know for sure the files, so if you changed any files it would overwrite those, but as far as images that I have uploaded, any of the settings, the quick css, etc? What is effected exactly?
And so by using a child theme, nothing that would be effected is effected? But, if you are using a child theme, how would you go about doing any updates that are available if you wanted to? Or can you not do any updates if using a child theme?
Thank you!
The auto updates are new but it will only update for minor releases: http://codex.wordpress.org/Configuring_Automatic_Background_Updates
Enfold updates semi regularly and will be getting a significant update some time soon. You can get a sense of the timing over the past year via the changelog here: http://themeforest.net/item/enfold-responsive-multipurpose-theme/4519990#item-description__changelog
Thank you Devin. Is there away to shut the auto updates off? And are the Enfold updates automatic too?
Hello again. Ok so from the links you gave I THINK I have it figured out, but am running into a problem.
This is what I did:
I created a new directory in themes called enfold-child.
I made sure the directory chmod was the same as the parent.
I modified the css to the following & then uploaded it to the child directory:/* Theme Name: Enfold Child Theme URI: http://kriesi.at/themedemo/?theme=enfold Description: A superflexible and responsive Business Theme by Kriesi Author: Kriesi Author URI: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kriesi/333648177216 Template: enfold-child Version: 1.0.0 Tags: light, dark, two-columns, right-sidebar, responsive-layout, accessibility-ready Text Domain: enfold-child */ /* For older themes, and themes that do not use wp_enqueue_style() to enqueue their stylesheet, use the following line where twentyfourteen is the name of the directory where the theme resides: Make sure you uncomment out this import line below if you want to include the parent CSS and the wp_enqueue_style() is not working. If you do not then you will not have any styling in your child theme from the parent theme. */ /* @import url("../enfold/style.css"); */ /* =Theme customization starts here -------------------------------------------------------------- */Then I went in & activated the child theme & it said it activated successfully.
The only thing I am not sure about is functions.php. I uploaded all of the same site files into the child theme directory that existed in the parent EXCEPT for functions.php as outlined in the link http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_ThemesSo everything says it’s working in the admin but when I go to my site, monicawalston.com, I get the following error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function avia_get_option() in /home/monicawa/public_html/wp-content/themes/enfold-child/header.php on line 5What am I missing? I feel like there’s just one little thing? From what I read in the above link, I got the jist that I shouldn’t upload a functions.php, is that correct???
Please help?
Thank you!
And if I try to upload functions.php to the child theme, I get the following error when going to my site:
Warning: require_once(functions-enfold.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/monicawa/public_html/wp-content/themes/enfold-child/functions.php on line 512 Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'functions-enfold.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/monicawa/public_html/wp-content/themes/enfold-child/functions.php on line 512Oh, if you go to my site & see it working, it’s because I reverted it back to the parent theme so it’s not broken until I can get it fixed :-)
Well, I’m not sure what I did, but I was able to get it working, yay!!! But in looking in the child directory, there isn’t a functions.php. Is this ok? Did this have anything in it I needed? I had a functions.php & a functions-enfold.php. I can’t remember, I think the functions-enfold.php might have been something I created when looking to do customizations based on what I read in support docs?
So for the most part it looks ok. It looks like I will have to go in & make some changes which is going to be a pain, but at least it is working. I am noticing some of the things that I had customized in the quick css, like making my logo bigger etc, aren’t working, which is odd since I coped the quick css from the parent theme & moved it to the child?
Anyways please let me know about the functions files if you would so I know if I need to do something with that. I appreciate the help. I didn’t think I was going to be able to do this, but it was easier than I thought! Whoo hoo!
Hey!
You don’t need to add a functions.php file to the child theme folder. Only the style.css file is required. If you add a functions.php file to the child theme folder you can use it to load custom php code. The functions-enfold.php is not required in the child theme folder and WordPress will also not load this file from the child theme folder. If you want to customize some code of the functions-enfold.php file just copy the function into the child theme functions.php and modify the code there.
Cheers!
Peter
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