Andrew Nevins
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Yes, was there a reason why you didn’t do it now?
Just a bit nervous. Sounds like you might think I should go ahead and why wait?
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
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Why wait indeed, your site should look exactly the same as before. Though if it doesn’t, you can always post a support topic here.
I have a similar situation with another site using the Twenty Fourteen theme. Whatever applies to the Kindergarten theme should apply, there, right? I have a question about making one small change to the .php in the Twenty Fourteen, also before the child theme was installed. Can I ask it here, or should I begin another thread? Thanks, Andrew.
Andrew Nevins
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Whatever applies to the Kindergarten theme should apply, there, right?
Yes, but you may experience an issue with the specificity of your selectors. Sometimes your selectors (e.g. .footer p) may not be specific enough, even though they’d be the same as the parent theme’s styles. So you’d just add a level of specificity (e.g. html .footer p).
I have a question about making one small change to the .php in the Twenty Fourteen
If it’s a “how do I do this” question, you can post it here but if I don’t know then you can open a new thead 🙂
I will add the css to the child themes of the Kindergarten and Twenty Fourteen one at a time and see the effect. It concerns exactly the same css with one exception for the latter. And this is how I discovered the necessity of a child theme.
This is the site for the Twenty Fourteen template:
http://ya.hersheylibrary.org/
Not long after site (http://ya.hersheylibrary.org/) went live, the theme required an update which I did and saw that the few changes I made to the theme by adding css to the Editor were gone.
I was able to restore all changes except one by adding the css back into the Editor; except the one that hid or removed the “Categories Archive” that appeared at the top of each page/post. This was the css I used.
.post-navigation { display: none; }
It just didn’t seem to work. It could have been because of browser cache that I now understand will sometimes be an obstacle to viewing a change but didn’t know about at the time.
I searched for answers in the forum. I discovered others who had experienced this issue were able to accommplish removing Categories Archived by deleting a line in the header.php. So I did that, and it worked. This was still before the child theme was installed. Question: Are you able to see, or can only I see, if this line is still present in the parent theme? And what would you advise?
That may have been category.php. In any case, the child theme files only have style.css, header.php, footer.php amd rtl.css. Should I try adding this anyway to the style.css?
`.post-navigation { display: none; }’
Andrew Nevins
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What is the bit of text I’m looking for on that page?
It could have been this:
“Change this line:”
<h1 class="archive-title"><?php printf( __( 'Category Archives: %s', 'twentyfourteen' ), single_cat_title( '', false ) ); ?></h1>
to:
<h1 class="archive-title"><?php single_cat_title( '' ); ?></h1>
Andrew Nevins
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WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
I don’t see an element on your home page with the class of ‘post-navigation’ view-source:http://ya.hersheylibrary.org/
But you can certainly add that CSS to your Child Theme style.css file
Would it hide the “Categories Archive” before each post/page?
Andrew Nevins
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Could you link an example page that contains the text “Categories Archive”?
The changes I first made by adding css to the Editor were all pre-child theme and still today suppress the parent theme for the two sites, http://ya.hersheylibrary.org/ and http://children.hersheylibrary.org/
No subsequent theme update has occurred since the time of the first one related to http://ya.hersheylibrary.org/ when I saw my changes were undone. So, there’s nothing I can show you.
I was concerned about the next theme update undoing the changes unless I added the css. And you have answered that. Thank you, Andrew.
My main concern now for this site – http://ya.hersheylibrary.org/ – is what to do if “Categories Archived” shows up again when this theme is next updated and after I have added all the css I recorded adding to the parent theme to its child theme. Does this make sense? I hope so.
The Categories Archive was where I am sure I removed rather than added something from the Editor in the parent theme. Will it just reappear in the parent theme?
Thank you for your patience.
