Latest update affects child theme

  • Resolved tgd

    (@terrydaisydesignsca)


    12 years, 4 months ago

    Just so you know…
    You had made a change to the names of some functions that call the homepage widget areas ( ‘st_’ to ‘celestial_ ‘ ) . This is not a problem, unless you’re using a child theme and you are using the front page widgets only template in your child theme. That template, before the update will call the front page widgets using the function names starting with ‘st_’ . This throws a fatal error on the homepage where those functions are called. To fix this, i simply renamed the function calls in the template. No other functions seem to have been changed.

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    (@gejay)

    12 years, 4 months ago

    Still should not affect it unless you copied over the template into a child theme. However, it’s good to hear about this and what happens with a child theme for future reference.

    Thread Starter tgd

    (@terrydaisydesignsca)

    12 years, 4 months ago

    Yup. That’s it. I copied it over so i could add the 4 extra homepage widgets. If the functions remain as is for future updates, I’ll be okay, but if you revert the function names back I’ll just rename the function calls again. I’m still building this child theme offline, so any changes to the parent aren’t permanently destructive. Andre, I still think your themes are by far the best I’ve come across, and no matter what little glitches I encounter, the theme files are so well commented and laid out,it easy to find where fixes need to be done.

    Styled Themes

    (@gejay)

    12 years, 4 months ago

    Sorry about what happened…when I was doing some updates, I realized I did wrong naming of some functions, so I changed them. However, as you pointed out, anyone using a child theme will experience what you did…something I never thought about.

    Not to worry…I won’t be making that kind of change from this point on. For future themes, I will make sure I have the function naming 100% before going public.

    Cheers!

    Thread Starter tgd

    (@terrydaisydesignsca)

    12 years, 4 months ago

    No worries. I just wanted to point out to those who use the child theme as I have, that there is a simple fix to restore the home age widgets.
    Cheers..

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