Theme Keeps Going Back To Default Settings

  • Resolved Donald Louch

    (@donaldlouch)


    10 years, 7 months ago

    So I have designed and maintain a site for a magazine and the site is using this theme! However, we have made slight customizations to the theme such as adding a colour to the navigation and incorporating a Facebook widget to the home page! However, after about a week the colour seems to default back to the pink colour…. Furthermore, the Facebook header code seems to get deleted from the header.php file, which in-turns disables the Facebook widget…

    This has been happening for months now and I was wondering if we are doing something wrong or not…

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  • Mr Case

    (@mr-case)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Are you using a child theme?

    Thread Starter Donald Louch

    (@donaldlouch)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    I am not.

    Mr Case

    (@mr-case)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    If you make direct edits to the theme, whenever you update a theme those edits have a strong chance, if not a definite one, of getting reverted to the original. Changes to the database are not affected, but any style and/or code changes most definitely will be.

    By creating a child theme, you are guaranteed that any changes you make will remain after a theme update.

    An alternative, if you are just making minor css changes, is to get a custom css plugin. It will provide you a way to add custom css outside of the theme itself.

    read more about child themes here:
    https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Child_Themes

    here is a plugin (one of many…) for custom css:
    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/simple-custom-css/

    Moderator Kathryn Presner

    (@zoonini)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Mr. Case is spot on. Theme files should never be edited directly, since you will lose all your changes every time the theme is updated to the latest version. A child theme is the way to go in your case, since you’ve edited header.php. A child theme will allow you to make both template-file changes and CSS changes within the child theme, while protecting the tweaks from theme updates. (You won’t need a custom CSS plugin in addition to a child theme.)

    Here are some additional guides in case you haven’t made one before:

    http://op111.net/53/

    Thread Starter Donald Louch

    (@donaldlouch)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    So, I did the Child Theme route and thought I would wait a few weeks to make sure it worked. before I responded!

    And it worked!

    Thanks!!!
    Donald Louch

    Moderator Kathryn Presner

    (@zoonini)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    Great, glad to hear you’re all set. 🙂

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