Spence "The Evil Genius" Forman

Hi Esmi,
as I just suggested, he is having trouble with his Twenty Fourteen theme. That is this forum.

He merely turned on Responsive to see a comparison of features, and got stuck.

Are you suggesting as the moderator here that someone must switch to a new thread on a new forum each and every time they test something that breaks there site?

So if he turned on the Yoast SEO plugin and it broke his twenty fourteen theme, you suggest he should then stop the thread mid-stream on this forum and move the whole dialogue to a fresh on on the Yoast SEO forum?

Please advise… you’re in charge here, just trying to understand your rules 😉

Hi John,
If you’re stuck with any theme, you can always go into your CPanel’s file manager (or use FTP) and delete the whole theme folder. You may wish to activate your default theme first such as twenty fourteen.

Once you do, then you can re-add the parent theme for Responsive.

We’ve tested the latest release and don’t see anything that is buggy, it was a minor update in fact.

You won’t lose anything in the DB if you only delete the theme directly via the ftp or file manager.

Cheers!
spence

Hi John,
I have answers for your questions, but basically this is where having a few minutes with “an Evil Genius” can keep you from pulling out your hair 😉

I’m happy to help you get over your initial hurdle, or to even get you setup with your child theme. That’s basically how I build relationships with all members of my WordPress community and clientel.

I’ve promised Jan, the moderator here, that I would honor the letter and spirit of the forums here. As such, I leave it to you to take the next step on how you’d like help.

Cheers!
spence

Hi Jerry,
you can spell it out your site url phonetically here without the http and .com part so we can help you.

like:

labzip dot com would work so we can look at your site…. or l a b z i p . c o m

either way, this is sounding a lot like a caching issue with the site or your local browser. When I see your site live I can check if I get similar results as you do, which will help to determine immediately if it’s the site or your browser.

Cheers!
spence

.property-details-col1 {
width: 100%;
}
.property-details-col2 {
width: 100%;
}

Cheers!
spence

If your child is properly referencing the parent theme, then the style.css will always override the parent.

I suspect the following possibilities:

1) Your child theme style.css is not using the exact name of the parent in the template reference;
or

2) Do you have a caching plugin installed such as QuickCache, SuperCache or W3TC?

They may be showing only the original parent, from before you activated the child.

Hi Greg,
yes… you have “nuked” your style.css in the parent theme..for sure 😉

No worries, same advice applies. If you want to follow step by step, you can do it directly. If you want some hands-on help, we can go further.

Step one – download the original premium theme again if you don’t have it handy.
Step two – copy the style.css file from the parent theme, and paste it to your vantage premium parent theme where the current style.css is located

Alternatively:
Step one – open up the current (“nuked”) style.css in your parent theme, and go to: http://demo.siteorigin.com/vantage/wp-content/themes/vantage/style.css?ver=3.9.1 and copy and paste the content of this file to that style.css via ftp and text editor, and save.

Either way, you’ll be back to up and running. I’ve tested it on your site, and though you’ve got other mods that are messing up the site a bit, that will put your parent back in order 😉

If you need a little hands-on “TLC”, I’m happy to get it done for you as well… no sweat.

Cheers!
spence

Hi Amine,
your forums are not setup properly with your theme…that’s not what you should be seeing.

We have a video on point that might help, here:
http://labzip.com/the-definitive-guide-to-buddypress-bbpress-configuration/

Or if you need help “hands-on”, we’re pretty established experts with bbPress so happy to get you sorted directly… either way is great 😉

Cheers!
spence