RJ_Dev

Don’t know what I did but for some reason the website is working properly now.

Hi John, please help me with a small doubt, here is the setup:-

– The WordPress Theme from ThemeForest which the client needs for the Blog page is the Parent Theme.
– The Custom Design which is in HTML and which I’m converting to WordPress is the Child Theme and following is the style.css template code.

/*
Theme Name: TAA Theme

Template: blogist
*/

– In the Child Theme’s style.css file I’ve added the custom style properties but the problem is some of the styles from the parent theme seems to interfere with my custom styles.

So kindly let me know how to block the Parent Theme styles.

Regards,
Raj

Thanks jberghem for explaining it in such detail. I’m not familiar with child themes but will definitely give it a try. The work will be done probably within a week, so please do follow up on this if I have any more queries.

Thank You So Much WPMU DEV, that worked perfectly, thanks for your time.

For those who are facing similar problem, I’ll explain it in a bit more detail, basically the Custom Sidebars works only when each sidebar area is assigned a default sidebar content. So the process is:-

Step 1:- Register the Sidebar areas in functions.php

<?php
if (function_exists('register_sidebar') ) {
	register_sidebar(array(
		'name' => 'Primary Sidebar',
		'id' => 'primary-sidebar',
	));
}
?>

Step 2:- In Appearance > Widgets – Create some widgets for the sidebar with the desired contents.

Step 3:- In Appearance > Custom Sidebars:- The registered sidebar area will appear on the left column, select it first and then click on DEFAULT SIDEBARS tab > Click on By Post Type > Click on PAGES > Select a Sidebar Content (A widget created in Step 2) as default one.

Step 4: – When you create another sidebar area, follow the previous steps, only in Step 3, in the CUSTOM SIDEBARS tab, select all the sidebar areas first > then click DEFAULT SIDEBARS > Click on By Post Type > Click on PAGES > Select a Sidebar Content as default one.

Step 5:- Obviously you need different Default Sidebar contents for different sidebar areas, after Step 4, go again to DEFAULT SIDEBARS tab, now the second Sidebar Area will appear along with an option to set a default content.

That’s It!

Regards,
Raj

Hello Esmi, I figured out the issue, I’ve created a custom theme for WordPress and the text flicker happens in Firefox only when my theme is active, when I activate the 2014 theme there is no flicker in Firefox. But the thing is when I check the dashboard in Chrome,Opera with my theme activated there is no flicker, it’s only in Firefox. I know there is that thing about registering JavaScript and Stylesheets which is the recommended method, but I just added the link in the head section so I think may be my stylesheet is interfering with the WordPress Dashboard styles.

I realized that this text flicering is a Firefox issue, I opened the dashboard in Chrome and the menu works properly. I was able to replicate this flickering effect when I bring the Developer Tool (F12) in Firefox.

Thanks for helping out but I don’t want to sort posts alphabetically, I want to sort it by date but in an ascending order so old posts will display first.