I just upgraded to 4.6.2 from 3.0.1. With the previous version, I was successfully using a child theme, but after the upgrade it’s not working. Simply no content displays on the page, though the backend still runs fine. Even when I deleted everything in the child theme directory except for style.css I just get a blank page. But when I view page source I see everything there. Any ideas?
Site: seattleglobalist.com
Site seems working. Did you found the issue?
No, I just activated the main theme instead because I couldn’t get the child theme to work.
Remember you need to update the child theme also; so many things changed from v3 to v4; you need to use the v4 child theme.
This is why I don’t use child themes, and simply mod the main version and keep track of my mods. Child themes are only useful if the theme is fully mature and the child theme won’t get a whole bunch of changes to keep pace with development.
So, generally with many themes going from a full version number, means the child theme has to be updated too.
If that doesn’t apply to you, sorry to butt in … 🙂
Hi,
Unfortunately you will need to update also the child theme like Christopher suggested, as you have updated the theme from version 3 of Newspaper and there were some changes as you can see in the update_log.txt file(from theme files downloaded from themeforest).
Thanks!
I did update the child theme, but still couldn’t get it to work! Even when I included nothing in the directory except for the below style.css file, no content would show on my page.
I’m curious whether anyone else has experienced this?
Chris, I appreciate hearing that it just might not be worth it to use a child theme at this stage in the theme’s development…maybe I will just let myself off the hook for now and try to implement it during a later version!
/*
Theme Name: Newspaper Child theme
Theme URI: http://themeforest.net/user/tagDiv/portfolio
Description: Child theme made by tagDiv
Author: tagDiv
Author URI: http://themeforest.net/user/tagDiv/portfolio
Template: Newspaper
Version: 1
*/
@import url(“../Newspaper/style.css”);
/* —————————————————————————-
Your custom style…. here 🙂
*/
Here i noticed that you have renamed your master theme as ‘edge14ref’
So your child theme css should contains below code to activate child theme.
/*
Theme Name: Newspaper Child theme
Theme URI: http://themeforest.net/user/tagDiv/portfolio
Description: Child theme made by tagDiv
Author: tagDiv
Author URI: http://themeforest.net/user/tagDiv/portfolio
Template: edge14ref
Version: 1
*/
@import url(“../edge14ref/style.css”);
/* —————————————————————————-
Your custom style…. here 🙂
*/
Other if you wanna work with your existing code what you have current in your child theme, rename your master theme folder into ‘Newspaper’
Good luck..
My master theme is Newspaper, here:
http://seattleglobalist.com/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/style.css
But now I see! Maybe it’s because of the Version 444 typo that the child theme is not working?
It was the version number! The packaged child theme said version 1, but the stylesheet itself says version 444. Those had to match, then the child theme worked!
If it works then i am really happy with the results!
For your kind information version number does not make any difference and child theme works well even without version number. As of my concern issue related to CDN. If you purge the cache in your CDN, might be it works earlier without any issues.
Hmmm…didn’t work to clear the CDN when I tried before. But I appreciate your help!
