Hello,
I have recently updated to version 7.3 and found that main page does not show thumbnails. I’ve seen other posts complaining about this in the mobile theme but not in the main page.
Is there anything I can do to fix it? If I’ve reverted back to 7.0 the site works as expected.
Any help would be fully appreciated.
Thanks!!
Hello galgamo,
Please try to switch your website to the latest version of the theme (7.3), disable all the plugins and install only which come bundled with our theme, clear all your caches and rule out the conflicting plugins. If your problem is still there after this, please provide your website URL so I can inspect it closer.
Thanks.
Hello,
Sorry for taking too long to reply.
I did a clear install of the theme and find out that it works.
So I tried to discover what was making my website not to work. I disabled all plugins with no luck. I didn’t find it. At the end, I deleted the Newspaper folder and the Newspaper-child folder and copied them in the wordpress theme folder.
It began to work as it should. So I suspect the problem was in some modifications I made to the theme. I re-did my modifications and it continued working. Then I activated all the plugins and also continued working. So the problem is solved, but I cannot provide an exact solution.
If anybody else has this problem, try deleting Newspaper and Newspaper-child folders, copying it again and applyng your modifications (if needed) and it should work.
Thank you for the help!
Hello,
The issue could have been as follows:
The child theme is NOT UPDATE PROOF. People tend to have this misconception a lot (not pointing fingers)
If you set up a child theme and add a few files to it then modify those files..ok…everything works. But what happens when the theme gets updated? If one of the files you modified have been changed in the next update and the new code is a critical one for the theme functionality and other code is changed based on that code (as in most cases is). you will be serving the old code from your child theme when the main theme will expect the new code. You will have to constantly keep an eye out for the list of modified files for each new update and if you see one of the files on the list is the one you have modified in your child theme, then you need to remove that particular file from the child theme, replace it with the new file and then re-apply the modification to the new code and see if it works.
This is the proper way to use a child theme. Not saying you do (again…not pointing fingers :).) but this needs to be standard knowledge when using child themes.
I hope this helps.
Have a great day!
Bogdan B
