Add Text Anywhere?

Such a plugin doesn’t exist and cannot exist.

You want to make a modification to a theme, so all you need to do is open a support topic (on that theme) and ask how make this modification.

That forum is dead, I’ve had 3 help topics and didn’t get a reply to one. It’s been frustrating for a beginner to come into forums and being told just briefly what’s wrong with what you say, with no explanation for why, and no ideas on how it might be done if possible.

Even here in the main support forums topics often go days without a reply or don’t get one at all. I’ve turned mostly to IRC chat rooms for WordPress, answers come fast their. On this topic, in under 30 minutes I was told Id need to edit header.php and style.css. Then I went through installing all the things necessary to do this effectively. For example installing notepad++ and an easy way to work with FTP using Filezilla, which in my case I needed, and also how to inspect elements to help direct me as kind of an afterthought.

I still want to use these forums as a backup, but from the perspective of someone learning it’s been frustrating.

As you’re having a hard time, I’m going to dedicate my support to you for the following change:

. but I really want to be able to do both. I want the logo and the title in the header.

Let’s open a new topic (about the same issue) in the Mantra forum so that others will be able to find that topic in future: https://www.ads-software.com/support/theme/mantra#postform

After waiting 4 hours, I’ve redacted my offer.

Edit: I am on the forums always, but I am not going to dedicate support any more.

Sure, if you think it’ll help others.

5 minutes late, I’ve been out and about.

Just so you know, this guy is setting you up for a headache in the future:

On this topic, in under 30 minutes I was told Id need to edit header.php and style.css.

If you make changes to your theme’s files then those changes will be erased when the theme updates.

Let’s drop the high expectation of support (talking too myself too). People have lives, they are responding to the forum when they are free. They don’t have to explain why they haven’t been responding within a certain time period, or why they haven’t at all. It’s just as ludicrous as me asking you, “why haven’t you responding to this other person’s thread”.

Touche, although Im accustom to help forums that get much more frequent replies then every couple days or less, it might be the scale of these forums being so large. Lives are pretty complicated, maybe I had a bad string of luck or something.

I’ve heard something similar to what your suggesting with updates being an issue, I’ve only had the wordpress files on my hard drive locally through filezilla for a couple days now. I’ve heard childthemes are a good idea, not sure if I can do that having FTP’d the files with that program. I’m wondering if I could just make backups of the .php files instead.

Im not sure, most of this is new so some of these questions will sound dumb, but I learn fast. I’m not positive on what other preventative measures I could take to prevent an update from ruining progress. Do I necessarily have to update?

Im out of here for about an hour, reply or no reply, thanks for the offer.

Im not sure, most of this is new so some of these questions will sound dumb, but I learn fast. I’m not positive on what other preventative measures I could take to prevent an update from ruining progress. Do I necessarily have to update?

What can go wrong will go wrong?. If you make good measures to prevent an update now, that’ll save some headache. Eventually your theme will update to a different version and the longer it’s left the more you have to lose.

Do open a thread on the Mantra forum: https://www.ads-software.com/support/theme/mantra#postform

I’ll ask you to create a child theme, so you might want to get reading on this document: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

Or maybe use a plugin? https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/search.php?q=child+theme+creator

Okay, let me get to doing that. The child theme I wasn’t able to create before, I was having serious issues with key steps to even getting wordpress installed locally although I did do the steps I was told. Keep in mind as I try to do this that the only local files I have were FTP’d using filezilla. I copied everything from the remote server though.

I’ll do the forum first, then look at that plugin.

Yea, the reason I had trouble with child themes before was that I got stumped on the first step. No local wordpress meant no creating a child theme folder in wp-content/themes. My local install of WP ran into a problem with wamp I believe, and I tried the other popular one like wamp, I forget the name but no luck.

I created the forum in Mantra support and managed to get the child theme created using the most popular plugin for that. I tested the child theme on the remote WordPress I’m working with and it does fine, but it raises a question. To have a childtheme that only exist on a Bluehost server (as my primary theme does) sounds risky to me.

Question I have (very important) is if I can simply save the child theme and primary to my hard drive occasionally using FileZilla and if something goes wrong just FTP it back to the remote server. That program seems pretty inclusive, and all the files are there?

Edit: The child theme plugin has a zip export that should help with that too.

Im still looking at what I’ve created, in a bit Im going to take some snapshots just to verify with you that what I’ve done looks right.

Everything looks okay from what I can tell unless there’s a problem with what I said above. This is what Im looking at in the wordpress editor after creating the child theme….

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4605lehw9qxwpue/Child%20Theme%20Editor%20Page%201.PNG?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/p3vs6w4la8ouzmv/Child%20Theme%20Editor%20Page%202.PNG?dl=0

With Child Themes im hoping I won’t have to rely on notepad++ anymore, and I can use the built-in editor that it says stay away from ?? That would make things a great deal easier. Those are the files on the right which were backed up with the child theme plugin, at first it only had done a theme with one file (style.css)….

https://www.dropbox.com/s/oug85ap0zk8pp7u/Child%20Theme%20First%20Attempt.PNG?dl=0

That didn’t make sense to me so I told it to copy everything. We may be ready to edit some lines to alter the theme, just give me the heads up if so whenever.

My parents are running me all over today so I’ll be a bit, again ??

Just thought you should know, I looked into this and it’s not as easy for me as I once thought. It’s not impossible for me to help you, it just means it will take me a lot of time and that’s not really what I have. It’s good that you opened a thread on the Mantra forum, that will give you the opportunity to receive help from other people.

No worries, I had no idea to look for a child theme plugin, that helped a good bit on its own actually, I’ll find out more as I go.