Blog Post Titles are Missing

I have to be honest, I do not know why you are having all these problems show up. I know you’ve been making custom changes, but as to what changes, I do not know. Most if not all of your issues you are experiencing, I am unable to replicate on my test site, especially with a fresh install of WordPress and the Celestial Lite, plus child theme.

1. Images on your home page I can see (not broken)
2. I don’t see borders in your content pages or posts with images
3. as for alignment, things look in place
4. social media icons became black and white…I don’t see this when I view your site and not even sure how that would happen

Regarding the child theme, on first install, it should be empty with empty folders to match that of the parent theme, plus the style.css for it should also be empty. Then any changes you do will be done from the child theme.

If you decide to not use the child theme, just make sure you do not update the theme before you check the CHANGELOG.txt file in the theme first to see what was updated. I would also recommend you keep regular backups of your site when making changes so that if something does not go well, you can revert back.

By the time I saw your site today, I’m not sure if you managed to make the above changes or not but for me, everything looks fine.

Hopefully everything for you is working now and with the replacement child theme that I provided (I had two files in there from a custom test I did for someone before and forgot to take those out, my fault).

Also, when you make changes, ensure you clear your browser cache too because this can hold old styles for a period of time and won’t show new changes.

Hi Andre. Yes, you won’t actually see the faults I’ve mentioned (e.g. broken images, black & white social media icons, striped green & black border on Home page, borders around images, smaller font sizes, etc) because I reverted to our previous setting.

The only thing that is still a problem (and please do try now) is the missing titles of my blog posts. You can check https://www.careersupport365.com/its-all-a-matter-of-perception/ as an example. Also, if you refresh the page, you can see the title for about a millisecond and gone.

I’m hoping you can help me out on this. Thanks!

When I saw the faults, I had no choice but to revert our previous setting. That leaves the missing titles to be a problem, still. Can you please check our site again now? Thanks Andre!

In addition, I’m making changes in our site using the first version of Child theme that you have advised. Are you suggesting now that I re-install it or update it? Kindly refresh me again on the importance of having the child theme instead of directly customizing the parent theme (as I’m also in the learning process).

Thanks a lot!

Thanks for the link to a page sample…. ok, here is the problem. First, your titles are there in the page but hidden:

<h1 class="entry-title">It’s All a Matter of Perception</h1>

Second, I found this in your source code:

<aside id="ctatext-4" class="widget widget_cta">								<img src=""/>
			<div class="textwidget"><style>
.entry-title {display: none;}
</style>
<h2><span style="color: #ff0000;">Set up a meeting NOW!</span></h2>

This is sitting in a text widget and it also appears like it’s in your widget that says “Setup a meeting NOW!”. Take that hidden inline style out and your titles come back because page and post titles are using the class “entry-title”.

So the question is, who put that inline style in there, but it looks like this is whole issue is a plugin widget you are using for a CTA (call to action). It also shows an empty <img> tag too.

Hi Andre. Thanks! I was able to make the titles appear again.

If we want to retain everything we’ve done so far in the child theme, can all be saved to the parent theme?

With regards to updating the Child theme that you’ve mentioned earlier, does it mean that it’s still ok to have it updated as well as the parent theme?

As it turns out, you can still use the child theme (recommended actually). So if you installed that latest one and still using the child theme, keep it active and still do your modifications with that. So it appears the issue for you was that plugin widget you were using with the display: none; style.

Yup, I figured it out, too. Thanks! I used the coding “display: none; style” because when I add a page, it also reflects the page title as a duplicate (e.g. “Home” page – the text “Home” also reflects below the static image). Then when I switched to the parent theme, I noticed that some of the changes I made in the child don’t reflect in the parent. Please correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t it supposed to reflect the changes in the parent, too? ??

When you make changes in the child theme but switch to the parent theme, your changes won’t show. However, if you make changes in the parent theme then switch to the child, those changes will be inherited by the child theme. So the idea is to use the child theme for modifying any files (including the style.css) of the parent theme. Updating the parent theme without anything being changed there means you won’t lose any of those changes because they exist in the child theme.

So on that note, I’m assuming this topic is resolved now?