Colorway 3.4.0 how to disble home page slider and animations

Hey there,

I installed the free version of ColorWay and am not seeing an option to do what you’re wanting to do to the slider or the feature section. Do you have the free version or did you pay for ColorWay Pro?

I could explain how to do it with the free version if you want to get into a little bit of code. Let me know if you want to go that route. ??

I have the free version. I will try the code. Please fill me in!

Okay here goes.

Disable slider and hardcode static banner image

• Turn off the theme’s slider (Customize > Slider Settings > Slider Control)
• Unzip this child theme and put it in your wp-content/themes directory (this is so updates to the parent theme don’t overwrite your customizations). I did a bunch of the changes for you in this child theme. Let me know if you’d like more details on what specifically I did to make this child theme.
• Activate the new child theme
• In the child theme open up home.php and replace the image on line 39 with the path to your new banner

Remove animation on 4 feature columns

I already took care of this in the same home.php template in the child theme. I just had to remove the “animated” class on those four columns (the divs on line 49, 70, 92, and 111). You can see the difference if you compare it with home.php in the colorway parent theme.

Good luck! Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks so much for taking the time to help. I will give it a go for sure.

I copied the unzipped directory into the wp-content/themes directory and I get this message in themes:

Add New Theme

Broken Themes

The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.

Name

Description

ColorWay Child The parent theme is missing. Please install the “ColorWay” parent theme.

Is there any reason why I cannot copy my recent backup of Colorway back into the current Themes folder? I would prefer to have it restored to the earlier version.

I do not like the enlarged view of the pages either. There is a whole different look which I don’t like about 3.4.0.

When you put the child them I sent in your themes folder was the ColorWay parent theme already there? They both need to be present in the themes directory in order to work.

As far as I know you should be able to put a previous version of the theme in your themes folder. Though it’s possible the child theme I created won’t have the exact same results with the older version. I created the child theme based on 3.4.0.

I guess I would suggest you do one thing at a time—either get your old version of ColorWay working or keep the latest version (3.4.0) running and confirm that the child theme (and the steps above) are working as expected.

Thanks for the continued help. The original Colorway theme is in the themes folder and active, along with the child theme you created. Maybe there is something different about my system?

The theme author just confirmed via email that I should be able to copy the previous version from a backup into the themes folder with no problems. After that, I might look for a new theme design that doesn’t require so much technical help to do what I want. I am ready for a change anyway.

First I will delete the child theme, as I will not need it anyway.

No worries.

If you’re wanting to get the child theme to work, you might check out this thread. It looks like you have to make sure that the template has the exact same name as your parent theme (case sensitive) in style.css. At the bottom of that thread it also looks like you need an @import line. (Though I didn’t need these things for it to work for me so I’m not sure what’s up with that.)

Either way, best of luck!

In the end I recovered the older version from a backup. I did have to go into settings to get the home page to load first instead of the blog page. I will have to learn about child themes when I get the chance.