Customizer opens wrong theme for a collection

  • Hi Mike,

    I have two webcomic collections in my test site, and I’m trying to recreate the custom navigation icons for each comic. To preview the page widgets interactievly, WordPress reports that I need to navigate to the page and click on the customize button.

    When I do this for ‘Brudders’, WordPress opens the child-theme created for ‘Streams’ instead of the child-theme created for ‘Brudders’. If I do the same for ‘Streams’, WP opens the child-theme for ‘Streams’. WP appears to keep defaulting to this child-theme for both comics.

    Because of this, it doesn’t look like I can edit the nav icons for Brudders.

    Is this a bug or am I doing this improperly? Thanks for any assistance.

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  • Plugin Author Mike

    (@mgsisk)

    Hey @greenlaw, apologies for the trouble. You might actually have to go to the Collection Settings for Brudders and click the Customize link for that collection’s theme. I’d be careful, though; WordPress doesn’t really support more than one active theme at a time, so some things you do in the Customizer (like changing Widgets) can affect both the collection and the active theme (if they’re different).

    Thread Starter Greenlaw

    (@greenlaw)

    Hey Mike, thanks for replying.

    Yeah, I’m noticing exactly that. As mentioned, I’m using two child themes based on Inkblot, each with different header and bg graphics, and at first this seemed to work okay but I’m seeing odd behavior with other theme settings. As you noted, using multiple themes in the site (i.e., my main active theme is not the parent of the active child themes) can produce unintended changes to the main theme.

    Today, I’m going to try using a new single theme that will be shared by the site and both comics collections. Maybe that will work better? (I’m dropping my previous main theme because of issues with webcomic and at least one other plugin I wish to use.)

    I’m still wondering, is it proper to use child themes to give each Collection a different header and bg art? That part of my testing seems to work but I wasn’t sure if I should be doing that. (This is the first time I’ve used child themes.) Specifically, is it okay to use multiple child themes for Collections if they are children of the main active theme?

    I may have time to try at lunch today. Will let you know how that goes.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by Greenlaw.
    • This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by Greenlaw.
    Thread Starter Greenlaw

    (@greenlaw)

    Ugh…this is becoming a bigger headache than when I was using multisite and giving each comic its own subdomain. Guess I need to rethink what I really want.

    I’ll probably go back to using multisite so I can apply unique layout settings for each of the two comics, and avoid the multiple themes conflict altogether. One of the big reasons for my recent decision to go with a single site for everything was because I couldn’t get local subdomains to work properly on my new computer for offline testing and designing. (This worked on my old computer, so go figure.)

    It sounds like subdirectories should be more forgiving for this, so I’ll try reconfiguring the test site to give each comic in its own subdirectory.

    One of these days, I’ll get back to actually drawing new comics. ??

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by Greenlaw.
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