Getting New Settings to Work

  • Hello,

    I’m trying to change the look of the florentia theme front page using as OptionTree. I’ve deleted some of the settings I don’t want showing up on the front page, and added others. However, the changes are showing up on the website. I can see the items I added in the Theme Options, but when I add or subract text/posts, nothing seems to happen on the website itself. I’m guessing that I have to get into the php code somewhere, I’m just not quite sure where to go from here. Any help would be much appreciated.

    Thanks,

    Max

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  • Plugin Author Derek Herman

    (@valendesigns)

    The options created have ID’s. When you deleted old options from OT, you’re essentially deleting the option with a certain ID from the array of options. So when your theme is looking for an option with a deleted ID it can’t find it. You’ll need to open up your theme files and change the options ID’s to reflect the changes you made in the admin area. Alternatively, you could change the ID’s of your new options to be the same as your old ones and everything would work again.

    I hope that makes sense?

    Thread Starter mbittle

    (@mbittle)

    Makes sense. Thanks Derek.

    I’m now having issues with the optiontree background not loading in IE. Any thoughts?

    Plugin Author Derek Herman

    (@valendesigns)

    Can you be more specific?

    Thread Starter mbittle

    (@mbittle)

    I set a background in the style sheet to appear above the header at just 40px high. In most browsers it loads both this background and the optiontree background. However in IE it has problems and only ends up loading the header background and not the optiontree one.

    Thanks!

    Plugin Author Derek Herman

    (@valendesigns)

    I still have no idea what you’re talking about. What new setting allows you to change the header? If you are creating an option that you echo the value of, in the header, to change CSS I’m not sure how I’m meant to help you with that???

    Thread Starter mbittle

    (@mbittle)

    Hey Derek,

    I just added a background image manually in the #header of the style sheet. The background of the body is the one set by the OptionTree. Works in all browsers but IE.

    Thanks,

    Max

    Plugin Author Derek Herman

    (@valendesigns)

    A background set by OT in what way, via a Theme that you bought or downloaded? That is an issue with the theme, not OT.

    Thread Starter mbittle

    (@mbittle)

    Yeah, the theme was Florentia. Odd thing is that the header background loads as the whole page in IE, ignoring the background set in OT.

    Plugin Author Derek Herman

    (@valendesigns)

    Th issue is then how the author of that theme is using the background and/or color when modifying the CSS. They probably didn’t echo the OT data correctly in your themes header.php. As well, it’s possible that they echoed it before the style.css is added and it overwrites the OT info. There are a number of reasons why it’s not working but all are because of the theme author writing bad code or code that is not going to work with every type of image. Have you tried contacting them, or possible changing the CSS in the header.php?

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