How to Customize Tracks and Fix Errors [Please Read First]

  • Theme Author Ben Sibley

    (@bensibley)


    7 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks so much for downloading Tracks!

    Tracks has a ton of resources for customizing your site and fixing errors. Here’s a list of the resources and how to use each one.

    Tracks tutorials

    If you want to add the large images showcased in the demo, customize the menus, and do more with Tracks, check out the Tracks Support Center for step-by-step tutorials.

    Customizing Tracks

    You don’t need to know CSS to tweak and customize your site with it. Tracks has dozens of pre-written CSS snippets you can copy and paste in the Tracks CSS Snippets Collection.

    Advanced customization

    If you need to reorder elements in the template or make complex customizations, you’ll need to use a “child theme“. You can click here to download a starter child theme for Tracks and find basic setup instructions here.

    Something went wrong!

    If you notice something isn’t working that used to work, check out the Tracks changelog. It will let you know about the recent changes so you can check if an update caused the new error.

    If you do ever have an issue with a new version of Tracks, you can always use the WP Rollback plugin to revert to a prior version without the error.

    General WP questions

    You can find dozens of tutorials on using WordPress on the Compete Themes blog.

    Still have questions?

    If you have any errors or unanswered questions, search the forum here to see if there’s an existing solution. If not, please open a new thread.

    When posting a new thread, please include the URL of your website. I don’t always need this, but sometimes I do so it will get you a solution faster.

    Thanks for checking this thread and enjoy the theme ??

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  • karinleeuwenhoek

    (@karinleeuwenhoek)

    Dear Ben,

    First of all: a big thank you for your assistance!

    I always update to the latest version of WordPress, but when it comes to the theme (Tracks) I am still working with version 1.39 instead of the latest version 1.59

    It feels safe this way, I never changed it for 2,5 years, as I don’t want to loose content/design and the looks and functionality are still great, exactly as I want them to be.

    Yet I wanted to check with you: Should I update the Tracks theme, or is it OK like this? I know about creating a child theme to be safe – but I would rather not update my theme and not touch anything…

    Many thanks for your help,

    best wishes,

    Karin

    Theme Author Ben Sibley

    (@bensibley)

    Hi Karin,

    Thanks for using Tracks for so long! That’s a good question.

    Just to be clear, if you have modified any files in the theme you definitely want to move the changes into a child theme first so they aren’t lost. That’s the only risk of permanently losing updates you’ve made.

    Everything else is entirely reversible. You can download a copy of Tracks v1.39 here, so if there is a problem, you can always delete Tracks from your site and re-upload the old version. Deleting the theme won’t have any effect on your settings either.

    Just to be safe, I would also recommend doing a backup of the site before the update. I don’t anticipate any “site breaking” errors, but in the worst case scenario you get a PHP error and can’t login to the site. In which case, you could restore the site with the backup and everything would return to how it was before the update.

    karinleeuwenhoek

    (@karinleeuwenhoek)

    Dear Ben,

    Thank you so much for your help!!! It’s very clear and comprehensible.

    I might not update the Tracks theme right now, but once I want or need to, I know what to do to be safe!

    Once again, thank you for your kind assistance, it is highly appreciated. Have a good weekend,

    best,

    Karin

    Theme Author Ben Sibley

    (@bensibley)

    You’re welcome! Enjoy your weekend ??

    Hi Ben,

    Awesome theme! I love it and am learning how to customize it little by little. The CSS pages were especially helpful, so thank you for posting that!

    Question: I’m trying to make the logo image (also blog title) responsive, but can’t seem to. Is there code that you know that can make this happen?

    Thanks

    Theme Author Ben Sibley

    (@bensibley)

    You can add this CSS to remove any size restrictions from the logo while keeping it responsive:

    .logo {
  max-width: 100% !important;
  max-height: none !important;
}
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