Menu problems on upgrade

Hi,

If you have a cache plugin, Please clear it’s cache content.
Clear your browser history.

Please post your website URL if you still require help.

No cache plugin. Not a browser cache issue, I opened a fresh browser to check It’s a staging site, exact clone of live site. (I learned my lesson about Evolve theme upgrades the last time around)

I can’t post URL/login info publicly — is there way to transmit that info privately?

Hi,

This is a public forum with public and volunteer support only.

Thank you.

Same menu problem as abigailm since last theme update:

https://www.grohmann-business-consulting.de

No cache plugin in use, wrong menu mode ist displayed on various browsers.

please update your child theme…it has been discussed

Thanks for this advise. Did not find it in previous posts.

please update your child theme…it has been discussed

Could you please link to WHERE “it has been discussed?” I looked all over before posting.

Or explain what parts of the child theme need updating? Is it a style change? Template change?

Just for anyone else reading this — I figured out that the problem was with the header template in my child theme, so I disabled that. But that just gave rise to a new problem- the styling for the main menu has been changed so that there are light fonts against a light background on hover & drop down, and the menu is virtually unusable….. so upgraded theme is still unusable.

@abigailm your website URL please

Clearing my browser history did solve the problem with the mobile menu, but now I wonder if my regular visitors will have the same problem? I can’t ask them all to clear their browser history…

Hi @mvdweer,

You can try using the plugin as mentioned in this article.
https://wptavern.com/busted-a-wordpress-plugin-to-force-cache-busting

Thank you.

Romik84, the problems is that the menu problem is on a staging site that is behind a firewall and I can’t post the credentials to login on a public site. But I’ve created a screenshot so you can see what has happened:
https://imgur.com/4uF51VM

This seems to be the same problem described in this thread:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/issues-after-upgrade-1?replies=10

This is on a child theme but the same issue persists on the parent site.

Same issue for me. I “live previewed” the parent theme, to see if it’s something in my child (which is nothing but a style.css file) and the dropdown menu is white text on a transparent background; unusable. There are some other layout issues too. I reverted to a backup copy.

OK,I figured it out. I ran a clean install on a staging site to eliminate any possible issues from my child site or plugins. This is definitely due to differences in theme options.

Here is what needs to be done to match previous settings on the menu:

1. In Theme Options, go to Typography > Menu and set color for the “Main Menu Font”

2. In Theme Options, go to Styling > Menu and set color for “Menu hover font color”

3. This will still leave you with a transparent background if you have a light menu. Under Styling > Menu there is a premium option called “Custom menu hover background” that might solve that problem, but assuming you are sticking with the free theme, you will have to add the following custom CSS specification:

ul.nav-menu ul {background: #eee;}

(where #eee can be substituted with whatever light color is appropriate for your theme).

You might have to add an !important specification to make it work. (I didn’t test things that far — I just made the adjustments using the browser developer tools).

There is still another display issue with social media icons on home page (increased spacing) and I haven’t had time to go through my staging site whatever other layout issues have been introduced with this upgrade. I haven’t updated the theme on my live site and will have to give it all more thought before I do.

Abigailm

Thank you very much for your help!

I still cannot make the theme to use the font and size that is customized in
Typography-> Menu -> “Main Menu Font”. It is ovewriten by the class defined in the theme root Style.css:

ul.nav-menu a {
font: 15px/1.5 “Roboto”, arial, sans-serif;}

I can ovewrite it in the child theme, but I still think it is a bug of the theme.

Thanks
David