New Update fried the site

  • I believe the newest update was incompatible with my previous settings.

    When I looked at the page last night, it was reduced to just the menu links and a search box with none of the formatting.

    I called my host (BlueHost) and they tried to resolve the issues having to do with cacheing. They got it back to showing just the blog, with none of the other graphics or formatting, and then the current version which has some of the formatting, but some is missing or changed, and the blog area is replaced by a section on how “Easily Customizeable” the theme is.

    We tried to restore the page to the saved version from before the update, but it auto updated immediately and replaced the restore. I’m trying a restore again, hoping I can make sure to switch the auto-update toggle if it resets, but I’m not too hopeful. Even for the three minutes it was restored before a bunch of settings were messed up.

    Is there any suggestion for how to just get the site back to the way it looked a week ago?

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • But why get a plugin when 1 line of code will do it?

    The advantage of the plugin is that it provides a way to specify different upgrade rules for the core, theme, and various plugins. It may also allow you to set the theme to auto-upgrade for minor releases, but not major (but I’m not sure if that is an option).

    I think it is particularly valuable for plugins because can pick & choose which to auto-upgrade. But there is also a huge security risk with auto-upgrades from the wordpress free plugin repository…. so even that is something to be careful about. I think the update plugin also will create a log of updates, which might be very helpful for debugging if a site has suddenly developed problems but it’s not clear why.

    Thread Starter bshur

    (@bshur)

    Romik,

    Thanks, I’ve managed to fix a lot of the small visual issues so that it doesn’t look entirely unusable, but a lot of my styling is still gone, some that looks pretty awkward as is. Should I expect a new update will restore some of that or should I be working now to make it look right within the current version?

    Thread Starter bshur

    (@bshur)

    Here are the things that i’m still trying to restore.

    1) My logo image is a sign that’s meant to look like it’s coming from behind the white space on the page, so the bottom of the image needs to be aligned with that line. I’ve gotten it working in desktop mode, but I can’t seem to get it on the same level for smaller screen sizes.

    2) Repetitive page titles. Not sure how to disable redundant page title in this version. I may be missing something obvious.

    3) Slider styling. Currently slider titles on smaller screen modes mode appear at the bottom of the slider.

    4) Thumbnail images have been resized as tiny with a huge padding space.

    5) On mobile, the footer background is cut off before the footer content.

    Those are all the things that look “wrong”. There are a whole bunch more styling specifics that are not as they were set before, but don’t look too terrible for the short term, so I’m not in as much of a hurry.

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