Spacious child theme stopped working

Hi all,

I found this thread in my own search for answers and wanted to chime in to say that I’m having the exact same problem as @jules10622. I have a very simple child theme based on Spacious created for my business website, https://www.capricestringquartet.com.

Just last night a client emailed me and told me it was suddenly showing a blank page. This must have happened in the past couple of days since I know it was working last week. I haven’t edited any content in months.

I have the parent theme temporarily enabled, but whenever I switch back over to my child theme, I have the same result. Given the strange coincidence and timing, I wonder if this is a larger problem with the parent theme itself?

Thank you! I’ll be watching closely to get your thoughts.

Hello @kate_price
As said earlier
Please do as follows

1-Goto file manager
2-Find file wp-config.php and edit this
3-Find
define( 'WP_DEBUG', false );
and set its value to true as
define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );
4-Goto admin panel
5-Activate your child theme and browse your home page.
6-This will show you all errors and warnings (if any).

7-And then share errors here.

Thank you
Sajid

Hi again- I just found something in a recent user review of the Spacious theme:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/view/theme-reviews/spacious

“Latest update, they changed a function of_get_options() to spacious_options() without any backward compatibility which broke any site using it with a child theme. This is a basic mistake that should never be made… In fact, with the 30+ themes I’ve used, not one has ever been so lax in its releases!”

I’m not sure when this last update occurred, but it does explain why we’re experiencing the same problem out of the blue. Any ideas on how to fix such a thing?

Hello @kate
thank you for your follow up.
I will still request you to enable debug mode and then check and share errors here.
If issue is same as you discussed then You can contact theme support to solve this issue if you are using premium version of theme.

If you know programming then you can solve this yourself. Otherwise you need to contact your web developer to fix this.

Another Quick Suggestion is

Open header.php and function.php fils in your child theme one by one and then find
of_get_options(
and replace this with
spacious_options(

Do this at your own risk.

Thank you.

I managed to fix it! (At least for my case.)

I found this same issue on the ThemeGrill authors’ website: https://themegrill.com/support-forum/topic/updated-theme-resulted-in-broken-site/

…and did as was suggested: to go into the header.php file of your child theme and find and replace of_get_options with spacious_option. All better now. Hopefully they won’t do something like this again in future theme updates.

Hope that helps!

I did a find and replace as @kate_price did and that resolved my issue. One note: when doing the find and replace, search for of_get_option with no “s”, then replace it with spacious_options with an “s”.

Thanks for your help everyone! Good investigation, @kate_price!