Trouble with nav bar not showing up

Hi there,

I’d need more information to help. Can you tell me exactly what I’m supposed to see? Is the correct display on your live site that this one is copied from? And if so, can you link me to that?

I’m not sure what you mean when you say the center of the banner is not showing up. Please provide a little more detail about what you’re expecting and I should be able to help out.

FYI: Here’s what I am seeing https://glui.me/?i=ss3g7vzxub1gqi3/2015-06-25_at_3.19_PM.png/

I’m sorry I wasn’t very clear on that! It correctly shows at https://www.livelaughandplay.com

There needs to be a solid color between the flag ends with the navigation links.

I see that your friend’s site isn’t using a child theme like your site. When you say that you made a copy of your own site, did you first install the parent theme (Adelle), and then copy over the contents of your child theme’s folder into it? You should have copied over the contents of your child theme’s folder into your friend’s child theme folder.

Ah, I see. Somehow the adelle-child theme folder got deleted off my computer in my site’s folder so I created a new one and put what I thought were the only 3 files needed. Then I copied the folder into my friend’s site’s folder. I just uploaded the rest of the files. Thanks! Are you able to see the correct information now?

Also, thank you!

I still don’t see the correct structure in your friend’s site. What three files did you have in your child theme folder? Were they style.css, functions.php, and header.php?

The way the structure of your friend’s site should look is like this:

/wp-content/themes/adelle
/wp-content/themes/adelle-child

The adelle folder should hold all of the unaltered files from the Adelle theme. The adelle-child folder should just hold the three files from your child theme’s adelle-child folder.

Don’t forget to activate the child theme in your friend’s site. I think that might be the step that you’re missing.

I did activate it earlier today but it must not have stuck. So I went to my plugin and found this message:

This theme may not apply child theme styles correctly with the current settings:
Code exists between the wp_head() function and the closing </head> tag.

I’m going to try deactivating it and installing a different child theme plugin.

I think what I’m going to do is start over and make sure I re-watch the tutorial I used to install my child theme on my site.

I went to my file manager and deleted the child themes so I could start over. I followed the plugin-specific tutorial I used on my site and there are 3 files in the child theme folder. Is all the info where it needs to be?

I think so, but let’s take this one step at a time.

First, let’s make sure the site (and menu) will work with just the parent theme activated. That is, when Adelle is activated, does the menu appear? If it doesn’t, then you should re-install the theme. If the menu still doesn’t appear, then deactivate all of the plugins and see if the menu appears.

Once you get the parent theme working, then you can start on getting the child theme to work. For the child theme, there should be at least two files: style.css and functions.php. I don’t know what your third file is. Is it related to this child theme plugin that you are using? Then see if the menu stays with the child theme activated.

When I removed the child theme before there was no change with the just the parent theme. I deactivated all plugins and same problem. So I deleted the parent theme and re-installed it. Still no menu or nav bar. As of right now I only have the Adelle parent theme installed.

Oh my gosh. Wow. Dunce of the month here…I hadn’t chosen a menu in the Appearance panel. I selected one and bam, all fixed! Thank you for your help!

Haha, I should have thought of that, too. Glad you figured it out.