URGENT – Child Theme Blows Everything Out of Proportion.

  • Resolved JadeDade

    (@jawwad-daud)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    Hello

    I am launching my website on April 23. I bought a theme few weeks ago and have been customizing it until I was satisfied. Then I got hosting yesterday and set up everything. I felt it would take me minutes to set everything up. Boy, was I wrong!

    I have done all the customization using the child theme. When I view it using ‘View Site’ function, the fonts and everything else blows out of proportion and when I scroll down, the page ends halfway through. As if the page size is the same but since everything is way too large, I can’t see the remaining content.

    When I activate parent theme, everything appears ok. But when I activate the child theme ….. This is frustrating.

    My guess is that I may not have configured / installed the child theme properly but if that was the case, it wouldn’t have been detected in the first place. My guess is strengthened by the fact that initially WordPress couldn’t detect it and then I had to change the following line in style.css

    Template: Upstart

    to

    Template: upstart

    basically changing the name to lower case. Then, the theme was detected and I was able to activate it.

    Right now my style.css looks like this:

    /*
    Theme Name: Cpstart Child
    Theme URI: https://septillions.com/Upstart-child/
    Description: Upstart Child Theme
    Author: Jawwad Daud
    Author URI: https://septillions.com
    Template: upstart
    Version: 1.0.0
    Tags: light, dark, two-columns, right-sidebar, responsive-layout, accessibility-ready
    Text Domain: Upstart-child
    */

    @import url(“../Upstart/style.css”);

    /* =Theme customization starts here
    ————————————————————– */

    I have put a countdown timer on my website. As I write these lines, it says 4 Days 0 Hours, 59 Minutes, 0 Seconds.

    Am I not justified in freaking out?!?

    Thanks.

Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total)

  • I must say,your web style is awesome.I am impress.I think your child theme size is not perfect.It can take a big size(Megabyte).You can customize and try to set it again.
    Very good luck

    That is really awesome.

    Thread Starter JadeDade

    (@jawwad-daud)

    What is awesome?!?

    please post a live link to your site with the child theme activated.

    have you contacted the (parent) theme’s developer for support with your question?

    Thread Starter JadeDade

    (@jawwad-daud)

    Thanks for responding, Alchymyth.

    I have contacted the developer but they may not get back until Monday and time is of essence in my case.

    Is there a way I can post a screenshot here?

    I can’t make the site live with the child theme activated as I have publicized the countdown on social media and I don’t want to risk one of my prospective customers seeing my site in such bad shape. A little like being caught with your pants down.

    Thread Starter JadeDade

    (@jawwad-daud)

    I asked you how I could share a screenshot here. Then I searched it on WordPress, found the answer, clicked on it, and discovered you had already answered it a while ago.

    How cool is that?!?

    Here is the link to the screenshot: https://tinypic.com/r/531ezt/8

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter JadeDade

    (@jawwad-daud)

    Oh, and, for comparison purposes, this is how it should be: https://tinypic.com/r/othf6p/8

    The problem with screenshots is that we can’t see what could be wrong with the code. Is there a way we can see the site with the child theme activated? Did you do your development in a dev/staging environment perhaps?

    Thread Starter JadeDade

    (@jawwad-daud)

    Yes, I used Server Press to customize the theme. Then I uploaded the child theme that was on my hard drive. The theme distorts as soon as I upload the style.css which tells me that probably there is something wrong with the style.css code.

    I am leaving the child theme activated for the next couple of hours. Please let me know once you have seen it.

    Thanks.

    Thread Starter JadeDade

    (@jawwad-daud)

    Hello. I have activated the the (problem) child theme on. Please view and help. Thanks.

    [closed – continued at https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/urgent-new-child-theme-blows-everything-out-of-proportion?replies=1 ]

Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total)
  • The topic ‘URGENT – Child Theme Blows Everything Out of Proportion.’ is closed to new replies.