johnnyivan

I’m very grateful for this plug-in by the way. Because I haven’t a clue hwo to create a child theme in the new way with WP enqueuing or whatever.

I’m just confused like the O.P.

I agree. It isn’t obvious.

I’m looking at what’s under the Query/Selector tab. I somehow managed to create a new rule for a class—and save it.

But how do I create another one?

And how to edit each one subsequently?

Should I just stick to editing the downloaded local copy of my child theme stylesheet—locally, and FTP it up after I make changes?

Sorry, I just read through this guide and it’s too complicated for me.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

I might need to stick to the old way.

Great, and thanks for all of your help on my various queries during the few few days ??
John

Oh, and I’ll have a go at that functions.php method, Kathy. I believe it’s meant to slow sites less than the old import method.

Should I
– Create a completely blank functions.php file and pop it into my child theme directory?
– And simply paste your code into it, exactly as it is with no modifications?

I’d imagine the target parent theme directory needs to be specified, like:

get_template_directory_uri() . 'sketch/style.css' );

But I’m not a coder, so I’m probably mistaken.

Thanks,
John

You’re very kind.
Actually, I do have just 1 more query on this, if you’ll indulge me …

How can I make the /portfolio page the default homepage?—if I wanted to do that.

I haven’t found a way to do it.

John

Hi Kathryn,
Thanks so much for your time and effort in helping with this.

My current version of the sketch child theme seems to correctly reference…

@import url("../sketch/style.css");

…and the thumbnails prob seems to have cleared up! I think I must have noticed my error at some point yesterday and fixed it.

This is interesting what you say about:

@charset "UTF-8";
/* CSS Document */

That’s standard code that Dreamweaver puts into new CSS files (I use it as an editor). Are you sure it’s wrong/potentially problematic?

Using GK Portfolio now and this doesn’t seem to be an issue anymore.

I’m using GK Portfolio theme now—having evluaated lots of themes today. None are giving those problems so far. I suspect it was the child theme—which used a simple old-fashioned ‘import’ method. Apparently that’s not advised these days due to speed issues.

Anyway, I just added a child theme to GK Portfolio it and didn’t get the problem we’re discussing.

However, all the styling was screwed up. It’s almost as if some themes RESIST child themes.

It’s outside of this remit of this discussion and adding another factor, but to be honest, this GK theme is so good, I mightn’t want to change anything anyway.

John

Actually, a further note on this: my featured content slider isn’t showing in my ‘Sketch’ theme. Maybe something else is wrong here?

Hi there,
CSS

It doesn’t seem to be “duplicate content” —but rather, additional content.
I was thinking that that content is meant to be hidden under normal circumstances, but my child theme CSS might be revealing it again (somehow).

I’ve activated the child theme again, as requested, so you can see the extra unwanted content.

PHP files

I made no changes to those. It didn’t seem to be necessary when creating the theme. I’d read things about deleting and recreating index.php or functions.php (I think) to make a child theme, but I don’t seem to have ever had to do this on other sites.

I’ll look forward to seeing what you discover—thanks again ??

So does this issue come up frequently? I would imagine it does every single time someone uses the Portfolio feature for the first time, but no one mentions it.

As I say, I’d normally use CSS for things like this, but I thought it looked like something that should be just ‘switched-off’ or on, within the system and that maybe I’d missed some setting despite all of my searching.

It’s funny that I couldn’t find it in Jetpack or Sketch documentation.

What you say about ‘read more’ makes lots of sense. Hopefully Google won’t penalise me for hiding indexable content.

God, I found it,
It’s within the ‘Customising Portfolio’ dialog box, under the heading:

‘Portfolio Archive Content’

Sorry for all the messages. Hopefully thsi will help other people who are as clueless as I am!

No, no sign of it. I suppose if I was tech-clever, I could search the database—somehow.

Here’s the HTML on that ‘portfolio/archive’ page:
https://johnwhiteillustrator.com/wordpress/portfolio/

<header class="page-header">
	<h1 class="page-title">Projects: Archived</h1>
	<div class="taxonomy-description">What’s thsi for?</div>
</header><!-- .page-header -->

But I’m sure you’ve looked at that.

Here’s the most similar HTML to that, in another portfolio templated page:
https://johnwhiteillustrator.com/wordpress/fine-art/

<header class="entry-header">
	<h1 class="entry-title">Fine Art</h1>	
</header><!-- .entry-header -->

I’m baffled.
John

Hi again,
Thanks for you continuing help with this.

I suspected it might be built into the system, and beyond my reach. But that text is in it, which is obviously mine.

I tried to, as you suggested:
“Go to Portfolio > Portfolio Types, or Portfolio Tags”

No sign of that text. “What’s thsi for?”

Unless it’s a description for one of those, or something? I’ll check.

Hmm. It’s within a div classed:
“taxonomy-description”

I’ll revert shortly.

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