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Thanks Digico.

I don’t plan on hard-coding it in the theme for sure, I plan on putting it in a child theme. I was hoping that if I segregate my application logic well enough, then when I change themes in the future I can just copy my old child theme’s .php files over into the new child theme with a few minor modifications. Or is that unrealistic?

Thanks for the suggestion, mindctrl! I would have preferred to write in Python since the code is a lot more compact, but I don’t think it would be worth getting Django etc to run on my server.

Is there any overhead to writing a custom plugin, or can I just write the .php file the same way I would otherwise and then just put it in a plugin folder?

The parent theme is responsive but it does not contain the styling for these tables. I am adding the styles for the table myself. Or can I really just put the new table in and assume that the theme will handle it?

Thanks for the @media tip, will look at how to make that work for my case.

How does Duplicator differ in function from WP Migrate then? If I’m reading you correctly, WP Migrate is the best way to transfer DB changes, whereas Duplicator is best if you also have many files and media that need transferring? Or am I missing the mark?

Hmm. So when I am choosing what category to put a post in, and I want its respective categories to be “Cafe” and “New York”, how does that work? I select ‘Restaurant Type’ category, then select the ‘Cafe’ subcategory, then select ‘Location’ category, then ‘New York’ subcategory? So each post will have 2 categories and at least 2 subcategories?

Oh, okay, thanks. If I’m making changes to theme options and menus, categories, plugins, etc – would it be simpler to migrate the tables with the WP Migrate plugin then? How will I know which tables to move?

Sorry it took so long for me to follow up, forgot about this thread. Yes, it worked perfectly thanks!

I did all of the above. The transfer seems to be okay, except all the permalinks still link me back to my old site. I think this is because of the siteURL set in the wp options DB table, is that correct?

Should I just go ahead and transfer the DNS at this point and it should work fine?

Thanks, Matt! I’ll give it a try now and see how it goes.

(Edit) Using the !important keyword works. But that seems a bit hackish?

Sorry, I can’t post a link because I’m currently working on a local copy of the site. But yes I am sure the header block has an ID of header.

This is how the style.css of the Hueman theme itself styles the header block:

#header { background: #33363b; position: relative; padding-bottom: 60px; }
#header .pad { padding-top: 30px; padding-bottom: 30px; }
#header .container-inner { position: relative; }

However using the code I mentioned in my previous post doesn’t work in my child theme.

I am using Firebug Lite in Chrome.

“Are there other components of the header which also have background settings” <– not sure what this means?

So what tools do you use for this process?

I did install WordPress locally, and have my MAMP server set up for that. But when I try to use Dreamweaver with my local WordPress install, it does not work due to the permalinks. The tutorial that I followed to do this is https://www.creativepro.com/article/build-wordpress-sites-dreamweaver-cs5-part-2 and the problem that I describe with custom permalinks is explained in https://tutsme-webdesign.info/wordpress-theme-editing-with-dreamweaver/ .

I also did look for CSS plugins but the only ones I found that claim to let you preview the CSS in real-time are either very buggy or outdated. Such as https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-live-css-editor/

I’ve tried changing the bottom property in custom CSS using the code you provided, but it doesn’t seem to change anything. What value should I set for bottom property in order to produce the nice separation shown in the demo?

I’m currently testing the plugin out at https://kiwifoodie.co.nz/wowslidertest/

Thanks!

I did inspect it in Firebug, but can’t see anything out of the ordinary in the HTML and CSS. If it uses JS I don’t know which JS script it uses.

Is there a specific name for this sort of thing so I can search the web for it? I was thinking ‘drop down menu’, but that expands the menu upon mouseover whereas this expands by click (and moves the rest of the page down to accommodate, instead of layering over).