Dave Naylor

Looks like your site is failing to make a database connection. Unless you changed anything yourselves, maybe contact your hosts Dreamhost to see if there’s an issue with your server.

Cool. Go to your database, select the wp_options table and check the option_name for siteurl and home. Edit to suit.

Did you also check Private? Are you still logged in when checking on the front-end?

Hard to say but in all probability, yes. You don’t need to be too hard on the old web guy since he used a reputable theme framework for your site. Your copy just hasn’t been updated.

If the new web guy has a development environment, he could locally clone both sites and try and fathom out where the issue lies.

Looks like your WordPress Site URL is set to https://localhost...

Do you have Phpmyadmin access to your database?

Can you provide a site URL?

The images are returning 404 which means they are no longer at the requested URL. They’re actually redirected to a really long absolute path that seems to be or rather was on the same server as your site but maybe someone deleted that folder. Your former employee may have set it up that way and forgot all about it.

The long URL has Cryoguard in the path which I believe is linked to your company. Is there anyone in that organisation in charge of site development etc?

There may be some answers for you here:

https://docs.woothemes.com/document/digitaldownloadable-product-handling/

if a styling is already defined in the stylesheet of the parent theme, it is best to err on the side of caution by overriding it with a !important declaration

Seriously, it isn’t.

No, that’s just advocating sloppy coding. It’s bad practice to arbitrarily throw in !important declarations all over the place to quickly solve a problem.

No problems. It’s always good to sock it to !important ??

https://www.wellfedwriter.com/blog

Running:

• WordPress 3.5.1
• Thesis 1.6

https://www.wellfedsp.com/blog

Running:

• WordPress 3.9.2
• Thesis 1.6

The current Thesis version is 2.1.9, so maybe older Thesis installs don’t play happy too well with new WordPress versions.

Time to speak to Mr Web Guy again I reckon.

Just remove the media query lines:

@media screen and (min-width: 1008px) {

and then the closing

}

There’s no reason for them to be there that I can see.

OK that should be larger than 1008px (although users on smaller devices are still going to see the parent rules).

Since you’re still developing, my suggestion is to copy then backup your existing child theme style sheet, then strip out the !important declarations completely and run with the copy. We’ll then see where we’re at without all the sledgehammer nonsense.

OK I just took out all the unnecessary !important declarations, and your site remained the same.

What screen size are you viewing your site at? I ask because you’re making changes to the links etc within a media query block that would only apply to screens in excess of 1008px.