Updating My Custom Ink Theme

Hey there, I was wondering if you could help give me a installation for updating my 1.7.4 theme to the 1.7.5 theme.

I have heavy customization to the theme, and was wondering how I can change the theme's errors to be fixed in my current edits.

Please give an explanation on how to add the following to the 1.7.4 version.
* Version 1.7.5
***************************************
1. Payment receiving issue fixed.
2. Back end metabox issue fixed.
3. + Transaction pagination.


I really hope I don't need to keep re-customizing the theme for every update.

I thought I was buying a working functional theme if there are errors, I wasted a lot of time.

 

bumping this post for views

 

You have to create a Child Theme that is a copy of your current theme with all of your customizations. The Child is you active theme with the original GeoCraft theme installed but not active. When an update comes, you can update the original GeoCraft without creating problems with your Child. Then you'll need to pick out the new code and put it into the Child. I've already asked the authors to provide us with a list of changes and where they can be found the next time they do an update. I have custom coding too and had a major problem when we went from .4 to .5 and as a reminder....always backup your files before any update!

 

Oh yeah, I am working from a customized 1.7.4 theme, and have the 1.7.4 geocraft already on my site. I could always re-download the files too.

It would be brilliant if they did a write up, on where and what code they inserted and removed to make everything work. Which in essence is what I need.

Thanks Roger,
(PS: Do you know how long it took you to convert to 1.7.5? Was it alot of script to add / remove?)
-Kent

 

Bump.

Any notes on changes would be helpful to fix previous 1.7.4 errors

 

Bump.

Any notes on changes would be helpful to fix previous 1.7.4 errors

Really don't want to dig through all the code to find what is there and what is not.

Please support staff.

 

Hello,

Please just wait till the end of this month. We are going to update Geocraft theme. After that we will provide you list of files which are updated in new version. So that you can replace those files only, instead of complete theme updation.

 

Hello Nitesh,

That's a very good idea , providing a list of files that we can only replace to update the theme will help many geocraft owners, because we spend a lot of time to make some changes and would like to keep it (if possible) when make an update.
thanks.

 

Hello All,

Yes, Changed file list will help many Geocraft users. But use of child theme (as suggested by rogerschnur) will also make your work easy.
Just copy your edited files for example ("front-page.php" and "header.php") and Paste in the childtheme directory.
Then activate child theme. Your site will look same as it is while main theme was activated.
Now if you want to update your main theme then simply click update.
Your "front-page.php" and "header.php" which you have added in the child theme directory will remain intact.
Only main theme files will update or change after updation.

Also follow link given below for child theme detail.
http://www.inkthemes.com/httpwww-in...rdpress-a-way-to-save-themes-modification/02/

 

Hello Nitesh,

I did not know that we could use .php files with a child theme.
Should we put all .php changed files in the child theme ?
In the parent theme, all php files are not in the same directory, by placing them all together in the child theme directory, will it work properly?
Can you please explain a little more about using php files in child theme.

Thanks very much for your time.

 

Hello Aliounn,

Till now what i have found after searching is that you can add only those files in child theme which are in the main directory of the parent theme.
It is not possible to include files which are in sub directory of the parent theme.

If you get some more info about sub directory files then please do let me know too .

 

Thanks a lot for your reply

 

I will attempt this. Thanks.

 

Although a child theme would be ideal for updates. I do not think it will work with my client, as I have their company name for the Geocraft theme, and edited the .styles pretty heavily being a web developer, and not wanting to update from the original code.

I was hoping that the theme was 100% working when I bought it. I should have checked the support forum first to see all the error posts on this specific theme.

I think I just need a list of places to insert edited code. Or just a list of pages that you changed from 1.7.4, so I can go through and see where you made the appropriate edits. As the '1. Payment receiving issue fixed.' and the '3. + Transaction pagination.' is a big issue.

Really do not want to delay launch. Let me know asap please.

I am a web developer so I should be able to read through your code to see appropriate edits to fix the errors.

Thanks for all your help,
-Kent Oliver

 

When I upload your child theme I am getting this error. I had this with another theme I was using but for the life of me I cannot remeber what I did to resolve it.

The child theme has the style sheet in it and I added two files that I have altered. Front-page.php and taxomony-listcat.php

Code I have in the style sheet is correct as it is the one that was put to dpownload and install.

Code:

/*
Theme Name:    Geocraft Theme Child
Theme URI:      http://www.inkthemes.com/
Description:    Child theme for the Geocraft theme
Author:        Inkthemes
Author URI:    http://www.inkthemes.com/
Template:      Geocrafttheme
Version:        1.76
*/
 
@import url("../Geocrafttheme/style.css");
 
#menu .ddsmoothmenu li ul {
overflow-x: hidden;
max-height: 300px;
overflow-y: scroll;
}
 

The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.
NameDescription
Geocraft Theme Child The parent theme is missing. Please install the "Geocrafttheme" parent theme.

 

I am creating a Child Theme to preserve my changes from future updates. If I understand things, I must add the style.css from the parent theme and use it for my modifications, correct? What other files need to be in this child directory.

I am experimenting with these changes on a staging site so as not to screw-up my primary site. The primary site is http://www.flatheadguide.com/ and the experimental site is http://evade.org/ Note the layout of the home page is different.

What am I missing here and/or what other files need to be in this child site?

Thank you,

Tom

 

Bump.. Guys any answer here to my question and others been added. Many thanks

 

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Hello,

Please follow link given below for child theme.

http://www.inkthemes.com/httpwww-inkthemes-comhow-to-create-a-child-theme-in-wordpress-a-way-to-save-themes-modification/02/

It will help you.

 

Hello, check if your child theme is just inside a single folder, I came across this where my files were inside a double folder meaning it could not read the parent files. Hope this helps.
Tob

 

I am still having an issue with my child theme. WP sees it and I can activate it - and it works. However, the child theme displays different page formatting than the original Geocraft theme. All data & images are displaying, but the page is full-width and logo is left aligned & "Add your business" button has disappeared.

I only have one file, style.css in the child directory.

Are there other files needed in the child directory.

Tom