Updated to v4.8 – will I need to alter Child Theme?

Hi Pratik,

The child theme style.css contains the URI location of the parent theme so this would presumably need to be edited to point to the URI of the updated parent theme. Having tried this and then deleted the old version theme I just see a white screen when attempting to view the site (I’ve now restored the old theme directory and everything is working again).

The old (v4.7.1) theme appears in the Themes directory as “catch-kathmandu-pro-3”
The updated (v4.8) theme appears in the Themes directory as “catch-kathmandu-pro”

Any thoughts as to what the problem might be?

Thanks

Roland

Hi Pratik,

Here is the theme folder structure:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8699166/Theme%20folder%20structure.png

The version 4.7.1 theme is “catch-kathmandu-pro-3” (existing parent theme)
the version 4.8 theme is “catch-kathmandu-pro”

Child theme functions.php:

<?php
/**
 * Child Theme functions and definitions
 *
 */
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'catchkathmandu_child_enqueue_styles' );
function catchkathmandu_child_enqueue_styles() {
    wp_enqueue_style( 'catchkathmandu-parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
}
function catchkathmandu_post_sliders() {
	//delete_transient( 'catchkathmandu_post_sliders' );

	global $post;
	global $catchkathmandu_options_settings;
   	$options = $catchkathmandu_options_settings;

	if( ( !$catchkathmandu_post_sliders = get_transient( 'catchkathmandu_post_sliders' ) ) && !empty( $options[ 'featured_slider' ] ) ) {
		echo '<!-- refreshing cache -->';

		$catchkathmandu_post_sliders = '
		<div id="main-slider" class="container">
        	<section class="featured-slider">';
				$get_featured_posts = new WP_Query( array(
					'posts_per_page' => $options[ 'slider_qty' ],
					'post__in'		 => $options[ 'featured_slider' ],
					'orderby' 		 => 'post__in',
					'ignore_sticky_posts' => 1 // ignore sticky posts
				));
				$i=0; while ( $get_featured_posts->have_posts()) : $get_featured_posts->the_post(); $i++;
					$title_attribute = apply_filters( 'the_title', get_the_title( $post->ID ) );
					$excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
					if ( $i == 1 ) { $classes = 'post postid-'.$post->ID.' hentry slides displayblock'; } else { $classes = 'post postid-'.$post->ID.' hentry slides displaynone'; }
					$catchkathmandu_post_sliders .= '
					<article class="'.$classes.'">
						<figure class="slider-image">
							'. get_the_post_thumbnail( $post->ID, 'slider', array( 'title' => esc_attr( $title_attribute ), 'alt' => esc_attr( $title_attribute ), 'class'	=> 'pngfix' ) ).'
						</figure>
						<div class="entry-container">
							<header class="entry-header">
								<h1 class="entry-title">' . get_the_title() . '</h1>
								<div class="assistive-text">'.catchkathmandu_page_post_meta().'</div>
							</header>';
							if( $excerpt !='') {
								$catchkathmandu_post_sliders .= '<div class="entry-content">'. $excerpt.'</div>';
							}
							$catchkathmandu_post_sliders .= '
						</div>
					</article><!-- .slides -->';
				endwhile; wp_reset_query();
				$catchkathmandu_post_sliders .= '
			</section>
        	<div id="slider-nav">
        		<a class="slide-previous"><</a>
        		<a class="slide-next">></a>
        	</div>
        	<div id="controllers"></div>
  		</div><!-- #main-slider -->';

	set_transient( 'catchkathmandu_post_sliders', $catchkathmandu_post_sliders, 86940 );
	}
	echo $catchkathmandu_post_sliders;
} // catchkathmandu_post_sliders

/**
 * Loading Parent theme stylesheet
 *
 */

Child theme styles.css header: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8699166/Child%20theme%20styles.css%20header.png

Thanks

Roland

Hi Pratik,

I tried that – see above (October 13, 2016 at 1:01 pm)

Roland

Hi Pratik,

I’m having this problem again in that I’ve uploaded 4.9.1 (to replace 4.9) and edited the styles.css file in the Child Theme to point to the new directory. If however I then remove the 4.9 theme I just get the WSOD. So even though I have edited the child theme to point to the new version directory it isn’t picking this up for some reason.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Hi Pratik,

I am quite able to handle customisation thanks and having just spent $50 renewing my support for another year I’m not overwhelmed by your response. Clearly there is an issue here in that having updated your theme using your Catch Updater tools I am unconvinced that my site is now picking up the new theme version.

Roland

Hi Pratik,

Which web site are you looking at? The one in question is brocuspavilion.org.uk (I use this theme on a lot of sites) and the multiple instances of Catch Kathmandu Pro directories have been created by uploading new version of the theme using Catch Updater i.e. your prescribed update method. I haven’t named or changed the names of any of these directories myself?

Thanks

Roland