I need a Vantage child theme

Hi Andy

Thanks for your support and positive feedback, it’s much appreciated.

This isn’t a quick change but I think I can work it up for you. The child theme will need to have a set of styles to handle the new header tags.

I’ll come back to you ASAP with this, hopefully tomorrow.

For sure. You can proceed. Activating the child theme will however require the Customizer and Menu settings to be re-applied. So if you’d like you can install the following child theme.

https://siteorigin.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/vantage-child-vanilla.zip

Install the ZIP from Appearance > Themes > Add New: Upload Theme.

We can then just add edited theme files to that child theme and you won’t have to redo Customizer and Menu settings later.

For sure. Will be with you ASAP on this. It is something you can launch without though. We’ll just be changing tags and adapting CSS to work with those new tags. Nothing visually will change.

All good to go. Please try the following functions.php in your child theme. If you’re all good using FTP you can upload it to /wp-content/themes/vantage-child, it’ll change the logo from an h1 to an h2 tag.

https://siteorigin.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/functions.php_.zip

Please unzip the file before uploading it.

I started working on the other h1’s in the template files, the reason I thought this was a bigger task than it might actually be, did you just need the logo heading tag changed?

Let me know how it all goes and we’ll take it from there.

Thanks

Hi Andy

1. No, unfortunately that’s not a valid tag. You could however change it to:

<span class="site-title">SiteOrigin</span>

2. My mistake, sorry. Assuming you change h2 to span like I’ve said above, then insert the following into your style.css file (child theme stylesheet):

/* Site Title */

header#masthead .hgroup span.site-title {
color: #666666;
font-weight: 100;
font-size: 36px;
line-height: 1em;
}

3. Filtering widget tags is unfortunately a little beyond what we can offer at the moment. Sorry I don’t have more there. Hopefully we see more flexibility in this widget in the future.

4. In the Visual Editor widget (Black Studio) the widget title is the only tag you don’t have control over. Those h3’s look like they are inside the widget body. That means you can highlight the text and change the tag using the drop down menu OR switch to Text view and change the tag manually.

If you can’t see the drop down menu in the Visual Editor widget with all the heading tags, click the last button in the widget’s row of buttons to toggle the toolbar.

Hope that helps.

For sure, glad that helped move things on. Chat soon.

Hi Andy

1. Please send through a url to the page you’ve checked and I’ll take a look at the menu that’s coming from. (The text you’re seeing in that tag only appears in accessibility cases, screen readers etc.

2. Sure, almost anything is possible with WP. You’d need to start by looking for a plugin. If you’re unable to find one you’d need to find a developer and go the custom route. http://codeable.io is our recommendation.

Within your child theme, within the functions.php file, somewhere after the opening PHP tag you’d need to insert the following:

if ( ! function_exists( 'vantage_content_nav' ) ) :
/**
 * Display navigation to next/previous pages when applicable
 *
 * @since vantage 1.0
 */
function vantage_content_nav( $nav_id ) {
	global $wp_query, $post;

	// Don't print empty markup on single pages if there's nowhere to navigate.
	if ( is_single() ) {
		$previous = ( is_attachment() ) ? get_post( $post->post_parent ) : get_adjacent_post( false, '', true );
		$next = get_adjacent_post( false, '', false );

		if ( ! $next && ! $previous )
			return;
	}

	// Don't print empty markup in archives if there's only one page.
	if ( $wp_query->max_num_pages < 2 && ( is_home() || is_archive() || is_search() ) )
		return;

	// Add the shorten title filter
	add_filter('the_title', 'vantage_content_nav_shorten_title');

	$nav_class = 'site-navigation paging-navigation';
	if ( is_single() )
		$nav_class = 'site-navigation post-navigation';

	?>
	<nav role="navigation" id="<?php echo esc_attr( $nav_id ); ?>" class="<?php echo $nav_class; ?>">

	<?php if ( is_single() ) : // navigation links for single posts ?>

		<div class="single-nav-wrapper">
			<?php previous_post_link( '<div class="nav-previous">%link</div>', '<span class="meta-nav">' . _x( '←', 'Previous post link', 'vantage' ) . '</span> %title' ); ?>
			<?php next_post_link( '<div class="nav-next">%link</div>', '%title <span class="meta-nav">' . _x( '→', 'Next post link', 'vantage' ) . '</span>' ); ?>
		</div>

	<?php elseif ( $wp_query->max_num_pages > 1 && ( is_home() || is_archive() || is_search() ) ) : // navigation links for home, archive, and search pages ?>

		<?php vantage_pagination() ?>

	<?php endif; ?>

	</nav><!-- #<?php echo esc_html( $nav_id ); ?> -->
	<?php

	// Remove the shorten title filter
	remove_filter('the_title', 'vantage_content_nav_shorten_title');
}
endif; // vantage_content_nav

Super, glad that did the trick.

In Page Builder 2.0 you’ll be able to use the new layout widget to create layouts within layouts. Launching later this month. That should help with this kind of challenge.

For sure.

Sorry for the hassle Andy. I’ll check into this now.