Hi
I`m working on Vantage theme free version. I customized the menu, changed the color of the background, and color of letters (in theme editor) . Everything was OK, but yesterday the color of background and letters turn back to the original theme color. I changed the color again (working in theme editor) and the color was changed, but today it seems that the theme reset the color again. Please help me how to keep the changed customized colors. At the moment I work on three web sites with Vantage theme and all of them have a same problem.
The theme resets itself
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Hi Sinisa
I notice you are using the Visual Composer Plugin. This may be causing issues with the theme’s built in customizer. Please try disabling this plugin and making your changes again.
Let us know how you get on
Magus
Please check: http://velaning.com.mk/en/. This is suppose to be an English version of the site. I haven`t installed visual composer yet but still have a same problem. On the other hand this site: http://goinvest.com.mk/ has visual composer installed but works well.
Hi Sinisa
Would you mind telling me what plugin you are using for your customizations or are you editing the theme files directly?
Thanks
Magus
I`m editing in the theme editor. First I go in Appearance then editor and change the color codes in Stylesheet (style.css). Than in:
/* =Menu
———————————————– */
.main-navigation {
margin: 0 -35px;
background: #343538;
I change the code in #ffffff or any other color code…. etc…
Hi Sinisa
As you are editing the theme core files directly (unless you are using a child theme(recommended, please see Thread: installing child theme )) the only things that could cause the issue you are describing would be either a rollback of your hosting server or a wordpress security plugin rolling back changed files.
If you have no security plugins for your site then I would suggest that it is a problem with your web host.
Hope this helps
Magus
I don`t use child theme, and don`t use any wordpress security plugin. My host provider is Hostgator. Maybe I should talk to them. Anyway I have created about 50 wordpress web sites with various themes and never had such a problem.
Hi Sinsia
It would be a good idea to use a child theme, just download and activate the one from the linked post. You will have to reassign your menu location and widget locations afterwards but it does mean that you can update Vantage without losing any changes you make. Just be aware that when you add CSS to the child theme style.css you may need to add the !important attribute to some entries to get them to override the defaults.
I have used Godaddy in the past, only to log on one day to find 500 database entries had disappeared. Turns out they had migrated the server using an old backup of the site and data without any notification. All I could do was start again.
I hope you get to the bottom of it as there is no other way it could have happened.
Good Luck
Magus
Ok, Installed child theme following your instructions. I am testing it on this site http://trainingsite.tk/. I hope it works.
Hi Magus
I installed child theme on the both sites:
http://velaning.com.mk/ and http://trainingsite.tk/ and, as I can see, so far, the color of the menu is so good. But now I have a problem with Meta Slider. After installing the child theme the arrows on the sides of photos in Slider and the dots under the slider disappeared. I checked the arrow box and navigation circle in Meta Slider setting, but they don`t show up on the slider on the front page.
Hi Sinisa
I see you have copied the entire parent theme CSS into the Child theme style.css. Please navigate to Appearance->Editor and replace the contents of the child-theme style.css with this
or re-upload a clean copy of the child-theme style.css using FTP.
Once you have done this, any style changes you need to make should be done through Appearance->Customize or Appearance->Custom CSS.
You can copy all the changed sections from the child-theme style.css and paste them directly into the Custom CSS editor. You may need to add the !important attribute to some elements to get them to prioritize correctly but that should then fix the issue.
Let us know how you get on
Magus
Hi Magus
I`m little bit confused. This is the first time I`m installing child them. Please check my http://trainingsite.tk/. As you can see I replaced the content in editor with
/*
Theme Name: Vantage Child
Author: SiteOrigin
Author URI: https://siteorigin.com/
Theme URI: https://siteorigin.com/theme/vantage
Description: Vantage Child Theme
Version: 1.0.0
Template: vantage
Text Domain: vantage
Domain Path: /languages/
*/
/* =Theme customization starts here
————————————————————– */
Than I added the menu content (with changed color codes) from CSS from the parent theme.
Am I on a good way???
As I can see the menu is now white (as I want it). But I still need to customize (change) the color of footer and the padding of the logo. Is there any way that I can just remove some part of the CSS contet of the parent theme and add the rest in the CSS of child theme?
It seems that I`m doing good. I also changed the color in footer. As I can understand the concept of child theme is to only add elements that I want to customize in Vantage Child: Stylesheet (style.css).
Please check my site: http://trainingsite.tk/.
Hi Sinisa
You are exactly right. The entries in the parent theme need to remain as they are (these would get put back after an update anyway). The child-theme CSS overrides those with the settings you add to it, which is why the ‘!important’ attribute is required in some cases. These overridden entries should be the only thing in your child-theme style.css.
I am glad you now seem to be on the right track to getting your site the way you want it.
Feel free to open a new support thread if you need any more help
Magus