Hi Folks
Sorry for the urgent message, but I have a site going live tomorrow and want to try to resolve this before then if I can. I am using the Estate theme and have used page builder extensively to complete it.
I need to add a Breadcrumb navigation to the site. No problem to use any number of the good plugins out there to do it. However, most need at least one line of PHP added to a theme file somewhere like page.php or header.php
I am happy and comfortable to do this but would rather not hack the theme files and use a child theme to do it. I am kicking myself as perhaps now I wish I had added a child theme before I started building but I didn’t as I wanted to leave the client with some obvious and easy.
My question is 2 fold. If I add a child theme now (my site is pretty much complete) how much of my page builder pages will I need to redo? I know I’ll have to reassign my navigation menus, but will I need to redo a lot of page work with page builder when I activate it? I can’t afford to spend time rebuilding the content and pages.
If I can’t add a child theme easily to what I have now, is there a Breadcrumb option that does not require editing a theme template file?
Thanks for your help.
Hi Simon
All your Page Builder pages will remain fully in tact, so you don’t have to worry about losing any of that. We built Page Builder to be completely theme independent. It wouldn’t even matter, for example, if you switched over to a completely different theme. So switching to a child theme will be easy.
I’m not entirely familiar with breadcrumb plugins, but I’d imagine that creating a child theme would be the easiest way to accomplish this.
Thanks so much Greg – I did post again this morning – sorry. Do you know how much resetting I’ll need to do in the child Theme?
Hi Greg. So sorry but I’m having trouble with the Child theme code now too. I’ve set up a child theme – I’m using state premium. If I use the following code:
/* Theme Name: Park House Theme URI: http://siteorigin.com/ Description: Child Theme of Estate Premium from SiteOrigin Author: SiteOrigin Author URI: http://siteorigin.com/ Template: Estate Premium Version: 1.0.0 */ @import url("../estate/style.css"); /* =Theme customization starts here -------------------------------------------------------------- */I get the following error
Park House The parent theme is missing. Please install the “Estate Premium” parent theme.
If I use this code:
/* Theme Name: Park House Theme URI: http://siteorigin.com/ Description: Child Theme of Estate Premium from SiteOrigin Author: SiteOrigin Author URI: http://siteorigin.com/ Template: Estate Version: 1.0.0 */ @import url("../estate/style.css"); /* =Theme customization starts here -------------------------------------------------------------- */I get this error:
Park House The parent theme is missing. Please install the “Estate” parent theme.
I have even tried to reference the premium themes style.css file in the premium folder like this:
@import url("../estate/style.css");Can you help? I am not too sure how to reference the right parent theme information for the Estate Premium theme.
Thanks
Sorry mistake in my last message should have been:
@import url("../estate/premium/style.css");I didn’t think this would be case sensitive, but I think you might need to use lowercase for the name of the parent.
/* Theme Name: Park House Theme URI: http://siteorigin.com/ Description: Child Theme of Estate Premium from SiteOrigin Author: SiteOrigin Author URI: http://siteorigin.com/ Template: estate Version: 1.0.0 */ @import url("../estate/style.css"); /* =Theme customization starts here -------------------------------------------------------------- */Brilliant! Thanks Greg working fine now. Never thought it would sensitive either.