Vantage-Child (Style.CSS) will not change masthead header front page only

Hi Inferstats

Do you have a public URL where we can take a look at what’s going on? If you need to keep this URL private from other users, just select “Private Reply” on the bottom right of the comment box.

Thanks :)

Before resolving these specific questions, it would be best if we cleaned up your child theme a little as there are multiple CSS files being enqueued and the parent CSS entire contents is in the child style.css file, ideally, only your custom CSS should be there.

Please, can you let me know which files you’ve edited in your child theme if any, I’ll assist in getting everything neatened up from there.

Thanks for the update. If you haven’t yet added any customizations to your child theme I recommend switching back to the parent and deleting the child. Replace it with:

https://siteorigin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/vantage-child-starter.zip

To install the above Vantage starter child theme:

Download the ZIP file to your desktop.
Install from Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme > Activate.

All WordPress themes and plugins completely overwrite their own folder during updates. In order to make your changes safe they need to be copied from the parent theme into the child theme. In the case of CSS snippets, you can insert your edited CSS rules into the field at Appearance > Custom CSS OR the child style.css file, whichever is easiest for you. When moving CSS rules over, try keep it as light as possible. For example, let’s say the original rule was:

#masthead .hgroup {
    zoom: 1;
    position: relative;
    padding-top: 45px;
    padding-bottom: 45px;
}

And let’s say you edited only the top padding, you don’t need to copy the full rule into Custom CSS or child theme style.css, you can just copy the rule and the edited declaration:

#masthead .hgroup {
    padding-top: 50px;
}

If you’ve edited a theme file with a PHP extension that file will need to be copied from the parent folder into the child theme folder, not cut and pasted, just copied and pasted.

If you’ve made many edits to the parent style.css file and aren’t sure where they are, use a program like: https://sourcegear.com/diffmerge/. Add the original style.css file and your parent style.css to DiffMerge and it’ll show you the differences. If you’re using Vantage Free you can find the original 2.4.4 style.css file here:

https://themes.svn.wordpress.org/vantage/1.4.4/style.css

Let me know how this process goes :)

I might have misunderstood which rule you wanted home specific. You can make changes as required. The home only rules get a prefix of:

.home

Hi Ian

Try editing the row in question, edit the Attributes tab on the right and remove the class name wide-grey, it should be in the row class field. Then, set a row background color from the Theme tab. You can remove the background color added to the widget. Summary, you need to set a row background color, not a widget background color.

Limit Login Attempts is a small lightweight solution that I would recommend:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-limit-login-attempts/

If you rather want a full suite of security options including the above then try something like:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/

Hope that helps.

Sorry to hear about the hassle. If you sent your latest reply via email, please, keep in mind that the forum, unfortunately, doesn’t parse attachments. You can add media from the forum comment field though.

If the Page Builder tab isn’t loading next to Visual and Text it usually indicates a JavaScript conflict with another plugin. Please, try running a plugin conflict test. Instructions are below:

//

This sounds like it could be a plugin conflict issue. Can you try disabling all non-SiteOrigin plugins and see if this fixes the issue? You’ll need to clear all your caches after disabling your plugins.

If it does fix the issue, then try re-enabling your plugins one by one until the issue comes back. This procedure will help diagnose which plugin is causing the issue.

Once we know that, we’ll be able to look at what might be causing the conflict and either solve the problem or help you find an alternative plugin.

If you aren’t using a SiteOrigin theme, then you can also try temporarily switching to one of the default WordPress themes to see if the issue is theme related.

Thanks for all the effort you’ve put into testing, it’s most appreciated. I have seen this before but, unfortunately, have forgotten what we did to resolve. Would it be ok if I logged in and took a look? If so, please, find instructions below.

//

Would it be possible for you to create a temporary admin account for us so we can log in and take a look? You can create the account with the following email address:

[email protected]

Just navigate to UsersAdd New in your WordPress admin. Enter siteorigin for the username and [email protected] for the email address. Make sure you’ve selected Administrator for the role and enabled the Send Password field so we receive the details.

Once we’re finished taking a look, you can delete this account. We’ll let you know when to do that.