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Upgrading Blanco while retaining many changes.

This topic has 44 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 9 years, 11 months ago ago by Eva Kemp

wycameras

Participant

June 5, 2014 at 09:21

So it’s about time I upgraded the theme on our site – still on version 1.0 believe it or not. When installing the theme for the first time I made a LOT of changes on the CSS and on the little images in there to change various aspects of the site to fit our needs. Now I need to upgrade to allow WooCommerce 2.x compatibility and I don’t want to lose all of these changes, is there a way to go about this while retaining any customisation or am I going to have to do all the customising again?
Cheers.

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Jack Richardson

Support staff

June 5, 2014 at 10:02

Hello,

We always recommend to do style changes in custom.css. It will prevent losing of changes after theme upgrading. That’s why now you should copy all your changes in style.css and paste them into custom.css. If you have made some changes in php files, then you should to create a child theme and copy php files with changes there. About child theme you can read here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes.

Also read carefully our documentation before theme upgrading: https://www.8theme.com/demo/docs/blanco/#!/upgrade.

Regards,
Jack Richardson

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wycameras

Participant

June 5, 2014 at 11:08

Cheers Jack, that clarifies what I thought. I stupidly made changes to the parent theme when I was doing it initially – I was a bit new to this stuff back then.

I guess the easiest option now would be to back up the old theme, update to the new version, then create a child directory and copy across the files from the back up to the child theme that I have changed?

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Eva Kemp

Support staff

June 5, 2014 at 11:22

Hello,

Yes, that will be a good solution for you.
Don’t forget to create database backup as well, not only files.

Regards,
Eva Kemp.

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wycameras

Participant

June 5, 2014 at 13:27

Thanks Eva. In the process of doing this now but whenever I enable the child theme it seems to get rid of the nice buttons and uses a different style? http://wycameras.com has the child theme enabled with the different buttons now, whereas they all used to be the ones that show on the demo theme. Any ideas why this is happening?

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Jack Richardson

Support staff

June 5, 2014 at 13:38

Hello,

Are you talking about “Add to cart” buttons?

Regards,
Jack Richardson

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wycameras

Participant

June 5, 2014 at 13:43

Yep, and the buttons on the sliders too.

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Jack Richardson

Support staff

June 5, 2014 at 13:48

Hello,

Please provide us with FTP and wp-admin credentials we’ll take a look!

Regards,
Jack Richardson

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wycameras

Participant

June 5, 2014 at 13:59

Details in private content 🙂
Cheers.

Please, contact administrator
for this information.

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Jack Richardson

Support staff

June 5, 2014 at 14:20

Hello,

As we can see “Add to cart” buttons now displaying properly. Could you tell us please what is wrong with slider buttons?

Regards,
Jack Richardson

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wycameras

Participant

June 5, 2014 at 14:26

I deactivated the child theme which is why it went back to the normal buttons, it’s back on the child theme again though so the buttons are back. The slider button shows the same as the other buttons with the new hideous button rather than the older sleeker ones.

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Jack Richardson

Support staff

June 5, 2014 at 14:41

Hello,

We’ve made some changes. Check it now!

Regards,
Jack Richardson

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wycameras

Participant

June 5, 2014 at 14:46

Sorted thanks Jack 🙂 what was actually the problem?

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Jack Richardson

Support staff

June 5, 2014 at 14:52

Hello,

Because of some unknown reasons child theme did’t inherit woocommerce/style.css in parent theme. That’s why I’ve just copied it into child theme.

Regards,
Jack Richardson

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wycameras

Participant

June 5, 2014 at 14:53

Ah right, thanks for that.

One more thing – the category lists appear to have a shadow behind them which wasn’t there before making the child theme, could you possibly look into that too please?

Cheers.

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Jack Richardson

Support staff

June 5, 2014 at 15:05

Hello,

I’ve made changes in style.css. Check it now!

Regards,
Jack Richardson

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wycameras

Participant

June 5, 2014 at 15:07

Thanks that seems to have got rid od the grey shadow – but now the little “+” sign to collapse menus, and also the “-” next to the sub-sub-categories has gone?

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Eva Kemp

Support staff

June 5, 2014 at 16:18

Hello,

I’ve copied images folder from the original Blanco folder to child theme directory.
Have you made any changes on the site? There are no categories sidebar on the shop page.

Regards,
Eva Kemp.

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wycameras

Participant

June 5, 2014 at 16:22

Yeah the little icons are back that’s worked great. I’m trying to update the theme to the most recent version during all of this as I need to upgrade to WooCommerce 2.x, but it’s not having it – it messes literally the whole site up when I activate the newly downloaded Blanco package :/

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Eva Kemp

Support staff

June 5, 2014 at 16:45

You have to replace the current blanco folder with the folder of new theme version, and not upload it as a separate folder. Just leave your child theme folder untouched.
Please read our documentation carefully: https://www.8theme.com/demo/docs/blanco/index.html#!/upgrade

Regards,
Eva Kemp.

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wycameras

Participant

June 5, 2014 at 16:56

Hmm yeah the first time I tried upgrading I did that and it still did the same – just done it again now and it’s still messed loads up, the only way I get seem to get it looking right is by reverting back to the old theme but then I’m back to square one with a massive loss in functionality in various plugins.

It’s been a while since I set this up but it definitely didn’t have this much to do to it when I initially installed it, only hitting problems during updating.

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Marcoevich

Participant

June 5, 2014 at 17:28

@Whycameras, I hope you’re ok with me intervening in your topic. 2 years ago I was in the same boat with one of my sites. Made changes to the parent theme, then updated the parent theme, the update has overwritten some of my changes and there you go, errors & plugin problems all over the place.

Since then I’ve learned a lot. I also have created a child theme.

First of all, what you should do is install this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-maintenance-mode/

Your site is malfunctioning now, and your customers should not see that. You can temporarily hide the site for your customers with that plugin. login by going to your /wp-admin/ url.

Next, disable any and all plugins that are not required by YOU right now. Plugins for customers can be disabled as your site will not be accessible for them.

With plugins disabled, you can better troubleshoot theme problems. Switch back to twenty twelve theme. Remove your current theme folder entirely, and upload the new one. Activate it to see what it looks like.

Then activate your plugins. If everything works as it should be, then you’re ready to go. If not, you have to troubleshoot any issues with your updated theme & plugins first, before you do anything else. Also update all plugins if you haven’t done that yet.

Once these issues are solved, create the child theme. Activate it and check if everything is working before making any new changes.

Once you got it working with the child theme, place your customizations you had before one by one in the child theme folder. Periodically check for any problems that might arise, as you might have to update some of your customizations.

Once you’re done with that, check your whole site again for plugin compatiblity problems. If everything looks good, you can go live again!

Good luck!

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wycameras

Participant

June 5, 2014 at 21:25

Tried doing that, literally deleting all traces of the theme and then reinstalling it and still getting the same issues, but this pops up this time:

http://i.imgur.com/g52vZvc.png

Everything is up to date now, all plugins (bar one which I can’t at the mo, it’s disabled though), themes everything etc. And the theme was downloaded tonight.

I have it under maintenance mode though which looks better – thanks for the link.

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Eva Kemp

Support staff

June 6, 2014 at 08:20

Hello,

I’ve updated review-order.php file and the notification has gone. As I see you have only one file review-order.php in wp-content/themes/blanco/woocommerce/checkout directory. Have you removed the rest ones? Have you reinstalled woocommerce plugin when recreating the site?

Regards,
Eva Kemp.

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wycameras

Participant

June 6, 2014 at 10:40

I didn’t remove any other files no.

I upgraded WooCommerce due to us having over 200 products up and another 800 drafts which we use as reference for new uploads and I assumed if I deleted WooCommerce they would get deleted?

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Eva Kemp

Support staff

June 6, 2014 at 10:56

Could you please specify what exact problems you’re experiencing right now?
Thank you.

Regards,
Eva Kemp.

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wycameras

Participant

June 6, 2014 at 12:27

Very nearly got it sorted now after a bit more fiddling. A couple more issues that I can’t seem to work out though:

On Chrome images appear to be shifted to the right on product thumbnails:
http://imgur.com/CqI5MLN

There seems to be odd spacing on various parts of the site – i.e. between the menu & first row of items on the shop page as can also be seen on the above screenshot, at the bottom of any content on any page before the footer, between the product title and availability on an individual item page.

The product category menu has lost it’s collapsibility.

The search box layout is a bit broken.

Other than that I seem to have got it back to normal bar a couple of bits that I know what to do with now (i.e. getting the sliders back to normal).

One more q that’s not related to anything messing up – is there a way to center the logo & menu and put the search on the right and include a phone number on the left? If not it’s no worries that’s something I’d prefer.

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Eva Kemp

Support staff

June 6, 2014 at 13:08

Dear @wycameras,

Unfortunately due to all customization you’ve done and for the reason that some files are missed we recommend you to reinstall your site. Install clear WP, Woocommerce plugin (for some reason a few files are lost currently), then install our theme.
Please follow the instructions very carefully https://www.8theme.com/demo/docs/blanco/index.html#!/installation
We’re very sorry you had to experience such troubles but it’ll be better to install it from scratch.
Thank you for understanding.

Regards,
Eva Kemp.

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wycameras

Participant

June 6, 2014 at 13:12

Is there a way to do a fresh install on the above without losing all our uploads? I don’t mind setting up certain things again but with the amount of uploads we have losing them would be a nightmare.

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Eva Kemp

Support staff

June 6, 2014 at 13:46

You need to create a back up of your database and then import it into the new-installed site.

Regards,
Eva Kemp.

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