I have browsed the forums looking for a solution and I can seem to find one. I have created my child theme per the instructions found in the knowledge base and I did not @import or enqueue anything in the child’s style.css or functions.php files just the basics. When I activate the child theme my … Read more
I installed and activated Mantle – without installing GeneratePress. Mantle is described as a child theme of GeneratePress. I don’t understand what that means. I probably still need to create a child of Mantle if I want to play around with the CSS and PHP. Thanks for any tips.
Hi Tom, I want to change the login error message to WordPress so a hacker won’t get an idea if the user name or the password is wrong. – I learned about child themes: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes – I learned I don’t have to add the enqueue code because GP takes care of all that automatically: https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/gp-child-theme/ … Read more
As the title states, if the only changes one is making to the GP theme are CSS, via your Simple CSS plugin, does one really need a child theme? In other words, are you CSS changes maintained when the GP theme is updated? On a side not, I noticed while making some CSS adjustments, that … Read more
Hi, Usually when I buy a theme, I’ve got the child theme in my files. I do all my customization in my child theme to avoid any buf when I update the theme. But with GeneratePress there is no child theme included. Is it normal? Won’t I have any trouble when I update the theme? … Read more
Hi Tom Im noticing you telling folk to get rid of @import line in child themes, and your statements about it neinbg no longer a standard? Do you know a URL I can read about that, yours included? Remove this line from your child CSS in “Appearance > Editor”: @import url(‘../generatepress/style.css’);
<?php do_action( 'generate_after_entry_content'); ?> was the culprit. It did some funny css stuff to my child theme.
Hi Tom, And I hope with these questions I do not become your problem child 🙂 I’m pretty embarrassed to ask these questions here, and honestly almost emailed you directly, but I figured the answers could possibly help someone else, so I decided to get embarrassed. So, I really haven’t been doing anything with my … Read more
Hi Tom, I put all my custom CSS into the style.css file within my child theme, which are directly based off your child theme template. Most of the CSS works fine and I have not issue and most of the time when I do it is my own error, but lately I’m running into the … Read more
Hi: I just implemented GeneratePress Premium and think it is great. I love the configurability of the theme and the Premium addons. After spending significant time configuring the various options available through the theme and the Premium addons, I decided that I need to make a css change to suppress navigation at the bottom of … Read more
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