Demo set up (HOME page) not working

dummy content homepage template

- 9 years, 5 months ago astrbac
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  Hello,
  
  I am trying to set up this site https://lijeska.hr as your “business demo 5”. If important – I installed uploaded both theme and child theme via FTP and activated the child theme as I plan on doing some customizations.
  
  During the plugin import and activation a few status lines said “failed” but immmediately in the next line is said that they did install and activate. I then proceeded to the dummy content upload and I did this via theme’s options panel. It sort of worked…
  
  I see posts, menu items and widgets but I can’t seem to set up my homepage and blog pages.
  
  In the theme options panel, in the dropdown beside these options there is only one choice (“Sample page”), while in the WordPress “Reading” pane there are all the pages in the dropdown. I chose Static page > Homepage, clicked on SAVE settings and it gets immediately reverted back to the default option.
  
  ALL of the Homepage types (header menu Home > Homepage 1, Homepage 2, …) are falling apart
  
  Some og the Portfolio pages mess up the header menu
  
  My configuration:
  
  late 2014 MacBook pro 13′ retina
  
  OSX Yosemite
  
  Safari Version 8.0 (10600.1.25.1)
  
  it happens in my Chrome <span style=”color: #303942; font-family: ‘Helvetica Neue’, ‘Lucida Grande’, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; widows: 1;”>Version 43.0.2357.81 (64-bit) too</span>
  
  As if the pages didn’t import correctly OR there is some code blocking the page template being chosen? Please help.
  
  Cheers!
  
  Alex
  
  This topic was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by astrbac.
- 9 years, 5 months ago Mirela
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  Hello,
  
  Sorry for the late reply.
  First of all, please contact your host and make sure you have all the necessary rights to make changes. (Not being able to save the changes is due to insufficient rights). Can you please send us your wp credentials in a private reply, so we can give it a closer look?
  
  Best regards!
- 9 years, 5 months ago astrbac
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- 9 years, 5 months ago Mirela
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  Hello,
  
  I can not do much with this much rights. However, to manually change main menu, please go to file header.php and find this line:
  $args = array("theme_location" => "main", "container" => false, "fallback_cb" => 'themeple_fallback_menu');
  Replace with this:
  $args = array("theme_location" => "main", "container" => false, "fallback_cb" => 'themeple_fallback_menu','menu' => 'my_menu');
  Change the ‘my_menu’ with your main menu name and save file.
  -Add this code: .page_header_yes .top_wrapper { padding-top: 100px;} into your custom css box, for the page header.
  -Did you installed all required plugins?
  Let us know.
  
  Best regards!
- 9 years, 5 months ago astrbac
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  Hmm, I thought admin rights have just one more level of authority and that is adding/removing users (this is a client site so I can obviously not grant this to other persons).
  
  I am using the child theme so there are no other files aside from functions.php and style.css. If needed (and if I understand properly the way child themes work) I can add header.php file via FTP and simply add yhis line of code you are suggesting. This should then override parent theme’s header.php file am I right?
  
  If it can’t be done this way I will simply switch to the parent theme and try your edit there.
  
  Cheers!
- 9 years, 5 months ago astrbac
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  I changed your role into “administrator” I tried tackling this issue but failed :) . Please, you give it a try.
- 9 years, 5 months ago Mirela
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  Hello,
  
  Sorry for the late reply.
  You had not installed the required plugins and neither did set up the sliders.. Or setting up the home page and blog. I did the main configurations for you. Please continue with the customization of the theme.
  
  Best regards!
- 9 years, 4 months ago astrbac
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  Hi,
  
  Last time you were really quick and helpful with sorting out these issues I had with the DEMO set up. I am trying to recreate this myself on a demo (dev) site for a friend and I am having the same problem. If he likes one of the designs he plans to purchase the licence of course but I really need to understand what is not working and why
  
  Last time you mentioned that “I didnt install all the necessary sliders” and so. I did install all of these but three out of ten or how many did not install. I got an error message saying that the install links were not correct (they were Ladyslider, Revolution slider and another one I cant remember now).
  
  Also, I am again having problem with importing dummy content. Here are the steps:
  
  > I set up my hosting (dev subdomain, database, WP installation); all working correctly
  > upload theme via FTP (Specular and Specular Child folders)
  > activate Specular Child from within WP admin
  > went to Options Import – clicked on agency 2 and imported all dummy data
  > Tried setting up Frontpage but in dropdown there is (again!) only Samle page to chose from
  
  Under “Pages” WP menu item I see a lot of pages so I suppose they did import as they should but for some reason it just doesnt want to work in your SETTINGS panel.
  
  Please advise. Also, I may have another client who is considering using Specular so I might be able to sell another licence for you but I really cant go forward before I understand what is breaking and why.
  
  Yours truly,
  
  Alexander
- 9 years, 4 months ago astrbac
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- 9 years, 4 months ago Mirela
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  Hello,
  
  Please make the needed installations from the main theme first. Not from the child one. This caused the incorrect url errors. After installing required plugins, importing demo data, set up Front page and other important configurations, you can continue the use from your child theme.
  Let us know if you need further help.
  
  Best regards!
- 9 years, 4 months ago astrbac
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  A-HAAA…! It was the child theme that caused errors. OK I will
  
  >revert to Main theme
  >complete set up steps
  >switch to Child theme
  >continue with my customizations.
  
  Many thanks for such prompt replies!

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