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March 12, 2016 at 1:32 pm #181277sonnyppcMember
I had to reinstall Genesis, I downloaded a copy of my wp-content folder before the reinstall. I need to recover all the widgets and everything as well. I have backups of the whole site.
What files should I be comparing? I thought it was the Stylesheet, but when i compare them with diff now .com there isn't any changes.
Using Winning Agent child theme.
Thank you MUCH!
March 13, 2016 at 5:38 am #181321Victor FontModeratorGenesis and the Winning Agent theme are separate entities. Nothing in Genesis should ever be modified. All theme modifications are made to the child theme. All of your changes should have been made to either functions.php or style.php in the Winning Agent theme. The home page is constructed from widgets. All of your home page content should be in Appearance/Widgets or widgets that display page/post content. The homepage may have a custom loop as well. I don't know this for sure because I don't have Winning Agent to look at the home page code.
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Have you requested your free website audit yet?March 13, 2016 at 9:45 am #181346sonnyppcMemberHi Victor,
Thank you for looking at my question.
I'm under the impression I should be able to copy the php code from a file that manages the homepage look, the way I had the widgets setup, all the little changes I made to margins, custom html I had in text widgets, etc.
I compared the functions.php and front-page.php from then and now, no difference. I can't locate this style.php people are referring to. Do all child themes have this?
Yes, there looks to be a loop. * Run the Genesis loop
genesis();Thanks again for your insight.
March 13, 2016 at 10:34 am #181347Victor FontModeratorThe style file is style.css not style.php. It is in your child theme directory.
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Have you requested your free website audit yet?March 13, 2016 at 10:37 am #181348sonnyppcMemberOk, I was wondering if people were referring to the style.css as style.php. When I compare those 2 files, before and after, they look the same. Very bizarre.
Is this assumption correct? I'm under the impression I should be able to copy the php code from a file that manages the homepage look, the way I had the widgets setup, all the little changes I made to margins, custom html I had in text widgets, etc.
Thanks again!
March 13, 2016 at 10:41 am #181350sonnyppcMemberHey Victor,
On second look, the before and after of the style.css is showing a couple differences, i think my problem is that comparison tool i'm using only shows the first 2000 lines of code.
March 13, 2016 at 10:50 am #181352sonnyppcMemberLet me ask this a different way. When I add a widget in the appearance/widgets section, what file does that edit?
Thanks
March 13, 2016 at 11:50 am #181355sonnyppcMemberI figured this out!
Your widgets are apart of the database and are managed with arrays. I thought that's over my head and said I'll just redo the widgets in the WP dash. I was starting to redo everything and then found out all my old widgets and all their settings were saved under "Inactive Widgets", all I had to do it drag and drop them back into where they needed to be. Even my text widgets with custom html where there.
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