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Bug #556

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Default Theme Broken after Upgrade

Added by Matt Gold about 13 years ago. Updated about 13 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority name:
Normal
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Category name:
WordPress (misc)
Target version:
-
Start date:
2011-02-03
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Description

I think that today's upgrade (if you did upgrade today) broke blogs using Twenty-ten on the site. Example: http://livinglab.commons.cuny.edu

other problems seem to be occurring to; I'll detail them in a separate ticket.

Actions #1

Updated by Boone Gorges about 13 years ago

  • Status changed from Assigned to Reporter Feedback
  • Priority name changed from Urgent to Normal

I just loaded up every blog on the system that uses twentyten. All are working. Also, many of them had different contents in the sidebar, which I take to mean that no settings were lost in a general way.

The link you give above does not work because it's the wrong url - it should be http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu

Any more detailed information you can provide would be most helpful. In the meantime, I am decreasing the severity of the ticket, as I do not see evidence of any widespread problems, or any problems at all for that matter.

Actions #2

Updated by Matt Gold about 13 years ago

You're right that I gave you the wrong URL for the blog, but the one you listed above is correct, and all of the settings (custom header image, widgets) were wiped out with the switch. I'll ask the user for more info/to join our conversation here.

Actions #3

Updated by Boone Gorges about 13 years ago

The specific nature of the lost settings are crucial to troubleshooting here: if there were widgets lost, what were they; if there were other settings lost (Dashboard > Settings), what were they and what were they changed to.

Actions #4

Updated by Matt Gold about 13 years ago

I think I've figured out at least part of this story. This blog used to use a different theme -- NOT TwentyTen. I just went through the themes on the site to try to find it, but I think that it may have been removed from the site because I didn't realize that anyone was using it (or they started using it after I had sorted through unused themes). I don't know the name of the theme offhand, but I could pick it out of a lineup, so maybe we should look at a list of the themes removed recently from site, I could search for it. Then, maybe we could re-add it and hope that the settings on that theme come back.

Actions #5

Updated by Matt Gold about 13 years ago

So, if you could either show me how to sort through Git to find the commit removing the themes, I could start there, or if you could give me a list of recently deleted themes, that would work, too.

Actions #6

Updated by JR Rosen about 13 years ago

Hi Boone. Matt was in the office today when I tried to get on the Living Lab blog and found that nothing was loading. When it did come back--thanks for that!--it came back without the customized header, and without any of the widgets I had in the sidebar, stuff like a category cloud and tag cloud (I'm trying to decide which is better to use, categories or tags, so I have both), calendar, recent comments, links, and others that I can't remember. I remember that next to Plugins it used to say 17 and now it says 3--was that how many I had clicked, or how many I hadn't? I'm not particularly scientific about how I set up the blog, but I did find some useful widgets and plugins, and I don't know that any are still there. I can certainly redo the blog, but if the snag is a sign of a bigger problem, then I'll hold off on making changes while you poke at it.

About what Matt just wrote--I don't think it used to have a different theme. I used TwentyTen for my course last semester, liked it, and probably went with that right away. maybe I tried something different briefly but then settled on TwentyTen quickly. I could be wrong about all of that, but I really have no memory of using any other theme. In fact, when I asked about why there was no option to reply to a comment, and Matt suggested I use a newer theme, I remember wondering if TwentyTen were actually some old futuristic theme invented during year one of blogging and named such for the wonderment of reaching the end of the first decade of the new millennium.

Actions #7

Updated by Matt Gold about 13 years ago

Thanks, Jody. Did you change to TwentyTen recently? Because I know for a fact that you were using something different at least until the last time I looked at the Living Lab blog. (I know because I wondered why you were using an older theme but didn't want to say anything).

Actions #8

Updated by Matt Gold about 13 years ago

Found it.

Jody, the theme I remember you using is called Blue Sky. Here's a screenshot of what it looked like: http://wpthemeshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/bluesky.jpg

And it looks like I deleted BlueSky from the themes folder on January 25 (Boone -- here is the commit - https://github.com/castiron/cac/commit/404cce6521a594aa6f1300e9439ea25fac001b3d )

I believe that this explains the problem. To fix it, I'd suggest we re-upload the theme and see if the widget settings come back.

Actions #10

Updated by JR Rosen about 13 years ago

wow--that does look familiar. So I just completely made up using TwentyTen? But I did use it in my class last semester--I really am not making that up! Thanks for your help, and I'm happy to use TwentyTen and redo the stuff I did--let me know if that's the best thing to do.

Actions #11

Updated by Matt Gold about 13 years ago

Hi Jody -- let's see what happens Boone re-adds the theme to the site and reactivates it on your blog. Of course, if you would prefer to customize TwentyTen instead, please let us know. But I am fairly sure that this is what happened, and that it was my fault. Apologies!!!!!

Actions #12

Updated by Matt Gold about 13 years ago

  • Status changed from Reporter Feedback to Resolved

Hi Jody,

Boone updated the Commons today with the fixes I made last night, so I was able to go into the backend and switch your theme back to Blue Sky. And, hurrah! Everything is as it was.

I'm not sure why the widget settings didn't carry over to the new theme, but it probably has something to do with with the fact that Blue Sky is a pretty old theme that may not have saved settings in the ways that new themes do.

In any case, you can always change the theme again if you want to, but this time, it will be your choice.

Many apologies for the mix-up and thanks for your patience.

Best,

Matt

Actions #13

Updated by Matt Gold about 13 years ago

  • Assignee changed from Boone Gorges to Matt Gold
Actions #14

Updated by Boone Gorges about 13 years ago

It's likely that widget settings didn't carry over because they are dependent on the names of the sidebars, which are themselves theme-dependent.

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