Styling options not working

Mike

Hi - hope you can help

The styling options (Adamant Options -> Layout & Adamant Options -> Custom Style) do not appear to have any effect

I have tried amending options on the Layout tab and adding custom css classes onto item add inserting css code to handle them in the Custom Style tab - neither of which has any effect

Also I note the the site does not look at all like your demo site
Take a look at the main menu
I have not altered the styling of this and, if I am reading this correctly, the options under Adamant Options -> Layout -> Navigation Menu match the style on your demo site

I think, but I am not certain of this, that the theme is failing to find a css file somewhere
Can you advise please?


Site URL: http://new.silvertoad.co/

For information (in case this is relevant):
The code is actually installed in a sub-directory under this (http://new.silvertoad.co/silvertoad)
The site is loaded from http://new.silvertoad.co/index.php

<?php
/**
* Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but loads
* wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
*
* @package WordPress
*/

/**
* Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
*
* @var bool
*/
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/silvertoad/wp-blog-header.php' );
?>


Any advise you could offer would be greatly appreciated

surgeon

Hi Mike,
my first advice is to update Adamant. You are using an old version, so your problems can vanish after updating theme.
please refer to: http://www.apollo13.eu/docs/adamant/#!/installation_update
if the problem will not vanish I'll ask you to send to me credentials to temporary access (via private message).

Mike

Thanks surgeon, we seem to be getting somewhere now.

I was not aware that I was using an earlier version. Somebody else installed the theme and the site was then handed over to me with the instruction to "make it work".

I had assumed that the person who set the site up had made sure he was using the latest version.

There's probably a lesson there somewhere.

Mike

Sorry surgeon - spoke too soon

It is now different (I would assume this is a default theme), but I am still not able to effect it in any way

If you need to look around the backend, please use the following credentials

surgeon

Please - never post login data here, on public forum. Always do it vie private message - click my nick and 'Send surgeon a Message'.

surgeon

Hi Mike,
try this - delete the user.css file, You can find it in folder wp-content/themes/adamant/user

Mike

Thanks for getting back so quickly, surgeon

Have deleted user.css as suggested and this has had an effect
However, I still cannot amend the site style
As before, changes to the options screen have no effect on the site

Question: Is it supposed to create a new user.css?
(seems unlikely to me, but I'm kind of clutching at strews here)

surgeon

Hi Mike,

the problem seems to be in folder wp-content/themes/adamant/user itself. Can You check if this folder is writable. For some reason the theme's scripts cannot alter the file within this folder.

I hope this is it.

Mike

Thanks surgeon, looks like we've cracked it

Standard server install sets permissions to 755
Having given it 777 permission down to the user directory, all works fine now

It has indeed generated a new user.css and this has fixed the issue

Thanks for all your help

surgeon

Strange... 755 should do... that must be something with server settings and folder's ownership.
anyway - I'm glad You can work now with the theme instead of working with issues