If you have a premium theme, it’s hard to say how it is coded. Your best bet for support is to contact the author through channels that he/she has set up. They should be able to answer them better than we can since they built it.
You can try enable the theme editor via WP-Config as shown here: http://www.wp-edge.com/how-to-enabledisable-wordpress-theme-editor/ It’s probably impossible if you don’t have FTP access – but its possible that the theme editor was enabled previously via the theme funcitons.php and has since been disabled once you re-installed a fresh version of it.
In general Child Themes are meant to be used for customizations on upstream parent theme. However views differ for specific types of customizations. Since shortcodes are related to your content a lot, it might be more robust to considering putting them into simple plugin (or “must use” plugin).
I enjoy writing my own themes, and I actually think doing it from scratch turns out a better product in the end. That said, I’m not sure building your first theme on a client project is a good idea, and the time required to learn it would be prohibitive and would either cost you/your company … Read more
According to WordPress template hierarchy, the page templates will fall back to page.php of the new (active) theme. You can read more about template hierarchy here:- https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/
Now that you have mastered modifying a WordPress Theme you are ready to create your own. There are many ways to go about this, and it’s up to you to figure out what is best for you. Personally, I like to use a WordPress Theme framework. My favorite is called Sage (formerly known as Roots). … Read more
every theme appears as basic HTML. So all the pictures, functionality, etc, do not appear When you visit any page which showcases a theme, or even check out the theme’s preview image (which is the image that shows up under the theme selection page in the back end), you will see an image of the … Read more
No. The first example is invalid CSS, the second one valid. In CSS, you can only comment with /* and */. If you are unsure, there are tools such as CSSLint or the W3C’s CSS Validator to check your code. Also setting a value to none or not setting the value at all is something … Read more
It looks like the background image was added to the tag inline. You will need to change the following: Locate your template file (probably header.php) which has the tag Inside style=”” remove background-size: cover and replace it with background-size:auto 100% then add background-position: center This will let the background image stretch to the height of … Read more
Paginations mostly rely on the global $wp_query variable to generate the data. Using get_posts() will not generate that, because it returns an array of posts, not an instance of the WP_Query() class itself. As a result, you don’t have access to class’s methods, such as $query->max_num_pages. You can use a plugin to add pagination (such … Read more