• Resolved Staci

    (@stacityma1972)


    I have another admin who is telling me using the widgets provided from the theme on my home page (front page) (I am using the faith theme), is a potential for the website to fail. I will paste in what was said:

    “Looking at the current website design, there is actually no content on the home page.  All content that appears is created using theme based column widgets, which although work in the short term, have the potential to overwrite all pages with the theme design making every page look identical.  This will also cause the site to fail if the theme is ever changed or the default layout for number of columns/headers/footers change, which often happens when a theme or the WordPress engine get updated.

    In short, the way the current site is designed has several points of failure that make me very worried.  There is zero reason why the content is in theme column widgets and not actually on the home page itself.  Not only does this make ensuring it works across devices difficult, it will cause problems trying to update the theme or WordPress engine when security updates are released.

    I understand that the part that can be seen looks like it’s working, but the reality is, the backend stuff is not when a site is designed like this.  I’m not sure when Staci moved to the widget layout, but I would suggest moving away from that as soon as possible even if that means using a previous version of the homepage.  The additions she made such as the second calendar plugin or pop-up plugin would still be available with all the content that currently exists.”

    Please help as I don’t want a failed website but I really like the default widget based home page!

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  • Theme Author Dumitru Brinzan

    (@ilovewpcom)

    Hello,

    That’s a lot of words that basically say nothing.
    “it will cause problems trying to update the theme or WordPress engine when security updates are released”.

    The theme was released in February 2017 and people have been happily using it ever since.

    Anyway, I don’t know what website you have and how you’re using the theme. Maybe you do have some questionable content or elements, but I don’t think the theme will cause your “site to fail”.

    Best regards,
    Dumitru B.

    Thread Starter Staci

    (@stacityma1972)

    I am using the Faith theme and basically the default front page with the widgets…I have tried to set it up a lot like the demo as I liked that “look”

    st-james-crete.org

    this is the website I am using, what would be considered questionable content or elements? I have the columns set as in the demo and the widgets…do I have to many widgets per column or does this matter?

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by Staci.
    Theme Author Dumitru Brinzan

    (@ilovewpcom)

    I don’t see any particular issues with it.

    Thread Starter Staci

    (@stacityma1972)

    When you say questionable content or elements, you are not referring to the widgets and their content I have put in from the Theme customization, correct? Sorry, just trying to get facts straight before I present my side of why I am using the widgets and why it will not override other pages or cause the website to fail.

    Theme Author Dumitru Brinzan

    (@ilovewpcom)

    As I said previously, I don’t see you using the theme in any special or “questionable” way.

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