Epik HTML 5 Manual Upgrade

[samw]

Hi Folks

Just wondered if anyone has manually upgraded Epik to Genesis 2.0 + HTML5 and would be willing to share the theme specific code changes

I have followed the available Genesis resources and tried 3 times with a local installation of the theme. The inner pages are fine but the Front Page ends up as mess - not technical I know.

Tried with both a manual XHTML conversion and the auto convertor

Genesis XHTML To HTML5 CSS Converter

Checking the CSS this all seems converted without issue

No issue with site after upgrade to G2.0, WP3.6 its just the HTML5 conversion

I need to do a manual upgrade as its an existing populated site.

I appreciate this is not very specific but clearly I am missing changes in the functions.php and page.php

Epik support refers me back to the published Studio press resources

Many Thanks in advance

No site available as local install for testing

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[AnitaC]

Have you posted this on the Appfinite.com support? Wes is pretty good about helping with his themes.

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[CHARLIEGOLF]

If you download it again it's complitely HTML5.

[samw]

Hi

Thanks for replies yes call logged at appfinite but referred to Studio Press resources, no available theme specific guide.

The new version has been completely written from scratch and due to CSS changes and live site with content I have to do a manual upgrade, this is the advice from appfinite.

There's no way to auto upgrade between versions. I will take a look at the html5 code in the new one to see if it highlights the front page issues.

If anyone did a manual upgrade, be great to understand the required code changes in detail

Many thanks

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[Summer]

How extensive were the customizations you did on the old version of Epik? Your best course of action would be to list what customizations you made in the templates of the old versions, then go through the HTML5 reference guides here to adjust that older code to the new function calls.

Then you would rename the old version of epik to something epik-xhtml, or whatever helps you identify it, then upload the new epik. After that, you would double check your widget placements.

You do have to remember that the new versions of Epik, Ally and Adapt all have a different look than the old versions, ranging from radically different with Adapt to minor with Epik... when you say the front page was a mess, was it more than just sidebars out of place?

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[samw]

Hi Summer

Thanks for the reply. The customizations were minimal and 99% CSS, that's why Im surprised at the issues.

All the inner pages are displaying with no issues including sidebars, footer widgets etc

The issue is the Home Page Layout - this is made up of theme specific widgeted areas as per here. I havent made any customizations to these, but they no longer display correctly

Epik Widget Location Guide

I will identify all difference in the theme files for a clean install of original Epik and my live version and go back through the HTML5 reference guides

What is confusing is whether I need to change the home.php and/or functions .php for these Home Page Widgets

* Display widget content for the "Home Feature" section.
*
*/
function epik_home_loop_helper_welcome() {

if ( is_active_sidebar( 'welcome-wide' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'welcome-feature-1' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'welcome-feature-2' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'welcome-feature-3' ) ) {

echo '<div id="welcome"><div class="wrap">';

genesis_widget_area( 'welcome-wide', array(
'before' => '<div class="welcome-wide">',
) );

echo '<div id="welcome-features">';

genesis_widget_area( 'welcome-feature-1', array(
'before' => '<div class="welcome-feature-1">',
) );

genesis_widget_area( 'welcome-feature-2', array(
'before' => '<div class="welcome-feature-2">',
) );

genesis_widget_area( 'welcome-feature-3', array(
'before' => '<div class="welcome-feature-3">',
) );

echo '</div><!-- end .welcome-features --></div><!-- end .wrap --></div><!-- end #welcome -->';

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[samw]

Hi

Update - Checked home.php, functions.php and css - the only changes I made were to the CSS file

Manually went through CSS and changed all the code as per the genesis published markup guide http://my.studiopress.com/docs/genesis-markup-comparison/

Still have the same issue with Home Page, not surprised, as clearly I am missing whatever changes need to be made to the home.php and/or functions.php file

As mentioned, there is no appfinite markup comparison. Downloaded Latest Epik but as it has been completely rewritten in HTML5 there is no way to do a manual comparison for the required .php changes.

I appreciate that this is the SP forum, but if anyone has made the .php changes and is willing to share that would be great

I guess these need to be changed - but beyond my level

genesis_widget_area( 'home-feature-2', array(
'before' => '<div class="home-feature-2">',
) );

Thanks in advance

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[Summer]

What's the link to your site? It really sounds like your sidebars and/or widgets got their order rearranged, and that's not a major thing to fix. You'd either need to rearrange the order of the sidebars in home.php, or open up all the sidebars and make sure the widgets are where you'd originally put them.

I updated versions of a child theme once, and ALL my homepage widgets got thrown into the "Inactive" section. Annoying, but not impossible to recover.

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[samw]

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[Summer]

Sam, I'm not a moderator so I can't read that private reply.

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[samw]

Hi

I havent sent a PM just asking if it was easier to take this offline?

Can I reach you via your website

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[Summer]

I don't think this forum has PMs, but yes, just use the Contact form on my web design site

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