Kaptinlin Themes Support

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This is the thread for all discussions related to Ver 5.1.8 changes. Screenshots of the release will be attached shortly. Also the help videos will roll out commencing this weekend.

As this is now approved by Themeforest, this version will be available as both a full theme download via your Themeforest account, and as a build download (which is new & changed files only) via your Striking Advanced Panel within your WP admin.

NEW STRIKING USER AND VER 5.1.8 IS YOUR FIRST EVER INSTALL:

- The update notices you see about ver 5.1.7.1 in this thread and on the forum header are not applicable to you and can be ignored. You would install Striking Ver 5.1.8 in the same manner as you would install any other wordpress theme. You can install Striking Ver 5.1.8 by using the install theme function in your wordpress admin, or by ftp Striking into your host setup. The Document folder contained within your download from Themeforest has a section on installation of the Striking theme.

EXISTING STRIKING USERS - YOUR CURRENT VERSION INSTALLED IS STRIKING VER 5.1.7 OR EARLIER

For existing users, you have a 2 or 3 step process depending on your theme modifications.: updating first to Ver 5.1.7.1, and then updating again to Ver 5.1.8, then running the clear cache routine to reset your theme cache folders.

Step1:
The first step: Updating to Striking Ver 5.1.7.1 once you see the update notice in your WP admin. This update you should do only by using the Striking Advanced Panel updater function, as vers 5.1.7.1 is designed to prepare your theme for the 5.1.8 update, and if it is installed any other way (for ex by ftp) it is possible the routines in this version will not run correctly. Which in turn could cause you problems when trying to perform the subsequent update to Ver 5.1.8.

Striking Ver 5.1.7.1 does not affect anything other then admin files - it has no impact on your core php and css files related to your theme appearance and functions, so any hardcoded modifications you may have made in the past will not be impacted by Striking Ver 5.1.7 update.

Step 2:
After installing Ver 5.1.7.1, at some point you will see in your control panel the prompt for the available Striking Ver 5.1.8. If you have no hardcoded modifications to your current Striking installation, then you can proceed to install Striking using the update function without any hesitation.

However, if you have hardcoded theme modifications - that is you have customized your theme by modifying theme files, then you can only update your theme by ftp transfer. Most users who have made hardcoded file changes understand the intricacies of theme updating in this situation, and need no guidance from us.

CHILD THEME USERS: Striking Ver 5.1.8 includes an updated Child Theme Ver 0.60 so you have to update your child theme as well or you will have issues! Most likely your slider images won't work, but perhaps other problems can occur.

Step 3:
After installing the update, the first thing you should do is go to your Striking Advanced Panel, and toggle the clear cache attribute to on, and save. This will trigger a refresh, and after that the toggle will show off,but it will have swept your temp theme cache file. Please then check your site sliders. They should be fine. This function is necessary in order to accommodate multisite functions built within the theme.

Congratulations, you should now have Striking Version 5.1.8 showing in your WP Installed Themes Panel and your theme functions should all be working per your settings. If you find that for some reason, you cannot see your slider images, or your colors are not working, then we suggest you first go to your Striking Color panel and resave it, and if that does not work, then you may have to check your Cache folder permissions. Also check the Striking Advanced Panel to confirm that the Timthumb has not been turned on in the update process. We have not experienced this error in some time, but on the outside chance of it still being present in some unique situation, we suggest it just in case. If all else fails, contact us by message and we will assist you.

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Striking Version 5.1.8 is a major update. Many hours have been spent on new features and squashing past errors. We also involved more beta testers in this version, and we hope that with all this, the release should be in good shape.

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE STILL DOING MORE WORK ON WOO-COMMERCE AND SIMILAR ECOMMERCE PLUGIN CONFLICTS. Literally, woo-commerce just released an update not even 24 hrs ago, too late for us to deal with any conflicts - and we now know we have to further adjust our new class switching function found in the Striking Advance Panel to accommodate some matters such as hover link class conflicts. If you are a Woo-Commerce user, you must activate the woo-commerce css, and our CSS class switcher (found in the Advance Panel) to obtain the greatest degree of compatibility.

Please report any errors you might find in this thread please. We find concentrating all error and usage questions about a separate release in one place has been the most effective way for we to track, and users to determine, and followup, on version tidings.



As per our past practice, we will respond right within your comment in this thread on our findings, suggestions and corrections.

If you think you have an outstanding bug from a prior release that has not been dealt with, then repost in this thread after only after you have updated to this version and tested to confirm it still exists. If we could not recreate the error in our test environments, then the matter may be unresolved. But if you have an unresolved concern, post in this thread (nicely please) and it will be examined in due course.

This has been a huge undertaking on our part (Lin, I, Paul and Jimba). Many thanks to all our beta testers, for their input. We hope that you find the update beneficial.

Happy Striking
James

PS - the changelog is found in the next post.