The Simple:Press theme you are using is not a mobile-ready theme. The ‘Default’ theme is our oldest one and pre-dates our newer, responsive and mobile themes. You can use a different theme on mobile to the desktop. Our three mobile-ready themes are Unified, Reboot (which we use here) and BareBones which is free and is bundled with the main SP plugin these days.

Thanks for the information.

Here is an image showing my Child Framework and available themes.

Will my child framework customizations remain intact if I switch to the Unified theme?

How can I use a different theme on desktop vs. mobile?

Thank you,

Ryan

Ryan Collins_1 said
Will my child framework customizations remain intact if I switch to the Unified theme?

Afraid not. You would need to re-apply them to the Unified theme – a child framework is also freely available for Unified of course.

How can I use a different theme on desktop vs. mobile?

Forum Admin > Themes > Mobile Phone Theme. There is a checkbox that allows you to specify that you want to use a different theme for mobile phone. Check this and save the changes and then you will be offered the available theme list to choose from.

If you prefer to use the same theme for both desktop/mobile (and tablets) then you do not need to specify anything – it will always default to the desktop theme.

Note that the Unified theme has different sections within each template for desktop pr mobile use.

Thank you.

Looks like I have been using the Mobile Theme all along. Please see this image.

Any idea why the forum looks like this?

It used to look much different. Any ideas/insight is appreciated.

I don’t think so, When i looked at your site on mobile yesterday it was showing the ‘Default’ theme – all bunched up.

Can you try something for me?

1 – Go to the forum admin toolbox – housekeeping and click on reset the combined CSS cache

2 – Go into that mobile theme admin panel – select a different overlay and then click on the update button…

Resetting the combined CSS cache worked.

The forum has returned to normal when viewed on mobile.

Thank you for the assistance!

good to hear… thanks for the update…

Hi team,

Yes – an empty page. Looks to me like it has a php code error. Have you made any edits top the template?

First thing – go to the forum admin > toolbox > error log. There may be a few entries but is there one with a pink background that actually says it is an error and to do with the spTopicView.php file? If so can you paste the error detail here.

If not – then it would be nice to know what your tech team reckon the problem is. 

And – finally – you can download a fresh copy of the theme any time you like by visiting your account page on our website. But are you not using a child theme? Or am I mistaken?

I’m not seeing any pink, but I am seeing some yellow, which you can see here.

My tech teams say my Unified theme is “broken” so perhaps a fresh copy would help.

However when I check my two Simple Press accounts (usernames: rcollins and ryancollins19) I am not able to find any fresh copies of the Unified theme in my account. Maybe you could email me a copy?

I am using a child theme for my desktop display.

sorry – are you saying that when you are logged in and you visit ‘Your Account’ (link on top of sidebar) and then scroll down to the very bottom of the page there is no download list of items for you?

For the time being I have activated the “Default” mobile theme.

Not ideal, but at least the posts are loading when viewed in default.

Looking forward to what you think I should do next to get Unified working again.

Thank you for the assistance!

Yellow Swordfish said
sorry – are you saying that when you are logged in and you visit ‘Your Account’ (link on top of sidebar) and then scroll down to the very bottom of the page there is no download list of items for you?  

I see a download list of items, but I only see “Child Framework” “Post by Email” “Simple Press Core”

No Unified theme.

Download a fresh copy (see my previous post asking abut your account)
But if you would like to send me a copy of the theme’s spTopicView.php template file then I would like to check it so see what is broken… I can fix and send back to you.