nothing is being editied!

You guys are confusing to say the least, one of you says the colour change should happen (post 2) the other 2 say otherwise.

If watch and subscribe go red when new content is showing then doesn’t it make sense that the pm button should react the same way? I shouldn’t need to be creating child themes you guys should have this tied up TBH.

OK to clear things up, let’s forget the word ‘edited’, and just say ‘looking’ at the wrong file.

Andy is right in post no.2 when he says it should change, although you hadn’t told us you were running Reboot until afterwards, which makes all the difference when speculating.

Actually yes you are right, we should have this ‘tied up’, but Reboot is a relatively young theme in that it was only released in the early part of the year, and without feedback on these issues some of them are not always easy to spot. In fact this issue by the look of things has not only been present for quite some time, but never reported by any other members up until now!

Having looked into the subscriptions and watches .spcss files I can see that actually they do specify a hex number for the unread count, whereas for some reason PM’s don’t. It should really be all one way or the other, so I will make sure that the next update to Reboot includes a fix to change the colour of the unread PM count to red.

Hopefully we will have the next update out within the next week or so, so depending on what you want to do – you can either wait for the fix, or edit the .spcss file. If you do choose to edit the file then there would be no need to make a child theme as the update will include the fix.

Thank you Ike that’s the answer I was waiting for

You need to bare with me, I suffer bipolar so I can go off on tangents, think at 500mph and be very pedantic.

I investigated this issue a few weeks back but got sidetracked by another job, I can only apologise for not putting all the install details in my first post, which would have made the issue a bit clearer to you guys.

I will wait for updates because it isn’t my site, the admins there can cope with updates but’s thats the limit of their abilities. They actually paid for this subscription for me to obtain reboot and the plugins they wanted. I have no idea of the SP history as I usually do Vbulletin and phpBB stuff, both SP & WP are new to me. I’m just paid to look at root causes of the errors and issues on this particular site, putting it all in order so to speak.

Thanks guys – I like it when an Issue is resolved

No problem, debugging a new theme isn’t always straight forward but in this case it’s a nice quick fix and on the whole there haven’t been as many issues as I was expecting. Glad we got there in the end anyway!