In 2010 I created my Thematic child theme based on Thematic 0.9.6.2. During the years I updated from WP 2.9.2 to the current 3.8. Although not remembering I obviously updated the Thematic parent theme up to version 1.0.3.2, too, as I can see in my latest backup of the css-file. So far everything worked properly.
After updating to WP 3.8 "Parker" now I was suggested to update my Thematic parent theme as well, because I "seemed to run a child theme". So I did. Right after the updates still everything seemed to work properly. But one day later my horizontal menu did not work any more!
In my child theme I included some scripts in the horizontal menu. So hovering over the main menu items opens the submenu of the secondary pages below. Hovering over the secondary pages opens the menu of their child pages. Additionally the currently hovered item changes the color, so you always know, which page your click will open.
The occuring problems: After the update(s) none of the scripts seem to work any more.
a) Hovering over the main menu items still effects a color change of the currently hovered item. But after leaving the item the color does not switch back to the primary color or it takes a lot of time. So after hovering over all items of the usually black backgrounded horizontal menu the whole menu is light grey in the end. :-(
b) Much more important and really bad for my business: The sub menus are not shown any more! So it is impossible to read the child pages below the main items. Therefore visitors and potential customers miss a lot of important information about my company. (I did not link to the child pages on every page, because to keep them updated would cause a lot of effort. Therefore I have a custom menu with all pages and subpages, which is updated. This one is still shown. But I am not sure, if every visitor will notice it.)
Announcement, if neccessary: I am not sure, if this function belongs to Thematic itself or to my child, but hovering links in the text causes a change of the link background. This still works.
My questions:
Actually I am not sure, if the parent theme update, the WP update oder even something at my provider does cause the trouble. Most probably the theme does not work with WP 3.8. Bit I am kinda confused, because right after updating it seem to work. So be so kind togive me some ffeedback, what I can do n the meanwhile.
Thanx in advance!
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