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Troubleshooting

August 17, 2026 1 min read

The layout looks unstyled

Almost always a caching issue after an update. Clear any caching plugin and your CDN, then hard-reload (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + R).

Images look stretched or blurry

The theme’s crop sizes were not generated for images uploaded under a previous theme. Run a thumbnail regeneration — see Recommended Image Sizes.

PHP warnings on a fresh install

Fixed in 1.3. Earlier versions read theme options that did not exist yet and emitted “undefined array key” notices on PHP 8. If you still see them, confirm you are running 1.3 under Appearance → Themes.

No menu is assigned yet. The theme falls back to listing pages automatically. Create one under Appearance → Menus and assign it to a location.

Customizer settings vanished

Settings are stored per theme. Switching themes — including to a child theme — starts a fresh set. Switching back restores the originals.

The site is slow to load fonts

As of 1.3 fonts are served from your own server rather than a third-party CDN, which removes an external request and the privacy question that came with it. If you previously added a plugin to disable remote fonts, it is no longer needed.

Still stuck

Post in the Child Education support forum on WordPress.org.

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