Sadly, once a theme becomes out of date (unsupported) your best bet is to pick another theme that is either commercially supported (paid) or community supported (free and active). Otherwise you will have plenty of work like this going forward, and we don’t generally recommend it. Just think of the TimThumb fiasco that occurred recently with thousands of themes that weren’t fixed at all, requiring massive PR to address it. We’ve only stuck with our beBoldy edition because we rewrote most of it.

So that’s your real answer. As far as how to fix this yourself, which I don’t generally recommend, you would need to add a stripslashes() into the home.php file where it displays this text. If it’s getting multi-slashed, you may additionally need stripslashes() in the functions.php file where it saves this option. I cannot recall what all I had to do to get this fixed a while back.

I have a question – how did you change the code so that the quotation marks show up in the homepage blurb, rather than backslashes? I had to just take the quotes out, but I would to put them back in, once I know how to fix that bug.

Thanks so much!

lily

Sadly, once a theme becomes out of date (unsupported) your best bet is to pick another theme that is either commercially supported (paid) or community supported (free and active). Otherwise you will have plenty of work like this going forward, and we don’t generally recommend it. Just think of the TimThumb fiasco that occurred recently with thousands of themes that weren’t fixed at all, requiring massive PR to address it. We’ve only stuck with our beBoldy edition because we rewrote most of it. As it were; we have more updates to make to beBoldy in the time since this post was originally written!

So that’s your real answer. As far as how to fix this yourself, which I don’t generally recommend, you would need to change the <script> call in header.php to reference the new file, or a predefined jQuery URL or internal reference. Other themes normally use wp_enqueue() call within the functions.php file and use a predefined jQuery source. We used the Google CDN URL in beBoldy. It’s also common to reference the jQuery built into WordPress without specifying any URL using wp_enqueue(‘jquery’) in functions.php, or simply having any custom JavaScript file require ‘jquery’ as a dependency so it fires up.

Thank you for your inquiry. What you are trying to do involves CSS code customization. We recommend programming a child theme to override the behavior you wish to “turn off” in this case. One should never modify the project files directly.

We essentially rewrote the Boldy theme to meet our needs. We didn’t release our copy to the community because we are not theme developers, thus we couldn’t support it. We’re big advocates of supporting ones projects with the community.

Based on our plugin development experience, we feel that one must follow a stable development path by never modifying existing project files unless they are being committed to the project’s repository.

To this end, the options that we would approve of for your situation are as follows:
#1 – Build a child theme or a custom plugin to fill the gap. Use the original theme or plugin paired with your new one to augment it externally.
#2 – Choose another theme or plugin project that is a better fit for your needs.
#3 – Rewrite as much as you want within theme or plugin and take ownership of it. The original theme or plugin has no relationship to the new one. Once one piece of code is changed, it’s a new project that you must maintain over time as the core develops.

Hopefully this makes sense. This requires some coding and some planning, but understanding this will save a ton of time and headache now and down the road. Please let us know if you have questions about our approach. Thanks again for checking in with us, and we hope we have been helpful to you.

Sorry have another question, have you managed to get a sidebar on the homepage to the right of the slider?

Regards
Mike

Thanks for the kind words. Sean, the fellow who does all the programming around here, is currently swamped with work. Thus he wanted me to let you know he’s aware of your question and will get back to you when he has the opportunity.

Thanks for your patience!

Have one question how did you get rid of the “Request for a Quote” button, I want to be able to just have text!

Mike

To answer your second question, the Share and Bookmarks button was part of the original theme, and we did some code fixes and extracted its code, moving it into a new plugin. We haven’t released that plugin to the community yet. We have two more free community plugins in line getting ready to be released in the coming days. We’ll take your inquiry as a vote for us to release that plugin shortly afterwards!

Before we release a plugin to the community we have to put a lot of thought to the title, descriptions, FAQ, make screenshots, make a landing page, plus we have to test the plugin in various themes and in several versions of WordPress, then run the commands to commit the plugin to the wordpress.org repository and maintain it. So we have to pretty much gauge our time invested in the free work that we put into the community plugins. We are proud of our contributions and intend to continue with them!

Do let us know if you have any further questions. Thank you