theme on localhost?

[edw 0]

Hello, i've inherited a wordpress blog that uses pagelines, and I'm tasked with making a few minor updates. I'm trying to get the theme working locally, but it says I need a pagelines account for that to work? I've never heard of pagelines before, I'm not sure what to do. I just want to make a few minor updates but can't see the theme locally, and I certainly don't want to make edits while in production. Right now on my local install the theme just shows a white background, while in prod the theme looks much different (colors, logos etc.) How can I copy the theme exactly from prod down to localhost? Thanks so much for any help you can offer!

[Aires 265]

Which theme or pagelines product is the live version using. 

If you don't know just provide a link so we can better assist you. It sounds like you make be using too different pagelines products.

[edw 0]

The active theme is called PageLines.com, there are also installed themes called PageLines Framework and PageLines Material. When I use my login info for setting up this forum account, it connects but there is a message on PageLines dashboard that says 'PageLines Pro Activation Required There are 7 professional extensions plugins active, it is important to pro activate your site to use them.' Unfortunately I do not know what the pro account for this setup is. Thanks for your help!

[Aires 265]

Ok so it sounds like you do not have a active pro account but the person who started the development of the site did. You would need to purchase a license in order to activate the pro sections. 

The PageLines.com theme you see is a child theme of the framework theme. 

@Andrew will be better at further explaining the pro process if you have other questions.

 

[edw 0]

Thanks for replying! I've asked the client if there is someone in contact with the original dev to get the login information I need. Unfortunately I can't really recommend to them to purchase another pagelines account, they've already paid for one before and I don't want to be on the hook to support a framework I've never used before. So if they can't get a login from the original dev, I'll look for other ways to accomplish what I've been asked to do. Thanks again!