I can easily switch between themes, but it rewrites the entire site, can I assign a theme to a page? In that way I can have multiple themes
there is great plugin named Themer that enables you use different themes on one site individual set per page or collection
here's the github link : https://github.com/sommerregen/grav-plugin-themer
Maybe a start to your issue
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I have two stores under one domain, which is the full site the other is mobile site, I set different templates to them. But for some reason, the mobile site still uses the full site template. I doubled checked database, and the templates have been correctly set.
Any ideas?
Have you activated different themes for different store.
Go to System->configuration->design
and then chose your package (from Current Configuration Scope) and add different themes for both packages
I've setup Octopress and want to use totally custom styling basically throwing out most of the standard styling that applies to the rest of the site.
I do want to keep reference to all responsive goodness though that is baked in.
What's the best way to setup my custom landing page?
You mean like this?
http://eduncan911.com
^- My Octopress site.
Blog is at: http://eduncan911.com/blog
Since Octopress uses Jekyll under the skin, it would be better to think about how to accomplish this in terms of Jekyll - and there are many ways to do this.
OT: Personally, I find Octopress' theme layout, includes and customs far too complex and too granular. They did this to make it highly customable; but in my view, it tightly couples every template to another template.
Now with that said, there are multiple ways to achieve this. I did answer a very similar question here:
Creating an octopress theme from a wordpress theme
It's Jekyll: therefore, just go create the page however you want it. Replace the /source/index.html with whatever design, html and css you want.
If you don't want the blog roll, or want to move the "blog to another directory", just move the current /source/index.html to, say, /source/blog/index.html. That's it.
As I noted in the answer above, the only import thing is to keep the YAML frontmatter and specify the "layout" as you want to use. For example, I have a layout called "homepage" that is far different than any other layout. My /source/index.html uses layout: homepage.
But even then, you don't even have to use the YAML - create your own raw html file as you see fit. It will be used when you rake generate. This is what I personally did at first. Then, I slowly split up the homepage into the /source/_layouts/homepage.html and just went from there. I did not follow Octopress' entire theme at all - just enough to use posts and pages.
I am a newbie to Joomla 1.7 & Virtuemart. I have used many CMS so far and in Joomla I need to do very common task. I need to have different layout for homepage, for product list and product details and so on. Every single page is generated from index.php which is in *joomla root/templates/my_own_template/* folder.
And one more question. Is there any Virtuemart 2.0 or Joomla 1.7 documentation? Because what I could see is that the versions are really different from old ones for which most documentation are written.
Thank you in advance for answers.
You're probably not going to find much documentation yet since that is usually the last thing that a developer does once the code is out and tested.
As for changing templates, you don't necessarily need to change templates to have different layouts. First, VM has several different theme files (theme is a VM template) that render the various pages. There are already different layouts you control in the admin. You can also change a particular page by adding or removing the various modules from pages. You can associate a module with all pages in the site, a selection of pages, an exclusion of pages, and no pages at all. Components like Advanced Module Manager give you even more control over where and when a module displays. A properly coded template will have collapsible module positions. So a page with no modules in the left column will not have a left column.
Lastly, Joomla 1.7 also allows the use of template styles. When you install a template, it creates a default style. You can duplicate and edit that style, then assign it to various menu items to achieve very different looks from one page to another. http://docs.joomla.org/Help16:Extensions_Template_Manager_Styles_Edit
Brent's answer is good – he's right that the look of a page can be determined by which modules are assigned, which VM layout is used, and by assigning different Joomla Templates/Styles to different menu items.
One issue that arises a lot with complex components like VirtueMart is that it can be awkward to assign different templates (or modules) to different menu items. This can mess up your menu structure, and there are times when VM will decide on a different menu item to display something rather than what you thought it should. So that messes up the modules and templates/styles. This is part of the down-side of having a menu-item-driven assignment system.
AMM is good for assigning modules to different pages independent of menu item - as is MetaMod (which has explicit VM support).
For assigning templates/styles to different pages in VM I would suggest Chameleon. Chameleon has form controls for selecting lots of different factors about VM (e.g. all the sub-page types, category of the item, cart contents and more) and you can use any of those factors to trigger a certain template/style. It can also trigger other actions like adding CSS/JS to the page, removing arbitrary menu items, switching the home page, etc.
So ultimately, using Brent's techniques and with Chameleon, MetaMod and/or AMM, you have a huge amount of control about how individual pages in VM look.
I've just started with the Orchard CMS and I can see that I can create a page and have different widgets on them, but I need the homepage to have a different layout.
I'd like to have some sort of different cshtml file for the homepage, but I can't seem to work out how to do it from the documentation. I also need to have four text areas on the home page that aren't on the main page.
Can someone who has done this point me in the right direction?
You should use designer tools module if you are using Orchard 1.1 +. Just search for Shapes in the admin and install the tools. Then you can create Alternates by reviewing the shapes in-browser.
In your case you should be able to create a view with the name: Content-url-homepage.cshtml
This may help you, it's a post I found about making your own themes and is a fairly simple example but covers what you are looking for:
http://www.nogginbox.co.uk/blog/theming-orchard
/Views/Content-11.cshtml
I wanted to display the content on my
homepage slightly differently than
other pages. My homepage has an ID of
11 so I was able to reference it with
a file called Content-11.cshtml. I
could also have created a template for
all blog post content using a file
called Content-BlogPost.cshtml had I
needed to do so.
You can try this to vary the homepage layout: http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2010/12/14/switching-the-layout-in-orchard-cms.aspx
Orchard 1.1 will also give you a homepage alternate out of the box.
I'm in the process of porting an existing website to Joomla. Most pages of this website consist of a main content area and a sidebar containing additional items relating to the main content, such as (in-page) links, images, additional information, etc.
In Joomla, the main page content would probably be an article, but I'm not sure what would be the best way to create the sidebar content in Joomla.
Examples of pages-with-sidebar:
http://www.aikikan.nl/en_watisaikido
http://www.aikikan.nl/dojo?id=2
I'm creating a custom template for this website, so any solutions that require modifying the template are fine as well. What would be the best way to set this up?
Keep the content of each sidebar in an article and then assign it to a module by means of the article-as-module extension. You can then control the scope for each module (i.e. choose menu postions for which it will be shown) in the admin interface.
There is an extension called meta mod which is perfect for this sort of thing. It allows you to show modules based on any condition you can evaluate with PHP