Trying to change a theme in magento 1.7. Editing the page.xml file but the effects are not being seen. Changes the tags in page.xml but none of the changes appear on site.
What am i doing wrong?
All layout files will be cached (unless you have this disabled) - try and clear your layout cache first. Do this by logging into the admin area and go to system > cache management and refreshing the Layout cache type (second option down on a standard install).
If you are still in development, it may be an idea to turn caching off.
If the updates that you have made still do not take effect, then double check you are editing the correct file by making sure you are working in the correct package and theme.
Just as an aside, also look into using the local.xml file for all of your core layout overrides instead of copying over the core file into your theme and editing. It makes for a better/faster workflow and and cleaner less error prone upgrade path (though there are scenarios where it isn't the best option)
Clear your cache (the page layout updates XML tree is a cache item)
Make sure you are editing the correct page.xml file (try making the changes in local.xml in the same layout directory to make sure that you are in the correct theme)
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Has opencart 2.1 a cache system apart from modification?
I'm trying to restyle an opencart 2.1 site.
I've modified catalog/view/theme/my-theme/template/product/product.tpl
but I'm not able to see my updates.
The site has only 1 modification that affects Admin area...I've also tried to disable it and update cache, but without success.
I've tried to open site in another browser, but nothing.
Finally I've tried to rename product.tpl to product111.tpl (also in view/theme/default/product)... but the original product page is still loaded.
Does someone know why this happens?
UPDATE : I haven't found a solution, so I made a fresh installation, applied custom theme and then copied modified files... everything is Ok now. If I modify product.tpl, all changes are visible in product page.
If you have vQmod installed there is a vqcache also.
You can check to see if you have vQmod installed like this:
yoursite.com/vqmod/install
It should usually clear itself, but if it doesn't then you can safely rename the vqcache folder to clear it.
The reason I say rename rather than delete is that sometimes a change to the cache will show an error which wasn't spotted when the original change was made and might prevent orders until it's fixed. If you rename then you can place the folder back and it will work again but of course you should fix the error when you can.
In prestashop I wanted to customize the default bankwire payment module. I have changed many things there in the payment.php file which is working file, but when I tried to change the smarty file(payment_execution.tpl) it did not showed any changes. I tried to remove cache from the cache folder then I tried every process which tells to remove cache, disable cache from the store. But it did not showed the changes in the frontend. I also made the same changes inside prestashop theme folder (themes/default-bootstrap/module/bankwire) but still it did not showed the changes. So can someone tell me what's the issue here?
Delete everything inside cache/smarty/cache and cache/smarty/compile
Set the option Template compilation in ADVANCED PARAMETERS > PERFORMANCE
to Recompile templates if the files have been updated
Search for all files named payment_execution.tpl in PrestaShop
If it doesn't work you'll need to check the file modules\bankwire\controllers\front\payment.php and follow the instruction $this->setTemplate('payment_execution.tpl'); step by step to see the path of the tpl (you will need a php debugger for that)
I want to create a theme, using a default WordPress theme as the initial point.
According to WordPress Codex, the recommended way to do that is to create a child theme.
Unfortunately, that approach may noticeably affect the performance of a site, because both themes have to be called before the site is actually displayed. WordPress tends to be fairly slow on quite a number of popular hosts, so slowing it down even further is not something I would want to do.
At the same time, coding a theme from scratch seems to be inefficient when an open source theme is close enough to the desired result to only require certain minor recoding.
Question: if I rename the theme in the main CSS file, there's still a lot of function callbacks and variables addressing the name of the old theme (for example, 'twentyeleven'). There has to be some central location where these are called from. What things do I need to rename, in addition to the theme name at the top of CSS file, to fully rename the entire theme an prevent it from being updated, should the original theme be updated by WordPress development theme?
All functions and callbacks of a theme are only being used if the theme is activated. So if you copy the 'twentyeleven' theme into a new folder & activate it, only those functions are loaded even if they have the same name(s) as the original theme. To answer your question (going with the 'twentyeleven' theme):
Copy the 'twentyeleven' theme folder and give it a unique name
Edit the file style.css in your freshly copied theme folder. Change the Theme Name:, Theme URI:, Theme Author:, Description: & Version: values to match your desired output.
Go to Appearance->Themes and activate your new theme
You have now a 'twentyeleven' clone, but completely independent of the original files. Any updates available for the 'twentyeleven' theme will not affect your theme (there will be no updates listed for your theme).
HTH
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This is my first time working with Magento and here is what happend: I spent two days reading the documentation and tweaking the settings to fit my needs. I then installed this theme:
http://themeforest.net/item/decostore-magento-theme/1876494?WT.ac=category_thumb&WT.seg_1=category_thumb&WT.z_author=8theme
The problem is that the theme didn't work the way I was expecting and now I'd like to rollback to the default theme and completely remove everything added by this theme to my installation.
Unfortunately, I didn't backup the installation and database before I installed the new theme and I have no idea where to start.
Thanks in advance.
1. Switching back to default theme
Go to the admin area and then system > configuration > design
Change "Current Package Name" to 'default' and make sure all inputs under the "Themes" section are empty. This will return you to the default theme.
2. Completely remove everything added by this theme
I take it from your question that you are not using any form of source control. Might be an idea to look into this for the future :)
Magento 1.7 has introduced backup and rollback features so you may also want to check that out.
If this is the case, backup everything before you start removing files and directories as described below
Anyway, to completely remove all files and directories added when you installed the module, unfortunately it will simply be a case of manually finding the files and directories deleting.
The easiest way to do this will be to find the original source code you received when you purchased the theme and removing the corresponding files from your site. When removing directories be careful to only remove those specific to the theme - It will have been sent to you structured so that you can easily drag straight in to your web root - so will contain some other directories required by Magento, simply to give it the correct hierarchy.
At the very least there will be files and folders specific to the theme located in the following directories:
app/design/frontend
skin/frontend
js
and also most likely some more in the following:
app/etc/modules
app/design/adminhtml
app/locale
I know the result for this can be different for everyone, but in case someone else comes across my specific case, it was the N98 folder under app/code/community/N98 that caused the problem. Particularly their CustomerGroupCheckout plugin as shown here: https://github.com/amenk/N98_CustomerGroupCheckout
Removing the N98 folder brought back the configuration page.
When I make a change to “app/design/adminhtml/default/default/template/page/head.phtml” or other files in the adminhtml folders, the changes I make have no effect on the site. The site seems to be using old versions of my files but I have no idea where it is getting them from. I have deleted the cache multiple times and logged in/out of admin. I’ve also managed to turn on path hints in the admin panel and can see that the correct files are being used but the code in the files is incorrect. If I rename the file to _head.phtml then as you'd expect, the styling, js and meta tags etc go missing but when I make a simple edit to that same file the change is not reflected.
I recently upgraded from 1.6.2 to 1.7 - Am I missing something?