Themes

Bloke · 2025-01-18 08:34:26

phiw13 wrote #338857:

client(s) usually get some more rights, how else would they manage the website (add user, … … …)?

True. If you can think of a way the interface could sanely help here, by all means raise ideas.

We need to maintain “you are currently editing theme xyz” in the pages/forms/styles panels. And maintain the dev/live lane views for everyone who is/isn’t logged in, respectively. Toggling per section as I outlined above might work, but if you have a lot of sections it’s far quicker to hop to the prefs and temporarily turn off the developer preview.

Ideas welcome.

etc · 2025-01-18 09:05:27

phiw13 wrote #338857:

It is not a big problem by itself, but sometimes some (serious) handholding is needed…

It shouldn’t be difficult to write a plugin that enables admins to switch other users preferences. It’s just a bit intrusive to make part of core.

colak · Yesterday 06:14:00

etc wrote #338839:

There is a per user Enable development theme preview? pref, so you can create two admin users and open two parallel sessions (in isolated browsers or tabs).

I’m trying to find the preference again, and I cannot find it. I’m currently using Textpattern version: 4.9.0-dev (be3772418aba616fdd3df5b550bdd4db)

phiw13 · Yesterday 06:44:54

Yiannis,

Preferences > admin > at the bottom.

colak · Yesterday 07:51:27

phiw13 wrote #341124:

Yiannis,

Preferences > admin > at the bottom.

Thanks!

I’m blind as a bat.

The next question is how can I assign which theme I’m previewing? I have 3 themes, the live one, another one which I’m developing long term, and a third one which I’ll be doing short term work. At the moment, the long term dev theme is previewed but I would like to preview the short term one.

Bloke · Yesterday 08:25:52

Assign the short-term one to any section and then view that section. There can only be two themes assigned to a section – one live lane and one dev lane.

colak · Yesterday 09:10:15

Here’s a step-by step with what I’m attempting.

I go to themes.
I click on the “assign sections” of the short term theme.
I select a section using the checkbox (but also tried it by clicking the section’s title).
I assign a section and a page from my dev pages, but instead of the page being assigned only for that them, it is also applied globally. ie for the particular section in my other dev theme and for my live site.

Bloke · Yesterday 10:56:16

If you click the section title and go into edit mode, that always acts on the live lane, because there’s no split view option on that edit step.

If you want to assign dev assets you must do it from the multi-edit tool on the Sections panel:

select one or more sections to apply your changes to.
choose multi-edit Change theme/page/style.
ensure the Development chceckbox is ticked and the Live is unchecked.
choose your page template and/or stylesheet from the drop-down. If it’s set as ‘*’ then it leaves that asset alone.
click Go and confirm.

That will assign the chosen assets to the selected sections. As long as your Allow developer preview pref is on, you’ll see the dev assets when logged in.

colak · Yesterday 16:09:55

Thanks so much Stef,
The process is slightly non-intuitive but it works once you go through it.

colak · Today 06:38:33

I have a last question on this. How do I delete the dev theme after moving (copy/pasting) it to the main branch of the site?

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