Visual differences between test site and production site

kondrich

Hi,

I encountered various visual differences between our test site and our production site though both are on the same Joomla version (previously 4.2, now 4.3), both having the same PHP version (previously 8.1, now 8.2), the same T4 Framework version 2.2.9 (also occuring with the previous two versions) and the same JA Flix version 2.0.2.
I suspected the cache extension JCH Optimize Pro that is running on the production site only, disabled its plugins and cleared the cache, but the behavior did not change.
I also checked Flix style settings, but they are the same as far as I saw. I did not change anything in template settings during the last months, and I do not know when exactly the production site behavior changed.

Let me describe the differences:
Top menu entries is displayed in rows on production site rather than in columns on test site as it was ever before everywhere and the Megamenu dropdown arrows are missing:
Production site

Test site:

Megamenu looks different when expanded (the subtitles are not formated):
Production site:

Test site:

And, finally, the off-canvas menu is expanded by default showing "News" and "Kontakt" entries in one line rather in rows.
Production site:

Test site:

I did not apply any manual changes to the T4 Framework nor Flix source files.

Can you help me please to get the production site looking and working the same again as the test site?
I did not find any differences so far.

Kind regards,

Klaus

saguaros

HI Klaus,

1/ Your product site overrides menu module so the HTML markup is different, I just renamed this folder: \templates\ja_flix\html\mod_menu and it's showing like test site now.

2/ The mega menu is showing the same now as well.

3/ I disabled the css compression in JCH Optimize Pro and it's ok now.

kondrich

saguaros Hi,
Thank you for fixing, but I did not get a notification about your reply. This is why I am replying so late.

How can you explain the menu overriding? I cannot remember that/how I did this and why. Actually, I didn't change the layout since a very long time.

I will play again with CSS compression of JCH Optimize. Maybe I will find a particular file to exclude to enable compressing the rest of the CSS files.

Strange things happening, right?

saguaros

Menu module: it's hard for me to guess how / why you did 😉 but the default package of template doesn't have this override.

With JCH Optimize, maybe one of 3rd party extension causes the conflict when compressing css files together, you can test by excluding css files from these 3rd party extensions on your site and find which one causes this.

kondrich

I checked the folder and file dates of the renamed folder and noticed that this happened at a date & time when I was not online.
It was one of the other admins of the site who usually do not do such things (he published a menu entry again). Somehow he managed to override it.

saguaros

kondrich Let me know if you need other helps then.

kondrich

Thank you very much for your assistance!