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[Harikalar Kutusu Friend Harikalar KutusuJoin date: July 2010Posts: 52Downloads:481Uploads:1 Thanks: 5 Thanked: 4 times in 1 posts]

#161063

Hi,

There are two things:

1. You can use classic template overrides for compatible Joomla components/modules/plugins using /templates/<templatename>/html/<com|mod|plg_name> and making changes there.
2. You can use T3 “Profile Override Settings” under Global tab to show some of your pages (menu items) with a different profile (thus theme)

Question: How can one combine both?

Say, you use two JA Template themes. BLUE and RED.
And you use a non-JA module (call it “mod_abc”) which uses CSS, images and PHP for layout.

If you use classic template overrides for “mod_abc” you can either change it to fit blue or red theme.

Any way to create multiple themes under T3 (which uses Profile Overrides) for any component/module/plugin which can be used simultaneously?

Thanks in advance.

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#379841

After some more examination of my template JA Events, I see that under templates<my_template>corethemes<theme_name> there are css and images folder.

In the CSS folder, there is a “color.css” file.

I think these steps will solve the problem (can you please confirm):

1. Copy one of the core themes to templates<my_template>localthemes , one for each theme I want, say MYTHEME1 and MYTHEME2
2. Change them to fit my needs
3. Add any CSS definition (not whole file) from component/module/plugin into color.css file and change them, also copy and edit images to these MYTHEMEx/images directories and let the CSS definitions point them

This would only work if this color.css file has the highest priority (higher than the component/module/plugin CSS). Also any related “!important” definitions in component/module/plugin CSS must be removed.

That would only leave PHP related changes/overrides.

Can somebody from JA please confirm if this is the way to go?

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#380414

dear bozden,

Thats good way to go, I can not suggest any better approach at the moment.
Theme css by default has higher priority than com/module/plugin/template css, therefore unless they have “important” marks, theme css should work fine. If the “important” is available somewhere, theres no other choice but removing it.

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1. Harikalar Kutusu

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#380513

Thank you for confirmation 🙂 I already tried this for JA related extensions and it is working perfectly. Actually I think it is designed to be used that way 😉

I did not get into other extensions yet, but I think it will work.

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