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[craude Friend craudeJoin date: December 2010Posts: 18Downloads:0Uploads:0]

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I followed the tutorial to create my own style.

1. Now this folder templatest3_blankcssthemesmystyle contains bootstrap-responsive.css and others. Do I have to update these manually now or does the update take care of these non custom files?

2. my favicon gets overridden on updates, is this a bug?

3. in templatest3_blanktplsblocks I customized the header.php and head.php but these customizations are lost as well. how can I customize the template so it does not get overridden but still updated?

cheers

[phong nam Friend phong namJoin date: May 2015Posts: 3779Downloads:1Uploads:587 Thanks: 499 Thanked: 974 times in 888 posts]

#501961

Hi Craude,

I’d like to answer your concerns with the detailed explanation below:

1. Do I have to update these manually now or does the update take care of these non custom files?

When you update the template, it will automatically overwrite all files with new updates. It means that I will update the non custom files, but you still need to backup your customized files before updating.

2. My favicon gets overridden on updates, is this a bug?
It is normal. When you defined the codes for calling the favion in templates/t3-blank/index.php file. This file will be overwritten with default favicon of Joomla.

3. Losting customizations in block files (head.php, header.php).
With the customized php functions in the layout files, you need to backup them before updating. Besides, you can prevent your customized css styles from be overwritting by using the custom.css file.

[craude Friend craudeJoin date: December 2010Posts: 18Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#502122

Thanks for the hints. I already use the custom.css but that does not protect my php code.

So there is no way to have a customized theme that does not go overwritten on updates … that’s kinda weird. I conclude I have two choices: 1. customize and forget about updating or do a tedious merging on every update – 2. do not customize but be able to update. If that is how it goes then the T3 is unfortunately rather useless to me. I had such great hopes when I first used it …

[phong nam Friend phong namJoin date: May 2015Posts: 3779Downloads:1Uploads:587 Thanks: 499 Thanked: 974 times in 888 posts]

#502165

Hi craud,

I missed to explain clearly on the theme customizations. The overwriting will affect on our available template files only, you need to backup your customized files before updating. Your new theme files in templatest3_blankcssthemesmystyle won’t be overwritten by updating the template. But, I suggest still to use the custom.css above in case you includes the .less files for you new theme.

[craude Friend craudeJoin date: December 2010Posts: 18Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#502726

Thx, but as I wrote already of course I use custom.css. But this has nothing to do with the php code in the blocks or the missing updates of the core css files in the custom theme folder.

[phong nam Friend phong namJoin date: May 2015Posts: 3779Downloads:1Uploads:587 Thanks: 499 Thanked: 974 times in 888 posts]

#502769

Hi craude,

Overwritting is a normal consequence in updating the Joomla templates, so that I suggested you to backup your customized files manually. In addition, on each download page of our extensions, you can use the comparing tool to see the additional codes/changes of new updated files with the old ones. By that way, you can copy the updated codes into your files without updating our template. That is all i can tell you in this case !

[pardus Friend pardusJoin date: February 2007Posts: 18Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 7 Thanked: 10 times in 1 posts]

#503379

<em>@craude 384389 wrote:</em><blockquote>I followed the tutorial to create my own style.

1. Now this folder templatest3_blankcssthemesmystyle contains bootstrap-responsive.css and others. Do I have to update these manually now or does the update take care of these non custom files?

2. my favicon gets overridden on updates, is this a bug?

3. in templatest3_blanktplsblocks I customized the header.php and head.php but these customizations are lost as well. how can I customize the template so it does not get overridden but still updated?

cheers</blockquote>

For #3 you can clone head.php (or any block) and clone the layout you want to use and after these steps edit the lines in your-cloned-layout.ini by changing head.php with your-cloned-head.php

As the last step from the theme admin panel chose your-cloned-layout

This is the video tutorial for layout customization http://t3-framework.org/documentation/layout-system.html#video9

I hope this will help you 😉

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