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Im using Magento 2.1 with ubuntu.

I am creating a custom theme that inherits from a third party theme. The problem I am encountering is that I am overriding the .less files and making my changes, however the changes are not appearing when I refresh.

Am I possibly not overriding the correct files?

I have cleared the cache and also "Flush Static Files Cache".

What should I do to ensure my changes are not overridden by the parent? Use _extend.less?

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  • Have you tried deleting contents of the pub/static and var/view_preprocessed directories? – Aaron Allen Aug 29 '16 at 2:28
  • Yeah, deleted the contents of those :/ – adamhs Aug 29 '16 at 3:53
  • Which files are you attempting to override? – Aaron Allen Aug 29 '16 at 11:34
  • You were correct, my browser was also caching. Using ctrl + shift + r and clearing these folders worked. Thank you. – adamhs Sep 5 '16 at 5:08
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Ran into this issue myself... doing the following fixed it:

Make sure you have added your theme into the dev/tools/grunt/configs/theme.js. It should look like this:

<your_theme>: {
    area: 'frontend',
    name: '<Package>/<theme>',
    locale: 'xx_YY',
    files: [
        'css/source/_extend'
    ],
    dsl: 'less'
}

Make sure your Magento is in development mode, you can read more about modes here. Turn on client-side compilation (STORES > Configuration > ADVANCED > Developer > Frontend Development Workflow).

Clean all the files in pub/static/ and var/view_processed like so:

grunt clean:<your_theme>

Flush the cache:

bin/magento cache:flush

Run the following Grunt commands like stated in the docs:

grunt exec:<your_theme>
grunt less:<your_theme>

Hope this helps!

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  • I had to make sure pub/static/ and var/view_processed were cleared out. Also, i had ensure my browser wasn't caching. Clearing the static and view_processed folders, plus using ctrl + shift + r to refresh the pages on the browser. – adamhs Sep 5 '16 at 5:06

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