Questions tagged [parent-child-theme]
Magento parent/child infinite theme fallback system is new as of version 1.9.0. The system provides a pathway to set a parent theme to inherit the layout and themes of the parent.
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How to add new theme name to grunt CLI command to run grunt tool in Magento 2?
When we clone new theme from existing parent theme in Magento 2. How we can execute less:newThemName command using grunt CLI ?
As well as how grunt watch will look any changes into newly created ...
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How to change childhtml value twice in Magento
I have a scenario such that the childhtml should be called in two different places of same parent template file and for each childhtml is called it should return a phtml which contains the variable ...
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Layout Updates in theme.xml to pick up parent theme's xml
I've created a theme package called hoi with a default theme. In the app/design/frontend/hoi/default/etc/theme.xml I've set a parent theme to be the a theme we purchased called blacknwhite.
This ...
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Magento doesn't detect child theme in different store view
I have a Magento website with one store view (ITALIAN) and a theme with the child theme and everything is working good.
Today I created a second store view (ENGLISH) but this doesn't recognize the ...
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Magento skipping Sub-Theme to default
I can't seem to find anything at all on the internet related to my problem which makes me think I've done something wrong along the way which has eluded me for days now.
I have a theme I downloaded ...
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Sub-theme not working
I have a theme that I bought and downloaded and followed the instructions to create a sub-theme.
If I edit the core theme files I'm able to achieve what I want but if I replicate it in the child ...
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Modifying child block using Custom Layout Update XML
I am currently using a CMS Block to add more details on my product page. I had the following block (product_custom) added inside catalog.xml:
<catalog_product_view translate="label">
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Cleaning up a parent theme and creating a child theme.
We are in the process of creating a child theme for a theme that is being used: Ultimo. A number of customisations were made to the parent theme which should have been made to a child theme. We do not ...
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Rwd Child Theme Copy Sass Partials Or Create New Ones
I want to create an upgrade-safe child theme mypackage/mytheme of the default rwd/default theme.
Magento's RWD dev guide says:
To customize styles for an existing Magento theme, you should edit ...
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Magento products stubbornly using old theme
I'm trying to change the package+theme for a magento installation.
The old theme is at default/paws
The new theme is at ebajes/default
While the rest of the views (home page, categories, etc.) have ...
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Magento Child Theme Creation Problem
I've a fresh installation of Magento ver 1.9.1.0 on localhost. I'm following this tutorial closely to create a child theme of Magento responsive theme.
I've followed all steps clearly. I've created ...
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What do you do when xml layout isn't enough to position something where you want
According to this article a good theme should have "no .phtml template files, except for those that were modified to support the new theme. (Usually this number will be very small.)"
So in an ideal ...
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Magento 1.9 Minor template update
I've got a question about making an extremely minor change within a .phtml file on 1.9. I've gone through the RWD guide here: http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/ee114-ce19-rwd-dev-...
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Subtheme not applying to category pages
I recently installed a theme I purchased (called Venedor) on the latest magento ce install. I'd been manually adjusting the css file of the theme until I recently discovered that magento allows for ...
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Child Theme, who can point me in the right direction?
I am working on a website in Magento. I've created a custom design package with a child- and a parenttheme. However, I can't get the child/perenttheme setting to work, despite all the articles (for ...
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Custom design for Category with exception
I have 4 themes (desktop, desktop_child, mobile, mobile_child).
I currently set desktop for default (desktop) theme (System -> Configuration -> General -> Design -> Themes -> Default) and an ...
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Skin fallback mechanism [closed]
having some products with a customised design using a child product view template, can I use the skin folder of the parent one?
Here is my scenario in System->configuration->design:
Current Package ...
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parent and child themes
I have followed the article here, http://alanstorm.com/magento_infinite_fallback_theme_xml and I have it working 99%. There is an odd thing happening that clearing the cache and all the moving around ...
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Is there a local theme layout XML file other than local.xml?
I've built a theme by creating and editing the following file:
frontend/mypackage/default/layout/local.xml
I have a store view "site1", and wish to make exceptions on the default local.xml of "...
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