Themes not showing up
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Hello,
I've been developing with Concrete5 < 5.7 for a couple of years and I've just installed 5.7 with the hope of developing a small site. Essentially I've copied the elemental theme from /concrete/themes and I've created a new folder /themes/test which contains the theme files and I've updated the theme name in the description (As in older versions) but I cannot see the theme in the list in the dashboard. I've cleared the cache and disabled it completely. Also how come non of the other themes in /concrete/themes show up anymore?
I can't seem to find any docs for 5.7 specific themes so I assume it's similar?
Thanks in advance for any help.
I've been developing with Concrete5 < 5.7 for a couple of years and I've just installed 5.7 with the hope of developing a small site. Essentially I've copied the elemental theme from /concrete/themes and I've created a new folder /themes/test which contains the theme files and I've updated the theme name in the description (As in older versions) but I cannot see the theme in the list in the dashboard. I've cleared the cache and disabled it completely. Also how come non of the other themes in /concrete/themes show up anymore?
I can't seem to find any docs for 5.7 specific themes so I assume it's similar?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Oops wrong file. Ignore that for now.
I've just tried updating the namespace in page_theme.php but no luck :/
Okay I just tested this process and it worked for me. Make sure you have your Cache disabled as well.
Copy
to
Change
to look like
change the namespace in
to this
Copy
/concrete/themes/elemental
to
/application/themes/test
Change
/application/themes/test/description.txt
to look like
Test
This is a test.change the namespace in
/application/themes/test/page_theme.php
to this
namespace Application\Themes\Test;
Thanks, I just watchedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQm1QXN9OfI&list=UUywmkk3TWHLcYy... an realised it's in /application/themes now!
Cheers
Cheers
I should add that I think your issue is that you created a new root directory /themes
In 5.7 these local overrides and folders are now in the /application folder. If you look in the /application folder you will see a /themes directory already there. The /application folder in 5.7 is like the root folder in 5.6
In 5.7 these local overrides and folders are now in the /application folder. If you look in the /application folder you will see a /themes directory already there. The /application folder in 5.7 is like the root folder in 5.6
I did just like that and I get error:
Class \Application\Theme\Test\PageTheme does not exist
Do you know what is wrong?
Class \Application\Theme\Test\PageTheme does not exist
Do you know what is wrong?
Check that "\Application\Theme\Test\" contains the description.txt file. Your theme files need to be at that level.
That's just like that.
Now last error disappear and now I have:
Cannot declare class Application\Themes\Testi\PageTheme because the name is already in use
But where you give name to theme.
Now last error disappear and now I have:
Cannot declare class Application\Themes\Testi\PageTheme because the name is already in use
But where you give name to theme.
You name the theme in your description.txt file; the top line is the name, the second line is the description. Ideally you should name the theme folder the same. If you've copied over a theme from the main themes folder you might have the controller.php file which could be causing that issue.
Example above is wrong. If you want to use "elemental" theme as starting point do this:
Copy this folder
to
and change folder name to "test"
then change:
to
then change
first three lines
and change
line 6 to:
Copy this folder
concrete/themes/elemental
to
application/themes/
and change folder name to "test"
then change:
application/themes/test/description.txt
to
Test This is my first template
then change
application/themes/test/page.php
first three lines
<?php namespace Application\Theme\Test; use Concrete\Core\Page\Theme\Theme; class PageTheme extends Theme{
and change
application/themes/test/css/main.less
line 6 to:
@import "../../../css/build/core/include/mixins.less";
I think, the line 6 in main.less has to be changed to
@import "../../../../concrete/css/build/core/include/mixins.less";
@import "../../../../concrete/css/build/core/include/mixins.less";
And this page is very useful learning to make new themes:
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/5.7/developers/themes/conver...
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/5.7/developers/themes/conver...
Both of these instructions seem flawed and now I have a situation. I cannot load the pages and themes page. Error message is:
- I had copied the elemental folder to application/themes folder
- Renamed the folder to Elemental test
- Changed the description.txt file according to directions with new theme name on first line and no change to description
- changed page-theme.php (there is no page.php by the way) to
Went to pages and themes, went to install the new theme and got the error above. I have since removed all files under application/themes but I cannot get back to the pages & themes page. This error just persists.
How can get it resolved and get back to the original pages & themes page short of reinstalling 5.7? There is debug info but it's over my head. I am still new to Concrete and like many others new to 5.7. Thanks.
Class \Concrete\Theme\ElementalTest\PageTheme does not exist- I had copied the elemental folder to application/themes folder
- Renamed the folder to Elemental test
- Changed the description.txt file according to directions with new theme name on first line and no change to description
- changed page-theme.php (there is no page.php by the way) to
namespace Application\Theme\Elementaltest
Went to pages and themes, went to install the new theme and got the error above. I have since removed all files under application/themes but I cannot get back to the pages & themes page. This error just persists.
How can get it resolved and get back to the original pages & themes page short of reinstalling 5.7? There is debug info but it's over my head. I am still new to Concrete and like many others new to 5.7. Thanks.
In general, no theme directory in concrete5 (any version) has ever worked well with a space in its name. You should use an underscore instead.
Try "elemental_test", and make sure that the namespacing follows concrete5's camelcasing rules, so it's Application\Theme\ElementalTest
Try "elemental_test", and make sure that the namespacing follows concrete5's camelcasing rules, so it's Application\Theme\ElementalTest
Thank you. My problem at the moment is how to remove the error message and return to the Pages & Themes page. I cannot get rid of the error message even when I have removed everything from the application/themes directory. Is there a way to fix this short of a complete re-install? I have not gone far enough with a new site to do a backup so I have nothing to restore.
I believe you might have to delete the row from the PageThemes table using phpMyAdmin through your host's Control Panel.
That did the trick. All is back to normal and theme has been copied and is usable. Thanks!
I tried the various methods above and when I go to click install, the page will go to a 404 page. After that, I go to Page and themes to activate, I get an error message.
"An unexpected error occurred.
Cannot redeclare class Concrete\Theme\AnchorFree\PageTheme"
Does anyone know what this is?
My page_theme.php first couple lines look like:
"An unexpected error occurred.
Cannot redeclare class Concrete\Theme\AnchorFree\PageTheme"
Does anyone know what this is?
My page_theme.php first couple lines look like:
<?php namespace Concrete\Theme\AnchorFree; use Concrete\Core\Page\Theme\Theme; class PageTheme extends Theme {
I had the same problem. "Class \Application\Theme\Mydomain\PageTheme does not exist"
My problem was that my theme folder was starting with a capital. Changed it to a lower-case letter and it all worked for me.
My problem was that my theme folder was starting with a capital. Changed it to a lower-case letter and it all worked for me.
Ahh I figured it out:
So in the code that needs to be replaced in page_theme.php I still had the file directory pointing to the core folder
And it should and is suppose to be
Where Concrete was replaced with Application in the namespace line. This only applies if you move the folder to the application - themes - folder (which is the correct folder to duplicate the elemental theme to alter).
So in the code that needs to be replaced in page_theme.php I still had the file directory pointing to the core folder
namespace Concrete\Theme\Themename;And it should and is suppose to be
namespace Application\Theme\Themename; use Concrete\Core\Page\Theme\Theme; class PageTheme extends Theme {
Where Concrete was replaced with Application in the namespace line. This only applies if you move the folder to the application - themes - folder (which is the correct folder to duplicate the elemental theme to alter).
https://github.com/concrete5/concrete5-5.7.0/blob/develop/web/concre...