Need clarification with using v5.5.0 please!
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I'm new to Concrete5 and I've just ran through this example and had an issue I wanted to question. I've just installed a fresh install of v5.5.0 and started to follow the example on this pagehttp://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/make-a-the...
I created a theme folder, dragged a HTML page and it's assets into that folder and replaced the code as described. I could easily install the theme and applied it across the site but when I viewed the page to edit it, there was none of Concrete5's GUI visible. After scratching my head I looked at the example themes and in the footer there is the following line:
Now there is no mention in the example to add this however I added that to my default.php and hey presto, everything worked. Is there some difference between v5.5.0 that requires this or is it an omission from the examples?
Thanks!
I created a theme folder, dragged a HTML page and it's assets into that folder and replaced the code as described. I could easily install the theme and applied it across the site but when I viewed the page to edit it, there was none of Concrete5's GUI visible. After scratching my head I looked at the example themes and in the footer there is the following line:
<?php Loader::element('footer_required'); ?>
Now there is no mention in the example to add this however I added that to my default.php and hey presto, everything worked. Is there some difference between v5.5.0 that requires this or is it an omission from the examples?
Thanks!
the "footer_required" element was *always* supposed to be in every theme. In Cocnrete5.4 and below, it's where google analytics code would go (whatever the user put into the "Tracking Code" box in Dashboard -> Sitewide Settings). But since that's not something you would see while actually building and testing the theme (and since those docs you linked to are probably from a version of Concrete5 earlier than 5.3 or 5.2, perhaps before they even had the footer_required element), a lot of people never noticed it.
Now that the toolbar code is placed into the footer instead of the header by concrete5, it's a very visible thing when it's not there.
So... it's not just you :)