Cannot Reinstall Elemental Theme

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Hello -

I'm using the latest version of Concrete5 installed with content.

I continue to have issue after issue with the Elemental theme. First I tried changing the theme preset to Sunrise or Blue Sky, this produces the following error:

ParseError: Unexpected input in main.less on line 1, column 254 1| @preset-fonts-file: "build/fonts/blue-sky.less";@home-feature-icon-color: rgb(26, 89, 120);@home-feature-title-color: rgb(26, 89, 120);@title-caps-type-font-family: Noticia Text;@title-caps-type-color: rgb(26, 89, 120);@title-caps-type-font-size: 1.73em;@image-caption-type-font-family: \'Helvetica Neue\', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;@image-caption-type-color: rgb(184, 196, 205);@image-caption-type-font-style: italic;@image-caption-type-font-size: 1em;@title-thin-type-font-family: Roboto Slab;@title-thin-type-color: rgb(26, 89, 120);@title-thin-type-font-size: 2.46em;@accent-header-color: rgb(107, 149, 178);@accent-background-color: rgb(223, 236, 242);@default-button-border-color: rgb(175, 228, 255);@content-section-divider-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);@footer-link-hover-color: rgb(26, 89, 120);@footer-link-color: rgb(0, 159, 239);@footer-social-icon-hover-color: rgb(0, 159, 239);@footer-social-icon-color: rgb(209, 209, 209);@footer-section-divider-color: rgb(223, 236, 242);@footer-bottom-background-color: rgb(235, 248, 255);@footer-top-background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);@footer-site-title-type-font-family: Roboto Slab;@footer-site-title-type-color: rgb(26, 89, 120);@footer-site-title-type-text-transform: uppercase;@footer-site-title-type-font-weight: 900;@footer-site-title-type-font-size: 1.2em;@image-slider-navigation-active-color: rgb(0, 159, 239);@image-slider-navigation-color: rgb(96, 170, 204);@image-slider-paragraph-type-font-family: Noticia Text;@image-slider-paragraph-type-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);@image-slider-paragraph-type-font-weight: 400;@image-slider-paragraph-type-font-size: 1.1em;@image-slider-title-type-font-family: Roboto Slab;@image-slider-title-type-color: rgb(26, 89, 120);@image-slider-title-type-font-weight: 100;@image-slider-title-type-font-size: 3.2em;@image-slider-background-image: '/concrete/themes/elemental/images/background-slider-blue-sky.png';@blockquote-border-color: rgb(189, 207, 216);@blockquote-left-padding-size: 60px;@blockquote-type-color: rgb(91, 103, 108);@blockquote-type-font-weight: 300;@blockquote-type-font-size: 1.46em;@h6-type-font-family: Roboto Slab;@h6-type-color: rgb(187, 232, 241);@h6-type-text-transform: uppercase;@h6-type-font-weight: 400;@h6-type-font-size: 0.73em;@h5-type-font-family: Roboto Slab;@h5-type-color: rgb(159, 169, 173);@h5-type-text-transform: uppercase;@h5-type-font-weight: 700;@h5-type-font-size: 0.73em;@h4-type-font-family: Roboto Slab;@h4-type-color: rgb(79, 88, 92);@h4-type-font-weight: 700;@h4-type-font-size: 1.05em;@h3-type-font-family: Roboto Slab;@h3-type-color: rgb(26, 89, 120);@h3-type-font-weight: 700;@h3-type-font-size: 1.25em;@h2-type-font-family: Roboto Slab;@h2-type-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);@h2-type-font-weight: 700;@h2-type-font-size: 1.46em;@h1-type-font-family: Roboto Slab;@h1-type-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);@h1-type-font-weight: 700;@h1-type-font-size: 2.1em;@header-navigation-menu-text-hover-color: rgb(0, 153, 255);@header-navigation-menu-text-color: rgb(162, 162, 162);@header-navigation-menu-border-color: rgb(237, 242, 243);@header-navigation-menu-background-hover-color: rgb(214, 247, 255);@header-navigation-menu-background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);@header-navigation-hover-color: rgb(0, 159, 239);@header-navigation-type-font-family: Roboto Slab;@header-navigation-type-color: rgb(173, 180, 185);@header-navigation-type-text-transform: none;@header-navigation-type-font-weight: 1.1;@header-navigation-type-font-size: 1em;@header-search-input-background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);@header-search-input-border-color: rgb(203, 203, 203);@header-search-input-icon-color: rgb(203, 203, 203);@header-site-title-type-font-family: Roboto Slab;@header-site-title-type-color: rgb(26, 89, 120);@header-site-title-type-text-transform: none;@header-site-title-type-font-weight: 400;@header-site-title-type-font-size: 2.4em;@header-background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);@page-title-type-font-family: Roboto Slab;@page-title-type-color: rgb(26, 89, 120);@page-title-type-text-transform: uppercase;@page-title-type-font-weight: 700;@page-title-type-font-size: 1.73em;@body-link-hover-color: rgb(0, 159, 239);@body-link-color: rgb(26, 89, 120);@body-type-font-family: Noticia Text;@body-type-color: rgb(110, 110, 110);@body-type-font-weight: 400;@body-type-font-size: 14px;@page-background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);


There are a couple posts about this already but none have a solution that has worked for me.

So, I decided to try to reinstall the Elemental theme. I removed it from concrete/themes and moved in a fresh copy but I can't get it to reappear in the dashboard anymore so I can install and activate it. A bit silly once removed it cannot be added back..

I've also tried forking Elemental and another theme using https://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/how-to-cop... as a guide. All seems well until I go to edit a page and the admin/edit bar at the top of the screen totally disappears preventing me from making any edits at all.

Lastly, I get this really annoying blue alert box popping up when ever I edit a page with two compare buttons, just the way it appears looks like its broken. Any way to remove this?

I also reinstalled concrete5 in a different location on my webserver to see if maybe my first installation was corrupt but the second installation has all the same issues.

Thanks.

 
Yola replied on at Permalink Reply
Yola
I don't know any answers to the first part, sorry, have no clue.

I also lost my Elemental theme and could retrieve it by editing a line in the database seehttps://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/5-7-discussion/reinstall-... It was quite a search for me as I don't know much about databases.

In the end I re-installed C5 completely that was quicker and solved some other issues I had.

As for the annoying blue 'compare versions' alert, and see Hissy's solutionhttps://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/5-7-discussion/compare-ve... worked for me.
Yola replied on at Permalink Reply
Yola
Browsing the forum I came across posts about similar problems that tell me possibly it's a php-thing. You might browse a little too and come across a hint that helps.