change color in theme cobalt
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Hi, I want to change the color backround in theme cobalt, and I can't find the css. In pages and theme's I can't change the colors of the backround.
Check /packages/cobalt/themes/cobalt/main.css
Thank you, I've found it!
I have the colors changed. But now, there has been an update on this theme and all my changes are gone. Can I use this theme make a child? As with WordPress. Or is there another way to prevent that I lose my changes in this theme
I would do it this way:
Override the theme's styles in a new css file called my-overrides.css. Save this into /packages/cobalt/themes/cobalt/
Before the closing </head> add a ne line to /packages/cobalt/themes/cobalt/elements/header.php
Notice:
Every time the theme was updated you have to add only this line to header.php and your styles are separated in an extra file.
I don't know if your my-overrides.css will be deleted when you update a theme. If this happens, well: copy this file again to /packages/cobalt/themes/cobalt/
Override the theme's styles in a new css file called my-overrides.css. Save this into /packages/cobalt/themes/cobalt/
Before the closing </head> add a ne line to /packages/cobalt/themes/cobalt/elements/header.php
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo $this->getThemePath(); ?>/my-overrides.css">
Notice:
Every time the theme was updated you have to add only this line to header.php and your styles are separated in an extra file.
I don't know if your my-overrides.css will be deleted when you update a theme. If this happens, well: copy this file again to /packages/cobalt/themes/cobalt/
Thank you! I've done this now, and updated the theme again and it works.
Only you have to the my-overrides.css elsewhere keep as a backup. And put it back in packages/cobalt/themes/cobalt, because during the update the file disappears. And customize header.php
Only you have to the my-overrides.css elsewhere keep as a backup. And put it back in packages/cobalt/themes/cobalt, because during the update the file disappears. And customize header.php
That's not really the way to override a theme as you have found out.
If all you are going to alter in the theme is the addition of this one css file then you can put your 'my-overrrides.css' file in [root]/themes/cobalt/ folder. You will need to build that path.
Then visit the Dashboard->System and Settings->Cache and Speed Settings and turn off the 'Overrides' cache. Then visit any page on the site to force concrete5 to find your override file and then you can turn the Overrides cache back on again.
This still means you will have to continue to add the < link ...> to your header file every time the theme is updated. You can completely override the theme by following this how-to:
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/modify-a-p...
If all you are going to alter in the theme is the addition of this one css file then you can put your 'my-overrrides.css' file in [root]/themes/cobalt/ folder. You will need to build that path.
Then visit the Dashboard->System and Settings->Cache and Speed Settings and turn off the 'Overrides' cache. Then visit any page on the site to force concrete5 to find your override file and then you can turn the Overrides cache back on again.
This still means you will have to continue to add the < link ...> to your header file every time the theme is updated. You can completely override the theme by following this how-to:
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/modify-a-p...
Sure, that's the right way!!
Thought more about classic css override then the concrete5 overrides.
Thought more about classic css override then the concrete5 overrides.
There's nothing 'classic' about concrete5. When in Rome...
thank you, I used the documentation of the link, which is what I was looking for. Now I can ignore the modification and my client is not running the risk that everything has gone as he performs a modification!
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