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What if I want to start all over?
einat
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I think my homepage is cluttered, the side-navbar it too long, etc.
So…
If I start working with a new design – take one of the offered designs and start playing around with it –
What would be lost and what would be saved from the design that I have now? (I’ve started with one of the designs, saved it as my own and gave it a new name).
What happens with the homepage and all its components?
If I start with some other design, modify it, save the design and then publish – could I go back to my current design and current homepage with all their settings?
In other words, is the homepage (with all its components and settings) a part of the design?
What if all I want to change is the homepage, but I still want to save the current one so I can return to it later?
What happens with the CSS codes?
I have them on a block on the entire site, they’re not in the theme. It’s not a problem to copy and pasted them into a new block on a new homepage.
So…
If I start working with a new design – take one of the offered designs and start playing around with it –
What would be lost and what would be saved from the design that I have now? (I’ve started with one of the designs, saved it as my own and gave it a new name).
What happens with the homepage and all its components?
If I start with some other design, modify it, save the design and then publish – could I go back to my current design and current homepage with all their settings?
In other words, is the homepage (with all its components and settings) a part of the design?
What if all I want to change is the homepage, but I still want to save the current one so I can return to it later?
What happens with the CSS codes?
I have them on a block on the entire site, they’re not in the theme. It’s not a problem to copy and pasted them into a new block on a new homepage.
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I do know that at the top when you click customize, there's an option for a new theme.
Now, someone else needs to post the method to save the theme, once you have chosen one and modified it a bit. I know I did save a few but can't remember how I did it.
I have 4 themes saved, and what I do know is:
- When I modify a theme, and want to see what it will look like to the public, I "publish it". "Preview" apparently has problems so I don't even go there.
- If you work on a new theme, let's say the homepage, and publish it, and then click on the "entire site" section, I think you will find that the new theme you were working on, disappears. That's because back before the new theme, you had published this section with a different theme. To bring this section up to par with your new theme, when you click customize site and click the section to change, then click the theme tab on the right and scroll to the bottom to see the link for "my themes". Open it and choose the most recent theme you were working on (you would have given it a name, I think when you saved it - this is the part I can't remember how to do). Now publish again. Repeat for each of the sections (folders and all galleries). In the end your entire site will now be consistently in one theme.
There is a drawback to creating new themes and saving the templates, in that a block you add to one, or customization you do, won't populate to the others. So if you do the work to add a navbar in one theme, you'll have to repeat that in another theme.
For me I started 2-3 themes, thinking I would test them, but when the ramifications of having to duplicate a lot of work became clear, I then backed up and decided which theme I would truly stick with. I mention this because you said you think the theme you've been working with is too messy. It still might be easier to remove the messiness and keep what you do want. If you post what you think is messy and pushing you to start completely over, maybe someone will know how to easily undo the mess.
--- Denise
Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
What does he need to do to try a different theme, then, without publishing?
He can also save changes to the theme that is not the current theme - those would not be viewable until the theme is actually switched.
--- Denise
Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
The problem is that there's no way of saving a 2nd copy of a modified theme.
If I want to stick with my colors, the header and the nave bars - and only to change the home page, then as I see it, I can either recreate everything + a new homepage and save them in a new theme. This way I keep my current homepage and can later revert to it.
Or, I can make modifications only to the homepage, and lose my current one.
I am not counting on the preview.
And - I am a "she" not a "he" (-:
(It's in Hebrew)
--- Denise
Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
Sorry you GIRL you. Sorry about that.
And yes, you're right, you cannot save a new version of an existing theme. I did ask the SM help email about that and they confirmed it.
It's fine :smooch
With all the nicks and international names (mine's a real name) one can never guess.
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And to the point - I backed up the design with Lamah's g-chrome extension. I think it is a good solution. I can always recreate something. Once I have all the design, settings, sizes etc. written down, the actual "work" is not that much of an issue.
Now the problem that's left is that I'm not really sure of what I do want for my hompage.
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=237680
Just viewing others' sites might give you inspiration.
That's exactly what I'm doing...