Can any one help me on how to overwrite the theme in Shopify. Is there any option to create custom child theme under main theme and write custom codes into the activated child theme? Or there is another way to customized the theme.
There is no concept of child themes in shopify. Shopify refers to copies as duplicates, and a theme is either published or unpublished.
Before editing a themes structure make a duplicate and this is generally what should be worked on instead of the published(live) until all changes are done and the theme previews look ready.
If used to version control software(git) there are tools to automate the upload/download so you can work with your preferred editor locally.
So If you want customize the theme then just create a duplicate copy of the main the theme and do your all changes in the duplicate theme and see the all changes using theme preview option. After completing all of the changes, you can publish the duplicate theme and it will work as an active theme.
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I have developed custom Odoo(v14) theme. I use this theme for our company website and it is multilingual. Normally I add the translations of the content from Odoo interface but I was wondering if there is a way that I can include them too into my theme. So I can control everything in it. Do you know how I can do it?
You can easily use this link to do that.
Translating Modules or themes Odoo 14
I want to customize the purchased WHMCS theme but I don't want to loose the changes when the theme is updated.
So, is there a way to create a child type of theme just like we do on Wordpress. If not, please advice the best method to do it in WHMCS.
WHMCS doesn't support clientarea template files overriding as in WP.
Use git to follow changes in the original purchased template, as described in Six template page
Recently I was doing some integrations on a non-standard/non-official prestashop 1.6 theme.
I found out after some manipulation on the Back-Office that the cart module doesn't appear on the Front-Office.
The cart module is enabled and is hooked to the displayNav and displayTop hooks.
It seems that cart module doesn't render any of its view code even when the "Disable module ovverides" is disabled.
The last and the only thing I've manipulated on the BO config is activating and then deactivating the "Force update friendly url".
Note that the current theme in based on an old theme and was made by an intern that didn't respect the official doc at all. What I mean by that is that you can find inline CSS and Javascript isnide a tpl file with no repsect of the smarty template engine syntax.
The current theme doesn't support many of the hooks that the default and basic prestashop theme offers.
I envisionned the following solution :
Read the 1.6 PS doc and make corrections on the theme. If the number of bugs, problems and mis-uses is not huge.
Rewrite the theme from groung zero in the worst case
After one day of lookin up answers on the web I found out that the catalog mode was off which makes the cart block disapears on the front-office.
A client of mine wants to create their ecommerce site with BigCommerce as back-end. BigCommerce has lots of theme's available in their theme store. This client however does not want to be just another website using a certain theme, but have a theme unique to their company. You can build your own theme which would use your own config.php, something they use to set global variables in their templating engine.
However as far as I can read on their developers site the only way that you could create your own theme is if you then start selling it in the theme store, which of course would allow other companies to adopt this same theme against a certain price. Something my client doesnt want. They want to be unique.
So my question is: Can you create a custom bigcommerce theme from scratch, without selling it in the theme store?
Absolutely, however you can set up a config.php file and all that. You can simply start with any theme available in the current theme store, download the HTML, CSS, JS, Image, etc files and customize them to your liking. These are completely open ended.
You won't really miss anything this way, the only thing the config file does is set the default store settings when that theme is applied such as menu depth, fly out menus, display of weight, etc. All that can be adjusted manually by you or your client in the store settings!
So to answer my own question directly: No, you cannot create a theme from scratch without being a parter of bigcommerce and making your theme available in the theme store.
You can get close as #TheEks describes by simply choosing a theme (preferably the blueprint, available when going in to dev mode), and then overwriting whatever contents the html files have. You will need to check for updates to the bigcommerce theme yourself and implement those in your code. You will not be able to remove theme files, if you no longer use them, from the webdav server, only revert them to their original state. You can just ignore them of course.
Is there any way to publish a test template page? For example, if I have a template file called "cart-test.liquid," is there anything I can modify so I can navigate to "http://shopname.com/cart-test" in order to test it out?
I'm currently developing an widget that'll be included on Shopify cart pages, and one of my clients wants to test it out before it's published on their real cart page.
The best way to test a theme without editing the live theme is to duplicate the current theme and use the preview function.
From within the Shopify admin (using Shopify Admin 2) goto the "Themes" section. Here you can "duplicate" the published main theme. It will create a copy of the theme within the "Unpublished themes" section. Here you can edit it and also get a preview of this theme (click on the link preview).