Welcome to Geeklog, Anonymous Thursday, March 28 2024 @ 06:38 am EDT

Geeklog Forums

Testing out a theme?


Status: offline

tacomamama

Forum User
Newbie
Registered: 09/21/07
Posts: 14
I feel very dense about all of this. I'd like to be able to develop another theme with my site content, at another URL. (like "tacomamama.com/test" or something like that.) I'm sure there's some very simple answer to how to do that, but I still find PHP very confusing. Right now I'm making all my changes live and I'd like to get away from that.

My current theme is all table-driven and results in about 100 errors per page, so I really need to do something about it. Attempting to edit it seems to be more pain than it's worth, (all those table rows in different thtml files. Gack!) I'd like to start over with a clean, CSS theme now that I know my way around stylesheets.
 Quote

Status: offline

1000ideen

Forum User
Full Member
Registered: 08/04/03
Posts: 1298
I don`t really understand your question. What help do you want?

You can develope a theme invisibly to guests if you mean that.
 Quote

tacomamama

Anonymous
I guess that is what I mean. How would I go about that?
 Quote

Status: offline

1000ideen

Forum User
Full Member
Registered: 08/04/03
Posts: 1298
If your default theme is professional
$_CONF['theme'] = 'professional'; // default theme

make sure you have this on too
$_CONF['allow_user_themes'] = 1;

Copy your theme to any other name like test-professional and go into Geeklog, your account settings and chose the theme test-professional. Now you can work on test-professional while all the other users see the default.
 Quote

tacomamama

Anonymous
I'm not using professional. I'm using Tabular Dynamics, which is very buggy. I have allow user themes set to 1, but when I go to my account settings I don't see anything about themes. (I still have professional installed somewhere, so I'd think I'd at least have that option?)
 Quote

Status: offline

1000ideen

Forum User
Full Member
Registered: 08/04/03
Posts: 1298
Did you download the version for GL 1.4.1 from here? http://www.spacequad.com/filemgmt/index.php?id=430 If it is buggy you may give details here.

All themes are being uploaded to /public_html/layout/yourtheme
e.g. /public_html/layout/professional

You could do a good trick by setting professional as default, then do the changes in your GL account to your test-theme and set back the default to tabular dynamics.

Finally you may set $_CONF['allow_user_themes'] = 0; so that no user can change the theme while you are working on it.
 Quote

tacomamama

Anonymous
I downloaded it straight from the geeklog website, about a year ago before the most recent update to my theme, which has caused all sorts of misery.

I will try what you advise, might have to do it in the middle of the night to prevent weirdness.
 Quote

Status: offline

Dirk

Site Admin
Admin
Registered: 01/12/02
Posts: 13073
Location:Stuttgart, Germany
If you're using a theme that was made for an earlier version of Geeklog, you may miss some features.

There's an updated version of the Tabular Dynamics theme available from spacequad.com (via our demo site), btw.

bye, Dirk
 Quote

All times are EDT. The time is now 06:38 am.

  • Normal Topic
  • Sticky Topic
  • Locked Topic
  • New Post
  • Sticky Topic W/ New Post
  • Locked Topic W/ New Post
  •  View Anonymous Posts
  •  Able to post
  •  Filtered HTML Allowed
  •  Censored Content