Community theme update

[Havouza]

Perhaps it could be on the Announce section also.I think more people go there really

[alwayspaws]

I wasn't implying you are a new user, Jeff, but what I'm saying is anyone who comes along and wants to install TB and then needs various piecemeal updates until a major update comes along is going to be confused. I am. Sorry about that, @lesley

[lesley]

No problem, sometimes I am vague about instructions, its an old habit.

[alwayspaws]

@lesley - what do you think about having a central location for all updates and upgrades? It's way out of hand, imo, the way it is now.

[Havouza]

@lesley Keep that thought for the ES module. Iwill have to come with a very good documentation

[alwayspaws]

@Havouza yes, let's try to keep everything in one central place. This way, people who don't know about an update that is being worked on, will see it is, etc.

[lesley]

That is what we are working on with the shop actually. That is going to be our central repository for everything like this. Hopefully it will start going live in about a week and a half.

[alwayspaws]

Oh, Excellent! So the thing is to not have update links in the blog or the announcements, unless they point directly to download central! :)

[lesley]

Right. WE are trying to in the end put a seamless system in place, it just takes time to make it and we are trying to allow people to update things manually in the mean time until that system is in place.

[alwayspaws]

@lesley We appreciate your time, effort and hard work very much! Thank you!

[lesley]

No problem.

[Jeff]

Well I managed to screw it up. I uploaded the 1.0.1 folder BESIDE the 1.0.0 folder. Then when the 1.0.1 would not function in the theme backend, I deleted the 1.0.1 theme in the backend.

Guess what? When you do that, it deletes the 1.0.0 theme and the site is broken. Guess I need to do a clean install.

[lesley]

Did you delete the community-theme-default directory?

[Jeff]

@lesley Yes I mistakenly added the 1.0.1 folder as a separate theme. It showed up as a theme is the backend. When I tried to activate it, it wouldn't work so I deleted 1.0.1 theme through the backend.

When I did this it deleted the default theme but left the broken 1.0.1 in place.

[Jeff]

Testing the Cloudways restore feature now..........

Update: It works!

[Jeff]

Ok tell me if this is a good update method:

1. Download 1.0.1 from Github
2. Extract Zip locally on my computer.
3. Rename the "community-theme-default-1.0.1" folder to "community-theme-default"
4. Upload the renamed "community-theme-default" folder to the "themes" folder which will overwrite the original 1.0.0 theme.

[lesley]

Just download it, extract it, open the directory tree until you are at the actual template files, then on your server go into your theme until you see the actual template files. Then upload the new template files over the old template files.

[Jeff]

@lesley Ok I think I got it updated. My newbie mistake was thinking I needed to do anything in the TB back end.

I love the community theme by the way. It's why I chose Thirty Bees.

Thanks for your help. I appreciate it.

[lesley]

Great, I am glad it is working for you. Soon we expect to come out with modified versions of the theme, where we can ship versions with a different look and feel.

[alwayspaws]

@Jeff said in Community theme update:

@lesley Ok I think I got it updated. I love the community theme by the way. It's why I chose Thirty Bees.

Thanks for your help. I appreciate it.

Hi, Jeff! I'm happy it's straightened out for you, too. I've been spreading the word about thirtybees via social media - Twitter and Facebook, with hashtags such as #PrestaShop #thirtybees #opensource #webdevelopment, etc. :)

[spidawebs]

I'm having a similar problem with the community theme. I have migrated my shop from Prestashop and kept my prestashop theme. I now want to switch it to the community theme, but when I go to Preferences>Themes and try to install the community theme it comes up with the following error:

Bad configuration file

I have downloaded the theme from github and uploaded all the files by FTP, and checked permissions, but it just won't work.

Any ideas?

[spidawebs]

I still can't get the community theme to install, which is a major problem if people can't instantly get their front end working after migration

[lesley]

Didn't we get the theme installed on your site?

[zimmer-media]

hello @lesley , i have now the same problem with two ps-migrations

[lesley]

Can you try to download and install this version, https://thirtybees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/community-theme-default-1.0.1.zip let me know if it works.