Hello John,

Just for your information, Yootheme seems to be resetting everything very crazily because they are slapping !important to most of their css stylesheets and it's a very bad practice because with !important, this simply implies that "nobody else can alter how things looks like everything within the theme".

We tried to contact Yootheme but there's no response from them about this and I am assuming that they might not want to bother about other 3rd party extensions. Perhaps, you as a customer have a greater voice than us?

Ouch, maybe it's time to stop doing business with Yootheme. Bummer.

Hello John,

i guess if you have actually voiced this out to them, it would help

Done: http://www.yootheme.com/support/question/61413

You should also add a link to this post on their forum, so they know what you are talking about.

I am using yoo nano3 and Warp7 with no issues so far.

@checksum glad you're having no issues. Wonder why I did? Are you in agreement then, about the use of !important being inflexible or prohibitive, as a practice?

I informed @mustaq of what I'm trying to accomplish, and the inflexibility of the theming convention, using !important. If they don't have a solution in mind (I hope they do), perhaps I'll ask here for suggestions in this forum for your ideas, so I'll know what next steps to take in order to make sure our over-arching theme and subordinate components' themes play nice together.

Hello John,

Thanks for sharing this, appreciate your insights on this

Hi John,
I have to disagree with Mark on this one. I have been using yootheme for a long time now, and currently using yoo nano3 , I have modified that theme extensively along with easysocial, and did not encounter any real issues.

The yootheme template on John's site seems to have some enforcement on the button,input and textarea to use context-box and this messes up with the calculation of the padding / margins. Are you both using the same template?

@checksum, I'm using Lava template, with Warp 7. How about you?

yoo nano3

Yeah, probably they are different? I am not sure but it's best that we could get a better understanding from Yootheme on this matter

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OK, in the meantime, I just got notified that now, my site is all jumbled up when looking at it in IE, after the fix applied on EasySocial. I think I may have some OLD overrides from when EasySocial 1.1x was installed. I'm going to revert back for now, and try again on a totally separate development server with 1.2x.
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Hello John,

Hm, sure let us know if you need any help

Good I just see this post on time, just about to jump into the Yootheme blackhole....

If you are looking for a good theme, http://www.optimumtheme.com/themes/sosyal-theme.html it's pretty neat!