ESv2.x Theme Compiler
By LAC Webadmin on Saturday, 05 November 2016
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Hi There,

I am trying to create my own ES v2.x Theme and the Compile section in the v2 is gone, how do I go about compiling the CSS?

Do I have to manually compile the CSS now? I don't understand allowing an edit to the styles when say I edited album.css and it does create an override in my active joomla template html folder. Does it load that one album.css just to override the style.css? What if I want to change like 10 css, that will load 10 individual css.

Thanks,

Jackson
Hello Jackson,

We no longer include compilers in the component. The rationale for removing this is because 95% of the users don't use the compiler and the compiler section adds additional weight on the extension.

Instead, if you turn on development mode, less files are automatically compiled and if you load up with your browser's console (preferably firebug), you'll see the automated compiler kicking in under the console as you can see here, http://take.ms/qygnI
Mark
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Saturday, 05 November 2016 13:17
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Hi Mark,

Thanks for pointing that out, the compiler seems to be working fine.

But I don't understand how the override works. I tried to edit the module.less in Elegant theme, it does create a copy of my edited version in my template html folder but the changes that I did were not applied. How does it work?

Thanks,

Jackson
LAC Webadmin
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Wednesday, 09 November 2016 05:30
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Hey there,

Perhaps you can share with us following details so we can better have a check?

- What is the full path of this module.less file?
- What is the full path of your template override path?
Arlex Wong
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Wednesday, 09 November 2016 10:45
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