DEVs question - how you guy keep your theme overrides clean !?

February 3, 2019 at 09:12 PM

Hi there,

Just out of curiosity i am reaching out o ask how other developers keep their theme overrides clean and get rid of unused CSS and/or code.

For myself with CSS i use just the custom_syles.css and i use a strict way of writing it down and using a lot of the menuID's in the CSS to seperate the different sections.
For example:

/* #### General JR Style theme overrides #### */
<CSS code here>

/* ### Name of Specific section, suffix: _home ### */
/* ## Listpages suffix _home (tableview/blogview_home etc.) ## */
<code>
.itemid-2193 {}

/* Listpages Module 'Name: .......' on Listpages home ID: 674 */
<code>
.itemid-2197 {}

/* Listpages Module 'Name: .......' on Listpages home ID: 673 */
<code>
.itemid-2197 {}

/* # Detailpage suffix _home (detail_home.thtml) # */

/* Detailpage Module 'Name: .......' on Listpages home ID: 671 */

/* ############# */

/* ### Name of Specific section, suffix: _2ndsection ### */
/* ## Listpages suffix _2ndsection (tableview/blogview etc.) ## */

/* Listpages Module 'Name: .......' on Listpages home ID: 664 */

/* Listpages Module 'Name: .......' on Listpages home ID: 663 */

/* # Detailpage suffix _2ndsection (detail_2ndsection.thtml) # */

/* Detailpage Module 'Name: .......' on Listpages home ID: 661 */

Etc.

For the theme overrides i use the main files and add/edit any code which i want to alter INSIDE the regular code; on JRreviews upgrade i need to re-do all (as normal) but i can use a "compare" / "differ" function to see what is changed.

But with large updates and/or class changes i allways face the issue that i still need to dig into all the lines cuting out parts or changing etc.

Whenever i take out a whole section, specific page it works as i can just cut out the whole css part.

Just curious how you guys manage to keep your theme overrides clean....
* Do you use a same sort of css build-up? Differently?
* Do you create your own theme files with just using the JReviews parts? Or do you write your custom code into the core ones as i do?

Curious ?

Jasper

February 3, 2019 at 09:41 PM