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Updating an overriden theme

July 26, 2022 at 6:54 pm #7875

[anonymous]

Is there any way to automatically update your overridden theme to a new version of the theme without copy/pasting all the custom code you wrote? I think I was able to do this in the past, but it’s not working with the new update.

July 28, 2022 at 3:03 am #7879

[anonymous]

Unfortunately I’ve tried this numerous times and it doesn’t work 🙁 but it worked in the last version of Publii

I hope a dev can help

July 30, 2022 at 4:35 pm #7893

[anonymous]

I am not sure if I understand the issue.

Are you using theme overrides: https://getpublii.com/dev/theme-overrides/ (the proper way) or do you override theme files directly (the incorrect way)?

July 30, 2022 at 7:32 pm #7903

[anonymous]

Yes, I am using a theme override, specifically the taste theme. I followed the guide, and i changed the code in a new folder called taste-override. Problem is, when I try to update the theme in Publii, it stays on the old version. I’m not sure if this has anything to do with it, but I also modified the config.json file in the override so that i could include custom share and follow buttons, which worked.

August 2, 2022 at 3:04 am #7933

[anonymous]

Yeah, I’ve already tried all of this unfortunately to no avail. Not sure what’s happening.

August 2, 2022 at 10:40 am #7938

[anonymous]

@stripedzebra1 – if you have edited config.json file in the theme – please make sure that you have updated it too after theme update. All overrided files should also contains all necessary changes from the updated theme to make it working properly.

August 9, 2022 at 5:11 pm #8018

[anonymous]

[anonymous] wrote:

Yes, I am using a theme override, specifically the taste theme. I followed the guide, and i changed the code in a new folder called taste-override. Problem is, when I try to update the theme in Publii, it stays on the old version. I’m not sure if this has anything to do with it, but I also modified the config.json file in the override so that i could include custom share and follow buttons, which worked.

The issue is indeed with the overridden config.json. You’ll just need to update the version number. Make sure to do a git diff as well of the overridden config vs the config in the latest theme files. Do the same for any overridden files as well.

September 5, 2022 at 2:01 pm #8237

[anonymous]

I ended up just redoing the code, but there’s no worries. Thanks for the help 🙂