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Theme problems with Vanilla 2.1b2*
UnderDog
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This discussion was created from comments split from: [Solved] Themes don´t work, Smarty Problems*.
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I am having a similar issue to this. The embed and Bittersweet themes work fine for me. However, when I try +Baseline or the Press theme from Vanillaskins.com, there is a formatting problem. Everything gets displayed vertically, with the sidebar pushed to the bottom. Does anyone have any idea what may be causing this? I disabled all plugins and still had the same result. I'm running 2.1b2
Here are the same results with the Press theme
Next time post under the theme, so every theme has their own topic and solution for when it doesn't work.
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Hi @meshugy,
I answered you regarding your support request via E-Mail. The actual themes of VanillaSkins do only work for the stable releases up to 2.0.18.9. They are not yet ready for 2.1b2.
We are going to release update the coming year. I will look into your issue, give me some days and christmas.
@phreak thanks I look forward to the update! I originally figured it was an update issue, but then I noticed the Baseline theme (which comes bundled with 2.12b) was exhibiting similar behavior. That made me wonder if something else was going on.
@meshugy: I have some instances of 2.1b2 running, and till now i encountered several issues. I keep you updated.
All themes can work with 2.1, the difference being only a couple different lines in the tpl.
These problems you have with the panel or content being pushed down, likely has something to do with a minifier. Does the same happen when you disable it ?
In any event those are very small details that can easily be fixed by css. There is no theme that I can't make work for anything. I have tested these and they are fixable.
You need to understand that themes can't be guaranteed to work exactly the same for everyone. The browser and the computer and the settings people have on their browsers will always affect the theme. You can't know what everyone uses.
The space in which you are embedding the forum is smaller than the smallest the regular themes get and that will always push things down. You need to either make the space you are embedding into, bigger, or make the theme narrower.
Embed friendly means the theme adjusts to the width but it has limitations too. There are css ways to make sure they do not move. For this you need to make the #Body a specific max width not 100% . It is tricky but it can be done.
Working with a minifier puts all the style sheets together in one. The consequence, is this may override some rules. so it does not matter what you do to change things, they will be ignored. That is if you find where to change things even....
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@vrijvlinder I'm not using minifier and wasn't trying to embed these skins. Just trying them out on the regular forum and was experiencing these issues. I'll wait till @Phreak gets his skin updated for 2.12b and then check it out.
@meshugy You are using something that is consolidating all the style sheets and scripts .
When I go to your forum, I inspect the source. Look for files, they appear in one single sheet. you can't see the separate style sheets from the theme or plugins in the list of resources. You are using something to do that.
It is not standard as far as I know. As I explained above, it renders your forum useless to edit. It causes problems.
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@vrijvlinder I haven't made any modifications that I'm aware of that might do that. My server is running some Xcacheing, fast CGI, and pagespeed mods but I turned those off and it didn't make a difference. Any ideas?
ok, I think it is pagespeed a usual suspect below is the url of your stylesheets consolidated, the only way to appreciate the mess it makes. And the difficulties for editing.
http://www.djangobooks.com/forum/A.applications,,_dashboard,,_design,,_style.css,,qv==2.1b2+plugins,,_Signatures,,_design,,_signature.css,,qv==1.5.2+plugins,,_FileUpload,,_design,,_fileupload.css,,qv==1.7.1+plugins,,_Emotify,,_design,,_emotify.css,,qv==2.0.5+themes,,_EmbedFriendly,,_design,,_custom.css,,qv==3.0+plugins,,_IndexPhotos,,_design,,_indexphotos.css,,qv==1.1+plugins,,_PeregrineReactions,,_design,,_peregrinereactions.css,,qv==2.3+plugins,,_StatsBox,,_design,,_statsbox.css,,qv==1.5+plugins,,_Buttons,,_design,,_buttons.css,,qv==1.0+plugins,,_CategoryAccordion,,_design,,_accordion.css,,qv==0.1.3b+plugins,,_PeregrineLeaderBoard,,_design,,_plb.css,,qv==1.3+plugins,,_ResizedImageLightbox,,_design,,_resizedimagelightbox.css,,qv==1.0+plugins,,_Sprites,,_design,,_sprites.css,,qv==1.0+plugins,,_WorldFlags,,_design,,_flags.css,,qv==1.13+plugins,,_jsconnect,,_design,,_jsconnect.css,,qv==1.0.3b,Mcc.6ew0fKAjDR.css.pagespeed.cf.47_KQMHDSf.css❌ ✊ ♥. ¸. ••. ¸♥¸. ••. ¸♥ ✊ ❌
To check if the page speed mod is on or off you ca go to http://web-sniffer.net input your url and it will show you . choose HTTP/1.0 (with Host header) then choose Post then submit.
This is what I got Notice Pagespeed is still on.
That means its working for domain and enabled, if you switch it off it wont show this line. X-Mod-Pagespeed: 1.4.26.5-3533
Or if you want to disable for a particular domain not for whole server you can add ModPagespeed off in your domain htaccess file. This will prevent its loading.
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ok, I'll turn it off and see what happens. I tried turning off before and I still had the same issues with the Baseline and Press themes. But maybe they were in a cache so I'll try and clear that first.
It's off now:
I can't speak for those themes, but I am sure I could fix them. But not if you are using PageSpeed. Trust me when I say that you are trading faster loads for function. There have been at least 50 cases I recall since I joined this forum. All related to a minifier.
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Ok to fix the problem with the content moving down etc. Change to this or add this in all the style sheets that have this happening. Somewhere it was adding an insane margin to the right.
#Body .ContentColumn { margin: 0; }This bug is traced to the main style.css of Vanilla 2.1 , this margin should be 0
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It seems that I am missing the main style.css file. Shouldn't it be located in in themes/default/design/style.css?
it's not there
No it is located in Applications/Dashboard/design. If you fix it there, it will revert upon update. Unless they fix it .
Maybe @Lincoln could take gander...
But sticking the code I gave you in the custom.css of themes will override the style.css .
When trying to find where files are stored simply look at the source. In the head section is has all the files that are being called and their url. The Url is the key coz it shows the path to the file.
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I tried adding a 0 margin to the custom.css and also tried editing the style.css so it has a 0 margin. Neither made a difference. Baseline is the default theme, so I'd imagine that should work pretty well out of of the box??!! I must have something else going on here.
Let me see...Page speed is back on .... better remove it all together or use the htaccess fix so it stops loading. That thing is a nightmare!!
It takes me seconds to fix something , but this is meshugah to the max !!
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