Hi
I might be able to help a little based on what I have found myself.
Using Classic theme as base : As you mentioned, new themes are based on Styled which seems half-finnished. The problem with Classic is that it is under development and is only available as part of the Liferay Source Code. I found it here :
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/tree/master/modules/apps/foundation/frontend-theme
I have then manually copied the files under /src to my newly created theme. The problem is as I said, it is still under change, but you will get a better start than the Styled one.
The markup language : I found that liferay-look-and-feel.xml (under WEB-INF in your Theme) has this line :
<template-extension>ftl</template-extension>
I have not tried to change that, but it seems to be the right place to edit.
Changes in theme gives no effect : After a few hours of frustration, I found that is because of the hellish caching of the css done by the browser. I will post a new post now to ask for help, specific for this. Hope someone from Liferay can help. To verify that, check your site with a new Browser. I found that my Chrome (even if I have specified not to cache), it caches. For instance the URL of the main CSS in my case is :
http://localhost:8080/o/agora-5-theme/css/main.css?browserId=other&themeId=agora5theme_WAR_agora5theme&minifierType=css&languageId=en_US&b=7001&t=32
No matter how I reload, it gives me back the same CSS. If I change the 32 to 33, it will give me the new modified CSS :/
This makes the theme developement extremely hard
Best regards,
Armaz
I might be able to help a little based on what I have found myself.
Using Classic theme as base : As you mentioned, new themes are based on Styled which seems half-finnished. The problem with Classic is that it is under development and is only available as part of the Liferay Source Code. I found it here :
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/tree/master/modules/apps/foundation/frontend-theme
I have then manually copied the files under /src to my newly created theme. The problem is as I said, it is still under change, but you will get a better start than the Styled one.
The markup language : I found that liferay-look-and-feel.xml (under WEB-INF in your Theme) has this line :
<template-extension>ftl</template-extension>
I have not tried to change that, but it seems to be the right place to edit.
Changes in theme gives no effect : After a few hours of frustration, I found that is because of the hellish caching of the css done by the browser. I will post a new post now to ask for help, specific for this. Hope someone from Liferay can help. To verify that, check your site with a new Browser. I found that my Chrome (even if I have specified not to cache), it caches. For instance the URL of the main CSS in my case is :
http://localhost:8080/o/agora-5-theme/css/main.css?browserId=other&themeId=agora5theme_WAR_agora5theme&minifierType=css&languageId=en_US&b=7001&t=32
No matter how I reload, it gives me back the same CSS. If I change the 32 to 33, it will give me the new modified CSS :/
This makes the theme developement extremely hard
Best regards,
Armaz
