Plan your design extension
Site changes never go into the theme or the kernel.
Life cycle: Plan, example 12 of 35. Worked out on the Fit & Healthy site of Exponential 6.0.15+.
Contents
With templates
- Name it (these pages use
mysite), give itsettings/design.ini.append.phpwithDesignExtensions[]=mysite, and the design folder of the site (design/media/). - Plan to place it first in
ActiveExtensions[]: its templates then win over the theme's (for block types the position does not matter since explayouts 1.4.42). - Keep it in its own git repository.
Which to choose
Even a site that is built mostly in the Layouts editor needs this extension for its few templates and styles.
Check
./console exp:ini get design.ini/ExtensionSettings/DesignExtensions -s sitelists it after the theme.
Related pages
- Your own design extension
- Plan examples, every page
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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