How can I tell if override is fully working.?

[stlnyc]

Site: jpfinewines.com

I recently implemented the override on my site. While I know the new template is running, when I try to edit stylesheets.css in my CUSTOM folder nothing happens, but when I edit the same file in the default folder the changes work. I've tried copying the file to the CUSTOM folder and it just saves without changing things on the site. Thanks in advance.

[kobra]

You can view the source for any page and see that the css is pointed to

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/templates/CUSTOM/css/stylesheet.css" />

If you are not seeing changes - insure that your FTP is actually uploading the file and clear your browser cache

[kuroi]

You can tell by looking at the stylesheets downloaded to your browser when you view the site.

For your site, this is the stylesheets in the CUSTOM/css folder.

Can you give a more specific example of what isn't working for you?

[stlnyc]

So after viewing the source it does seem like the override is working. But, I just installed a "editable sidebox" and while it shows up on the site, the file in the html includes folder only shows up when its installed in the default folder and not when it is in the html includes folder under my custom template. The page will ultimately be edited indefine pages editor and will only show up there when in the default folder. Thanks


I'm wondering if some of my root folders are setup wrong for my custom template. I also made the mistake early on to copy files over to my custom template that I hadn't edited.

[stevesh]

First, copying files to your custom folders which haven't been edited won't hurt anything - they'll just take up disk space.

The proper placement for the define pages is includes/languages/english/html_includes/CUSTOM - the way you described it, it sounded like you might have the html_includes folder under your custom folder.

[Kim]

In most cases, you need to add NEW functionality to the default directories before you can override it :)

[afo]

In most cases, you need to add NEW functionality to the default directories before you can override it :)

What Kim is saying is that you need it in BOTH places. You can put the one that came with the download in includes/languages/english/html_includes and the one you modified in includes/languages/english/html_includes/CUSTOM.