Themes not reflecting changes, Clearing Cache has failed me
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Stood up a shiny new 5.5.2 site last night, copied Greek Yogurt out to root/themes, renamed the directory, updated description.txt, installed and activated the new theme, customized it (herein referred to as the "old" color values), and published the new paint job, and all was happy.
This morning I was making the first round of adjustments for the client, and I'm finding that no changes I make are being reflected on the front-end. I've completely turned off Caching in Settings, I've cleared my cache more times than I can count, and I've verified from a machine that had never hit the site before that the stylesheet being downloaded had the old color values in it. I've checked Typography.css in the /root/themes... directory, and confirmed that the new values are in there, so I'm now utterly mystified as to where the "old" values are even coming from.
Has anybody encountered this before? Any hints as to where C5 is pulling its stylesheet from, and how I can make it pull from the themes directory?
This morning I was making the first round of adjustments for the client, and I'm finding that no changes I make are being reflected on the front-end. I've completely turned off Caching in Settings, I've cleared my cache more times than I can count, and I've verified from a machine that had never hit the site before that the stylesheet being downloaded had the old color values in it. I've checked Typography.css in the /root/themes... directory, and confirmed that the new values are in there, so I'm now utterly mystified as to where the "old" values are even coming from.
Has anybody encountered this before? Any hints as to where C5 is pulling its stylesheet from, and how I can make it pull from the themes directory?
I was able to force a change to the new color scheme by changing the site to the default Greek Yogurt theme, removing my custom theme, then renaming my custom theme's directory in root/themes, and finally reinstalling the custom theme and re-applying it to the site. However, even after all that, the custom theme is not answering changes via the Customize page.
I went database diving and found a copy of the color settings in PageThemeStyles. That appears to be where the Customization interface stores its data, because changing those values changes what is in the Customization page for the theme, but I still have not been able to push the Customization color values to the live site.
Is there anybody who can explain to me where body tag in the stylesheets C5 sends out gets populated from? We're on the verge of punting C5 entirely for this project if I can't resolve this issue. After seven hours of researching and digging through C5's files, I am no closer to figuring out how to make the Customize Theme page update the live site than I was when I started.
OK, so we tore out the entire installation, deleted the whole directory structure from the website root on up, below away the MySQL database, and reloaded from scratch. When we started up our fresh new C5 CMS, it was running the customized theme that I created last night, about two or three revisions ago.
I have no idea what's going on anymore, but this is the point where I admit that this system is just too clever for the likes of me. It is now pulling deleted data from I-don't-know-where to populate a fresh installation. We're going to something else.
To anybody reading this in future trying to address a similar concern, I wish you the best of luck.
I have no idea what's going on anymore, but this is the point where I admit that this system is just too clever for the likes of me. It is now pulling deleted data from I-don't-know-where to populate a fresh installation. We're going to something else.
To anybody reading this in future trying to address a similar concern, I wish you the best of luck.
I can set it up for you if you want. Assuming cpanel access. PM me for email.
