Starting in a different place

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vargula August 1, 2012 at 8:44 am

Heads up! this post was created when Microthemer was at version 1. The current version is 7. Some references to the interface may be out of date.

This thread is really about what happens when one does not decide to use the classic Twenty Eleven theme as I did on my last site. It just did not match the design needed. The theme I decided to start with was actually Manifest by JIm Barraud: http://themes.jimbarraud.com/manifest/

As many users know, this is a refreshingly direct and uncluttered theme. However – of course – its never exactly how you want it so you want to tweak, even if its a lowering of case here and a bigger font size there.

Now the trouble is the Microthemer install describes inheritance from the Twenty Eleven theme – and the video procedure i.e. import of settings to avoid a lot of typing worked wonderfully well.

However with a new theme starting in a different place – like Manifest – its hard to see the 1, 2, 3 steps to install and start tweaking, and see if in fact this is a reasonable thing to ask Microthemer to help with.

So, bottom line, new theme is installed, content being edited as we speak – screenshot at the following link as the main site isn’t live yet:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1129320/downloads/draftcontent.jpg

I’m trying to see if this theme/site can indeed be tweaked with the help of Microthemer

Thanks

Ed


Sebastian August 1, 2012 at 10:37 am

Microthemer’s support for customizing themes is decided by what’s available in the Theme Packs repository: https://themeover.com/theme-packs/

There isn’t currently a Theme Pack for “Manifest” so you wouldn’t be able to use Microthemer to tweak it at this stage. I can add Manifest to our list of themes to support if you like?

Cheers,

Sebastian

vargula August 1, 2012 at 10:41 am

Hi Sebastian

that would be really (really) great!

As many have commented Manifest is nice because its simple but of course things are never quite exactly how your need them 😉

Of course I’ve made a start editing in Manifest now, if we do get Blank Slate support on it, do I have to begin again or will it likely update what’s there.

Cheers

Ed

Sebastian August 1, 2012 at 10:46 am

Have you started editing styles.css?

You wouldn’t need to start again. But if you were applying some styles in Microthemer and some styles directly to style.css it might get tedious switching between the 2 editing locations and trying to remember where you’d applied which styles…

vargula August 1, 2012 at 10:57 am

No – only really done content editing not delved into .css.

I did suppress comments by means of a plug in and enter some code in header.php to allow validation by Google but that’s about it 😉

Ed

Sebastian August 1, 2012 at 11:03 am

Ah, you shouldn’t run into any problems then. However, they’re are a few other themes ahead of Manifest in the “To Support” queue, and so I couldn’t give you an exact date as to when Manifest will be supported.

vargula August 1, 2012 at 11:22 am

Grateful for the support per se, it really is fantastic and enabling, I’d be totally stuck without Microthemer, honest.

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