Add extra templates
etewiah opened this issue · 13 comments
I would like to add between 15 and 30 templates to give users a choice of how their websites will look.
Right now I am working on adding this template created by Md. Altaf Hossain under the MIT license:
http://www.markups.io/items/home-property-free-real-estate-website-template
Many thanks to him for making his template freely available. I would recommend him as someone to contact for anyone requiring a custom theme.
Please feel free to recommend any templates you come across that you would like added, particularly templates with a license that allows reuse in an open source project.
I currently have a solution for theming which needs a bit more testing before it is rolled out. It works by having different folders located here for each theme:
https://github.com/etewiah/property_web_builder/tree/master/app/themes
In the application_controller I have a set_theme_path method that reads the “theme_name” value for the current agency.
It then uses prepend_view_path to add the theme path to the list of locations that rails will check for a template. The best explanation of how prepend_view_path works can be found here:
http://climber2002.github.io/blog/2015/04/06/digging-rails-how-rails-finds-your-templates-part-4/
The set_theme_path method also sets the self.class.layout value.
Until I implement an admin page section for changing themes, the easiest way to experiment with the themes feature is to run the following from the rails console:
agency = Pwb::Agency.unique_instance
agency.theme_name = "berlin"
agency.save!I have implemented an experimental ui for changing the theme. Have a look here if you are interested:
https://propertywebbuilder.herokuapp.com/en/admin/website/themes/default
Looks like that template is offline as of today. Maybe the guy is updating his site
Archive page here, but download link doesn't work:
Hi @mmikeww, I've actually implemented that theme. I just need to test it and make sure it works well. Are you willing to help with this?
Sure, can you put it up on the demo site so I can click around?
It is the Berlin theme which you can set from here:
https://propertywebbuilder.herokuapp.com/en/admin/website/themes/default
I have just now set the demo site to the Berlin theme.
It looked fine to me.. Was there something in particular you wanted me to test?
One thing I noticed, but not theme specific, is that it seems on your other re-renting.com site, on the buy/rent pages, there are extra fields to filter a search with. But on the pwb.herokuapp.com demo site, the search fields are more limited
Okay, its good everything works for you. I did some small customisations for the re-renting site which I will put into the main project soon.
BTW, I'm doing a survey to try to understand what things to prioritise so would be good if you can give some feedback here:
Ruby on Rails cannot be installed with ftp. If you are not familiar with installing ruby on rails then use heroku.
In the readme there is a big purple button with the text "deploy to heroku" - just click it and follow the instructions.
If you encounter any problems please open a new issue. This issue is specifically about adding extra templates.
Ok i saw that button but in the heroku you can use your own domain? in the example i just saw something like domain.heroku.com
Hi @acsmartinho , I realise you're new to github so this is some friendly advice. When you have a question please open a new issue. This issue is about themes so everyone who is participating will get notifications when you mention something. It is not nice for them to get notifications when you are asking about something not related to themes.
It is very easy to open issues. Here is an issue I just opened with your question (and an answer).
#39
I've decided to change the approach to theming. I am now working on implementing themes as Vue.js / vuetify frontends. The project for this is here:
https://github.com/etewiah/pwb-themes-base
This makes it super easy to adapt the front end which will talk to the rails server via API calls