In building a Tumblr theme I've got an external .css on my server which is very convenient because I can work directly in my editor, save to my server and refresh to see my results.
However, if I need to make changes to the HTML of my theme I've been making the changes in my editor, copying everything over to the "Customize Theme" option in Tumblr, then having to save there. This is really tedious and cumbersome because of the way their editor is laid out (the html covers the entirety of the the preview).
Does anyone have a smoother workflow?
Even if it involves just viewing my .html directly from my server when tweaking, then pasting it in when done. Like some way to inject test content so it's not just the html template tags?
While Tiny Giant Studios is right as far as the Theme Garden is concerned, there's nothing stopping you from externally hosting 'til your heart's content while you're actively developing.
To that end, you might try Tumblr Themr. I haven't actually tried it yet, but it sounds promising enough.
EDIT: Seeing as the original link is not resolving, you may also try their github page
The short answer is an unfortunate no.
The Tumblr system requires that all assets (from CSS files to images) be kept on the tumblr server. Seeing as theme developers (at the moment in any case) do not have direct ftp access to a theme's directory (if that even exists), one cannot work from an editor (e.g. notepadd++) alone...
I'm not sure if they're looking into changing this, but for the time being we're stuck with being copy/paste solutions.
One thing you could, however try is copying over all the HTML markup and then using browser plugins - like stylebot or developer tools for chrome - to write the CSS and once you're done, copying over all the CSS in the head section of your theme.
I have recently found that Tumblr features GitHub integration where you can just push to a repository and it updates the theme on your blog. I have not tried it myself but I probably will here in the next few hours.
Check it out!
EDIT: My mistake this is only for theme creators who plan on submitting their themes to the list of Tumblr themes that can be chosen by users. Someone may still find this useful so I will leave this answer.
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I'm trying Agolia to see if it is something for our websites. So I did a little test on one of our websites (click here, it works but you also get the original dropdown. Does anyone know how to prevent this?
The theme you are using does come shipped with a built-in autocomplete experience.
You should disable that one.
An easy fix for you would be to comment all the code in this file https://eezo.nl/wp-content/themes/yoo_venice_wp/warp/vendor/uikit/js/components/search.js
My site eighttwentydesign is running Joomla 3.0. I have SEF URLs on, and have done for sometime without issue. But today when you go to the site, and click on anything, say portfolio you get the home page under the portfolio's URL, but if you add a leading slash at the end, the right article (portfolio) shows. Additionally, if you click on say "Web Design" it sends you to the Portfolio page. I might add this menu is a menu within Joomla - not be adding internal links manually
Doesn't work: http://www.eighttwentydesign.com/portfolio
Does work: http://www.eighttwentydesign.com/portfolio/
I have checked the .htaccess, and actually reverted it to the original with no luck, I have check Global Config but I can't see anything which may cause this. It was working nicely yesterday. I haven't adapted with any PHP source or anything in the past few weeks, the only notifiable thing I have done is yesterday enabling the Cache - have others experienced problems after doing this? I have disabled it under global config, with no avail.
Exact Joomla Version is 3.0.2 with very few plugins
I do have daily backups, but would rather a solution and be able to figure out a prevention from that, rather than just putting on a band aid.
I've search for a good couple of hours, and aside from just not being able to fix it, it appears no one else is experiencing this, so I am starting to think it may be a bug.
Just as I was about to post this I discovered my solution.
If you are having your SEF URLs display the wrong content then solve it by disabling the Cache plugin. You can do this by doing the following steps
Login to Joomla backend
Navigate to Extensions > Plugins
Go to "System Cache"
Disable system cache
I hope this helps someone in the future as I really struggled to find any answers on this.
As part of our site deployment process we typically have proofreaders go through content on site at various stages in the process. For editing that happens before it gets to the site there are plenty of tools for tracking edits, but once the content is up on the site, we do not have a good method for this. I was thinking there might be a plugin or program that would allow our editors to load the site and mark-up the content in page as they would a tracked changes word document.
It seems like the kind of thing that aught to exist, but so far I have not found any god options for Chrome or Firefox. Has anyone made use of a tool like this in the past that they might recommend.
I like the fact that the github issue tracker supports Markdown. However, I find it relatively unpleasant to actually write Markdown in the github editor. It lacks many of the features of the Markdown editor on StackOverflow.
E.g., it lacks:
a button to indent multiple lines of code by four spaces
a button to add quote to the start of each line
real time markdown preview
fixed width font
ability to insert image using imgur
a confirmation dialog box when you close a browser window when you might otherwise lose your work
In particular, the inability to insert code blocks is probably the feature I miss the most.
Sure, I could write my markdown in a separate editor and then paste it into the github issue tracker, but this is not especially appealing. I could even use the StackOverflow editor if I was careful not to click "Ask Question", but that seems a bit silly.
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Is there anyway of altering the text box in github to incorporate the editing features in StackOverflow?
Or if it is better to type in another text editor, what's a particularly elegant way of doing that? (e.g., minimum steps, simple to move back and forward, good editor) Perhaps theres a way of clicking a text box and bringing up a Rich Markdown editor which when closed returns the contents to the original text box?
You should appeal to GitHub to add one. Your argument is sound. Stack Overflow demonstrates editors can be functional, non-intrusive and tasteful.
Meanwhile, there might be a browser extension that does some of this. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cpojebknccclkjabfngjlcknonpmhhol
If you are on Windows, you might want to check MarkPad: http://code52.org/DownmarkerWPF/
Disclaimer: I have never used it myself (being on Ubuntu), only read about it watching the code52 project. I know it can edit posts of several blog systems, but I'm not sure if Github is in the list of supported web sources. Its syntax however is supported, for sure.
Is there any solution to make snippets, templates and maybe resources of MODx site available to edit with external editor? Besides this hack which make site less "native".
Thanks!
As you are basically editing the contents of a database any method of editing will not be native.
If you want to edit them in a separate editor to get nice syntax highlighting then Edit Area is a nice plugin.
Even if the question is rather old, you can check any resource, snippet or chunk to be "static". So it will be stored in the filesystem. You can then access and edit it via FTP and use any editor you like.