Extending Adaptable

Extending Adaptable

by Ben MoodlePadawan -
Number of replies: 5

Hi,

I need to develop a theme that would extend adaptable (and add custom templates, css, js)

I tried the following in my theme 's settings.php but no one works :

  • $THEME->parents = [ 'adaptable'];
  • $THEME->parents = [ 'adaptable', 'boost'];
  • $THEME->parents = ['boost' , 'adaptable'];
Any ideas about how do do it ?

Thanks,
ben
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Re: Extending Adaptable

by Ben MoodlePadawan -
Hi,
Sorry to insist but I didn't find any solutions for extending Adaptable theme.
Seems that the right order for the "$THEME->parents " parameters in config.php is " ['boost' , 'adaptable'];" but when I use this order, my website keeps loading.
When I extend only 'adaptable', it's ok but I don't have anly styles applied.
It's very strange because when I extend only boost theme, I don't need to do anything particular to get it work.

Thanks
ben
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Re: Extending Adaptable

by Ben MoodlePadawan -
And oops, I use Moodle 3.9 smile
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Re: Extending Adaptable

by Gareth J Barnard -
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I've never created a child theme of Adaptable, at least I can't remember doing so. So, for me this is commercially tricky as I facilitate a MoodleBites (run by HRDNZ - a Moodle Partner) theme design courses that deals with child themes (but not grandchild themes - yet), therefore is not clear cut for me to answer this here. Others are of course free to do so.

Also MDL-69982 might have something to do with it, even though Adaptable does not use SCSS.
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Re: Extending Adaptable

by Ben MoodlePadawan -
Ok thank you Gareth, I'm gonna try to follow your trail but it seems a little bit too tricky for me now.
By the way, do you know much about the Flexible project ? Are you in charge ?
https://adaptable.ws/

Thanks for all your work
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Re: Extending Adaptable

by Gareth J Barnard -
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Thanks Ben.

adaptable.ws is nothing to do with me, they are the 'fork' of the theme that departed the project a while back for reasons I sort of know but can't say in public. I have reached out to them Moodle 3.10 version wise (back in the early part of the year) to avoid confusion issues, but no reply yet.
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