Re: 2016 & Ongoing - Why are there so many Terrible themes?!
Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 1:22 am
I've been attempting to prescribe a few subjects to individuals however subsequent to working with such a large number of destinations and attempting to introduce them, I've come to acknowledge how effing Terrible such huge numbers of topics are.
I've been very open about past topics that I considered frightfully codes like Shoppica et al, however in any event Shoppica didn't supplant center documents or expect you to have an unfilled database. There are subjects out there by enormous venders like TemplateMeta, themeglobal, and others that supplant many center documents and design records so that in the event that you at any point needed to evacuate their topic, you'd have to reinstall opencart! THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE!
So I'm therefore making a boycott/whitelist of either subject creators as well as individual topics that make this trash.
I'm placing them into 4 classifications:
1. Maintain a strategic distance from no matter what. These are the ones that supplant center documents. On the off chance that you are a subject creator supplanting ANY center documents, you have just fizzled at life. These likewise appear to be the ones that expect you to have a spotless database and you should run their sql record to introduce all their demo portrayals and store settings to make their demo on your site, as opposed to make your site resemble the demo.
2. Not suggested. These are the ones that in any event utilize their own records, however aimlessly incorporate documents that don't should be duplicated, similar to the installment envelope. On the off chance that you are a topic creator and have an installment organizer, you have again fizzled at life! At any rate this can be effectively fixed by erasing the installment envelope from the subject. In any case, who realizes what different documents they just replicated over from the default subject that weren't essential.. The more records they duplicated from the default, the more difficult it is to update.
3. Use with alert. These are your Shoppicas, Journals, PavMega, and so forth.. Subjects that include an extra reflection layer that can be a torment to work with.. regularly convoluted by utilizing ocmod versus vqmod since ocmod is progressively hard to investigate. These are well known subjects and can be decent, yet in addition include such an extensive amount their own stuff that you can lose all sense of direction in their reality. Use with alert.
4. For the most part protected. These are the topics that follow the best possible strides to theming. They make their own documents, regardless of whether they have their own adaptation of modules. They never overwrite any documents. They utilize an appropriate adjustment framework like vqmod or ocmod to incorporate themselves where essential (tho for the most part this ought not be required). What's more, they just incorporate the documents that they've really modified.
I'd prefer to get criticism from others also, including the subject creators who I will probably disturb... In any case, it's getting hard to advise individuals to stay with OpenCart when a significant number of the accessible appealing topics are coded like trash.
I've been very open about past topics that I considered frightfully codes like Shoppica et al, however in any event Shoppica didn't supplant center documents or expect you to have an unfilled database. There are subjects out there by enormous venders like TemplateMeta, themeglobal, and others that supplant many center documents and design records so that in the event that you at any point needed to evacuate their topic, you'd have to reinstall opencart! THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE!
So I'm therefore making a boycott/whitelist of either subject creators as well as individual topics that make this trash.
I'm placing them into 4 classifications:
1. Maintain a strategic distance from no matter what. These are the ones that supplant center documents. On the off chance that you are a subject creator supplanting ANY center documents, you have just fizzled at life. These likewise appear to be the ones that expect you to have a spotless database and you should run their sql record to introduce all their demo portrayals and store settings to make their demo on your site, as opposed to make your site resemble the demo.
2. Not suggested. These are the ones that in any event utilize their own records, however aimlessly incorporate documents that don't should be duplicated, similar to the installment envelope. On the off chance that you are a topic creator and have an installment organizer, you have again fizzled at life! At any rate this can be effectively fixed by erasing the installment envelope from the subject. In any case, who realizes what different documents they just replicated over from the default subject that weren't essential.. The more records they duplicated from the default, the more difficult it is to update.
3. Use with alert. These are your Shoppicas, Journals, PavMega, and so forth.. Subjects that include an extra reflection layer that can be a torment to work with.. regularly convoluted by utilizing ocmod versus vqmod since ocmod is progressively hard to investigate. These are well known subjects and can be decent, yet in addition include such an extensive amount their own stuff that you can lose all sense of direction in their reality. Use with alert.
4. For the most part protected. These are the topics that follow the best possible strides to theming. They make their own documents, regardless of whether they have their own adaptation of modules. They never overwrite any documents. They utilize an appropriate adjustment framework like vqmod or ocmod to incorporate themselves where essential (tho for the most part this ought not be required). What's more, they just incorporate the documents that they've really modified.
I'd prefer to get criticism from others also, including the subject creators who I will probably disturb... In any case, it's getting hard to advise individuals to stay with OpenCart when a significant number of the accessible appealing topics are coded like trash.