Storefront 2.0 Sass and style.css

  • Pat K

    (@blackcapdesign)


    7 years, 11 months ago

    I updated to version 2 today and quickly reverted to the previous version of Storefront. The header background color was wrong – an easy enough fix using the stylesheet in the child theme. BUT when I opened the Storefront 2.0 parent stylesheet to investigate/troubleshoot, the stylesheet has been minified making it next to impossible to use for troubleshooting.

    I have used Storefront on 3 projects and have been happy with it. This is a game changer (not for the better, in my opinion). The description at the top of the stylesheet includes this: “Developers will love it’s lean and extensible codebase making it a joy to customise and extend.”

    This is not my definition of “joy”. How do you propose people are going to create, modify and manage child themes based on this new structure? And what are the implications for the many thousands of existing child themes out there?

    UGH.

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  • James Koster

    (@jameskoster)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    Hey,

    A developer would probably use the sass files which are of course not minified.

    The minification of the main stylesheet is a worthwhile improvement imo.

    What is it that you need the css to be un-minified to do? There’s probably another way.

    Finally, you can always un-minify the css if you want. There are loads of tools around the web that’ll do that for you.

    Cheers

    Thread Starter Pat K

    (@blackcapdesign)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    Hey back,

    This developer selected Storefront in part because it DID NOT use minified files.

    RE: “What is it that you need the css to be un-minified to do?”
    I want to be able to read (as in, with my eyes) the parent stylesheet using a text editor.

    If you want this to be user-friendly, you could, at the very least provide an unminified version of the file for developers and non-developers who simply want to access the rule-sets in the parent stylesheet without having to jump through hoops to do so.

    Some WooCommerce users may like or even love this, but I think you’re going to find many people – like me – REALLY don’t like this approach.

    Re: “loads of tools” …that’s actually pretty funny; yes, there ARE loads of tools around the Web.

    Thread Starter Pat K

    (@blackcapdesign)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    In case you are reading this and need a quick way to unminify the parent stylesheet, try this http://unminify.com/

    James Koster

    (@jameskoster)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    Re: “loads of tools” …that’s actually pretty funny; yes, there ARE loads of tools around the Web.

    Haha, made my evening. Thanks!

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