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Magento parent/child infinite theme fallback system is new as of version 1.9.0. The system provides a pathway to set a parent theme to inherit the layout and themes of the parent.

Magento parent/child infinite theme fallback system is new as of version 1.9.0. The system provides a pathway to set a parent theme to inherit the layout and themes of the parent. This is not fully new to Magento as there has been a fallback system since the earliest days of Magento through the core/design_package model. @alanstorm has a great write up going over the ins and outs. http://alanstorm.com/magento_infinite_fallback_theme_xml is suggested reading.

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Cleaning up a parent theme and creating a child theme.

We are in the process of creating a child theme for a theme that is being used: Ultimo. A number of customisations were made to the parent theme which should have been made to a child theme. We do not have a comprehensive list of those changes. Is…
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Subtheme not applying to category pages

I recently installed a theme I purchased (called Venedor) on the latest magento ce install. I'd been manually adjusting the css file of the theme until I recently discovered that magento allows for subthemes, which sounds great since it would help…
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Custom design for Category with exception

I have 4 themes (desktop, desktop_child, mobile, mobile_child). I currently set desktop for default (desktop) theme (System -> Configuration -> General -> Design -> Themes -> Default) and an exception: mobile for default (mobile) theme. I set…
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my theme stopped working after I switched back to the tip of the branch from an older git commit

So I have backups of all the files in the Magento root folder and tried overwriting the current Magento folder with the backup folder and it still doesn't recognize the changes I've made in my child theme. My setup is here: How do I add images into…
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