Download custom theme from designer's mode or normal mode?

[The Old Man]

Hi all,

Is there any difference technical or compatibilty-wise if you download (export) a custom theme from within designer's mode or normal mode? By normal mode I mean syncing the theme back when leaving designer mode.

I've only noticed if you do it with designers mode enabled, you have to retype the name, version etc.

Many thanks!

 

[The Old Man]

Why no support to questions raised here?

[Charles]

Looks like this topic was just moved into this forum a few minutes ago. Someone smarter than me will reply soon I'm sure 🙂 

[Daniel F]

On 9/11/2021 at 7:40 PM, The Old Man said:

I've only noticed if you do it with designers mode enabled, you have to retype the name, version etc.

This sounds like a bug, which I'm investigating right now:) 

[Marc]

It seems this is actually working as intended, however we understand how it's a little confusing having to reënter this. Therefore this has been brought up as an internal discussion, so thank you for letting us know.

[The Old Man]

Thanks for checking this Marc, much appreciated. 

So just to clarify, there is no actual difference whichever way we do the export?

I was wondering if it could be the reason my exported themes seem to have templates from other themes mixed in with them as per my other ticket about non-modified templates showing as modified, but I've noticed rogue templates from other themes also occur when purchasing themes from other providers in the past.

 

 

[Daniel F]

There is a difference:

If you're using the designer mode or IN_DEV, and you download a theme, you'll get a form with fields for the author name and authors homepage, while the download without IN_DEV or designer mode will just download the theme, which isn't a bug per se, but it's confusing, hence the internal suggestion to simplify this.