Inherit from Luma - Functionality issues. #3220
Description
Hi, first I wanted to state that I was told luma wasn't meant to be used in production... but... it is a great starting point and would love to use it as a base, so...
new Magento2 installation, went through a whole series of learning where I could not figure out why my default head blocks xml wasn't working to load my custom css/js files... as per the new theme in the documentation.
After re-going over the code, there was nothing wrong... by trial & error,
I figured out that if I made my new theme inherit from magento/blank, then my custom css & js would load... but if I inherit from magento/luma, it would not... so... my question is HOW can I use the Luma theme and then just modify it to suit needs, it's a great starting point, and would cut out weeks of development if we could use this.
So, I created a new theme, and inherited from luma...
<theme xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Config/etc/theme.xsd"> <title>CVPStyle4</title> <parent>Magento/luma</parent> <media> <preview_image>media/preview.jpg</preview_image> </media> </theme>
hen I go and regenerate static files via deploy, and my theme is in the backend, and I activate it and it looks like luma, but it does NOT load my custom css/js files, or anything in the default_head_blocks.xml
inside: app > design > frontend > myvendor > mytheme > Magento_Theme > layout
and here's my code in that xml:
`
<!--Before-After Script-->
<link src="js/jquery.twentytwenty.js"/>
<link src="js/jquery.event.move.js"/>
<!--Font Awesome-->
<css src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.5.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" src_type="url" />`
and no matter how I do it, it will not load and work.
How can I inherit from luma and add some css/js to customize it?
note
I have tried copying the entire luma theme from:
vendor > magento > theme-frontend-luma and then changing the name and such in composer.json, registration.php, and theme.xml - theme sort of loads, (doesn't look quite right) - and STILL won't load any custom CSS/JS from the default_head_blocks.xml
any thoughts? I'd really like to use luma as a base. Thank
(I have a stackexchange request for help too, but there seems to be not many people there)
really hoping someone can help with this!