I have a number of themes for the default template set that I have turned into a StyleCatcher repository. I have a plugin here that adds the repository to StyleCatcher. To see a preview of the themes, go here. Any feedback would be appreciated!
Reported on Movable Type 4.2
I'm using MT4.21 and the classic blog template set. StyleCatcher doesn't update the stylesheet. I tried to go in and set it up manually, but the theme is not in the support/themes folder.
I tried installing the fire and ice theme, and it worked after manually typing it into the styles.css, but no background image. Same with red is nice, no background image.
I haven't checked out the stylesheet to see where the background image is on, but it's not working.
I tried updating StyleCatcher using the plugin from the Sandbox download (without installing Sandbox) and although the themes install to the support folder and the styles.css file is written to correctly, there is still no background on the body.
So many template sets might be the problem. Is there such a thing as "default" any more when creating a new blog? This might work fine with 4.0 or even 4.1, but I can't test that.
Toni - Can you also attempt to reproduce the issue you found using StyleCatcher 2.2 as I mentioned in the comment above?
It seems to be a problem with StyleCatcher. I had the same problem testing locally, which is why I asked for others to test it. I posted something on the support forum earlier about this, and this what I found... StyleCatcher just doesn't seem to be able to grab images that are of any reasonable size, which background and header images generally are.
While the repository did load properly for me on a test blog I set up based on MTOS4.21, it appears that we both have the more fundamental problem of just why StyleCatcher isn't downloading these images.
Hi Mike! I just attempted to repro and didn't run into any issues with the background images not downloading. Here's the steps I took:
One difference may be that I am using StyleCatcher 2.2 which is also packaged with Sandbox 1.1
Can you try to repro this issue again using StyleCatcher 2.2 and then reply to this comment with your outcome. If there is a bug in StyleCatcher I will make sure that it gets fixed.
Thanks for trying it out. I talked to Mark Paschal today, and he said that it's probably being killed by the use of LWPx::ParanoidAgent. Thing is, Fire and Ice is actually one of my smallest themes. Also, I do have SC2.2 installed.
Since LWPx::ParanoidAgent is just a subclass of LWP, it should be possible for StyleCatcher to be modified to have an override in place to just use LWP for bigger themes (some of mine are around 150-200kb compressed).