I have a theme “B” which extends “A”. This is the first time I’ve tried theme blueprints. I added a form and field to A’s blueprint under form: in themes/a/blueprints.yaml. It does not come up when I am editing B’s configuration in Admin’s “Themes” menu.
I tried this in themes/b/blueprints.yaml and it didn’t work:
form:
extends@: parent@
(in case anyone saw this in the first few minutes after posting, I edited this significantly, please reread)
(filenames corrected too after reading @pamtbaau’s first response)
I could guess all kinds of crazy combinations of YAML syntax and might get lucky.
I also looked at events I might hook into but nothing seemed suitable and I don’t know what I would change if I found one anyway.
I’ve extended page templates and blueprints easily enough, but can’t find any guidance on theme blueprints.
@hughbris, Am I understanding correctly that you wish to inherit and extend file /user/themes/a/blueprints.yaml in /user/themes/b/blueprints.yaml by adding extra config fields?
I’m having the impression that it is not possible to inherit/extend the blueprints.yaml file, because the docs explicitly states to copy the form definition from the parent theme.
From section Inheriting using the CLI:
- Copy the “form” section from
/user/themes/quark/blueprints.yaml file into /user/themes/mytheme/blueprints.yaml in order to include the customizable elements of the theme in the admin. (Or simply replace the file and edit its content.)
From section Inheriting manually:
- Copy the
/user/themes/quark/blueprints.yaml file into /user/themes/mytheme/blueprints.yaml in order to include the customizable elements of the theme in the admin.
That’s correct and you helped me see that I mentioned the wrong YAML filename in my question. Will correct that.
I agree that doesn’t look promising. However, sometimes the docs don’t get updated. Also, Grav usually follows DRY principles.