The future of the Dark Orange theme from nopCommerce 2.8 onwards?

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Now that nopCommerce 2.8 has a new default look (Default Clean theme) a lot of nopCommerce users must be wondering what is going to happen to the previous default nopCommerce theme, the well-known Dark Orange theme. After all there are quite a few nopCommerce web sites that are using it, yet it is no longer supported and will not be part of the future releases of nopCommerce.

Does this mean that every nopCommerce store owner running the default Dark Orange theme needs to upgrade the theme for themselves with every new release of nopCommerce? What about the non-techy store owners? Without a good knowledge of the system and a working knowledge of C# and MVC Razor this is actually not possible.

Fortunately we have an answer to this dilemma. From nopCommerce 2.8 onwards NopTemplates have been given the right by the nopCommerce team to support the Dark Orange theme through future versions of nopCommerce. Even better...we intend to improve the theme, just like we did with the nopClassic theme before (the nopClassic theme did drop out of nopCommerce in the same way) and release it for free.

So stay tuned for our nopCommerce themes release, which is coming this week!

Comments

Davej

Created on: Saturday, January 12, 2013

Hi,

I don't see the Dark Orange theme for v2.80 - is there a link I'm missing?

thnx

YashChandra

Hi,

We have not released the Dark Orange Theme for nopCommerce 2.8 yet.
We plan to do this next week. I will let you know when it is available.

Best Regards

Fantastic!

Thanks Very much

Created on: Saturday, January 19, 2013

Any news on the DO release date?

thnx

We have just released it.
Hope you find it useful!

Best Regards

Created on: Sunday, January 20, 2013

Thanks very much. I have downloaded the files and I think this is the correct installation procedure:

1. Extract Plugins to Plugin folder
2. Extract DarkOrange Theme to Themes folder
3. In Administration>Configuration>Plugins Install ALL &Spikes Plugins making sure Seven Spikes Core is done first
4. Go to Configuration>Settings>General and Miscellaneous Settings and select Dark Orange Theme

The Dark Orange Theme was installed, however the default Nivo Slider was missing which I didn't expect. Is this by design? Do I need to reconfigure the slider somehow?

The second thing I noticed was that each alternate time the public store was reloaded when clicking on menu items/products etc., a message appears informing me "You are running a Trial version of SevenSpikes.Nop.Plugins. XXXXX" - Clearly this is no use for a production site, how do I eliminate?

Regards

This behaviour continues when I switch back to the default theme?

I think I've worked it out - Uninstalled all the 7Spike plugins and re-enabled Nivo Slider, Seems to work ok, although the slider looks slightly odd when it transitions from one picture to another.

The Dark Orange theme comes with the trial version of the Nop Ultimate Plugin Collection.
This is stated in the description of the theme. That is why you are getting the trial messages.
Also the Dark Orange Theme does not have a Nivo Slider, it never did. You are probably using the slider widget from the new 2.8 version but it was made to work with the Default Clean theme that is why the results you are getting are not what you would expect.

Would you mind posting comments about the theme in our forum for the Dark Orange theme?

Thanks

hemjesti

Created on: Thursday, May 9, 2013

is there a theme out there - that is simply laid out as a basic theme, no content, just a layout - to let one design their own look and feel? i mean sure we can modify a current one, but at times, there are so many elements handled by one class/id in the css that it's a bit difficult. just a thought.

also - on the slider feature that's on 3.0 - can one add items to that? in the example there were three panels - wondering if that can be maybe five or six.

thanks guys - you guys are really great!!