SOLVED Gantry 4--> Gantry 5
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- thepimster
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Good afternoon,
My Joomla 3.6.4 site is on Gantry 4 with the Richochet template. I have been happily chugging along with rockettheme templates and extensions for years.
I think it is time to move on to the dreaded (by me at least) Gantry 5. I have been messing with it for a bit on a testsite but without much luck and success.
Now I want to move to the Sienna template. I understand Gantry 5 is not backwards compatible, but is there a guideline as to how to tackle a make-over of a Gantry 4 site to a Gantry 5 site?
Gantry 5 seems very confusing, forcing me to unlearn what I know and start from scratch.
Can you point me to the Gantry 5 for dummies section, thanks!
Love rockettheme and the support I've been getting over the years, so I know even this issue will be a thing of the past soon, just need help getting there.
Happy weekend!
Pim van Wijngaarden
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- Damir
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- I would suggest you read all these or at least 1. 2. 3. docs.gantry.org/
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- thepimster
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Thanks Damir!
I am well into 3. (particles) and have learned a lot already.
As I want to proceed reading and doing it live on my site at the same time, I have the following questions so far:
1) The difference between base- and default outline
2) As I am going to work with a production site; can Gantry 4 and Gantry 5 live on the same site simultaneously?
Thanks for keeping me going.
Pim
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- Damir
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1. Base Outline serves to set global style and settings defaults for your theme, and outlines that you assign to normal pages such as the home page. Default outline will use all pages that are not assigned to any outline...
2. Yes they can live as Gantry 5 is completely different Framework ... - Available for CUSTOM WORK with Joomla, WordPress and Grav Templates and Gantry Framework!
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- Theodore Miller
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Hello I am in the same boat at PIM. I have a Gantry 4.x website (Cerulean) and I love it, but it's time to update it, but I want to go with a Gantry 5 Template (Iridescent) How can I create the new website while simultaneously running the Cerulean website until the new one is ready? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. If I can't, then should I just break the old website and work really fast to get the new one up? LOL.
Thanks,
Theodore
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- Reggie Simmons
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Hello Theodore,
Iridescent is also Gantry 4, so it wouldn't make any difference there (see templates with G5 (Gantry 5) badges here):
www.rockettheme.com/joomla-templates-compatibility-matrix
You can create a hidden menu in Joomla (so essentially new menu in Joomla admin) and after installing a Gantry 5 template, assign the template outlines to your hidden menu items and work on the site from there. The nice thing about Gantry 5 is that you can easily create module positions so you can add those fairly easily (you can even load Joomla - Gantry 4 positions via the Load button ). - Kind regards,
Reggie
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- Yvonne McChesney
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- I agree with you. Gantry 5 is very confusing and not user friendly.
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- Reggie Simmons
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For someone who had worked primarily with Gantry 4 for 2.5 years, Gantry 5 is a dream come true. You have an incredibly limitless Layout manager that makes converting websites with different module position names very simple. A Styles panel that can be used on a per page basis. Inheritance also makes editing global content an easy task. You can create an website entirely via the Template settings.
Please let us know what you are specifically struggling with and how we can make your experience with Gantry 5 a better one. - Last Edit: 8 years 2 months ago by Reggie Simmons.
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- Yvonne McChesney
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Particals are immensly confusing. I can't edit them. Anytime I access one there are only a few settings to adjust and I don't see how they really relate to what I am trying to update. I can't give you a specifics because I try not to deal with G5. I had spent hours going in circles trying to understand them. I thought I found a video that explained them on the Gantry site but when I tried to find it again I never could.
I wouldn't turn over a G5 site to a customer to maintain.
I understand the flexibility upside. But arriving at that point is beyond me and from what I see on the forums, many others. It raises my blood pressure to have to deal with it.
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- thepimster
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Reggie,
You seem convinced that we'll be better off with gantry 5 and willing to help, so I just switched my site temporarily to the Protean template.
I am itching to make it look the same as it did with gantry 4's Ricochet template.
Going to give this another shot, but immediately run into the following:
Main menu items don't fit on one line anymore, probably due to the facebook image. When I try to remove it, I get error: oops, failed to save /home: A first level menu item alias can't be 'home' because 'home' is a sub-folder of your joomla installation folder....? I am only trying to remove a picture at a menu item....
Menu items fall behind picture
Table cells suddenly are surrounedd by lines as in this page
This is just for starters, but I will be back
Thanks
Pim - Last Edit: 8 years 2 months ago by thepimster.
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