Question Will templates for 1.0.10 work with 1.5.3?

Took me 5 mins to convert my k1.0.10 template -> K1.5.3...

By using tools like "UltraCompare Professional" from (IDM Computer Solutions). Just load K1.0.10 on one side and K1.5.3 on the other side. it finds the difference in code and allows you to decide what should be changed.

BBedit on the Mac does the same thing and allows you to step through each difference and update one or the other. An expert user could be done in 5 minutes, but a less-advanced user might take longer....but not too long.

Well, I had no idea it was less than a day old, i just visited and downloaded it today, having never really known that fireboard had stoped. I thoughtit was out for months. There is no release date next to the downloads.

Also, I understand what you are saying about joomla templates - however it is more than that with kunena. Otherwise there would only be two types, 1.0.10 and 1.5.3 but it looks like 1.0.10 is a special set all byitself and that older versions require their own templates too. Everyone has 'templates' and '1.0.10 templates'. Now they will have to make 1.5 templates' as well.

You can change a template easy, with changing images and CSS-file (<- colours and positions etc). This should work in every Kunena version (perhaps there are a few existing differences in the css-files).

But many template-designers modify some php.files too. Every new template is a copy of the template default_ex.

And on this base you will make your new template. If you used the easy solution (only images and CSS-file) and you have installed a new Kunena Version (e.g. new= Kunena 1.5.3), copy Template default_ex from Kunena 1.5.3 a second time, rename it and insert the new images and the changed CSS-File.

But if you changed php.files too in older Kunena Version, for example the message.php, match message.php from the older KN Version with the new KN Version 1.5.3 and insert your changes in message.php from 1.5.3.

My templates (for example) have 40 modified files (nothing what will be done in 5 minutes). I made them for 1.0.9 and 1.0.10, not one of them will work with another Kunena Version without the written way of updating the files.

severdia wrote:

BBedit on the Mac does the same thing and allows you to step through each difference and update one or the other. An expert user could be done in 5 minutes, but a less-advanced user might take longer....but not too long.

@severdia, I personally use bbedit and must agree 100% there, I work on a mac myself but, most of the people here I see using windows so that why I suggested a windows solution. but I use bbedit and it's the best there is IMHO.