ThemeWare® Customizing Plugin
In this article you will find out everything regarding the free "ThemeWare® Customizing Plugin".
Individual customizations have to be implemented in Shopware 6 with an own theme or an extension (plugin or app).
Download
You can find the download link for the free "Customising plugin" via the ThemeWare® Utilities:
Important: Please note that we offer the "ThemeWare® Customizing Plugin" free of charge and cannot provide support for the plugin or individual customisations.
Installation
The extension has to be uploaded using the administration of Shopware via "Extensions" => "My extensions" and the button "Upload extension".
Then install and activate the extension.
After activation, recompile your ThemeWare® theme once (just save the theme configuration unchanged, for example) and clear the Shopware cache.
Please find more information regarding the manual installation of extensions in the article:
If the extension has been successfully installed, a "test banner" appears in the storefront:
Structure and function
The "ThemeWare® Customizing Plugin" offers the possibility to deposit individual customizations. The following folders and files are relevant:
File "base.scss":
Basis for all customizations with CSS/SCSS
Folder:
src/Resources/app/storefront/src/scssNote: The file contains sample customizations which can be edited or deleted.
File "base.html.twig":
Example of template customization with Twig/HTML
Folder:
src/Resources/views/storefrontNote: The file contains sample customizations which can be edited or deleted.
Assets
Folder:
src/Resources/public
Update
As the plugin is free of charge and not available via the Shopware Store, there is currently no automatic update option.
Deactivate the plugin before you perform a Shopware update. You can find information on how to update your plugin manually below:
Manual update
As all changes are overwritten on file level when updating extensions, it is important to backup the folder custom/plugins/TcinnCustomizing/src before updating and upload it again after the update.
Below you will find notes on manual update options for the latest Shopware 6 major releases:
Shopware 6.6
To make the "Customizing Plugin" compatible with Shopware 6.6, it is sufficient to modify the required Shopware version in the file "composer.json" as follows:
This makes the extension compatible with Shopware 6.6 and it does not need to be updated.
Note: Please note that your individual customizations may also need to be made compatible.
For more information on the extensive changes to the storefront in Shopware 6.6, please visit the Shopware Blog:
Shopware 6.5
To make the customizing plugin basically compatible with Shopware 6.5, it is sufficient to modify the required Shopware version in the file "composer.json" as follows:
This makes the extension compatible with Shopware 6.5 and it does not need to be updated.
Please note that your individual customizations may also need to be made compatible. For more information on the extensive changes to the storefront in Shopware 6.5, please visit the Shopware Blog:
Shopware 6.4
To make the customizing plugin basically compatible with Shopware 6.4, it is sufficient to rename the file "main.scss" to "base.scss" and modify the required Shopware version in the file "composer.json" as follows:
This will make the extension compatible with Shopware 6.4 and does not need to be updated.
Please note that your individual customizations may also need to be made compatible. The most important change in Shopware 6.4 is the retrieval of theme and Shopware variables:
State: Shopware 6.6.0
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