Minimal theme along with Flow theme

[sukhman21]

Hello guys,

I and i think a lot of other members here would appreciate if you guys start working on a minimal theme because i know a lot of us have custom themes so it would be really sweet to have a minimal theme with least possible css and js in it. That way it will be super easy for us to update our themes every time you guys provide us an upgrade..
Please consider this. I am willing to pay extra for this as this is costing me more to update my theme everytime.....

 

[paypal1352]

+1

 

[sukhman21]

took me 3 days to update my theme for the new version & testing...

 

[darbeg]

+1

 

[adam]

Thanks for the feedback on this, it's clear a lot of people would like this. We've been considering dropping support for the old 'blue_v2' theme so we may replace it with this.

When you say 'minimal theme', so you mean the front-end? i.e. not the file manager? The file manager relies on a lot of CSS & JS so it would be hard to provide a trimmed down version.

 

[sukhman21]

i dont think most of us use the blue theme anymore. There is the flow theme or our own custom theme.
yes just the front end. for file manager, we know we need all that css and js.
Also the login and forgot password need to be matched with the rest of the website. (personally even on the flow theme, i don't like how its different than the rest of the website)..

 

[darbeg]

Also there lot of css/js files for flow theme it's very complex.

 

[sukhman21]

@darbeg
There are a lot of duplicate rules in CSS for flow theme and what i do is remove them using Node.js, your CSS will be half the size. I would just merge the css and minimize and then cut it into 100Kb files.

 

[enricodias4654]

@darbeg
There are a lot of duplicate rules in CSS for flow theme and what i do is remove them using Node.js, your CSS will be half the size. I would just merge the css and minimize and then cut it into 100Kb files.

I created a function to merge, minimize and compress all css into one .gz file. I end up with a 96.2kb file for the internal layout and 12.8kb for the external.

Js is also compressed to one 263.0kb gz file.

 

[sukhman21]

My whole index page is close to your JS. My index page is a total of 296KB including a banner, all css, js and text..... Its just the time it takes after every update is why i asked for minimal css and js so we dont have to spend time doing that...... I would think not everybody knows how to do this either so would really help all..

BTW, what did you use to build this function? PHP, Nodejs ?

@darbeg
There are a lot of duplicate rules in CSS for flow theme and what i do is remove them using Node.js, your CSS will be half the size. I would just merge the css and minimize and then cut it into 100Kb files.

I created a function to merge, minimize and compress all css into one .gz file. I end up with a 96.2kb file for the internal layout and 12.8kb for the external.

Js is also compressed to one 263.0kb gz file.

 

[enricodias4654]

My whole index page is close to your JS. My index page is a total of 296KB including a banner, all css, js and text..... Its just the time it takes after every update is why i asked for minimal css and js so we dont have to spend time doing that...... I would think not everybody knows how to do this either so would really help all..

BTW, what did you use to build this function? PHP, Nodejs ?

296kb is the internal layout only, the file manager in the flow theme. You can't compress more than that.

I used only php.