just making a backup of the DB and old code should be enough--if something goes wrong, the site can be restored in about 60 seconds
I'm always amazed, humbled and shamed when people give these sort of figures as their own personal accomplishment metrics. After 5 years doing only Drupal professionally, and having been in I.T. for 18 years, including time as a Unix System Administrator for a couple of Universities, I STILL can't accomplish in 60 seconds much more that the thought "Hmmm something has gone wrong here".
Why am I so stupid? Everybody else can restore a whole site in 60 seconds . :(
;-)
On 14/03/2011, at 11:47 AM, Fred Jones wrote:
These days, theme's are viewed much like contributed modules which code you usually do not alter but rather override in other places. Personally, I think themes are quite different from modules and that there's a good chance that future ameliorations of a theme produce unexpected results on your website but, nevertheless, this seems to be the current mainstream thinking nowadays.
Yes, that's exactly what I feel. I was always nervous that I will make a subtheme and then in 2 months we will upgrade and then my client will call me on the phone frantic that I "broke" page X. He won't know that it's due to a CSS change in the new version of the theme.
Has anyone else experienced this? Or is it basically considered safe to use a subtheme and rely on the main theme author not to do something stupid?
Yes of course one should do upgrades on a test site etc. but everyone knows that for a simple module upgrade, just making a backup of the DB and old code should be enough--if something goes wrong, the site can be restored in about 60 seconds. I would *tend* to think the same for themes...
F
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