Sub-contract Production
4 Season Home inspection is a Sub-contract production Job for David Innes of:
RealBasics.com
Converting a Less theme frame work to SASS
4 Seasons is built on the premium theme: Canvas by Woo-Themes. Following the adoption of Sass by the WordPress Core, Woo-Themes decided to adopt Sass as well in their version of: Canvas 5.7.0. Future updates of Canvas would subsequently break any child themes customized with Less.
Conversion Process
The conversion process consisted of 4 parts:
- Launching two versions of the site, one as visual guide and the second to convert.
- Replacing the old version of Canvas from the core and replacing it with the newer
Sass version. - Replicating the new Sass files dependencies in the child theme
- Replacing Less styled variables and mixins in the style sheet with Sass versions.
Breaking it to fix it
When I replaced the Canvas version with the new update, I basically broke the site visually.
After replicating the new file structure, I slowly went through the Custom Scss file, replacing any Less styled calls with Sass version and re-compiling it as I went.
The search and replace tool made quick work of my task and soon the new site looked like the original reference site.
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