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I am in the beginning stages of diving into the world of RefineryCMS and am having an issue with the theming Engine.

I was able to customize the look of the home and blog pages, but for individual pages I create outside of the home and blog engine are not falling under the normal theme I created. I used the override method to copy all of the necessary files to my custom theme, but like I said, the page is using the default /pages/show.html.erb file vs the theme/mytheme/pages/show.html.erb file..

Any ideas on why this would be happening?

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Unless you intend to reuse the theme it can be easier to start with RefineryCMS without using the theming engine and using app/views/ and public/ instead. –  parndt May 20 '11 at 3:25
Thanks! Yeah, I don't know why I started off customizing a theme in the first place... I should have just modified the root files and been done with it.. –  dennismonsewicz May 20 '11 at 12:48
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The use of the theming engine is not recommended anymore:

USE OF THE REFINERYCMS-THEMING GEM IS NO LONGER RECOMMENDED. Why? Theming performs some strange code hacks in order to get it to work. Therefore, it makes it difficult to keep it compatible with other engines. Also, many people have reported over 15 second load times with theming, whereas regularly you would get 3 second load times. Finally, Resolve Digital no longer uses nor supports this method.


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