Moving to 4.x with modified theme files

[davidgs]

First I want to say thank you for this amazing theme. I've been using it for years and it is fantastic!

Having said that, moving to the v4 theme has been anything but fantastic. It's been a massive pain. In using Toha before, I made a fair number of modifications to the theme. Mostly by creating a separate theme dir davidgs and moving theme layouts, etc. that I wanted to modify there. My config.yaml then listed the davidgs theme first and the toha theme second. This worked great.

With the move to a module-based theme, this has unleashed havoc.

I modified layouts/_default/single.html in the old toha directory, but now that file is in the mod-cache, so I can't modify it without those changes being over-written. Similarly, I modified /layouts/partials/helpers/get-author-image.html with the same problem. (if you want to see the results of those modifications, check out https://davidgs.com/ and you'll see the "Author" icon in the center as it rotates through a series of images. :-)

So, how do I proceed here?

[hossainemruz]

Hi @davidgs! You are not supposed to update the layouts files in the theme directory. Instead, you should copy the files that you want to modify and put it into similar path under layouts directory of your repo and modify it there. Hugo will use your modified layout files instead of the themes one.

Check this guide: https://toha-guides.netlify.app/posts/customizing/customize-layout/#step-1--change-the-layout-file