What's your biggest current challenge? Have your say in Community Polls along the right column.

Theme Push lost content from local dev theme

Theme Push lost content from local dev theme

Entropical
Shopify Partner
6 0 2

I am developing a custom theme on my local dev env using Shopify cli. If I make the content changes, setting changes, upload images, etc., via the provided link of the local theme editor and then do a Shopify theme push, none of those changes is reflected. I have just lost so much work due to this. Absolutely nonsensical. How is this not fixed yet? It is very hard to develop; I now have to go to the live theme, change theme settings there, then pull, do local changes, and push. Imagine if you forget where you made changes first. And then do pull/push - very prone to errors and various code conflicts that way. This is a critical bug, to be honest.

 

And yes, I do PULL first, make changes then PUSH.

Replies 2 (2)

MarinaPetrovic
Shopify Partner
559 124 191

Hi @Entropical , I usually have a separate dev theme, and make changes there, and then pull back locally. Basically it's just a minute longer, but works for me. 🙂

M.Petrovic | Shopify Developer
- Was my reply helpful? Click Like to let me know!
- Was your question answered? Mark it as an Accepted Solution
Entropical
Shopify Partner
6 0 2

Hi Marina,

 

Thanks for the reply. Yes,  I do this way too. However, I do some custom code changes locally + change things from the theme editor, too, e.g. adding sections and content, checking whether the custom sections that I've coded work and so on. If I make a change on the dev theme via a regular (not local) theme editor and then make changes in the code locally, then I can't really do a Shopify theme pull because my code changes locally will be overwritten. Is it not? 

 

Thanks, Vito