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Theme API to Support Easy Theme Creation / Updates

Mike Averto By 
January 15, 2014

I know there is the Mac theme sync tool but for those not using Mac, NationBuilder theme development is a pain. Also for those of us using continuous deployment that wouldn't be of any help as most probably aren't using Mac for that.
 
We wrote a Shopify Desktop Theme Editor for any platform to handle this for Shopify users through Shopify's theme endpoint but were wondering if there would ever be a NationBuilder endpoint for this?
Any other NationBuilder devs who'd like this?

 

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  • Dan Lewis
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    What is the state of the theme api atm?
    posted 2020-06-29 15:07:42 -0700
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  • Marston Digital Solutions

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    posted 2017-01-25 20:48:28 -0800
  • Adam Sturman
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    I really think that NB doesn’t give a f about windows or Linux users.
    posted 2017-01-25 19:34:16 -0800
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    posted 2017-01-25 19:34:16 -0800
  • Code Nation

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    posted 2017-01-25 19:00:58 -0800
  • Lilia Villa
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    Definitely in support of this.
    posted 2016-12-13 10:41:10 -0800
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  • Kathryn Cramer
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  • Chris Houghton
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    posted 2015-02-04 03:07:37 -0800
  • Gregory Schwedock
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    posted 2015-01-30 17:06:50 -0800
  • Emm
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    posted 2014-12-31 08:49:53 -0800
  • Ron Smith

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    posted 2014-12-09 12:28:16 -0800
  • Ryan Morgan
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    Yeah, this is a necessity.
    posted 2014-10-14 14:02:58 -0700
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    posted 2014-10-14 14:01:41 -0700
  • Brendan Asselstine
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    I’m strongly in support of an API like this. It’s incredibly time consuming to develop themes using the the NationBuilder theme editor CMS.

    The Mac sync tool is totally unusable on my system. Any slug I enter results in the message ‘We couldn’t find the page you were looking for.’ Why did you pursue an OS X UI instead of writing a simple command line tool? KISS
    posted 2014-10-02 16:59:08 -0700
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    posted 2014-10-02 16:53:14 -0700
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    posted 2014-06-10 10:23:31 -0700
  • Sean Walberg



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    We’ve found the theme editor to be unusable when there is more than one person as it’s too easy to overwrite someone else’s changes. A public API would at least let us have some command line tools to manage synchronization.
    posted 2014-05-16 08:20:14 -0700
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    posted 2014-05-16 08:17:52 -0700
  • Jorge Acosta
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    I too wish we had a Window/Linux theme editing solution to use my IDE
    posted 2014-04-24 13:44:53 -0700
  • Mike Averto
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    posted 2014-03-05 17:52:03 -0800
  • Mike Averto
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    posted 2014-02-18 18:05:50 -0800
  • Mike Averto
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    posted 2014-02-18 15:09:07 -0800
  • michael waggoner
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    Yes please, this is a serious roadblock to me developing effectively on nation builder.
    posted 2014-02-18 15:08:52 -0800
  • Mike Averto
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    posted 2014-01-15 14:48:10 -0800