overriding scss files

[tjaartvdwalt]

Hi,

First off, thanks for a great project. Octopress really simplify deploying my Jekyll blogs.

I have a question on overriding/adding custom stylesheets to the genesis-theme. In the README you mention that this is possible:

You can also easily overwrite stylesheets, layouts, partials and basically everything about this plugin by adding a copy of that file in the _plugins/theme directory. More on that later.

How does this work exactly? I want to override index.scss, and I tried to place my new file at _plugins/theme/index.scss and _plugins/theme/assets/stylesheets/index.scss but it does not seem to have any effect.

[jleberle]

_plugins/theme/stylesheets works, although I've had issues with overrides breaking the theme, so if anyone has info on that I'd be interested. I was trying to add image left/center/right styling and the theme just completely broke when I added the image formatting from the old octopress image tag.

[fraank]

Is it possible that overwriting settings from "_config.yml" with "_plugins/theme/config.yml" (including multilingual) is also broken?

[tjaartvdwalt]

@fraank: I found that my changes to _plugins/theme/config.yml does not take effect if I simply have jekyll serve running. I can force it by either killing and restarting jekyll serve, or by running jekyll build.

Mabye that the same for you?

[tjaartvdwalt]

@iratebeagle: Thanks for answering my question. It seems the correct place to override scss files is

_plugins/theme/stylesheets

[fraank]

No, that doesn't solve my problem. See this issue: https://github.com/octopress/genesis-theme/issues/44

[tjaartvdwalt]

@fraank: Oh I misunderstood exactly what you meant. Unfortunately my site is only in English, so I cannot be of help.