Module customization: what's the best way to do it?

[ToolMayNARD]

Dear all,

 

reading the Prestashop documentation it seems that the best way to adapt a module is working both on theme personalization (for visual presentation) and overriding the behaviour using /override path.

 

All clear, except that in practice I find some challenges to accomplish that.

 

For instance, what if I want to personalize block social?

 

I tried to copy CSS path from /modules/blocksocial/css/blocksocial.css to /theme/mytheme/modules/blocksocial/css/blocksocial.css without success.

 

I also tried to copy the same path into /override/modules/...

 

Whatever I do, block social continues to get styling from default blocksocial.css.

 

Where am I wrong? Please note that I am in debug mode and I switched off any cache.

 

Of course same problem occurs with every other module, except the ones that already have the hirerchy in the default-bootstarp theme. My custom theme was initiated starting from the default theme.

 

Thank you in advance and best regards

 

Mauro 

Edited June 20, 2015 by ToolMayNARD (see edit history)

[Magicalname]

 

 

I tried to copy CSS path from /modules/blocksocial/css/blocksocial.css to /theme/mytheme/modules/blocksocial/css/blocksocial.css without success.

 

I also tried to copy the same path into /override/modules/...

 

 

 

The right path is themes/default-bootstrap/css/modules/blocksocial.css

[ToolMayNARD]

Nope, I don't want to edit the default theme. I'm working on a brand new theme.

 

In any case even if you copy the CSS in default-bootstrap theme directory, the reference CSS is always the one inside /modules/blocksocial.