General Talk/Questions/Comments

[puriom]

Hello!
I've chosen Shape5, in order to profit from the great Site Shaper options. I realized that this is impossible, as I'm forced to install it together WITH Joomla from scratch. For many reasons, technical reasons, I HAVE to make the joomla and VM installation by myself. If I'll use the recommended installation method, it will NOT work for my site.
I don't need sample data, just the template tweaks (colors, FB and social networks' options etc).
PLEASE (it's a hope for help cry, NOT a demand), as many other users have also mentioned, could you guide us how to have all template goodies, without the S5 installation? Par example, as a plugin, or module, or extension, or anything similar? Just for the template, not the modules.
Or else, our subscription is rather wasted.

Anyway, for the story,  I made a complete SS installation of two different templates (that I had to erase afterwards), but the templates' options were also missing, at administration panel.
I work with latest joomla and vm. (2.5.3 and 2.0.2)
I would be really more than grateful for any help.
Thank you so much.

[mikek]

Hello,

I'm not really sure I understand your question. If you want an install with all template options pre-set and all the modules preset then doing a site shaper install the only way to do this. Joomla does have an option to install a demo package. You also cannot install a site shaper into an existing Joomla installation because it will over-write all your data.

You can always install products individually and configure them.

If you're having a problem with the backend of a template you will need to post in that template's forum board so we can assist you with that specific template.