Bundle CSS files used in a theme

Hi Neil,

First of all, I would highly recommend you to start using our MVC widgets, templates and front-end packages for new Sitefinity projects, since they provide performance improvements, better control over the markup of your pages and easier management of front-end assets. Themes aren't used there anymore. (www.progress.com/.../mvc).

You can learn more about front-end resource packages for MVC here: www.progress.com/.../overview-resource-packages-mvc. In case you decide to use them, you will also be able to leverage Bootstrap out-of-the box. We offer two Bootstrap packages - for Bootstrap 3 and a new one - for Bootstrap 4. In the Bootstrap 3 package styles are minified  with grunt and in the Bootstrap 4 package this is done with node-sass through npm scripts.

In case you're using Webforms and Sitefinity Themes, you could take a look at this article: www.codeproject.com/.../Sitefinity-Bundling-and-Minification-JS-and-CSS-Fi .  Something to keep in mind is that RadStylesheetManager  combines and compresses the styles, but doesn't minify them.

Hi Peleva,

Thanks for your very quick reply.  Funny you should mention that CodeProject link - I used the info there a couple of days :)  Although bundling the CSS files worked fine, the indivdual CSS files were still loaded.  Is there possibly another config setting that I need to use to prevent this from happening?

Thanks,

Neil

Hi again,

I believe this happens because you're referencing the css file from your them. They are loaded  by the Stylesheet manager of Sitefinity (if you've set them as a theme to your Sitefinity template through the UI), and they're loaded again from the RadStyleSheetManager on your master page.

I would suggest you to set the Theme from the UI to "no theme" (www.screencast.com/.../cTm6e66U). This way the css will be loaded only from the master page.

Hi Peleva.  I thought that might be the case, but I was hoping for an quicker solution. Setting no theme breaks the whole look of the site, so I've got a bit of work to do to shift things around.

Thank you!