Themekit: Upload theme to another store

[hatsumatsu]

Not sure if this is the right channel for questions like this:

I developed a theme with themekit via theme bootstrap. I now want to deploy this theme to another store. I changed the API credential password and the store URL in config.yml but theme upload gives me

Status: 404 Not Found Errors: This file is not part of your theme.
for all files. What am I missing here?

Thanks!

[tanema]

This might mean that you have your theme id wrong. Sometimes the themes API errors can be a bit opaque.

[hatsumatsu]

I kept the existing theme ID. Only thing I changed is the store URL and the API password in config.yml. Do I need to somehow initialize the theme in the Store? Or should theme upload do the deployment from scratch?

[tanema]

The theme ID does not stay the same across shops, you will need create a theme on your other shop to upload your files to.

[hatsumatsu]

Thanks! But how to create an empty theme without a bootstrpped set of files?

[tanema]

To duplicate a theme across shops, you will need to

• access your online store in the first shop
• click the actions dropdown
• click Download theme file
• You will receive an email with a link to download the zip file.
• access the online store for the second shop
• click upload theme from the top bar
• select your downloaded zip file.
• click upload

I know this doesn't feel like the best operation but because of the restrictions of a theme setup, this is currently the way to do it.