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Magento Tips: How To Make Browsers Update And Refresh The Theme Files

Feb 15, 2013

440 Aleksander Tretjak

Magento Tips: How To Make Browsers Update And Refresh The Theme Files

Sometimes after making changes to the website design it is required that users’ browsers would update and refresh the theme files. To solve this issue it is possible to implement the versioning of static files. For instance, one can add a parameter with the theme version number.

So what we need to do is to add the parameter specifying the version number.

We have: http://test.com/js/prototype/prototype.js

It will become: http://test.com/js/prototype/prototype.js?ver=2

To do this, we need to override Mage_Page_Block_Html_Head and change the method of forming addresses of theme static files:

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