Hi Everyone, curious how everyone build their custom theme, do you do it by building and extension or via theme? Thank you in advance!

You should create a new custom theme from the base NetSuite theme. The templates on the extensions only serve for new templates plugged into your custom theme.

What if the theme you are using currently is from those NetSuite pre-built templates (ie. Bridge, Summit, etc..)? and you just want to change say how the header or footer or even the PDP should look like? I assume for the above you go to the extension route?

Oh, with that in mind. There are 2 routes, if your client wants to keep getting the updates for the theme they bought, yes, what you explained is the way to go. I believe you could also make a copy of those pre-build themes and do your own changes but you will lost the automatic updates. (for the second option, I"m not 100% since I usually only touch extensions)

So on this pre-built themes, your route is normally updating via Extension, correct? I kind like option #1, keep getting updates from NetSuite as it is a bit painful to implement patches manually and normally clients tend to switch partner/developer on their SC implementation, at-least in this option they will still get updates from NS automatically and will just update the extension (which is much easier) if something breaks.

We usually only use our internal custom themes for different clients but I would say yes.

I see.. thank you for your input, much appreciated.