Synopsis
A long time ago, seven and a half years or so, when I was involved with and maintaining the Essential theme ( moodle.org/plugins/theme_essential ), the thought struck me that with all its settings and thus combinations thereof, that there should be a way of transferring their values from one site to another. This thought was partly influenced through having multiple development versions and needing to configure them in order to attempt the replication of an issue that somebody was having. I needed my version of Essential to look like theirs as much as possible. I also recall chatting to Justin Hunt about the problem. And so I went ahead, looked at the problem and came up with a solution. That solution worked but was lacking one thing, files! The files had to be transferred manually between Moodle installations… until now!
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