History: How To Add a New Theme

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{REMARKSBOX(type="info" title="Revamped theme organization from Tiki14")} In Tiki13, the Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework was integrated as base for Tiki's layout and design. From Tiki14 (trunk pre-14 as of Sept 12, 2014) there is a new directory structure for themes, as described on this page. ''For Tiki12 LTS please visit ((How To Add a New Theme - until Tiki12))''{REMARKSBOX} ! Theme components A Tiki theme can be made of several components. as there is at least a CSS stylesheet, and possibly one or more theme-specific Smarty templates, as well as background images, fonts and, potentially, icons. As Tiki contains a full set of default templates, the minimum requirement to create a custom theme is a custom .CSS stylesheet. As of Tiki 14, themes are deployed in the directory "themes," which is a subdirectory of the tikiroot installation directory. Every theme has its own directory which contains the components of the theme. The name of this directory represents the name of the theme. The following is an example of the directory structure: * {img src=https://themes.tiki.org/show_image.php?id=59} themes ** {img src=https://themes.tiki.org/show_image.php?id=59} mytheme *** {img src=https://themes.tiki.org/show_image.php?id=59} css **** mytheme.css ***** The .CSS file has to be named the same as the theme's directory, eg: "mytheme.css" - Tiki names the theme from the containing theme-specific folder. ***** The mytheme.css is usually compiled from the less files which are in the less directory. **** custom.css ***** The custom.css file contents override and complete mytheme.css. This is the place for hand-made CSS changes. *** {img src=https://themes.tiki.org/show_image.php?id=59} fonts **** This is the place to store your fonts which have to be provided for webmasters who do not want to use a font-API *** {img src=https://themes.tiki.org/show_image.php?id=59} icons **** This is not in use yet, but will likely be the place for .SVG icon sets, if no glyphs will be used. Alternative glyphs might be stored here or in fonts, which is not desided yet. To be updated, please contact the [https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/tikiwiki-artwork| Tiki artwork-list on sourceforge] *** {img src=https://themes.tiki.org/show_image.php?id=59} images **** This is the place to store theme-related images for backgrounds and other purposes. *** {img src=https://themes.tiki.org/show_image.php?id=59} less **** tiki.less **** This directory contains the LESS files from which, along with global LESS files, are compiled the theme style sheet. *** {img src=https://themes.tiki.org/show_image.php?id=59} options **** Themes can have options by adding a css file (eg: myoption.css) in the option folder which could easily be created with less and then would be loaded additionally to the main theme's css file. To be updated, please contact the [https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/tikiwiki-artwork| Tiki artwork-list on sourceforge] *** {img src=https://themes.tiki.org/show_image.php?id=59} templates **** Any customised template stored in this directory overwrites the default template with the same name. {REMARKSBOX(type="info" title="hint")}In Tiki pre-14 trunk, the old structure ''"styles/mytheme.css - styles/mytheme/*" - "templates/styles/mytheme"'' is not working anymore, it became deprecated for the release of Tiki14. "templates/styles/mytheme" files should be moved manually to "themes/mytheme/templates" folder. In case of questions please contact the Tiki artwork-list on sourceforge: [https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/tikiwiki-artwork] {REMARKSBOX} ! Activating your new theme Once you create a directory structure and add it to the Tiki file structure in the location described above, which contains at least a style sheet file named as the theme's folder (eg: mytheme.css) in the folder themes/mytheme/css, you will find the theme in the "Theme selection" selector in Admin -> Look&Feel -> Theme. Please mind to reload the page after you add the theme to the server and to clear the Tiki caches each time you apply a different theme ''(/tiki-admin_system.php?do=all)''. -=Alias=- (alias(How To Add a New Bootstrap Theme))

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Mon 24 of Jan, 2022 11:53 GMT chibaguy Small corrections.	16
Mon 24 of Jan, 2022 11:45 GMT chibaguy	15
Mon 24 of Jan, 2022 11:44 GMT chibaguy Removed ancient info and adjusted heading sizes.	14
Mon 24 of Jan, 2022 11:43 GMT chibaguy Replaced missing images with icon plugin. Updated text.	13
Mon 11 of Feb, 2019 12:43 GMT Kishiko Add the js folder in the default theme layout and the explanation of its purpose	12
Thu 28 of Jan, 2016 10:28 GMT chibaguy Gave the folder images the responsive=n parameter so they will be inline. Minor text clarifications. The page seems to have some duplicate information compared to at least one other page.	11
Thu 28 of Jan, 2016 00:18 GMT Jyhem	10
Sun 25 of Jan, 2015 13:23 GMT gezza update to recent changes in the theme concept	9
Sat 13 of Sep, 2014 13:01 GMT chibaguy Corrected info about LESS files and minor editing.	8
Fri 12 of Sep, 2014 20:55 GMT Torsten Apllying your new theme	7
Fri 12 of Sep, 2014 20:36 GMT Torsten found more typos ... sorry	6
Fri 12 of Sep, 2014 20:32 GMT Torsten typo	5
Fri 12 of Sep, 2014 20:31 GMT Torsten typos and added minor hints	4
Fri 12 of Sep, 2014 20:29 GMT Torsten adde basic information about the themes directory structure	3
Fri 12 of Sep, 2014 19:40 GMT Torsten closing tag of remarksbox was missing	2
Fri 12 of Sep, 2014 19:39 GMT Torsten created page with remarksbox and alias	1

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