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[Documentation] Create a fully owned Theme

edited April 2012 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8

Just to make sure i understand this correct.

http://vanillaforums.org/docs/themequickstart

Part 2 section 2.

It's totally fine to copy-/paste ALL files from the views folder: applications/dashboard/views/

To my own theme inside a new views folder?

And after that change all the HTML (maybe some PHP ) of every single page?

That would be how i should create a totally owned theme.
Of course link the stylesheets..

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  • hbfhbf wiki guy? MVP
    Answer ✓

    You generally dont need to override everything. But can you? Yes.

  • mcu_hqmcu_hq yippie ki-yay ✭✭✭
    Answer ✓

    hbf said:
    You generally dont need to override everything.

    I override 8 view files out of the 40 something in the core in my theme. I did change a ton of things, but for the most part, the views can be left alone.

  • 422422 Developer MVP

    I could have sworn I posted a reply on here. Ok Vanilla what ya doin !!!

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  • Okay thanks..

    I would also like to do a lot, because all themes i see right now are typical Vanilla style and only have some custom CSS.

    I would like to create my own HTML and position things around.

  • x00x00 MVP
    edited April 2012

    The more files you override the more likely you are to have mismatch on update.

    Use theme hooks as much as you can, override views, when you have no other option.

    Also if it can be position in css do it that way. css is quite powerful.

    remember not to leave out events, or asset in the views, as this could break something.

    grep is your friend.

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