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Created my theme, what now?
Orangine:
First of all - congrats! I've just made my first theme so I'm just after doing all of this myself.
Did you edit the default theme, or have you started with a different one? If you started with a theme that you obtained, let's say here, from the theme site, then you might need the permission from the author to distribute it. If however theme you started with have more lenient copyright then you might redistribute it but stating clearly that it's a modification of existing theme. Without knowing which theme it is it's hard to say.
As for the procedure to create your own theme file, you will need to zip the content of theme folder zipped but first you will need the thumbnail replaced (it's thumbnail.gif file in theme's image folder) and theme_info.xml updated to reflect the changes.
If you end up uploading your theme here, make sure there's no hard-coded text in the template files before you do it, as it's one of the most common mistakes people do here (I've been told).
If you have more questions, just let me know :)
bearcat:
--- Quote from: Orangine on August 19, 2012, 04:15:57 PM ---First of all - congrats! I've just made my first theme so I'm just after doing all of this myself.
Did you edit the default theme, or have you started with a different one? If you started with a theme that you obtained, let's say here, from the theme site, then you might need the permission from the author to distribute it. If however theme you started with have more lenient copyright then you might redistribute it but stating clearly that it's a modification of existing theme. Without knowing which theme it is it's hard to say.
As for the procedure to create your own theme file, you will need to zip the content of theme folder zipped but first you will need the thumbnail replaced (it's thumbnail.gif file in theme's image folder) and theme_info.xml updated to reflect the changes.
If you end up uploading your theme here, make sure there's no hard-coded text in the template files before you do it, as it's one of the most common mistakes people do here (I've been told).
If you have more questions, just let me know :)
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Its a basic edit of the default, since its my first lol
anyway, thanks for the reply. Ill go change the info, tho i dont really find it that necessary but oh well. It gotta be done right hehe.
Orangine:
Your theme won't be accepted by the Customization Team if you don't do it. And your theme needs a name, which goes into the .xml file.
So, it's the default theme then? Is it in the default folder? If so, then there's loads of rubbish there that doesn't need to be added to the zip file (i.e. the whole languages folder, scripts folder - apart from theme.js file, and probably more). If you create your first zip, just add it here and I will have a look if you want if there's anything lese that may be taken out.
bearcat:
--- Quote from: Orangine on August 19, 2012, 04:38:43 PM ---Your theme won't be accepted by the Customization Team if you don't do it. And your theme needs a name, which goes into the .xml file.
So, it's the default theme then? Is it in the default folder? If so, then there's loads of rubbish there that doesn't need to be added to the zip file (i.e. the whole languages folder, scripts folder - apart from theme.js file, and probably more). If you create your first zip, just add it here and I will have a look if you want if there's anything lese that may be taken out.
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Okay, i took some random theme, for testing only!!! And just quickly wanted to test it, so i edited it a bit. Zipped the folder and tried to install it on another site, but it seems like the css wasn't loaded hmm..
Orangine:
did you zip the folder with the theme in it (wrong) or the content of that folder (right)?
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