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History: Three Ways to Make a New Theme

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Naming the theme

Pick a name for the theme, which will be the name of the theme's style sheet file. Check in the themes directory of the Tiki installation to make sure there isn't already a theme there with the same name (for example, themes/newtheme/css/newtheme.css file).

There is no authoritative register of Tiki theme names but, if you intend to share or distribute your theme, it would be good to check at themes.tiki.org and in the standard Tiki download package to make sure there won't be a name conflict.

Choosing the way to do it

There are at least three ways to make or adapt a theme for Tiki - a simple way, a way that's not quite as simple, and a way that's a little more involved.

1 Link to a bootstrap.css file for a new theme
2 Add a style sheet to the themes directory
3 Make a Less-compiled Tiki theme

See also:

CSS Overview and Template Overview

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Mon 13 of Feb, 2023 08:37 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Replaced class card-default with card-primary and removed unnecessary HTML plugin. 18
Mon 13 of Feb, 2023 08:34 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Updated panel class to card class; replaced Less link with SCSS link. 17
Tue 26 of Jan, 2016 08:45 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Added tags. 16
Tue 26 of Jan, 2016 07:48 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Updated for Bootstrap methods 15
Mon 20 of Apr, 2015 14:30 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee 14
Mon 20 of Apr, 2015 10:03 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Corrected Bootstrap customize URL. 13
Fri 03 of Apr, 2015 14:35 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee More details added. 12
Fri 03 of Apr, 2015 14:29 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Updated with Tiki 14 information. 11
Sat 23 of May, 2009 05:03 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee 10
Tue 27 of Jan, 2009 12:18 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Some updating. 9
Thu 12 of Jul, 2007 03:57 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte fix link 8
Mon 23 of Jul, 2007 14:05 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee 7
Mon 23 of Jul, 2007 14:01 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee 6
Thu 12 of Jul, 2007 03:57 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte fix link 5
Mon 20 of Feb, 2006 03:47 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Minor edits. 4
Mon 20 of Feb, 2006 03:46 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee MInor edits. 3
Mon 20 of Feb, 2006 03:13 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Content clarified. 2
Fri 17 of Feb, 2006 07:04 GMT-0000 System Administrator 1