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History: Three Ways to Make a New Theme

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File arrangements

First, establish the basic file arrangement of your new theme.

  1. Pick a name for the theme. Check the styles directory to make sure there's not an existing theme (i.e., *.css file) with the same name.
  2. There is no authoritative register of Tiki theme names but, if you intend to share your theme, it would be good to check at this site to make sure no theme already exists with the same name.
  3. Create a new CSS file with the theme name you chose and place it in the styles directory (like styles/newtheme.css). (See CSS Overview for more details.)
  4. If your new theme will use customized templates, create a sub-directory in the templates/styles directory and give it the same name as your theme (like templates/styles/newtheme).
  5. Copy any needed files from the templates directory or from an existing theme's templates directory to your theme directory.
    • For example, if you are basing your new theme on moreneat, copy the files from templates/styles/moreneat to templates/styles/newtheme. Otherwise use copies of default template files. See Template Overview for more details.


At this point, your new theme has been added to your site! If you go to User Preferences and check the drop-down menu for Theme, you'll find your theme listed (e.g., newtheme.css). Of course, without changing the CSS and/or template files, the new theme will look unstyled or the same as an existing theme.

See next: CSS Overview and Template Overview.

Related Information

Allow users to set the theme

Under Admin > Login you can activate "Reg users can change theme".

Once activated users can change their theme in their Preferences page under My Tiki menu.

Under Modules you can also activate the switch_theme module which makes it super easy for any user to change themes.

Using multiple themes on your Tiki site

ThemeControlDoc describes how to assign Themes to

  • A Tiki category
  • A Tiki section
  • An individual Tiki object (i.e., an individual Wiki page, Blog, Gallery, etc.)


If you enable Theme Control, you will see a link to Theme Control in the Admin section of the application menu.

(from http://doc.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=Styles and Themes)

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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