Creating Themes

Creating a theme implies creating a new theme folder in Communities/Common/Themes for the theme to be visible from all communities, or in Communities/community_folder_name/Themes if the theme is to be visible to a single community.

The new theme folder must have the same structure as the already existing theme folders. In other words, it should have a Styles subfolder that contains one or more CSS files, and a Skins subfolder, with four subfolders: ContentSkins, ControlSkins, PageSkins, and TemplateSkins.

Once the new theme folder and its components are in place, the new theme (its skin and styles) will be visible in the Edit Sections/Edit Section/Appearance folder. You don’t need to recompile or restart the application. The simplest way to test this is to copy one of the existing theme folders (such as Arc or Frida) to a folder named MyCopiedTheme, in the same location.

No matter what kind of skin file you’re developing (page skin, content skin, control skin, or template skin...