Installing themes with Buildout

For a lot of website projects, a theme downloaded from plone.org (http://plone.org/products) or the Python Package Index (http://pypi.python.org) is enough to launch a professional-looking site. If your project falls into this category, or if you just want to experiment, follow the steps in this chapter.

Searching for themes on plone.org

We will need to find a theme we like. We can do that by browsing to http://plone.org. Next, click on Downloads | Add-on Product Releases | Themes.

You should see (result similar to):

Click on a theme to view a screenshot and select one you like, for example beyondskins.ploneday.site2010, and add the package to your buildout.cfg file.

Adding themes with Buildout

In 03-appearance-wpd2010.cfg, we extend the last known working configuration file from Chapter 2, that is 02-site-basics-blog.cfg.

It looks like this:

[buildout]
extends = 02-site-basics-blog.cfg

[instance]
eggs += beyondskins.ploneday.site2010
zcml += beyondskins.ploneday...