In this chapter, you have learned a lot more about themes and their relationship with each other. You should now understand the difference between a theme and a parent theme, and how you can use the Moodle theming process to load certain themes or even elements of these themes before your own theme's styles are used. You should also understand why you might use parent themes, and what would be the best method in any given situation.
Specifically, we covered:
Creating a new theme from a copied current theme
Setting a parent theme to use with our copied theme
Why we might want to have a parent theme
When not to use a parent theme
Now that you know how to mix and match different themes, and know how to get the most from the Moodle theming process, you shall use what you have learned to create your first complete theme. You will be using the blackandblue theme that you created at the end of this chapter and your design mockup created in Chapter 6, Planning your Moodle Theme to start to shape...