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Creating Concrete5 Themes

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Creating Concrete5 Themes

Overview of this book

Creating a concrete5 theme isn't complicated if there’s already a HTML document. There are only very few PHP functions you’ll have to add, but those are powerful and give you a lot of freedom. As you’ll learn to create mobile ready themes, you’ll start to see that there’s almost no limit in what you can do."Creating Concrete5 Themes" is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of examples that will teach you how to create powerful concrete5 themes, change the look of content block elements, and even make your site ready for mobile devices."Creating Concrete5 Themes" starts with a few words about the editing concept and architecture of concrete5 and then continues with the creation of a basic theme which gets extended with more and more elements until the theme is mobile ready.You will learn where to find the information necessary to get your own concrete5 site and then get a quick introduction to understand the idea of the in-site editing concept. We’ll then create a theme which is extended with features and more details as we progress. You’ll also see some examples to show you the process of overriding elements from the core without losing the ability to upgrade concrete5 in the future. Once we’ve customized every element in concrete5 to build a complete theme, we’ll have a look at responsive techniques to make your site ready for small screen devices such as mobile phones and tablets.  
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Creating concrete5 Themes
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding default blocks to page types


When you create a new page, there's usually not much in it. Depending on the theme, you'll only see the logo and maybe some information in the footer. It is sometimes helpful if there's some default content in a new page. Imagine if your site has a header picture in every page, wouldn't it be nice if there was a default picture for new pages?

Hit the Tab key to focus the intelligent search bar at the top and enter page types. Select the first item and you'll see a screen similar to the following screenshot:

Click on the Defaults button and you'll see a screen much like the edit mode of a page we worked with before. Everything works like on a normal page, but the blocks you add here will show up when you create a new page of that type. More about this feature can be found at the following location:

http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/using-concrete5/dashboard/pages-and-themes/page-types/defaults/