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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

The file structure of concrete5


One important thing to remember when working with concrete5 is not to change any files underneath the concrete and updates directory! Let's have a closer look at the reasons with the help of the following screenshot:

As you can see, there are quite a few directories if you install concrete5, but don't worry about that, you'll just need a few of them.

Why is the concrete directory sacred? If you look at the previous screenshot, you can see that the concrete directory contains more or less the same directories like you have in the root. That's mostly because concrete5 uses the same framework for its backend and editing system as you're using to build your own websites and applications. In other words, the actual CMS code can be found in the concrete directory, and whatever you build is outside in the other top-level directories.

Here's a list of the most-used directories and their purposes:

  • blocks: This includes the block you build for your own site and when you...