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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 anatomy of a page


Every page belonging to a theme has a certain structure. You can use a different structure, but you should probably keep using the one used by the core and almost every marketplace theme. Let's have a look at three different files from a theme. We'll create them on our own in the next chapter. For now, we're just looking at them to help you with reading the code.

There are several numbers shown in the previous illustration, let's have a quick look at them:

  1. This is the page theme template, for example, full.php or default.php. It's the file rendered by concrete5, and therefore the one holding everything from the theme together.

  2. Each theme template can have a different HTML structure, one might have a single column, another one two and maybe even some dynamic code. In our case, we simple have one content and one area where the user can insert blocks.

  3. This file is called header.php and is located in the elements directory of the theme. It's included by the theme template and...