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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

Overriding blocks in packages


The block templates we've created were always in the top-level directory /blocks. This works fine for your personal site, but if you want to distribute your theme or block templates, you might want to wrap these templates in a package. Just like themes, blocks, and jobs, you can also put a simple block template in a package. This is mandatory if you want to publish it in the concrete5 marketplace; and it could also help you to manage your own add-ons, as you know that they have to be installed in the /packages directory.

If you've already built a package, you simply have to move your templates into that directory and as soon as you install the package, they are available to be used.

For example: If you have a template called new_template.php in /blocks/content/templates/, move that file to /packages/your-package/blocks/content/templates and your template is nicely packed, ready for the marketplace.

You can get more information about packages from http://www.concrete5...