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Mahara themes support inheritance from "parent" themes.  If a theme specifies a parent, then it only needs to override things that are not defined by the parent theme. This means that you can often create a theme just by writing a new CSS file, and maybe overriding some images. Copying all of the templates is not required.
Mahara themes support inheritance from "parent" themes.  If a theme specifies a parent, then it only needs to override things that are not defined by the parent theme. This means that you can often create a theme just by writing a new CSS file, and maybe overriding some images. Copying all of the templates is not required.


* [[Customising/Themes/15.10|Mahara Themes - 15.10 and up]]
'''[[Customising/Themes/20.10| Mahara 20.10+ theming guide]]'''
* [[Customising/Themes/1.10|Mahara Themes - 1.10 and up]]
 
 


===Historical===
===Historical===
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These pages are for long-obsolete Mahara versions, and are kept around for historical reasons only.
These pages are for long-obsolete Mahara versions, and are kept around for historical reasons only.


* [[Customising/Themes/19.04| Mahara 19.04-20.04 theming guide]]
* [[Customising/Themes/17.04|Mahara 17.04-18.10 theming guide]]
* [[Customising/Themes/15.10|Mahara 15.10-16.10 theming guide]]
* [[Customising/Themes/1.10|Mahara 1.10-15.04 theming guide]]
* [https://mahara.org/artefact/file/download.php?file=298847 Mahara 1.8 Theming guide] (Somewhat applicable up to 15.04)
* [https://mahara.org/artefact/file/download.php?file=298847 Mahara 1.8 Theming guide] (Somewhat applicable up to 15.04)
* [https://mahara.org/artefact/file/download.php?file=298846 Mahara 1.8 Icons guide] (Somewhat applicable up to 15.04)
* [https://mahara.org/artefact/file/download.php?file=298846 Mahara 1.8 Icons guide] (Somewhat applicable up to 15.04)
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* [[Customising/Themes/Mahara 1.3 Themes|Mahara 1.3 Themes for Institutions]] (Obsolete)
* [[Customising/Themes/Mahara 1.3 Themes|Mahara 1.3 Themes for Institutions]] (Obsolete)
* [[Customising/Themes/Differences_between_Smarty_and_Dwoo|Differences between Smarty and Dwoo]] (Obsolete)
* [[Customising/Themes/Differences_between_Smarty_and_Dwoo|Differences between Smarty and Dwoo]] (Obsolete)
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Latest revision as of 19:06, 1 November 2020

A Mahara theme is a set of Smarty templates, css stylesheets, images, and a very simple configuration file.  Each theme is installed in a subdirectory under htdocs/theme, but because of Mahara's plugin architecture, some template files for a theme may also be found inside plugin directories rather than under htdocs/theme.

Mahara themes support inheritance from "parent" themes.  If a theme specifies a parent, then it only needs to override things that are not defined by the parent theme. This means that you can often create a theme just by writing a new CSS file, and maybe overriding some images. Copying all of the templates is not required.

Mahara 20.10+ theming guide


Historical

These pages are for long-obsolete Mahara versions, and are kept around for historical reasons only.