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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.
  
Mahara's element classes, default themes, and the procedure for creating and modifying themes are very different in Mahara 1.1 and 1.2.
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* [[Customising/Themes/17.04|Mahara Themes - 17.04 and up]]
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* [[Customising/Themes/15.10|Mahara Themes - 15.10 and up]]
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* [[Customising/Themes/1.10|Mahara Themes - 1.10 and up]]
  
* [https://mahara.org/artefact/file/download.php?file=298847 Mahara 1.8 Theming guide]
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===Historical===
* [https://mahara.org/artefact/file/download.php?file=298846 Mahara 1.8 Icons guide]
 
* [[Customising/Themes/1.2|Mahara Themes - 1.2 and up]]
 
* [[Customising/Themes/1.1|Mahara 1.1 Themes]]
 
* [[Customising/Themes/Migrating themes from 1.1 to 1.2|Migrating themes from 1.1 to 1.2]]
 
* [[Customising/Themes/Mahara 1.3 Themes|Mahara 1.3 Themes for Institutions]]
 
  
===Subpages===
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These pages are for long-obsolete Mahara versions, and are kept around for historical reasons only.
  
* [[Customising/Themes/1.1|Theming Mahara 1.1]]
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* [https://mahara.org/artefact/file/download.php?file=298847 Mahara 1.8 Theming guide] (Somewhat applicable up to 15.04)
* [[Customising/Themes/1.2|Theming Mahara 1.2 - 1.7]]
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* [https://mahara.org/artefact/file/download.php?file=298846 Mahara 1.8 Icons guide] (Somewhat applicable up to 15.04)
* [[Customising/Themes/Differences_between_Smarty_and_Dwoo|Differences between Smarty and Dwoo]]
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* [[Customising/Themes/1.2|Mahara Themes - 1.2 to 1.9]] (Obsolete)
* [[Customising/Themes/Mahara_1.3_Themes|Mahara 1.3 Themes for Institutions]]
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* [[Customising/Themes/1.1|Mahara 1.1 Themes]] (Obsolete)
* [[Customising/Themes/Migrating_themes_from_1.1_to_1.2|Migrating themes from 1.1 to 1.2]]
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* [[Customising/Themes/Migrating themes from 1.1 to 1.2|Migrating themes from 1.1 to 1.2]] (Obsolete)
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* [[Customising/Themes/Mahara 1.3 Themes|Mahara 1.3 Themes for Institutions]] (Obsolete)
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* [[Customising/Themes/Differences_between_Smarty_and_Dwoo|Differences between Smarty and Dwoo]] (Obsolete)
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Revision as of 18:07, 19 June 2019

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.

Historical

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