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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/19.04| Mahara 19.04+ theming guide]]'''
  
* [https://mahara.org/artefact/file/download.php?file=298847 Mahara 1.8 Theming guide]
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* [https://mahara.org/artefact/file/download.php?file=298846 Mahara 1.8 Icons guide]
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===Historical===
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These pages are for long-obsolete Mahara versions, and are kept around for historical reasons only.
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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]]
 
* [[Customising/Themes/1.10|Mahara Themes - 1.10 and up]]
 
* [[Customising/Themes/1.10|Mahara Themes - 1.10 and up]]
* [[Customising/Themes/1.2|Mahara Themes - 1.2 and up]]  
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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/1.1|Mahara 1.1 Themes]]
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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/Migrating themes from 1.1 to 1.2|Migrating themes from 1.1 to 1.2]]
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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)
 
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* [[Customising/Themes/Migrating themes from 1.1 to 1.2|Migrating themes from 1.1 to 1.2]] (Obsolete)
===Subpages===
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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)
  
* [[Customising/Themes/1.1|Theming Mahara 1.1]]
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[[Category:Customising]]
* [[Customising/Themes/1.2|Theming Mahara 1.2 - 1.7]]
 
* [[Customising/Themes/Differences_between_Smarty_and_Dwoo|Differences between Smarty and Dwoo]]
 
* [[Customising/Themes/Mahara_1.3_Themes|Mahara 1.3 Themes for Institutions]]
 
* [[Customising/Themes/Migrating_themes_from_1.1_to_1.2|Migrating themes from 1.1 to 1.2]]
 

Revision as of 15:29, 4 November 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.

Mahara 19.04+ theming guide


Historical

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