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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.
  
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* [[Customising/Themes/17.04|Mahara Themes - 17.04 and up]]
 
* [[Customising/Themes/15.10|Mahara Themes - 15.10 and up]]
 
* [[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]]

Revision as of 16:22, 22 March 2017

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.