[support] Sub-theme

[Pia Oliver]

Chris,

My understanding is that unless you create a 
theme from scratch, with all the template files, 
you need to use the structure of a "base" theme. 
Therefore, you modify the templates and css files 
in the renamed copies of the files. This becomes 
your own "subtheme".

If you want to do a theme from scratch you must create the other files.

Pia





>From: "Pia Oliver" <pia at piasworld.com>
>To: support at drupal.org
>Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 10:02:07 AM
>Subject: Re: [support] Sub-theme
>
>
>Re: [support] Sub-theme
>Have you tried:
>
>1.  Make a copy of the "Bartik" folder from the core>themes file.
>2. Put this folder in your sites>all>themes folder
>3. rename this folder "bartik-cjm
>4. open the "bartik.info file and add "stylesheets[all][] = css/local.css"
>5. Rename bartik.info file to "bartik-cjm"
>5a. Create a file in the css folder called 
>"local.css" since it's here you will be over 
>riding the Bartik original css files
>6. check all the other files in the "bartik-cjm" 
>folder for "Bartik" and replace this with 
>"bartik-cjm"
>7. Go to Admin/appearance and you will now see your subtheme "bartik-cjm"
>
>Pia
>
>Hi Pia,
>
>
>No. I haven't done that for a very specific 
>reason and that reason is that your recommended 
>procedure does not give me a sub-theme; it gives 
>me a custom theme which is a modified copy of 
>Bartik rather than a sub-classed descendant.  In 
>this case, I am no longer inheriting from the 
>Bartik base theme; I will have a copy which 
>means that any changes to the base theme will be 
>ignored and I don't really have a sub-theme; I 
>have a modified new base-theme. I am lead to 
>believe that what I have done is sufficient. 
>(<https://drupal.org/node/225125>https://drupal.org/node/225125), 
>but clearly there is something that I don't 
>understand, because my understanding is at 
>variance with practice.
>
>
>Thanks for the help,
>
>
>Chris.
>
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Pia Oliver

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