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<pre wrap="">You can copy the /bartik/css folder over to your subtheme
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span><i class="moz-txt-slash"><span class="moz-txt-tag">/</span>sites/all/themes/yoursubtheme<span class="moz-txt-tag">/</span></i> so you can override core theming
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>using
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>the correct terminology.
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<pre wrap=""><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>Now the trap you will run into is:
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>When you update Drupal core, it updates the core bartik theme which
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>calls on a lot of core includes and this can break your
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>bartiksubtheme.
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>Been there, done that.
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<pre wrap=""><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>Hope this helps
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<pre wrap="">This is certainly the clearest explanation of how to create a sub-theme, but it confuses me. I'm lead to believe that it is not necessary to reproduce all of the contents of the base theme in the directory of the sub-theme; the point is to inherit all of this so you also inherit updates. If I read this correctly ( <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://drupal.org/node/225125">https://drupal.org/node/225125</a> ) I don't need to provide anything but at least one new stylesheet; everything is inherited from the base theme.
Thanks for the help,
Chris. </pre>
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You are partially correct.<br>
Understand just what you are inheriting, is the best advice I can
offer to you.<br>
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Unfortunately there is no easy way to theme Drupal. It is a big,
complex, messy, time consuming undertaking.<br>
As a hint, have a look at say Garland, Mayo, Danland theme code and
get a feel for the depth of understanding needed. Mayo is a great
study case in complexity.<br>
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There are hundreds of theme styles and if you look closely they are
virtually variations of the same theme, they just do things
differently but still call core functionality.<br>
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Every theme inherits most of it's functionality from core, that's
the basis of Drupal. But you will want to tweak, this is a given.
And that is where you need to copy out the bits you wish to
manipulate. Golly we are only talking about half a dozen or so
files, not the whole system.<br>
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There is no need to reproduce all of the contents but you do have to
have your own templates in your sub directory. It's a safety
precaution.<br>
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Mind you this is only a short cut, an easy way in to a quite
substantial development cycle, otherwise you will have to re do it
all bit by bit manually and wind up with much the same.<br>
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Bartik as with the other core themes has calls to the includes
folder and you will also have to copy some of those out as you need
them to your sub directory so that you can over ride them as needed.
Don't go there until you are comfortable with how the theming works.<br>
HTH<br>
Roger<br>
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