How does this work?

[iPhonefreak]

If I was to switch themes, say from Aero to a custom coded theme, would we have to reinstall all of the mods, and all of the coding edits we made (we have made a lot!)?

And also, how much does it usually cost to have someone create a custom theme for your site? What would be a good amount?

 

[Saruman]

which software are you using?

 

[iPhonefreak]

Phpbb

 

[amalfra]

You would have to add all the template's edit to new one too. But, that wont be an issue if you are making based on current style.(what i meant is editing current styles templates to make new look)

 

[master412160]

The best thing to do is make a new style that uses the same template files from your current style but that your new style uses other css files.

I currently use such a style.

How to do that?

Its quite easy. 🙂

You just make a new folder in: /root/styles/here

That folder is the name of your new theme, just call it test for now.

Then you got to copy the imageset, template, theme and style.cfg file to that folder of your current theme.

:info: Use FTP or file manager.

Then you got to edit all .cfg files, which are in total 4.

/styles/test/style.cfg
/styles/test/imageset/imageset.cfg
/styles/test/template/template.cfg
/styles/test/theme/theme.cfg

Find in them:

name =

after that you remove the current name and put "test".

:info: In template.cfg you also put:

inherit_from = your current theme name here (no spacing.)

So all files in your current style of your template will be used for your new theme.

This means you can change all colors, sizes, looks and much more of your new style.

You only have to alter the css.

What if I want to move something around?

Then you edit the template files of your current style.

OR

duplicate the file of your current style and move it into the template folder of your new style and tweak that code.

My style has a overall_header and footer.html present in the template folder that is it. For the rest its all inherits the code found in the files of the template folder of the style prosilver.

:great:

I hope the above has been helpful. You can also just pass this info to the person making the style for you.

 

[iPhonefreak]

Wow! Thanks for your awesome help!

 

[Nyvorlas]

Is this solved?