Thread: How difficult is it to make a black theme?

How difficult is it to make a black theme?

I can't find a tutorial for making another color theme, but I'm sure it can't be that hard. I'd assume that one could just duplicate the files for an existing theme (ie: all the 'blue' files), but what else would need to be modified? Or has someone already done this and I can simply d/l it. Thanks.

Re: How difficult is it to make a black theme?

Would it be possible for admins or someone with greater knowledge of the software to chime in and offer help?

Re: How difficult is it to make a black theme?

You need to have knowledge in php, html and css to do some theme modifications. You can start browsing the wordpress site or google it for some tutorials. Or you can simply hire a coder to do it for you.

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I do have knowledge in those things. However, I thought it would be a lot easier if just one person with a thorough knowledge of this project could quickly name off the files that needed to be edited to add another theme to the admin and save me the hassle of digging into this from scratch.

Re: How difficult is it to make a black theme?

I could probably do it, of course it would just be a css file and a few retouched images so I doubt I would get in trouble for sharing code from classipress. You cant exactly make themes for what is essentially a paid theme to begin with.

Re: How difficult is it to make a black theme?

I'd like to get to know how to change to black theme. So if you have any directions, I sure would appreciate it!

Not sure why black is not offered as part of the theme. Seems like it is a basic color...

Re: How difficult is it to make a black theme?

You could of course simply take one of the other colour options and change the style sheet to a black palette then select that style via the CP options.

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That's what I was not wanting to do, so that when I installed the CP theme on a new site I could have all the color options from a fresh install without tweaking anything. However, I eventually did just that and changed the css and images for the default theme. It's probably the least attractive of the five. Now it's sexy black.

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But it would make no real difference as all you would have to do is copy over the black theme onto the new install and, as before, select it via the CP options.
Technically you should only have to copy over 1 folder and 1 file.

Re: How difficult is it to make a black theme?

You would think so, but that's what I originally tried and it did not work. That's why I started this thread.