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

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

OK. Let's try this another way.
Let's assume that you're never going to use the Blue theme.
Simply open the blue files and change the code as necessary. Leave it named blue etc and then when you need to simply overwrite the new blue files.

Either this or I simply don't get the problem.

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

That's what I did except I used the default theme, problem solved.

However when I first attempted this stunt, I thought it would work by copying (ironically) the blue.css file into a new file called black.css as well as copying all the contents of the blue directory into a new directory called black. Then I went to the CP admin and tried to change the theme to use black.css, however that was not one of the choices in the popup menu. Only the original five choices remain as theme selections in the CP admin which means some of the core CP files need to be edited in order to use a custom made theme/color scheme.

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

I think to add a completely new style you have to edit the functions.php (I might be wrong as this is off the top of my head).

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

it's in admin options.
it seems it's hard coded.
I hope this gets changed in the future. I hate editing theme function files because they invariably get overwritten when theres an update.
likewise the blue theme may get overwritten as well so then your theme changes may blow up too.
how is this safeguarded?

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

Cool, it works.
I added my CSS line to that list above in admin options and saved.
refreshed the page, looked at page source and voila.

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

Thanks, groan!

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

In version 3.0.3 you can make a child theme, effectly allowingyou to safely edit the style.css file in your child theme which is safe and aound during upgrades.

1. Duplicate one of the styles in "\wp-content\themes\classipress\styles\" and name it "mystyle.css"
2. Open "\wp-content\themes\classipress\includes\admin\admin-values.php"
a. Edit the file to look like this
'options' => array( 'mystyles.css' => __('My Theme', 'cp'),
'aqua.css' => __('Aqua Theme', 'cp'),
'blue.css' => __('Blue Theme', 'cp'),
'green.css' => __('Green Theme', 'cp'),
'red.css' => __('Red Theme', 'cp'),
'teal.css' => __('Teal Theme', 'cp'),
'aqua-black.css' => __('Aqua Theme - Black Header', 'cp'),
'blue-black.css' => __('Blue Theme - Black Header', 'cp'),
'green-black.css' => __('Green Theme - Black Header', 'cp'),
'red-black.css' => __('Red Theme - Black Header', 'cp'),
'teal-black.css' => __('Teal Theme - Black Header', 'cp'))),
b. Save and upload the edited file
3. Now login to your WordPress Admin site and browse to ClassiPress -> Settings
a. Now you will see your newly created style listed in the "Color Scheme:" dropdown
b. Select you style and save the change

Now here comes the fun. What you will need to do is make changes to your css and then upload it. Then see if you like the color changes by refreshing your site.

As a newbie is what I have found to be the easiest way