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Zip file per Theme
- Copy theme folder.
- Add everything except home.php, header.php, footer.php to the zip file.
- move zip file to amadeus/themes/downloads & upload it to server using ftp sync.
- copy install-theme.bat (from cv-modern-blog) and change file name.
- delete extrected contents (from zip file) and test batch file.
Converting Legacy Theme
- replace cs_var with am_var
- use new run_site_code('menu') which returns false to be used to call menu() or render the default footer content.
1. Finding a Theme
Start with a HTML Template from the internet. Some good places to start:
- https://bootstrapmade.com/
- http://themeforest.com/
2. Save to themes folder
- Download the zip file to the "amadeus/themes/" folder / move it there
- Extract the folder to themes so that the subfolder contains "index.html"
- Rename the folder to add hyphens before new words and remove capitals.
- For eg: BizLand should become biz-land (we prefer lowercase for urls so all folder/file names should follow that rule.
3. header.php
- Save the index.html as header.php
- Use a code editor like PSPad to edit the php, html, css, js files
a. Title and Meta
Search For
<title>
and replace the line with:
<title><?php title(); ?></title>
Search for
<meta content="" name="description">
<meta content="" name="keywords">
and replace with (a single)
<?php seo_tags(); ?>
b. Icon (for browser tab)
and add this line just after that
`
<link href="<?php echo am_var('url'); ?><?php echo am_var('safeName'); ?>-icon.png" rel="icon" />
## c. $theme
Search for
**"assets**
and replace with
**"<?php echo $theme; ?>assets**
* some themes use directly css/ and js/ folders and this may need to be treated separately
## d. site assets
Search for all the css/js files in the file. This is either in the head or just before </body>.
After it, add the line:
<?php styles_and_scripts(); ?>
<?php foot_hooks(); ?>
`
e. head hooks
Before the tag ends, add the line
<?php head_hooks(); ?>
f. Menu
In bootstrapmade.com, its usually within this tag
<nav class="nav-menu d-none d-lg-block">
Move it to menu.html and replace it with
<?php if (!run_site_code('menu')) menu(); ?>
4. Specific Features
head.php
Some themes have a right first page header or a splash image. This code can be controlled pagewise using
<?php run_site_code('head'); ?>
LOGO / link to home
This should look something like this:
<a href="<?php echo am_var('url');?>"><img src="<?php echo am_var('url'); ?><?php echo am_var('safeName'); ?>-logo.png" alt="<?php echo am_var('name'); ?>" class="img-fluid"></a>
5. Chop into home.php and footer.php
Detect home.php
Detect begin of content of the page
This is sometimes where
</header>
ends
On bootstrapmade, this is the beginning of the hero section rest of content should go to home.php or content/index.php
Detect Footer
This is sometimes where the tag ends
Rest of file should go into footer.php
6. Footer
Footer Content
this is usually a footer-top sort of div above which this line should be placed
<?php if (!run_site_code('footer-content')) { ?>
//[default theme content]
<?php } ?>
this will tell php to use the [optional] _footer-content.php from the website
Copyright
<?php copyright(); ?>
//this is same as
© Copyright <strong><span><?php echo am_var('name'); ?></span></strong>. <?php echo (am_var('start_year') ? am_var('start_year') . ' - ' : '') . date('Y'); ?> All Rights Reserved
Credits
Add
<br /><?php amadeus_credits(); ?>
in the footer (usually below the theme credits
Post Credits
if necessary, add
<?php if (am_var('footer_post_credits')) { echo renderFile(am_var('footer_post_credits')); } ?>
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