Theme Control

Theme control is a configuration page that can assign different themes to different sections?, categories, and objects? in a TikiWiki site.

Use

To use the theme control, you need to go in the submenu Theme control tiki-theme_control.php of Administration menu. The theme control center can be used to assign a theme to:

• A tiki category
• A tiki section
• A tiki individual object

So you can have a gray site with a wiki page displayed in a red background and the articles section in blue and the Sun category in purple!

The theme control center screen is presented as follows:


This screen is used to assign themes to categories. There are two similar screens that can be accessed using the links at the top of the page to assign a theme to a tiki section or to an individual tiki object.

Theme selection policy

It is important to know how a theme will be selected by Tiki, the following policy is applied.

1. If there is a theme for the individual object being displayed, then that theme is used.
2. If not, then if there is a theme for the category where the object belongs, then that theme is used
3. If not, then if there is a theme for the current Tiki section, that theme will be used
4. If not, then if the user selected a theme, that theme is used (users must be permitted to select their theme on the Administration tiki-admin.php / Login page tiki-admin.php?page=login
5. If not, then the default site theme is used (specified on the Administration tiki-admin.php / General page tiki-admin.php?page=general )

Changing the css without the templates

If you have a theme xxx with its css styles/xxx.css and its templates in templates/styles/xxx/, you can define another theme xxx-yyy. It will use the css styles/xxx-yyy.css and the templates in templates/styles/xxx/

• Styles and Themes: A guide to the existing themes.
• Customizing Themes: How to create new themes

• More information and demos of Tiki themes.
  http://themes.tikiwiki.org
• Open Source Web Design.
  http://www.oswd.org/

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