Making your 1.2 template a 1.3 “Theme”

  • I just got Root’s “Gemini” template turned into a theme for WP 1.3. Took a small amount of guesswork and an email to Ryan Boren, but it is now working on my site (I think).
    This example is specific to Gemini alone; however, it should be easy to modify to meet the needs of other templates.
    Step 1: The CSS must be named style.css, vice wp-layout.css.
    Step 2: The CSS file needs a header in it that resembles this (yanked from Kubrick’s css):
    /*
    Theme Name: Gemini
    Theme URI: https://atthe404.com/wordpress/
    Description: The Gemini theme.
    Version: 1.3.0alpha1
    Author: Root
    Author URI: https://atthe404.com/
    */
    Just thrown in at the top.
    For the index file to see the css, I changed this line in index.php:
    @import url( <?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>/wp-layout.css );
    to this:
    @import url( <?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?> );
    Also make sure this change has been made to the index.php:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/6/12371
    Hope this helps those who are using nightly builds and want to play with different templates.
    I think that covered all my steps… I wasn’t writing them down, but it didn’t take long. If this doesn’t work for someone, let me know and I’ll try to re-trace them. ??

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  • @ben y thank you for that. It is certainly going to be useful for folks to see the theme switcher running using a simple model. I would like to add two things though. One is that adding the comments line into a 1.2 file is a quick and dirty hack which we all do but when Gemini is upgraded it is prolly going to need to follow the default file more closely (ie separate calls) to header footer etc and all that malarkey.
    Secondly the big opportunity is the ability now to fit one or even a series of index files and multiple style sheets . using the same files (templates in theme speak). I have mine up and running. I hope to do an alpha release soonish. ??

    Is theming a replacement for Alex’s style switcher or will they operate side-by-side?

    To my knowledge no other blog programme has anything remotely similar.
    Themes *are* very cool, but let’s not overdo the hyperbole; Blosxom has had this ability from the beginning. In fact, in Blosxom the blog viewer can select the theme or flavour simply by changing the filename extension part of the URL.

    Forgot to login.

    I am nearly ready to zip ??

    Good one, Beel. I stand corrected.

    Just havin’ a little early mornin’ fun… and just zip it Root.

    Hyperbole heck ? It is going to be awesome ??

    Well thats what you get messing with stuff ??

    I started making a new theme called Blue Gemini…
    Of cource the css needs a lot of work !
    https://www.kyramarios.gr/future/
    you see l like “messing”with stuff ??
    by the way….. WP 1.3 ROCKS !!!

    Nice work ??

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