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24jedi
Help installing templates

  • 2004/10/21 20:59

  • 24jedi

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Hello,

I am having trouble understanding how to install a template.

1. I have cloned the default template with no trouble. However, when I ftp'd into the theme directory, it is not listed.

2. I do see two other themes...phpkaox and x2t. Why aren't these listed in the template set manager ?

3. One more question. The template set manager states to upload a template it needs to be tar.gz/.tar .The only templates I have seen to download are in a .zip file.

I have unzipped a downloaded template...Then upladed it to my website in a new folder under the themes directory. Now, how do I get it to work from XOOPS ?

Thanks
Don
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ackbarr
Re:Help installing templates

templates != themes

Though they serve similar purposes, they control the rendering of two seperate aspects of your XOOPS sites. Themes control the rendering of the site-wide header, footer, and placeholders for each block. Templates control the rendering of a module's content, be it the content displayed in a block, or content that is displayed in the center of your site (like a forum thread, or a news article). Hopefully the following wiki document will help explain the difference:

http://wiki.xoops.org/wakka.php?wakka=ThemesVsTemplates
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24jedi
Re:Help installing templates

  • 2004/10/22 12:35

  • 24jedi

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Thanks

I guess I need to spend more time reading.
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tjnemez
Re:Help installing templates

  • 2004/10/22 12:54

  • tjnemez

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  • Since: 2003/9/21


also: http://docs.xoops.org/modules/xdocman/manual.php?lang=en&doc=xd-001&file=ch02s14.html
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infiniteg_it
Re: Help installing templates

The following links are broken...

http://wiki.xoops.org/wakka.php?wakka=ThemesVsTemplates

http://docs.xoops.org/modules/xdocman/manual.php?lang=en&doc=xd-001&file=ch02s14.html

Does anyone know where these pages were moved to?
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RobinH
Re: Help installing templates

  • 2005/9/25 16:56

  • RobinH

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I don't see that anyone's answered his questions other than directing him to go read something else. I've got 5 different CMS systems running on non-production server environments to find the "right one" and my question mirrors 24jedi's:
If I want to add a new 'theme' to my XOOPS board, doesn't that occur through 'Template Set Manager'?

I can't find anything else that directs me on where to load 'themes'. If that's true, that the theme's have to be loaded through the Template Set Manager, then why is your Theme's library all in *.zip format when your Template Set Manager requires them to be in tar.gz/.tar format?

This would be easier if the instruction set was clearer on how to install a new theme. I would think that the Theme's would be completely separate from Templates, just based on the responses I've seen here.
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m0nty
Re: Help installing templates

  • 2005/9/25 17:33

  • m0nty

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  • Since: 2003/10/24


ackbar answered that question above.

themes are themes, templates are templates..

so no, u don't upload themes with template manager, you upload templates with it. it's in the FAQ section.

https://xoops.org/modules/smartfaq/category.php?categoryid=17
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shelizard
Re: Help installing templates

  • 2006/2/24 3:57

  • shelizard

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So the question still remains how do you upload a THEME??? Or activate it... I have it on my ftp yet it does not show anywhere to choose it.
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m0nty
Re: Help installing templates

  • 2006/2/24 5:57

  • m0nty

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admin > system > preferences > select default theme etc..

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