Joomla Templates Club 406,261 posts

[Bob Meetin Friend Bob MeetinJoin date: September 2014Posts: 130Downloads:0Uploads:12 Thanks: 6 Thanked: 5 times in 1 posts]

#163224

This seems like it should be very straight forward, perhaps it is for people who regularly use administrative template programs, but not for me, someone more comfortable working on the UNIX command line. Anyhow the goal is very simple – to take an existing JA Droid theme, copy it, the folder as is, to a new folder as the new name, then in joomla administration template manager set it up to use new theme I just created/copied from, say, green.

Please check what I’ve written here and let me know what is wrong or missing.

Creating a custom theme –

1) http://$website/administrator/ –> Extensions –> Template Manager –> $template –> global – create the new pretty theme name called “Custom”
2) http://$website/administrator/ –> Extensions –> Template Manager –> $template –> global – scroll down to theme settings
move the new theme, Custom, to the front of the list
uncheck the far right box and save
3) UNIX file system – under templates/$template/core/themes copy an existing theme such as green to a name relevant to the new custom name, “custom”
4) http://$website/administrator/ –> Extensions –> Template Manager –> $template –> themes – the new theme, “custom”, should display in the list

How do I ensure that Bob’s Custom theme, “Custom” from #1 above is now linked to “custom” from #3 above?

[himangi Friend himangiJoin date: April 2011Posts: 1406Downloads:1Uploads:86 Thanks: 21 Thanked: 345 times in 332 posts]

#388230

Hi,

Please see that you have created a new theme as well as new profile as explained here http://wiki.joomlart.com/wiki/JA_T3_Framework_2/FAQs#Extra_themes

1. Once you have both thing ready, go to http://$website/administrator/ –> Extensions –> Template Manager –> $template –> Profile and click on your profile name below the tab title.
2. For your chosen profile, scroll down to find Advanced Settings. In this click on edit icon infront of Theme Settings and choose your theme and apply it.
3. The above two steps will connect your profile with your theme.
4. Now to use it for the site page find Page Assignments in Global tab (if you are using Joomla 1.5) else you will find Page Assignments in left column, below Template Details. You will see Pages & Profiles as titles of two columns.
5. Assuming that you want to apply your theme to all site pages, click on DEFAULT under Profiles title in second column, which will show you list of available profiles. Choose your profile from the list and save the template.

[kipperfletcher23 Friend kipperfletcher23Join date: February 2009Posts: 54Downloads:0Uploads:6 Thanks: 5 Thanked: 11 times in 1 posts]

#388745

Hi
My colour is not changing in JA Droid.
I have changed the theme as suggested and cleared cache
see: http://www.neilcallie.com.au

[himangi Friend himangiJoin date: April 2011Posts: 1406Downloads:1Uploads:86 Thanks: 21 Thanked: 345 times in 332 posts]

#388770

Hi,

Can you please PM me admin access and ftp access to your site? Also tell me name of the theme and name of the profile you have created.

[himangi Friend himangiJoin date: April 2011Posts: 1406Downloads:1Uploads:86 Thanks: 21 Thanked: 345 times in 332 posts]

#388809

Hi,

Settings on the backend seem right but it seems that you have copied default theme to create grey theme without changing stylesheet.. If I can access the files, I can find a solution.

[himangi Friend himangiJoin date: April 2011Posts: 1406Downloads:1Uploads:86 Thanks: 21 Thanked: 345 times in 332 posts]

#388812

Hi again, just checked the site again after clearing JAT3 cache, it is showing grey theme now. Please check and confirm.

[kipperfletcher23 Friend kipperfletcher23Join date: February 2009Posts: 54Downloads:0Uploads:6 Thanks: 5 Thanked: 11 times in 1 posts]

#389373

Hi himangi
yes that site has gone back to black. how can i change the colour in future. Do i need to adjust something in stylesheets?

[himangi Friend himangiJoin date: April 2011Posts: 1406Downloads:1Uploads:86 Thanks: 21 Thanked: 345 times in 332 posts]

#389376

Preferably you should create a new theme as explained in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU2-a0lLKQ0&playnext=1&list=PLBC9B0C0BFE98657E and change related images & styling as you need.

1 user says Thank You to himangi for this useful post

1. kipperfletcher23

[kipperfletcher23 Friend kipperfletcher23Join date: February 2009Posts: 54Downloads:0Uploads:6 Thanks: 5 Thanked: 11 times in 1 posts]

#389542

Last one here and I really thank you for your time. Changing menu font? which file and where?

[himangi Friend himangiJoin date: April 2011Posts: 1406Downloads:1Uploads:86 Thanks: 21 Thanked: 345 times in 332 posts]

#389564

You can change the font in <blockquote> #ja-mainnav .main {
font-family: Georgia,”Times New Roman”,Times,serif;
}</blockquote> on line no 408 in your templates/ja_droid/css/template.css

1 user says Thank You to himangi for this useful post

1. kipperfletcher23

[Author]

Posts