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== What is Theme Manager ==
 
== What is Theme Manager ==
  
Theme Manager allows you to create the look & feel of individual sections or categories, including the detail pages in them.
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Theme Manager allows you to easily manager customizations for individual sections and  categories in JReviews, including the listing detail pages.
  
On the Theme Manager page, when you click on '''Section Themes''' or '''Category Themes''' button,  you will see the list of all sections/categories and you can select a different category list view layout (Blogview, Tableview or Thumbview) and theme file suffix for each of them.
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In the Theme Manager page you'll find buttons for '''Section Themes''' and '''Category Themes'''. Clicking on them will display a list of all sections/categories allowing you to select a different layout (Blogview, Tableview or Thumbview) and assign theme file suffixes for each of them. Theme suffixes are explained in more detail below.
  
For any given page, except search result pages, the category setup is checked first, then the section setup and finally the global setting (items list tab in configuration settings).
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For any given page, except for search results, the category theme setup is checked first, then the section theme setup and finally the global setting (items list tab in configuration settings).
  
  
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<span style="color: blue">Example:</span>
 
<span style="color: blue">Example:</span>
 
*/listings/detail.thtml - original detail page theme file
 
*/listings/detail.thtml - original detail page theme file
*/listings/detail_services.thtml - modified file that will be used only for articles that belong to Services section
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*/listings/detail_services.thtml - modified file that will be used only for articles that belong to the Services section
  
  
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After adding new files into your theme, you must click on '''Clear File Registry''' link in JReviews Administration for JReviews to recognize new files.
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After adding new files to your theme, you must always click the '''Clear File Registry''' link in the JReviews Administration so JReviews can recognize the new files.
  
 
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Revision as of 14:32, 30 August 2010

What is Theme Manager

Theme Manager allows you to easily manager customizations for individual sections and categories in JReviews, including the listing detail pages.

In the Theme Manager page you'll find buttons for Section Themes and Category Themes. Clicking on them will display a list of all sections/categories allowing you to select a different layout (Blogview, Tableview or Thumbview) and assign theme file suffixes for each of them. Theme suffixes are explained in more detail below.

For any given page, except for search results, the category theme setup is checked first, then the section theme setup and finally the global setting (items list tab in configuration settings).


Examples

TemplateManager.png

When a suffix is assigned (i.e. _services), you can copy and rename any view/css file to use that suffix. If the file is found it will be used, otherwise the default view/css files are used.

Example:

  • /listings/detail.thtml - original detail page theme file
  • /listings/detail_services.thtml - modified file that will be used only for articles that belong to the Services section


To learn how to modify theme files and which files need to be modify, read Theme Customization articles


After adding new files to your theme, you must always click the Clear File Registry link in the JReviews Administration so JReviews can recognize the new files.

FileRegistry.png


Theme suffixes in menus and modules

You can also have different theme files for JReviews Menu items and Modules.

For the Menu Items, you can specify different theme suffix in the menu item's preferences.

For the Modules, you can specify different theme suffix in the module's preferences.