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Quick and Dirty Magento Theme Creation

Added by Daniel Curtis about 9 years ago. Updated almost 9 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Daniel Curtis
Target version:
Magento 1.9
Start date:
11/30/2015
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
1.00 h
Spent time:
1.50 h

Description

This is a guide for creating a theme from the default theme provided by Magento. This is frowned upon because the default features provided in a previous version of Magento may not work on newer versions.

But for the sake of ease, I choose to ignore this warning. So this is a simple guide that I use for quickly creating a Magento theme to dirty up from the default theme.

  1. Copy over the default frontend app design folder to the new_theme folder:
    cp -r /usr/local/www/magento/app/design/frontend/default/default /usr/local/www/magento/app/design/frontend/default/new_theme
  2. Copy over the base default frontend skin folder:
    cp -r /usr/local/www/magento/skin/frontend/base/default /usr/local/www/magento/skin/frontend/default/new_theme
  3. Login to the Magento admin panel, then System -> Design.
  4. Click on Add Design Change, then set the Custom Design to new_theme.

Now the images, CSS files, and various theme files in the app/design/frontend/default/new_theme and skin/frontend/default/new_theme folder can be changed.

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