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Questions tagged [theme]

Questions about creating, modifying and configuring Magento themes

A theme is a design package consisting of layout (XML), templates (PHTML) and skin (CSS, JS, images)

Most commercial themes ship with modules for additional features and configuration.

See also

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Theming - starting from scratch

What is the preferred method of beginning a full site build, from scratch? My builds typically begin from fully mocked-up HTML5 wireframe pages, and we plug in functionality from there. But, part of me feels that most of the time in the late stages…
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When to use method insert (xml)

I would like to understand when (and why) should I use ... instead of using …
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installing a theme

I am trying to install theme porto in vain. Here is where I am getting a problem on the instructions. Active SW Extensions, open command line in folder root of magento and run commands, php bin/magento setup:upgrade what is active SW extension? I…
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Display categories tree

I cannot seem to find an answer for this anywhere! I am trying to make a custom theme based on the bootstrapped theme, and I cannot find anywhere how to simply list the categories! I've tried basing it off the modern theme with topmenu.phtml which…
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Layered Navigation not affecting result on page

I have created a module to show all products with special price. I have added layered navigation to left block. It shows proper product count. But When I click any of filter (like category, price range), it doesn't affect number of products on…
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Set up multiple templates on one store

I have one domain with one store and store views for each language. I would like to set up an over branding system on the site but without duplicating all the products. Is there a way to set up several themes on each store view so that based on…
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Proper exception list for iPhone - Android etc theme

I am using this list for our iPhone theme iPhone|iPod|BlackBerry|Palm|Googlebot-Mobile|Mobile|mobile|mobi|Windows Mobile|Safari Mobile|Android|Opera Mini We see the theme when viewing from a testing site (Virtual phone) but when I look at it on a…
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The best approach for a complete redesign of Magento site

i'm wanting to redo an existing Magento site (mostly for asthetic reasons) Ive found a theme I want to customise I need to know whether it would be quicker/best to start a fresh installation, add the theme, and then import products and configure…
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What are the advantages of created a custom package?

What are the advantages of created MyPackage/MyTheme instead of default/MyTheme ? Since app/design/frontend/default/default is almost completely empty (no template folder, no local.xml) we could customize files here. In skin/frontend/default/default…
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How do I change the color of this?

And yet one more question. I am full of them. I doubt this will be my last. On my page www.indigomeadowscrafting.com there is a gray bar at the top. How do I change that color? Where is it in the files? I have been through every file I can think of…
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How do I install a non-default theme?

I am trying to add a second, non-default, theme to our storefront. I read how to properly identify the templates, css, etc. in the configuration settings, and I have copied over what seems to be the correct folder structure for my new theme, but I…
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My second website is displaying the default theme instead of my custom theme

I am setting up a second website on my magento system. Eventually this will have its own domain name and be hosted in my main magento installation. To allow me some time to finalise the domain name and test some themes I would like to set up the new…
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Apply An Existing Theme

I have downloaded a theme from themelock.com. After unzipping the theme i have following folders: app skin js media. I have merged these folders with magento main folder. In the configuration>design tab for DEFAULT…
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Changing downloaded themes

I have a "simple" question. I've tried to google it but without success. I've recently downladed a custom theme from the magento site. Now, I have changed my CMS pages to this new theme, but where can I change the skin for my wihlist, my account, my…
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I want to know the name of the theme in the below site

I want to know the name of the theme of this website https://www.nappadori.com/ . I have seen this question How to check which theme is being used in a magento based website. to detect the theme but the theme folder is named as the name of the…
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