Introduction to Themes
- Explain purpose public themes
- Show documentation
Theme Structure
- Theme Folder
- theme.ini, theme.jpg
- index.php
- collections/
- browse.php
- show.php
- css/
- screen.css
- print.css
- custom.php
- javascripts/
- common/
- header.php
- footer.php
- images/
- items/
- browse.php
- show.php
- Explain routing: that example.com/items/browse corresponds to /theme/items/browse.php. Similar in other cases.
Helper Functions
A brief demonstration of what various theme helper functions can do. Go through index.php and header.php, explain what various functions do.
- header()
- footer()
- settings()
- css()
- js()
- common()
- nav()
- Show how to add a navigation.
Public Home Page
- Getting featured item
- Getting featured collection
- Getting recent items uses a custom loop
Items and Collections
- Go over items/show.php
- Demonstrate how to alter show_item_metadata() to hide empty fields
- Demonstrate how to show specific fields using item() helper
- Explain the listing of collection
- Checks to see if the item belongs to a collection, then prints the collection
- Displaying files for Item
