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# Themes
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* [Home](help)
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To change the look of friendica you have to touch the themes.
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The current default theme is [Vier](https://github.com/friendica/friendica/tree/stable/view/theme/vier) but there are numerous others.
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Have a look at [github.com/bkil/friendica-themes](https://github.com/bkil/friendica-themes) for an overview of the existing themes.
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In case none of them suits your needs, there are several ways to change a theme.
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So, how to work on the UI of friendica.
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You can either directly edit an existing theme.
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But you might loose your changes when the theme is updated by the friendica team.
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If you are almost happy with an existing theme, the easiest way to cover your needs is to create a new theme, inheriting most of the properties of the parent theme and change just minor stuff.
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The below for a more detailed description of theme heritage.
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Some themes also allow users to select *variants* of the theme.
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Those theme variants most often contain an additional [CSS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS) file to override some styling of the default theme values.
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From the themes in the main repository *vier* and *vier* are using this methods for variations.
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Quattro is using a slightly different approach.
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Third you can start your theme from scratch.
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Which is the most complex way to change friendicas look.
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But it leaves you the most freedom.
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So below for a *detailed* description and the meaning of some special files.
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### Styling
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If you want to change the styling of a theme, have a look at the themes CSS file.
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In most cases, you can found these in
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/view/theme/**your-theme-name**/style.css
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sometimes, there is also a file called style.php in the theme directory.
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This is only needed if the theme allows the user to change certain things of the theme dynamically.
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Say the font size or set a background image.
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### Templates
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If you want to change the structure of the theme, you need to change the templates used by the theme.
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Friendica themes are using [SMARTY3](http://www.smarty.net/) for templating.
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The default template can be found in
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/view/templates
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if you want to override any template within your theme create your version of the template in
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/view/theme/**your-theme-name**/templates
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any template that exists there will be used instead of the default one.
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### JavaScript
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The same rule applies to the JavaScript files found in
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/js
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they will be overwritten by files in
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/view/theme/**your-theme-name**/js.
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## Creating a Theme from Scratch
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Keep patient.
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Basically what you have to do is identify which template you have to change so it looks more like what you want.
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Adopt the CSS of the theme accordingly.
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And iterate the process until you have the theme the way you want it.
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*Use the source Luke.* and don't hesitate to ask in @[developers](https://forum.friendi.ca/profile/developers) or @[helpers](https://forum.friendi.ca/profile/helpers).
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## Special Files
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### unsupported
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If a file with this name (which might be empty) exists in the theme directory, the theme is marked as *unsupported*.
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An unsupported theme may not be selected by a user in the settings.
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Users who are already using it wont notice anything.
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### README(.md)
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The contents of this file, with or without the .md which indicates [Markdown](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) syntax, will be displayed at most repository hosting services and in the theme page within the admin panel of friendica.
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This file should contain information you want to let others know about your theme.
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### screenshot.[png|jpg]
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If you want to have a preview image of your theme displayed in the settings you should take a screenshot and save it with this name.
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Supported formats are PNG and JPEG.
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### theme.php
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This is the main definition file of the theme.
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In the header of that file, some meta information is stored.
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For example, have a look at the theme.php of the *vier* theme:
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<?php
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/**
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* [Licence]
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* Name: Vier
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* Version: 1.2
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* Author: Fabio <http://kirgroup.com/profile/fabrixxm>
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* Author: Ike <http://pirati.ca/profile/heluecht>
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* Author: Beanow <https://fc.oscp.info/profile/beanow>
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* Maintainer: Ike <http://pirati.ca/profile/heluecht>
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* Description: "Vier" is a very compact and modern theme. It uses the font awesome font library: http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/
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*/
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You see the definition of the theme's name, it's version and the initial author of the theme.
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These three pieces of information should be listed.
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If the original author is no longer working on the theme, but a maintainer has taken over, the maintainer should be listed as well.
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The information from the theme header will be displayed in the admin panel.
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The first thing in file is to import the `App` class from `\Friendica\` namespace.
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use Friendica\App;
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This will make our job a little easier, as we don't have to specify the full name every time we need to use the `App` class.
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The next crucial part of the theme.php file is a definition of an init function.
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The name of the function is <theme-name>_init.
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So in the case of vier it is
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function vier_init(App $a) {
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$a->theme_info = array();
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$a->set_template_engine('smarty3');
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}
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Here we have set the basic theme information, in this case they are empty.
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But the array needs to be set.
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And we have set the template engine that should be used by friendica for this theme.
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At the moment you should use the *smarty3* engine.
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There once was a friendica specific templating engine as well but that is not used anymore.
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If you like to use another templating engine, please implement it.
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If you want to add something to the HTML header of the theme, one way to do so is by adding it to the theme.php file.
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To do so, add something alike
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DI::page()['htmlhead'] .= <<< EOT
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/* stuff you want to add to the header */
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EOT;
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So you can access the properties of this friendica session from the theme.php file as well.
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### default.php
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This file covers the structure of the underlying HTML layout.
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The default file is in
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/view/default.php
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if you want to change it, say adding a 4th column for banners of your favourite FLOSS projects, place a new default.php file in your theme directory.
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As with the theme.php file, you can use the properties of the $a variable with holds the friendica application to decide what content is displayed.
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