Editing the "Embed-friendly" theme

Stanislav

Hey guys!

I am completely new to vanilla forums! I now utilize one such forum on my Wordpress site and the best theme for this purpose is the "Embed-Friendly" theme.

I like it a lot, but would love to change its color scheme from blue to black or orange (or a combination). I tried editing the "hex codes" in the .css file, but it did not work.

I guess it was a naïve attempt, but thought I'd give it a try. Can you guys tell me what I need to do if I am to change the colors?

Thanks in advance!

peregrine

what files did you edit?
you would need to edit within themes/EmbedFriendly/design

best to make changes in custom.css.

or within the theme you want to modify.

you may also need to delete the .ini files in /cache to see the effect.

Stanislav

It was indeed custom.css I edited.

But when I simply changed the color codes, I got this message when trying to apply the theme:

"Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class EmbedFriendlyThemeHooks in /home/[...]/vanilla/themes/EmbedFriendlySunny/class.embedfriendlythemehooks.php on line 11"

peregrine

like I said - try deleting your ini files.

you could also change line 11
to class EmbedSunnyThemeHooks implements Gdn_IPlugin {

as well as changing the name in the about file.

and read 422's documentation on themes.

Stanislav

Thanks a lot, buddy - it works now. I can see that some of my color changes have made it through, though not all. But I'll try to fiddle some more with it.

Where is this documentation?

422

If a css attribute doesnt seem to work add !important to the rule

peregrine

Stanislav said:
Thanks a lot, buddy - it works now. I can see that some of my color changes have made it through, though not all. But I'll try to fiddle some more with it.

Where is this documentation?

look at the top of the discussion page under announcements - there should be one about themes. Also - if you look for the word "documentation" at the top of the page you will see a link. The third place to look is in the announcement at the top of the page that says vanilla tutorial documentation site. Are these not viewable from your page???

peregrine

Hey @422, what the deal for clicking the abuse button on me here.

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/163677/#Comment_163677

Didi you click abuse because of this comment I added (lol)

and read 422's documentation on themes.>

no worries mate - I assume it was finger-lickin clickin mismatch.

I can only assume it was your cousin @423 or little brother @242 who did this.