How to start with making theme from scratch? Necessary files and etc...

_dominik

I am very new to Vanilla forums and would like to learn how to create a custom theme.

Inside the theme folder I have added next files and folders:

• mytheme/addon.js
• mytheme/screenshot.png
• mytheme/design/custom.css
• mytheme/views/default.master.tpl (just saying Hello world to see if its working)

Unfortunately I don't see the theme inside the dashboard.

What am I missing? What are the necessary files and what is the basic configuration to at least see my theme inside the dashboard?

Vanilla version: 2.8.3

Kaspar

Clear /cache

Theme name must match excact to name in addon.js

Capitalization matters.

Kaspar

https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/33633/how-to-install-a-plugin-addon-theme

Bleistivt

addon.json

charrondev

https://docs.vanillaforums.com/developer/addons/theme-quickstart/

_dominik

Guys, thank you for the info. Actually, everything was fine but one thing. Inside addon.json I had an extra comma.

{
   "key1": "value1",
   "key2": "value2", // if I have a comma for the last key-value pair I have an invalid JSON....just had to remove that comma
}