Hi Phillip
Sure, make sure any custom graphics go into a theme plugin and are referenced by the themes css.
Ditto for any language customisations - they too should be added as a plugin.

This way you won't lose your changes when upgrading.

So, let me make sure I understand you correctly...

If I put my files that are in <webroot>/_graphics in <webroot>/mod/<themedir>/_graphics/ and put <webroot>/mod/<themedir>/languages/ it will work?

My big question with the languages file is if my languages file only contains my modified messages, but not other messages, will the site look to the <webroot>/languages/languagefile.php file for the ones that aren't in the plugin?

Let me know if I need to clarify that a bit...

Thanks!

Pete -

Looks like I get it. I took apart the tidypics plugin which really extends everything. Language, Graphics, Groups, Users etc. etc. I was able to get a good grasp of theme modification and plugins from that.

Thanks for your help!

p

@pete Could you point the way to making an override for languages/en.php?

What would the start.php look like?

Thanks,

Steve

Steve,

All you would really need to do is initialize the plugin with the system to be honest, like you were creating a theme. So for example -

<?php

function theme_init() {

}

register_elgg_event_handler('init','system','theme_init');

?>

Hmmm. I'm not able to get that to work for me. There must be more to it, or I am missing something.