Newbie to Community, help and advise needed pls
By Andy1966uk
Hi,
New to elgg and finding it hard to find basic info. A couple of questions:-
1. I am trying to change the header colour of a theme and can't seem to find the css file where this is declared. I am tryign to use firebug but maybe that doesnt workj with elgg. Also want to use my own icons and can't even fidn where references to png or jpg files are.
Applogies if these seem basic questions. I ahave looked on youtube but there is only really help with installing. Any pointers or help much appreciated. BTW I have migrated away from Drupal :)
Thanks
Which version of elgg? check for any css.php file inside the theme
Version 1.8, I have looked, I just can't see any reference to how to colour the main banner or where the icons are. There appear no graphic folders for the theme so I have no idea how icons are generated...
Which theme are you using?
Arvixe/Elgg Community Liaison
I am using the community3_theme theme. I feel stupid because I can't event find out how to change the colour of the top banner/header, let along anything else.
When I use the firefox plugin developer and firebug they point to a file
http://www.iracebook.net/cache/css/default/elgg.1322926754.css
But when I view my file structure I cant find that ccs file..
Also no matter where I look I can't see where icons are kept so I can use custom icons.
I am use to drupal and whilst I can see how powerful elgg is and it's more of what I am after, I feel help back due to my lack of basic knowledge.
Look in mod/theme_name/views/default/css/elements/layout.php and change the style of elgg-page-header class
/cache/css/default...
This means you have caching turned on, so you won't be able to see any changes you make immediately anyway.
The trick to this is that the css is actually contained in php files, you're most likely looking for css files - which is completely understandable.
The theme should have either a css folder, or in the views folder a css.php file.
[edit] just checked on that theme and there is a css folder containing php files. Also there is a graphics folder at theme/graphics
Matt, much appreciated.. thx shall i turn caching off while modifying ?
Yes turn of caching while modifying, it'll make things much easier. When you're done, turn it back on.
If you don't turn caching off, everytime you FTP a new version of your css.php file onto your site you'll have to run www.yoursite.com/upgrade.php to see the changes appear.
It's not a huge hassle, but can get quite annoying after a while, especially if you are testing different border colours etc. :)
@Andy : have you seen http://docs.elgg.org/wiki/Themes ?
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