Thanks! 
 

is there a tutorial on how to install themes? I’m new to Elgg. 

Please read this guide.

Thanks man!

@Rohit Gupta Thanks for https://tradeguide.in/home - Awesome work!

@Sarath Elgg is not CMS but a framework that has several tools: functions library, classes, services, API.

There is some model/logic of your project based on Elgg (we calls them distributions but Elgg already has starter- project).
The default view of this project can be easily replaced by your owned views.

@Sarath Elgg is not CMS but a framework that has several tools: functions library, classes, services, API.

That exactly what I said. I am using Elgg as a framework only. But my worry is in duplicating all codes. There are many core elements which cannot be easily over-rided by copying the view files to your plugins.. And when you copy these core view files into your theme / plugin, each time when a new elgg version launches you have to cross check the core and may have to adapt to it. 

If using a framework for theming, a big chunk of duplicated core codes can be eliminated and further developments can be easily done using these frameworks.

I think ismayil did some work on elgg and foundation UI framework in past. He understood the real pain in using the duplicated core codes.

@Rohit : I see that you are using boot strap for tradeguid website.

If you and @Rvr looks into the code of your website, you can understand what I meant.

1. You are loading bootstrap UI over Elgg
2. Elgg got its own css and js codes for breadcrumps, navigation, modules, forms, buttons, image_blocks, system_messages, colorbox, popups etc..
3. Css, js for similar functionalities you are again loading through your bootstrap library.
4. Now this results in unnecessary code bloat.

Instead if Elgg is using a popular established UI framework for its core, we can theme additional contents easily.

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Check your server logs for this error https://ibb.co/c1JDG2K

What's the best way to do some basic CSS styling in Elgg 3, such as change some colors?

Read the docs.

are there any content card scraping plugins out there?

https://github.com/ColdTrick/oembed/releases

I’m remembering why I got rid of Elgg and tried something else. Such a helpful community here. Wow.

I already have oembed- I was asking about a scraper. I think it’s safe to say one doesn’t exist.

I’ll continue reading the docs or just find something else again that makes CSS editing more straightforward.

It seems the access to the theme's page was made private for some reason or there's some other issue with it. Google tells me the url to the Faculty theme should be https://elgg.org/plugins/2503696 but it's not accessible. The theme was published by rjcalifornia (https://elgg.org/profile/rjcalifornia). Maybe it helps to ask him what's the matter and if it would be possible to get the Faculty theme somehow.