Theming for 3color Press

3color Press is being designed with theming in mind, that being said it’s still a work in progess. It uses flask/jinja two templating language and is pretty easy to get into. This Doc is a placeholder for much more info to come.

The current version of 3color Press allows you to override the default theme by providing your own theme in the project folder/themes folder and setting your configuration to use it.

Theme folder layout

The theme folder is simply a flask styled folder which must include the following two folders:

static - This is where css, images, and javascript folders and files go

example

-static
    -css
      main.css
    -js
      script.js
    -images
      logo.png

templates - this is where you make your jinja html templates.

This must contain the following files as for now these pages are rendered: * home.html * page.html * books.html * comic.html * news.html

Theming todo

In the development list on two do is providing more configurable variables for templates. (such as toggling pages or elements like the logo header and site name) as well as provide a theme bootstrap command to create new themes and provide an example default theme.