The themes administration module allows you to view all active themes, create a new theme, regenerate the list of themes, change the global theme settings, edit an individual theme's settings, set the default theme, and delete a theme.
View: When you first click on the icon for the themes administration module or click on "Themes List" a list of themes is displayed.
Setting the Default Theme: The current default theme will be displayed with an asterisk (*) beside the name of the theme in the "Name" column of the available themes list. Themes that are capable of being set as the site default will have a green check mark icon in the "Options" column. Clicking on the green check mark icon will set that theme as the site default. You will be asked to confirm the change before it is made.
Editing A Theme: Clicking on the edit icon in the "Options" column will display the settings for that individual theme. See the "Creating A New Theme" section for more information.
Deleting A Theme: Clicking on the delete icon in the "Options" column of the available themes list will delete an individual theme. You will be asked for confirmation before the theme is actually deleted.
Create Theme: Clicking on the "Create Theme" link near the top of the page will allow you to create a new theme for your site from some pre-defined templates. See the "Creating A New Theme" section for more information.
Regenerate themes list: Clicking on this link will force Postnuke to poll your themes directory for newly uploaded themes and add them to the Available themes list.
Settings:
- Items per page: This setting determines how many themes will be shown before a new page is generated. If you have 35 themes installed and your items per page is set to 10, then you will have 4 pages of themes.
- Allow users to change themes: This will allow all registered users to choose which theme is to be used when they visit. Unchecking this option will force the default theme to be used.
- Check for updated version of templates: Checking this option will check to see if a new version of the template needs to be created. This setting is useful when making changes to your web site templates.
- Force templates recompilation: Checking this option will force the templated to be recompiled. This setting is useful when making changes to your web site templates.
- Delete compiled templates: Clicking this link will delete all compiled templates and force templates to be recompiled as required.
- Enable caching: Checking this option will create cached versions of rendered pages and may speed up your web site.
- Delete cached templates: Clicking this link will delete all cached templates.
- Use trimwhitespace output filter: Checking this option will remove any "white space" before the page is sent to the web site visitor. Depending on the amount of white space in your templates, this can make a differece in the render time on their end.
- Make urls clickable: Checking this option will cause correctly formatted links to be clickable.