No one can help?

The making of themes has not changed from 5.4.x to 5.5.x

if you want an in-depth tutorial, check out: http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/making-a-t...

Mike

Hi Vapor,
I don't think there is anything 5.5 specific yet. If you have figured it out, you are welcome to post a how-to, I think it would be very well received. Otherwise we will get to a how-to eventually.

What does andy's tutorial miss?

As Mike said nothing has changed, I build them the same way as I did (almost).

There is one thing actually, instead of using scrapbooks you use global areas,

That is simply replacing the Block::getByName('my_site_name') with

That's what I was thinking of too Mnkras.

I say again, what bits did Andy miss?

Was it in a document or a video?

Not so much that he "missed" anything, but that he produced that video with a much earlier version of C5.

I've attached a comprehensive theme reference sheet I made for my own use when I got tired of searching in several different places for all the information I needed to build a theme. It includes everything I've discovered that is new to 5.5.

Hopefully this will be useful to all theme developers. I plan to keep it up to date. Feel free to suggest any additions or corrections you know about. This, along with Andrew's how-to video, should pretty much get anyone up to speed with developing new themes.

Looks like a useful resource, though you may want to check on the use of 'Sitewide' in the area names. I think C5 may add that prefix for you to a Global Area, so if you named a globval area 'Sitewide Header Nav', then during edit it would be labelled 'Sitewide Sitewide Header Nav'.

Thanks for the input. I'll play with it today and update accordingly.

Confirmed; I have replaced my original attachment with an updated one. Thanks again for that bit of information.

Pretty sure Andy didn't mention anything about the footer required call. You need the footer required call for edit mode in 5.5+.

All the code you need for a concrete5.5+ theme is in this pastie:

http://pastie.org/3297197

As Mnkras mentioned, the up-to-date howto is

http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/making-a-t...

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