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- Submitting a theme to Packagist (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Publishing and distribution · Changed 01:08 pm
Publish a theme as a Composer package on Packagist - prerequisites, the Submit page, checking the package page, and testing composer require from a clean installation. - Third-party fonts, icons and libraries (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Publishing and distribution · Changed 01:08 pm
Check the license of every font, icon set and JavaScript or CSS library a theme ships, one by one - what to look for, where the notices go, and why self-hosting is preferred over CDNs. Not legal advice. - Version constraints your users write (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Publishing and distribution · Changed 01:08 pm
Recommend a Composer version constraint for your theme in its README - tilde, caret, exact pins and dev-main - what each lets an update bring, and how your numbering makes them safe. - When a release goes wrong (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Publishing and distribution · Changed 01:08 pm
What to do when a published theme release is broken - leave it in place, fix forward with the next version, say plainly what was wrong, and tell users which version to move to. - Writing release notes (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Publishing and distribution · Changed 01:08 pm
Write release notes users can act on - a headline, what changed for them, what they must do after upgrading, credits, and an honest note about any earlier mistake - with a real example from a published theme. - Activating a theme: ActiveExtensions and ActiveAccessExtensions (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
Switch a theme extension on for the whole installation or for one siteaccess, in the browser (Setup > Extensions) or on the command line, and run the steps that make the change visible. - Bundling content class packages with a theme (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
When a theme's templates expect content classes (article, event, blog post), ship them as content class packages in the theme's packages/ folder, as sevenx_themes_simple does, and tell users how to import them. - Checklist: the theme extension is ready (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
The checklist to run before a theme extension leaves your hands - structure, metadata, settings, license, Composer, packages, design quality and a clean repository - each item with the command or page that checks it. - Classic XML and JSON packages (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
The two formats an Exponential package can be stored in - classic package.xml and JSON package.json - what differs (checksums, file names, schema), when JSON helps a designer, and how to convert between them. - The Composer installer and the extension's folder name (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
How the legacy extension installer decides the folder a theme lands in - extra.ezpublish-legacy-extension-name, else the package name - why installer-name is not read, and how to check the result before publishing. - composer.json for a theme (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
Write the composer.json that makes a theme installable with composer require - name, description, type ezpublish-legacy-extension, license, authors, support, require, suggest and the extension name - with a complete… - Composer package or .ezpkg: which to ship (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
A decision table for shipping a theme as a Composer package, as an Exponential package (.ezpkg), or both - by who installs it, what it carries, how it is updated and where it is found. - require and suggest: what a theme depends on (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
Decide what goes into require and what into suggest in a theme's composer.json - PHP versions, the installer plugin, layouts or site API extensions - with the real choices of sevenx_themes_media and ezwebin, and version… - Copyright and author lines (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
How to write the copyright line of a theme in ezinfo.php, extension.xml, file headers and composer.json - years, holders, earlier authors of a ported or forked design - with real examples. - Declaring dependencies in extension.xml (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
The dependencies block of extension.xml - extends, requires and uses - what each does to the loading order, a real example, and how it relates to Composer's require. - The design extension wizard (Setup > RAD) (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
Generate a complete theme extension in a few minutes with the design extension wizard at /setup/designextension - every field, the file preview, Create in extension/ and Download as zip - step by step. - The design settings a theme ships (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
Which design settings belong in the theme extension and which belong to the installation - SiteDesign, AdditionalSiteDesignList[], StandardDesign and the stylesheet and script lists - with a recommended split. - Downloading the wizard's result as a zip (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
Use Download as zip in the design extension wizard to get a theme skeleton without writing to the server - when it is the better choice, what the archive contains, and what to do when the button is missing. - The design wizard's parts, one by one (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
Reference of every part the design extension wizard can write - the files each produces, whether it is on by default, and what to change in the result. - Exporting and importing with ezpm (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
Use ezpm.php, the package manager on the command line, to create a package, add classes, content or an extension, export it as .ezpkg, and import, check and install it elsewhere.
