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- The site style package (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
The Site style wizard packs two stylesheets (site and classes), their images and a thumbnail into an Exponential package; what it is for, each step, and when a full theme extension is the better choice. - Siteaccess settings inside a theme (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
Ship settings that apply only while one siteaccess runs, in extension/<theme>/settings/siteaccess/<siteaccess>/, and settings for all of a theme's siteaccesses in settings/override/ - with the example of… - Template operators in a theme (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
Add a template operator to a theme - the operator class, autoloads/eztemplateautoload.php, ExtensionAutoloadPath[] and the autoload array - and avoid the one file the design wizard does not write. - Testing a Composer install before publishing (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
Install your theme into a throwaway Exponential installation through a Composer path or vcs repository before you submit it to Packagist, and check the folder name, the files and the rendered page. - Theme extensions: start here (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
The map of everything about packing a design into a theme extension - folder structure, ezinfo.php and extension.xml, the settings a theme ships, the RAD design wizard, Composer packages and Exponential packages… - Translations in a theme (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
Ship the interface texts of a theme in several languages - translations/<locale>/translation.ts, TranslationExtensions[], the i18n operator with the theme's own context - and keep the files complete. - Troubleshooting theme extensions (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
Symptoms and fixes for theme extensions - the design is not used, a new template is ignored, the About page shows no version, Composer installs into the wrong folder, an operator is unknown, an export is refused. - Validating a package before you share it (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
Check a package the way an installation will check it before you hand it out - the Validate button, ezpm validate, the upload rules (gzip, sizes, entries, safe paths, well-formed package.xml) and a manual look inside… - What a theme extension is (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
A theme extension is one folder under extension/ that carries a design and everything it needs; why designs belong there and not in the installation's own design/ folder, with three real themes as examples. - What an Exponential package (.ezpkg) is (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
An Exponential package is a directory with a package.xml, exported as one .ezpkg file (a gzip compressed tar); what it can carry, where packages live, how they are installed, and how that differs from a Composer package. - Giving a theme its own settings file (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme extensions · Changed 01:08 pm
Give a theme its own settings file (mytheme.ini) with documented defaults, read it from templates with ezini() and from PHP with eZINI, and let installations override it safely. - An accessibility audit for every release (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Maintenance life cycle · Changed 01:08 pm
A repeatable accessibility audit before each theme release - axe on the page list at three widths in light and dark, keyboard walk, zoom, contrast - recording results and fixing serious issues first, as the 7x themes… - Adopting an abandoned theme (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Maintenance life cycle · Changed 01:08 pm
Take over a theme whose author stopped maintaining it - ask first, then continue in the original repository if you are given access, or fork it under a new name; and how old extensions from the community archive can be… - Announcing end of life (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Maintenance life cycle · Changed 01:08 pm
What an end-of-life announcement for a theme says - the date, what stops, what stays available, the successor or ways forward, and how to reach paying customers - with a text to adapt. - Archiving a repository (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Maintenance life cycle · Changed 01:08 pm
Archive a theme's GitHub repository so it stays readable and installable but takes no new changes, and mark the Packagist package as abandoned with a successor - without deleting anything. - Breaking changes and the next major version (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Maintenance life cycle · Changed 01:08 pm
When a theme change forces users to act - removed templates or settings, a raised minimum version, a redesign - group it, move a higher version position deliberately, write an upgrade guide, and keep the previous line… - Comparing your overrides with the standard templates (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Maintenance life cycle · Changed 01:08 pm
Find out whether the standard templates you copied into your theme changed upstream - list your copies, diff them against the new release, and merge fixes (especially escaping and accessibility fixes) into your versions. - A compatibility matrix (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Maintenance life cycle · Changed 01:08 pm
Keep a table of which theme versions were tested with which Exponential, PHP, server engine and database versions, and the browsers and widths you check - how to fill it honestly and where to publish it. - Contributing back upstream (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Maintenance life cycle · Changed 01:08 pm
Send fixes and improvements back to the themes, extensions and the Exponential project you build on - what to contribute, how to prepare a change, and why it pays off in less maintenance for you and shared growth for… - Credits and attribution (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Maintenance life cycle · Changed 01:08 pm
Credit everyone whose work is in a theme - original authors of ported or forked designs, contributors, reporters, third-party assets - in copyright lines, changelogs and README, with real examples from the 7x themes.
