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Packaging Plugins & Themes

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nairdo edited this page Aug 13, 2012 · 10 revisions

For now, you can package your theme or plugin (a collection of one or more blocks and corresponding image, css, javascript artifacts) using the NuGet Package Explorer.

Packaging a Theme

  1. Start the explorer (NPE) and select 'Create a new package'.
  2. Edit the Metadata and fill out...
  • the permanent Id for your package
  • Version (please use Semantic Versioning)
  • the Icon Url should be a 128x128 jpg/png thumbnail representing your theme
  • your Author username, a Description and one or two appropriate Tags (use theme since it's a theme).
  1. From the menu, select Content to add a 'Content Folder'
  • under the content folder, add a Themes folder.
  • under Themes, add your custom theme folder (you can drag and drop it under the Themes folder you just created.) NuGet Package Explorer
  1. Save the Metadata (.nuspec) and the package (.nupkg) files
  2. Publish the theme package file at quarry.rockchms.com

NOTE: If you create a new version of your package that you intend on publishing, you MUST increment the version number as specified in the Semantic Versioning standard.

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