The CKAN web interface's HTML, CSS and JavaScript are fully customizable by creating a CKAN theme. If you just want to do some simple customizations such as changing the title of your CKAN site, or making some small CSS customizations, /getting-started
documents some simple configuration settings you can use. If you want more control, follow the tutorials below to learn how to develop your custom CKAN theme.
Note
Before you can start developing a CKAN theme, you’ll need a working source install of CKAN on your system. If you don't have a CKAN source install already, follow the instructions in /install-from-source
before continuing.
Note
CKAN theme development is a technical topic, for web developers. The tutorials below assume basic knowledge of:
We also recommend familiarizing yourself with:
templates static-files css javascript jinja-tags variables-and-functions template-helper-functions template-snippets