5. Theming

Making a Theme

The easiest thing to do would be to copy an existing theme, like the default clean-creative theme. To do this, just copy resources/views/themes/clean-creative to resources/views/themes/my-new-theme.

Then, in the Settings menu of the admin dashboard change the theme to your new theme.

Installing a theme package

Installing a theme using the packagist name (e.g. vendor/theme):

php artisan flashtag:install-theme vendor/theme

Making a theme package

A) Starting From Scratch

To make your own theme from scratch id pretty simple.

1. Make a composer package

Add theme.php

<?php

return [

    'name' => 'clean-creative',

    'version' => '0.0.1',

    'views' => __DIR__.'/views',

    'assets' => __DIR__.'/assets',

];

2. Create your views

required blade views	variables available
home
posts.index	Collection $posts
posts.show	Post $post
posts.category	Category $category, Collection $posts
posts.tag	Tag $tag, Collection $posts
posts.author	Author $author, Collection $posts
pages.default-page	Page $page

B) Forking

Fork and edit the example repo.

Make sure you edit theme.php and composer.json!

Make a packagist package out of it.