The easiest way is to copy a skin, change the directory name and start making changes (be sure to edit the skin.xml file to avoid conflicts)
Required templates
Your theme must implement the following cfm templates:
- index.cfm: corresponds to the blog's main page
- post.cfm: where a single post is shown
- page.cfm: the default template for pages
- generic.cfm: a generic template that can be used to show errors and by plugins to show their information when they need a page by themselves
- archives.cfm: where the archives by date, category, and searches are shown
- author.cfm: shows author information
Theme registration
It must also contain an xml file:
If this file is not found, then the theme cannot be used.
Tags
Tags you can use in your template
Template events
Events a skin template should broadcast:
- beforeHtmlHeadEnd: right before closing tag
- beforeCommentFormEnd: only when there is a comment form (post.cfm, page.cfm)
- beforeSideBarEnd: takes one attribute, number, which indicates what sidebar number we are rendering when there is more than 1
- afterSideBarStart (same arguments as above)
- afterHtmlBodyStart
- beforeHtmlBodyEnd
- afterFooterStart
- beforeFooterEnd
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