By sammyman on

Can someone please tell me how to customize the Garland theme? I know you can edit the basic colors through the admin menu, but you can't edit anything else in the protected folders.

Is there a way to create a custom Garland theme and to customize every aspect of the css? Thanks.

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WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

garland is a notoriously difficult theme to customize. I would highly recommend going with one of the base themes that are meant to be customized (zen, framework, blueprint, etc.).

That said however, i think you just need to copy the garland folder to sites/all/themes, rename it to 'mygarland' or whatever you like, then change every instance of 'garland' to 'mygarland' in all the files.

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davidwhthomas’s picture

davidwhthomas commented

You don't need to rename to 'mygarland'

Just copy the garland folder from themes/garland to sites/all/themes/garland

Drupal will then prefer the sites/all/themes location and load from there.

I added a custom.css stylesheet to the new theme folder and changed garland.info

stylesheets[all][] = style.css
stylesheets[print][] = print.css
; add custom stylesheet
stylesheets[all][] = custom.css

Done.

P.S But yeah, use Zen or similar if you want to create a custom theme, garland is meant as is though you can add minor tweaks if you like.