• Getting started: Configuring your sub-theme

The wizard asks you the following questions and uses your responses to build your subtheme:

  1. Please enter the name of the new sub-theme [Omega Subtheme]: Yoursubthemename
  2. Please enter a machine-readable name for your new theme [yoursubthememachinename]:
  3. Please choose a base theme for your new theme
    [0] : Cancel
    [1] : Ohm (Subtheme of Omega)
    [2] : Omega
  4. Please choose a starterkit for your new theme
    [0] : Cancel
    [1] : Extended: This is a short description for the Extended starterkit. (Provided by
    Omega)
    [2] : Default: This is a short description for the Default starterkit. (Provided by
    Omega)
  5. Please choose a destination. This is where your sub-theme will be placed
  6. Please choose a destination type.
    [0] : Cancel
    [1] : Site (e.g. 'all' or 'example.com')
    [2] : Installation profile
    [3] : Parent theme
  7. Please choose a site.
    [0] : Cancel
    [1] : all
  8. Do you want to keep the starterkit's readme files? (y/n):
  9. Do you want to enable your new theme? (y/n):
  10. Do you want to make your new theme the default theme? (y/n):

    11. If everything went as it should you will see the following message:
    You have successfully created the theme Yourthemename (yourthememachinename) in sites/all/themes. [success]


Proceed to next page; Creating a custom layout

Comments

ianthomas_uk’s picture

ianthomas_uk
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Location Brighton, UK
commented

The best information I could find about the two starterkits is at https://drupal.org/node/1902666

To summarise, the 'extended' starterkit gives additional structure to your scss files.

fubhy’s picture

fubhy commented

Why do we have this page? It's just a copy&paste of the output of the Drush subtheme wizard. Let's remove it and instead add a section to the previous page explaining the different choices for base theme / starterkit / etc.

Victoria9’s picture

Victoria9 commented

How is drush used and where is download? Are there instructions that a first timer user will understand?

dhineshkumar’s picture

dhineshkumar commented

Hi,

I don't know which operating system you are running. However, the following link explains how to download drush for Ubuntu operating system.

http://www.matsearle.com/blog/drush-drupal-ubuntu

karolus’s picture

karolus commented

Drush is a command-line interface for working with Drupal. For the inexperienced, it may be a bit intimidating at first, but once it becomes familiar, is an incredible timesaver. Many common and repetitive tasks (such as installing modules, or even an entire Drupal core install) can be done with a few short commands.

If you have limited experience, or are entirely new to working with a CLI (command line interface), you may want to check out lynda.com. There are a few courses there dealing with Drupal, and even Drush, specifically.

Trust me, it's well worth the time to learn how to use it...