http://localhost/ticket/1380 <p> While integrating the new theme and making a large number of UX tweaks, I've allowed the CSS file to bloat out of control with some very specific rules and subtle hacks, as well as a couple of clearfix &lt;div&gt; objects in the markup which isn't really good practice. </p> <p> In general we want a logical CSS structure which is as easy to modify as possible. You should not find yourself being overwritten by highly specific rules all the time! </p> <h2 id="Actions">Actions</h2> <ol><li>Clean up css </li><li>Add a config option ckan.template_head_end - arbitrary string inserted at end of &lt;head&gt; tag so you can add custom css etc (may also want to update theming docs to reflect possibility of using this) </li><li>(While we're at it): Add ckan.template_footer_end config option to deployment.ini_template. (This already exists, we just haven't told anybody) </li><li>The /users index page isn't linked anywhere. Clean it up and link it in the footer next to Groups etc. </li><li>package/new, package/edit, group/new and group/edit all include their forms differently. Use h.literal in all cases. </li><li>Fix the padding on minornavigation. </li></ol><h2 id="Background">Background</h2> <p> David Read sent me the following as background: </p> <ol class="upperalpha" start="22"><li>basic theming is described here: <a class="ext-link" href="http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/theming.html"><span class="icon">​</span>http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/theming.html</a> </li></ol><p> Deep customisation of the templates is done by creating an extension, with this as a template: <a class="ext-link" href="https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckanext-exampletheme/overview"><span class="icon">​</span>https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckanext-exampletheme/overview</a> </p> <p> That's what Augusto and the Brazilians have done <a class="ext-link" href="http://alpha.dados.gov.br/dados/"><span class="icon">​</span>http://alpha.dados.gov.br/dados/</a> and their code is here: hg clone <a class="ext-link" href="http://dev.dados.gov.br/codigo/dev/tema-ckan"><span class="icon">​</span>http://dev.dados.gov.br/codigo/dev/tema-ckan</a> &lt;snip&gt; Another thing of interest was us becoming compatible with Wordpress themes last December. Richard Pope worked with Rufus on this. I believe the base theme is 'twentyten' and I'm guessing that one would swap that css file with another to change theme, but I don't know. I don't know if this feature has been dropped since then. <a class="ext-link" href="http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-dev/2010-December/000073.html"><span class="icon">​</span>http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-dev/2010-December/000073.html</a> </p> <p> Dave </p> en-us http://assets.okfn.org/p/ckan/img/ckan_logo_shortname.png http://localhost/ticket/1380 Trac 0.12.3 dread Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:24:24 GMT http://localhost/ticket/1380#comment:1 http://localhost/ticket/1380#comment:1 <ul> <li><strong>cc</strong> <em>dread</em> added </li> </ul> Ticket rgrp Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:21:06 GMT http://localhost/ticket/1380#comment:2 http://localhost/ticket/1380#comment:2 <ul> <li><strong>priority</strong> changed from <em>awaiting triage</em> to <em>major</em> </li> <li><strong>summary</strong> changed from <em>Adding custom CSS could be easier</em> to <em>Making customizing CSS easier</em> </li> <li><strong>description</strong> modified (<a href="/ticket/1380?action=diff&amp;version=2">diff</a>) </li> <li><strong>milestone</strong> changed from <em>ckan-backlog</em> to <em>ckan-sprint-2011-11-07</em> </li> </ul> Ticket zephod Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:31:19 GMT http://localhost/ticket/1380#comment:3 http://localhost/ticket/1380#comment:3 <ul> <li><strong>description</strong> modified (<a href="/ticket/1380?action=diff&amp;version=3">diff</a>) </li> </ul> Ticket zephod Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:10:54 GMT http://localhost/ticket/1380#comment:4 http://localhost/ticket/1380#comment:4 <ul> <li><strong>status</strong> changed from <em>new</em> to <em>closed</em> </li> <li><strong>resolution</strong> set to <em>fixed</em> </li> </ul> <p> <a class="ext-link" href="https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckan/changeset/f600e0d37f6c"><span class="icon">​</span>https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckan/changeset/f600e0d37f6c</a> </p> Ticket dread Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:12:04 GMT http://localhost/ticket/1380#comment:5 http://localhost/ticket/1380#comment:5 <p> This has gone into v1.5.1. </p> Ticket