Basic steps to create a Gantry theme from scratch
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- Leandro Peracchi
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Hi everbody!
I'm looking for a tutorial on how to create a Gantry theme from scratch.
Someone know where to find directions, besides the official Gantry documentation?
There is an amazing short course on Grav, from tutsplus.com named "Up and Running with Grav CMS (by Kezz Bracey)" that teaches how to create a theme from scratch on "pure" Grav. I would like to see something like that course for Gantry (preferably focused on Grav).
Thanks!
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- Damir
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- First download this and see what files it has gantry.org/downloads Helium Theme , then go trough the official docs to understated how it works. To write a tutorial for this there could be a 1000 pages on how to make some stuff. You need to learn the basics on how to make your won layout, how to make particle etc.... all in official docs.
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- Leandro Peracchi
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Damir, thanks for your tips.
From my point of view, as a newbie, what you suggests is like a reverse-engineering approach. Can be done, of course, but I fear that now I don't have knowledge and time to go by this road.
As I mentioned earlier, that short course on Grav showed me how to create a new template with only three files: blueprints.yaml, theme-name.yaml and theme-name.php. After that, a folder named css with custom.css put me on charge to move on, in my own pace. I know that there are tons of things to experiment with but at least I can start a little website with my own theme and improve it slowly.
I would like to begin with Grav + Gantry the same way, creating a new theme only with my own sections, no css at all, maybe no atoms or particles and then begin to add atoms and particles, learning all I can in the process.
Anyway, thanks for answer.
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- Damir
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- My suggestion install the Grav and Gantry 5 and Base Helium theme and see how it works that way you will learn. Also it depends how good you are with PHP, SCSS, CSS, JS and all other stuff that you need to put something together!
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