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Todd Tomlinson, Beginning Backdrop CMS, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1970-6_14

14. Creating Themes

Todd Tomlinson

(1)Tigard, Oregon, USA

After searching through the contributed themes at http://backdropcms.org/themes , you may find yourself in a situation where none of the off-the-shelf themes meet the visual requirements for your new Backdrop site. In that scenario, the options are to change your requirements to meet one of the contributed themes, change a contributed theme to match your requirements, or create a new theme from scratch. This chapter shows you how to create a new Backdrop theme from scratch. Through this process, you gain enough information to understand the structure of Backdrop themes, enabling you to change an off-the-shelf ...

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