New Lemmy admin here. I found the Theming Guide in the Lemmy docs, but it jumps directly to the ‘After a theme is added’ section without explaining how to add or create themes. I’ve searched for examples but couldn’t find any configuration that includes these details.
I found hanubeki-lemmy-themes, which actually contains some good themes. However, when I copied the 5 folder to my extra_theme folder, nothing happened. Can someone guide me on how to add these themes to my instance?
Update:
You should put all your css file in the extra_themes folder, each .css is a theme. For hanubeki-lemmy-themes I put all the dist and src files in extra_themes and it works. I already done this before, but my browser was [caching lemmy-ui static files for 24 hours], so when I delete the cache it just works.
Thank you Sami, it was a cash problem, I updated the post with more details
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You need to put the .css file directly into the extra_theme folder. As for documentation and how to make them I didn’t find much myself so I did some trial and error with another person’s custom theme. I’ve got some commented stuff at the bottom of our instance’s theme if that’s of any help.
I tried putting all the css files, but nothing works. Should I put them together in one file? Or is each file a single theme?
I set the
LEMMY_UI_EXTRA_THEMES_FOLDERenvironment variable to/app/extra_themesthen volume myextra_themeto it, which is# ... volumes: - ./lemmy-ui/extra_themes:/app/extra_themes # ...Is this right?
That looks correct to me. Try doing a Ctrl+F5 on the theme selection page in settings for it to show up in the dropdown if you haven’t done that.
I’ll try that, hope it works, thank you
Thanks Sami, it was a cache issue, I’ve updated the post with more details
