Category Design

Category Themes

• If you want to create design variations for categories, there are a couple of approaches for achieving this. Each approach has it's advantages and disadvantages, so choose the one that best fits your needs.

Using Category Setting to Apply a Category Theme

• The first approach is to use the option to allow different themes for different categories (or for different course, for that matter).
• You would then have to design different themes for different categories and apply the theme to that category. Upload the themes to your theme folder.
• Apply category themes by:
  • Going to Site Administration>>Appearance>>Themes>>Theme Settings and check the option to allow category themes.
  • In the Category page turn editing on and click the icon to edit category setting.
  • Choose the category theme from the dropdown list next to the "Force Theme" settings, and save the changes.

• PROS and CONS of this approach:
  • PROS: Completely different themes may be used for different categories, creating a very distinctive view for the category.
  • CONS: Using category themes may affect performance. Creating category themes or creating child themes may require quite a lot of work, so this approach is easier to use if you are using existing or 3rd party themes.

Using CSS to Define Category-Specific Theme changes

• PROS and CONS of this approach:
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