Theme directory

In the standard Moodle distribution, all themes are placed in the theme/ directory.

Moodle is flexible and starting with 1.7, moodle will fully support changing the location of the theme directory.

Changing theme Location

Starting from Moodle 1.7, the location of themes may be altered, using the variables $CFG->themewww and $CFG->themedir - themes from placed in the specified directory will be able to be selected using the theme selector.

For example, should you wish to place themes in a subdirectory called 'my_moodle_themes', your config.php might look like this:

$CFG->wwwroot   = 'http://my.moodle.site.edu';
$CFG->dirroot   = '/var/www/my.moodle.site.edu/public_html';
$CFG->themewww  = $CFG->wwwroot . '/my_moodle_themes';
$CFG->themedir  = $CFG->dirroot . '/my_moodle_themes';

Theme directory for Developers

Developers should follow the Development:Theme directory guide

See Also

• Using Moodle Feature request: Themes path in a VAR
• Moodle Tracker [https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-6784 MDL-6784]