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This is a contributed (third party) three column full width theme for Moodle written by Lei Zhang and maintained now by Paul Nichols.

The theme is customisable through Moodle's theme settings.

Theme Features

Main feature of Decaf: the Awesome Bar navigation which is at the top rather than at the side.
Plus there is a nice small edit button rather than the usual row of icons.

Configurable Options

Important Note: When making changes to any theme please ensure that Theme Designer Mode is enabled to ensure your changes appear.

As themes are, by nature, a visual medium, these instructions xxx

xxx.jpg

Theme Settings

The only setting to be aware of here is the xxx (switch all settings menus OFF as if you don't it will run like a dog)

Edit button

This option uses a small edit button rather than a number of edit option icons.

Hide settings and/or navigation

Needed really

Show user picture

Add custom menu before/After Awesome bar

Download link

You can download the theme from https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=theme_decaf

Interesting hacks and Mods

Add dynamic footer: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=230045

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-This is a [[:Category:Contributed_code|contributed (third party)]] theme for Moodle written by xxx and shared on Moodle.org
+This is a [[:Category:Contributed_code|contributed (third party)]] three column full width theme for Moodle written by Lei Zhang and maintained now by Paul Nichols.
-Decaf is a three column full-width theme for Moodle 2.0+ originally designed to xxx
 The theme is customisable through Moodle's theme settings.
+==Theme Features==
-You can adjust images, text and colurs all without changing code. The theme also has a function that means that when users log in, courses they are enrolled in will show up in the dropdown 'custom menu' at the top of the screen. As this theme has several advanced functions, this page exists to provide some basic instruction on it's use. Please be sure to target any questions related to this theme in the [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=46 Theme's forums] at moodle.org and bugs to the [[Tracker|Moodle Tracker]]
+#Main feature of Decaf: the Awesome Bar navigation which is at the top rather than at the side.
+#Plus there is a nice small edit button rather than the usual row of icons.
-==Theme Objectives==
-The aim of this theme is xxx
-This theme will not suit all audiences because of this. For a full list of contributed themes including Rocket to find one that meets your needs please check the [http://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=category&id=3 Moodle Plugins database].
 ==Configurable Options==
 '''Important Note:''' When making changes to any theme please ensure that [[Theme_settings#Theme_designer_mode|Theme Designer Mode]] is enabled to ensure your changes appear.
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 ===Edit button===
-This option uses a small edit button rather than a number of edit option icons:
+This option uses a small edit button rather than a number of edit option icons.
 ===Hide settings and/or navigation===
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 ==Download link==
 You can download the theme from https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=theme_decaf
+==Interesting hacks and Mods==
+*Add dynamic footer: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=230045
 ==See also==

Documentation