Themes

This page is a starting point for Moodle theme developers.

For documentation on installing and using themes, please see the Themes user documentation and Themes FAQ.

Moodle has a powerful themes system that allows for a variety of effects through the use of XHTML and CSS.

• Themes overview
• Creating a theme - A quick step by step guide to creating your first theme.
• Cloning a theme
• Using images in a theme - How to use and override images within your theme.
• Creating a theme settings page - Looks at how to add a setting page making your theme easily customisable.
• Extending the theme custom menu - Customising the custom menu.
• Overriding a renderer - A tutorial on creating a custom renderer and changing the HTML Moodle produces.
• Theme checklist - Things that you might miss when you think you have finished your theme.
• Clean theme (new in 2.5) - How to copy and customise the Clean theme to create your own theme.
• How to add a 'Watermark' as a background image to your theme.

See also

• List of all themes-related developer documentation
• Install a New Theme MoodleBites video on YouTube