Friday, November 28, 2014

How to Build an OctoberCMS Theme

October CMS is the new star in the sky of CMSes. Built on top of Laravel, it promises joyful coding and a back to basics approach. Read our introduction here and find out how to build plugins for it here. In this article, we’re going to see how we can build a theme.


What We Are Going to Build


We are going to build a blogging theme. The theme will depend on the rainlab blog plugin, and will contain:



  • Default page layout

  • About page

  • Home page

  • Posts page

  • Categories page

  • Single post page


These are the main parts of a blogging website. At the end of this article, you’ll be able to create your own pages and extend the theme with new functionality.


The entire source code mentioned in this post is available on Github, so you’d do best if you open the repo in another tab and follow along as we explain each file in detail.


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by Younes Rafie via SitePoint

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