Themes are the skin(Looks) at XOOPS Cube. You may change the looks of your site by changing the main theme like a dress-up doll. Let's customize the looks of your site. Download themes from sites of theme designers who have published themes for XOOPS Cube.

How to change the main theme

The main theme is the default theme at your site. You can specify one main theme in one your site.

  1. Click 'Theme management' in the side menu of Legacy module.
  2. Click 'Select' button of the theme which you want to use as the main theme.

After setting, let's go to your site. New design site welcomes you.

How to install new themes

An additional theme can be obtained on theme developer's website etc. The distributed theme is mostly compressed. To use the theme, please upload it to /themes directory after decompression of files.

Be careful about the theme directory!
Let's read the note of the theme

A theme may need the special render-system. 'Legacy Render System' which is included as default, can handle the theme format of XOOPS2. If you install other render systems, XOOPS Cube get able to new theme formats. Please, read the note of the theme for installing theme correctly, if the note is there.

How to use Theme Select

Users may select their favorite theme from theme list which you specified. To that end, you need to list up selectable themes and install 'Theme Select' block for visitors.

  1. At first, let's make theme list. Click 'Theme management' in the side menu of Legacy module.
  2. Check themes which you want to specify as selectable themes. Next, Click 'Submit' button.
  3. Install 'Theme Select' block. If you don't know about blocks of XOOPS Cube, read help about it.