We have supplied you with the blog tools
As a developer and designer of concrete5, you probably think "how do I make sure that I have all the tools to get this blog working in my theme?". And be course of that, we tried our C5DK Blog package in a few themes, just to make sure you got all the tools to make it work.
But if you do not like our styling, then you may have to code a bit.
We have supplied the following blocks and templates:
- The blog button (this is essential to get it all to work)
- The "Go Back" link (just to make it easy to go back to the blog root page)
- The blog header (in some themes it is included, in others it's not)
- The Date navigarion template (just a spiked up template to make it look good)
- The Tags template (we supply 2 great tag cloud templates)
- The Topic List template (just a spiked up template with a little extra)
Please see this video on our additional tools for the blog:
Additional information
Regarding the templates for core blocks. Especially the "Tags" block, we said that to change the design you have to change 2 images. These images is placed under "/packages/c5dk_blog/blocks/tags/templates/c5dk_tags/images". And the files for the template is as described here:
- c5-bg-320.jpg (this is the background of the template and it's 320px by 320px)
- tagsicon.png (this is the icon in the middle of the template and it's 100px by 100px)
If you decide to create a new template, it would be a good idea to copy the template folder and give it a new name. By that you will not destroy the original.