Flux CMS DevBlog

Adrian Nussbaum from xpure made his xBlog theme available for all Flux CMS users. You can see, what it more or less looks like on his blog.

Just log into your admin, go to "General Options" and then click "Download more themes" and there you can choose it, besides all other available themes.

We also updated the themes, so that they work nicely with Flux CMS 1.5. It was mainly about adding some new CSS classes.

Thanks to Adrian and if you want to contribute your theme, just get in contact with us.

Beni wrote an integrated themes installer for Flux CMS. You can now install themes directly from the admin interface without the "download zip/upload zip" cycle needed before.

You'll find the theme installer on the start page of the admin in the "General Options" Box under "Download more themes".

The available themes are described in a simple XML file centrally located on our server. If you'd like to include your theme in that XML file, just send us a mail with the necessary info.

Another little new feature mainly done by Benjamin: Little preview images for the theme selector in Site Options. To see it in action, just login into your Freeflux account (or update your local installation), go to site options and change a theme. Tataa :) You can also hover over the thumbnail and see a larger version. No more saving the theme just to see how the page will look like.

Of course, if you change your CSS or XSLT on a standard template, the preview images are not accurate anymore, as they are not rendered live.

If you do your own themes and want to have a preview picture as well, just make a "preview" folder on your themes folder and name the jpg like the css, but replace .css with .jpg, eg.

/themes/mytheme/css/main_foo.css
will become
/themes/mytheme/preview/main_foo.jpg

And make the preview picture approx. 400x240 pixels large.