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New in elementalClinic: New theming system

by Alex Kroman
November 20, 2008

One of the issues with the old emC theme system is that when you wanted to modify the look of a feature you had to copy over all the layout files into a new directory to make the edits you needed. This led to an extraordinary amount of redundant code which made upgrades not as enjoyable as they could be.

The new theming system was worked on by Randall, Ryan, and Dieter and allows you to simply pick and choose the pieces of a theme you want to replace. Now if you want a custom intake system you just need to modify the intake files rather then copying over all sorts of files you weren't even interested in changing.

As always, you can grab the new code here

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