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Laura M [Visitor] in response to: Working with Moodle themes

Laura M [Visitor] — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:59:23 +0000

Hey there! Thanks for the great tutorial. I'll be bookmarking this page and passing it onto my friends too. Keep writing, cheers!

Mark [Member] in response to: Working with Moodle themes

Mark [Member] — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 07:21:39 +0000

Hi Laura,

Converting a Wordpress theme to a Moodle theme involves quite a bit more than just tweaking the CSS. Dependant on how the WP theme is built, you may need to add one or two extra

tags to the Moodle theme pack (into the header and footer). You'll also find that the id and class names used in Wordpress are different to those used in Moodle, so you'll need to match these up.

That's not to say it's impossible - just quite a lot of work.

Mark

Laura Brisbane [Visitor] in response to: Working with Moodle themes

Laura Brisbane [Visitor] — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:52:41 +0000

Can I Moodle an existing premium Wordpress with CSS only?

moodle arabia [Visitor] in response to: Working with Moodle themes

moodle arabia [Visitor] — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:09:55 +0000

hello Mark ,

thank you for such a helpful document .

Mark [Member] in response to: Working with Moodle themes

Mark [Member] — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:51:49 +0000

Ah - yes. I take your point.

Patrick Malley [Visitor] in response to: Working with Moodle themes

Patrick Malley [Visitor] — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:17:40 +0000

That's totally understandable. My point, which I neglected to make in my previous post, was just that those lines of code probably don't have a place in an otherwise great step-by-step tutorial on editing a Moodle theme that is intended for beginners.

I thought the point should be made that those bars, while I agree do add one more element to the page, do have some functionality, and that your readers shouldn't automatically get rid of them.

Mark [Member] in response to: Working with Moodle themes

Mark [Member] — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:58:59 +0000

Hi Patrick,

I totally agree with you about removing potentially useful functionality. However, the vast majority (if not all) Moodle implementations I have worked on have not needed any concept of "current sections".

That's because I'm not, at the moment, working in a context where we need to run cohorts of students through an online course with an online facilitator/teacher.

If you were in that section then the left/right hand bars might be more useful. In my context, though, they just clutter up the screen.

Patrick Malley [Visitor] in response to: Working with Moodle themes

Patrick Malley [Visitor] — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:42:22 +0000

It's sometimes tempting to "tidy up" aspects of a site that may actually have some useful functionality. In your overrides.css example above, you hide the left and right "bars" from your users. This will prevent your users from knowing which section is "current" though, won't it? That is, unless you plan to style the section content to shade when selected as current.