Admin Template Guidelines?

[psmith]

Just trying to find guidelines for building your own admin template. I don't see anything, have I missed it?

Thanks,
Phil

[doc]

Hi,

there are now guidelines for creating backend themes (admin templates).

So copy an existing one and adapt the variables template_folder and template_name in the info.php file of the theme. After reloading the Add-ons via the WB backend you can select the new theme from the backend. Then it is up to you to adapt colors, CSS or ...

Doc

[psmith]

Ok, that's the easy part.

Can you explain how the /templates/ subfolder works? In it there are quite a few .htt files.  What role do the .htt files play? Do they overwrite the code in each of the admin directory?

For example, does /templates/pages.htt overwrite the code found in /admin/pages/index.php?

[doc]

Hi,

the /templates/*.htt files contain the HTML code and placeholder like {PLACEHOLDER}. The placeholder will be replaced with content by PHP code loacted in the WB /admin folder. Most templates files can be linked to their corresponding PHP file (/admin/xxx/yyy.php) via it´s file name.

Example:
The template file templates/pages_modify.htt is invoked from the WB admin file /admin/pages/modify.php.
You will find the include statements in the corresponding PHP files. They should look like similar to:

Code:

$template->set_file('page', 'pages_modify.htt');

Good luck.

Doc

[psmith]

Thank you for the help.. I am having some success now in porting over a backend template, but now stuck at one more point on the pages section. See attached screenshot for reference.

Is there a way to modify the template for the data grid of the page listings?  Or do modifications to this have to happen in the /admin/pages/index.php file?

Of course, I don't really want to get into modifying the core files if at all possible!

Thanks
Phil

[Stefek]

Hello,

no, there is no way to style the page tree the way you want, unfortunately.
Not right know.

I hope it will one day, but for now it's not the case.

Regards,
Stefko