Creating a theme

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1 Prerequisite
2 Create a new theme
3 Deploy the theme
4 Creating your theme
5 Creating the thumbmail preview

Prerequisite

Download Liferay Plugins SDK 5.2.3
Edit build.properties to point to your application server

Create a new theme

[pkane@LONDON|c:\_projects\myportal\liferay\liferay-plugins-sdk-5.2.3\themes]
ant -Dtheme.name=linhope -Dtheme.display.name="Linhope Solutions" create

Deploy the theme

[pkane@LONDON|c:\_projects\myportal\liferay\liferay-plugins-sdk-5.2.3\themes\linope-theme]
ant deploy

Creating your theme

You need to override or create you new files with in the folder /[theme]/docroot/_diffs. It is recommend you look at [webserver_app_folder]/ROOT/html/themes/classic for files and structure.