I followed the theme-skeleton guide until step 6. and everything was fine until then. It is installed according to the composer.lock and it sits in the packages folder. However, in the dashboard > general data and files > main theme it can not be selected. My theme json looks like this: { "name": "Kegesch", "description": "A simple theme skeleton", "author": "Jonas", "license": "MIT", "version": "1.0.0", "tooltips": { "+main": "The main content of the page" } } if(window.hljsLoader && !document.currentScript.parentNode.hasAttribute('data-s9e-livepreview-onupdate')) { window.hljsLoader.highlightBlocks(document.currentScript.parentNode); } I am using automad in a docker container where i created the new theme in /root/dev/my-theme and I am editing the theme via VS Code and the Dev Containers extension. I also tried to install other themes to see if those work. When installing the "bootstrap" theme via the dashboard, it failed with an error that the url for the development repository /root/dev/my-theme is invalid. Installing the bootstrap theme via composer worked without any error and is also displayed in the dashboard. So I must have overlooked something. Can you please point me in the right direction?

It is the structure of the theme-skeleton : .editorconfig README.md composer.json composer.lock elements/ images.php page.php pagelist.php session.php theme.json vendor/ if(window.hljsLoader && !document.currentScript.parentNode.hasAttribute('data-s9e-livepreview-onupdate')) { window.hljsLoader.highlightBlocks(document.currentScript.parentNode); } However, the "directory' of the theme in the packages folder is a symlink to the actual theme location, don't know if this makes a difference.

Development Theme does not appear in theme selection

kegesch

I followed the theme-skeleton guide until step 6. and everything was fine until then.
It is installed according to the composer.lock and it sits in the packages folder.
However, in the dashboard > general data and files > main theme it can not be selected.

My theme json looks like this:

{
    "name": "Kegesch",
    "description": "A simple theme skeleton",
    "author": "Jonas",
    "license": "MIT",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "tooltips": {
        "+main": "The main content of the page"
    }
}

I am using automad in a docker container where i created the new theme in /root/dev/my-theme and I am editing the theme via VS Code and the Dev Containers extension.

I also tried to install other themes to see if those work.
When installing the "bootstrap" theme via the dashboard, it failed with an error that the url for the development repository /root/dev/my-theme is invalid. Installing the bootstrap theme via composer worked without any error and is also displayed in the dashboard.

So I must have overlooked something. Can you please point me in the right direction?

mad

kegesch I there, just to quickly verify, the package is not inside the packages directory?

kegesch

mad It is correctly inside the packages directory like packages/kegesch/automad-theme/..

mad

kegesch How is your directory structure? Do you have any php file next to the theme.json?

kegesch

It is the structure of the theme-skeleton:

.editorconfig
README.md
composer.json
composer.lock
elements/
images.php
page.php
pagelist.php
session.php
theme.json
vendor/

However, the "directory' of the theme in the packages folder is a symlink to the actual theme location, don't know if this makes a difference.

mad

kegesch It should work with a linked directory. However it depends a bit on the OS and how the link was made. The best would be to use Composer to handle the linking for you. You can add a directory as package. Check out the Composer docs for details.