Theme

Chevereto's built-in theme is designed to offer a turn-key experience for users and you may customize it using several methods.

Theme overrides

content/legacy/themes/Peafowl/overrides/

Theme overrides can be used to override any file in the theme.

Theme overrides works by detecting a file override which replaces a given theme file, so the system will use the override instead of the default file. Overrides are placed at content/legacy/themes/Peafowl/overrides/ directory and follow the same structure as the theme.

For example, let's say you want to replace content/legacy/themes/Peafowl/views/image.php. To do this copy the file to content/legacy/themes/Peafowl/overrides/views/image.php, make some changes and you will notice that the system now use the override instead of the default file.

Custom hooks

content/legacy/themes/Peafowl/custom_hooks/

Custom hooks allows to add or edit code in designated areas or segments of the theme.

List of available custom hooks:

• body_open.php
• footer.php
• head_after.php
• head_open.php
• head.php
• header.php
• share_links.php
• style.css

For example, to customize the share buttons using custom hooks:

• Go to the theme custom hooks folder at content/legacy/themes/Peafowl/custom_hooks/
• Make a copy of share_links.sample.php (do all your editing needed in this copy)
• Rename your working copy to share_links.php

Chevereto will detect your hooks and it will load these files.

Clone default theme

If you need more customization you should clone the default "Peafowl" theme and do your work in this new theme.

To clone the default theme:

• Copy content/legacy/themes/Peafowl/ and paste it in the same directory
• Name your new theme as anything you want (no white spaces)

Best way to keep a track of default theme changes is by creating a local git repo in your computer. Create a local git repo with last Chevereto version and commit each time you want to merge the code and will be able to see exactly all the changes line by line.