Ranga: lift of article about Skins - placed here for ease of reference

2010-03-17T23:45:55Z

lift of article about Skins - placed here for ease of reference

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== Skins ==
Source: http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/mediawiki/mediawiki_skins.htm
=== Logo ===
You can change the Logo of your wiki by altering the $wgLogo variable in /includes/DefaultSettings.php to the name of the image you want to use as a logo.

Important Please note that this logo should be placed in the /skins/common/images/ folder.

=== Create MediaWiki Skin ===
You can create a skin all by yourself by following the steps provided below:

* Go to the /skins folder within your Mediawiki directory;

* Copy the /monobook directory and rename it with the name of your skin, for example:
mywikiskin;

* Copy the MonoBook.php file and rename it with the name of your skin, for example:
MyWikiSkin.php;

* Edit MyWikiSkin.php and change the class name to SkinMyWikiSkin, for example:
class SkinMyWikiSkin extends SkinTemplate;

* In MyWikiSkin.php, change make the other class to have your skin name together with the word Template, for example:
class MyWikiSkinTemplate extends QuickTemplate;

* In MyWikiSkin.php, make $this->skinname to have a string value of your skin name, for example:
'mywikiskin';

* In MyWikiSkin.php, make $this->template to have a string value of your skin name properly capitalised with the word Template, for example:

'MyWikiSkinTemplate';

* In MyWikiSkin.php find the following lines and replace monobook with mywikiskin in the path settings for the CSS files:

$out->addStyle( 'mywikiskin/main.css', 'screen' );
$out->addStyle( 'mywikiskin/IE50Fixes.css', 'screen', 'lt IE 5.5000' );
$out->addStyle( 'mywikiskin/IE55Fixes.css', 'screen', 'IE 5.5000' );
$out->addStyle( 'mywikiskin/IE60Fixes.css', 'screen', 'IE 6' );
$out->addStyle( 'mywikiskin/IE70Fixes.css', 'screen', 'IE 7' );
$out->addStyle( 'mywikiskin/rtl.css', 'screen', '', 'rtl' );

* In your /mywikiskin directory edit the image and CSS files;

* Edit and customise MyWikiSkin.php as you please;

* In LocalSettings.php set
$wgDefaultSkin = 'mywikiskin'

You can now enjoy the new skin you have prepared!

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