To support the custom navbar, and therefore simplify the settings, we are removing the Bootswatch theme picker.
The theme dropdown was an ill-thought-out feature. We are now going in the direction of simplifying the built-in navbar/settings, and encouraging site builders to use custom sass and navbars. There's really no reason a site admin should need to change the theme on the fly. That is a nightmare that can remain relegated to WordPress.
"Themes" will be better served as a separate django app/package which overrides templates. Using a dropdown of a limited number of pre-built colorized Bootstrap builds is not really helpful in this regard.
For existing sites that want to continue using Bootswatch, it's pretty easy to accomplish:
In your local project, edit website/templates/coderedcms/pages/base.html and add/edit the following block:
To support the custom navbar, and therefore simplify the settings, we are removing the Bootswatch theme picker.
The theme dropdown was an ill-thought-out feature. We are now going in the direction of simplifying the built-in navbar/settings, and encouraging site builders to use custom sass and navbars. There's really no reason a site admin should need to change the theme on the fly. That is a nightmare that can remain relegated to WordPress.
"Themes" will be better served as a separate django app/package which overrides templates. Using a dropdown of a limited number of pre-built colorized Bootstrap builds is not really helpful in this regard.
For existing sites that want to continue using Bootswatch, it's pretty easy to accomplish:
In your local project, edit
website/templates/coderedcms/pages/base.htmland add/edit the following block:The appropriate href for the
<link>tag can be found here: https://cdnjs.com/libraries/bootswatch