We will be introducing a couple of plugins soon and all of them are using the skin system. A skin is a micro theme that can be used to modify the design and to add small extra content options for the backend. This article will explain how this system works.
Working with Micro Themes (skins)
In most of our projects clients are searching for solutions that are 80% the same as older projects but always have some small new tweaks and in most cases the other 20% are tweaks that are related to two things:
- The design that they want to show in the frontend
- The content that they want to show in this design.
To solve this problem without having to rebuild the plugin for every project we created a skin system. A skin is a micro theme that can be used to modify the design and to add extra meta fields for the backend.
The skin is a custom frontend design that works with our backend engine in the plugin, it lives outside of the plugin so we can easily make changes to the plugin without overwriting the design and small settings.
The skin interface is available for Premium users of our plugins and free plugin users are working with two free skins. You can browse the skins in our skin library
Installing a new skin
With installing the Premium plugin you will get access to a new page in the backend. The skins tab will show you all currently available skins.
From this tab you have two options for installing new skins, you can upload a zip or you can use the “install new skin” tab to view available skins in our skin library. The system has the same flow as the default WordPress theme interface.
So following this instruction we can install this skin by using the skin interface and next we can select this in the backend as Skin for our Team Showcase.
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