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Hello everyone:

I was about to start making a new theme and following the instructions of the documentation pages on how to do so. However, on the installation of the 1.0 version, the only theme that seems to have the layout.php file is the Newspaper theme.

Has something changed?. I used Serendipity long ago, installing from new for a different blog now, so maybe I missed something.

Any links, docs I missed?

Hi!

"Layout.php" was actually last seen alive in 0.7 versions. Since Serendipity 0.8 we have a new theming concept that uses Smarty. Please have a look at the theming documentation on www.s9y.org.

You can still use the old layout.php concept, but it's really deprecated and less easy to maintain.

Best regards,
Garvin

Thanks garvinhicking.

That clears up some of the cofussion. I found the info in the docs after all.

Now to figure out how to install Smarty, which is looking dim.

Laters

Hi!

Smarty is already installed with Serendipity, no need to do anything. Just happily edit the various *.tpl files in your template directory

Best regards
,Garvin