No you would write a skin. See core skin implementations in skins/ We sort of have documentation but our manual on skinning is absolute garbage. The Skin system isn't all that great till at least 1.18 (though it is usable).
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] On 11-09-14 02:40 PM, Eric K wrote: > Sorry if this is a newbie question. I've not done my research. > > If I want to drastically change the appearance and have new types of > navigation on the site and what not, I think I can do that but I need to > update that template or theme every time there's an update to the Mediawiki > software - this is what I had learned a while ago but it may not be true any > longer. > > Or is there an easier way to plugin a theme and have it work even after > updates? Is this the right thing to check out? > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Theme > > Erik _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
