Theming Sphinx? It’s A Snap With A Little Effort!

By Luke, for DynSCS
Published on Dynamic Systems and Content Solutions.

What can you do with Sphinx? What can’t you do with it?

It’s built around the SMF template engine, for now, which allows for some pretty interesting theming capabilities. Just check out our community and see for yourself.

Have an existing SMF theme for your site that you would like to use? Sure. Just make room for the block areas you want, like left or right or both (or top, bottom, etc), and then add the call to the dsp() function in your footer somewhere.

By default, Sphinx comes with a nice pretty default theme, and we’ll be working to add more themes as we have time.

Please note though, that since were a two person show at the moment, that our primary focus is on Sphinx. Any additional themes and mods from the Community are greatly appreciated.

So with that, that’s about all for our initial look at theming Sphinx 1.x…

For our upcoming 2.x branch, you can throw all of this out the window. Why? It’s too darn complicated for an average user. Nothing against you folks, but if we could all speak PHP it wouldn’t be a problem. It is a problem though. You want control of your website, and in our upcoming 2.x release(s) we’ll give you back the power to theme your site until your heart is content.

If you can make a simple html template, add some css, and then add a couple of “tags” where you want certain content, you’re going to absolutely love Sphinx 2.0 and beyond.

You thought Enigma 1.x was easy? You ain’t seen nothing yet, folks.

Welcome to Sphinx, and the beginning of a new chapter in your website and content management lives.

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