Installing new themes, newbie.

[Danjuan09]

Hi

After coming over from wordpress, i'm trying to get to grips with process wire and for the first hour i'm finding it hard to do the basic stuff.

First off, how do I install a new theme? Also, do you call these profiles?

Secondly, I understand you can install admin themes (are these actually called themes?) and how do you install these?

So far from what I can understand, to install a new theme (or profile if that's what you call them) you need to do it on installation, surly this is not right?

I've started going through the docs but i can't find theme or i've just looked at text for too long.

Thanks

[pwired]

First off, how do I install a new theme? Also, do you call these profiles?

Did you surf the forum already ? These questions have been asked many times before

and are already answered in the forum. Here you have a jump start:

https://processwire.com/talk/topic/4173-grouped-forum-posts-links-articles-tutorials-code-snippets/

[kongondo]

@Danjuan09,

I am in a bit of a rush but wanted to say welcome to PW and the forums! I understand moving into a new 'house' can sometimes be confusing because things may not be how/where you expect them to be ..

Others will explain better (or I will later) but PW does not really have (frontend) themes in the sense that WP and other systems have. In PW, any HTML can be your frontend 'theme' although we really refer to them as template files. Being a very flexible system, this is usually up to the developer to implement as they wish. However, to help get some people started, a few developers here and the PW install offer what are called site profiles. These are more than a collection of template files to output frontend demo content but also include fields, template and pages to get you started rapidly. Some people use them others don't and instead install PW with the blank profile. 

As for the backend, there are admin themes which can be installed (since PW 2.4? I believe) as modules. Before that, there were other ways of changing the admin theme. Not all 'older' admin themes listed in the modules directory have been updated to be installable as modules (in fact probably none of them has!).

To help you get the best of PW, I'd suggest to first go through the basic tutorials found in the links below. I'd suggest not to worry about 'themes' at the moment until you get the basics of how the system works. It will require, in some cases,  some 'unlearning' on your part about how other systems you've previously used worked . So, get to know your new house first...changing the paint and decor will naturally fall into place later . Wish you a nice stay here!

Start here: http://processwire.com/docs/tutorials/simple-website-tutorials/

Or here: http://processwire.com/docs/tutorials/hello-worlds/

Then here: http://processwire.com/docs/tutorials/but-what-if-i-dont-know-how-to-code/

Feel free to ask for clarity....

[Danjuan09]

Thanks guys for the reply's, I now understand a little more at least. I'll take a look at the links and hopefully by the end of the day i'll have a much better understanding.

[pwired]

Why not begin at the start, it even addresses coming from wordpress:

http://processwire.com/about/why/

http://processwire.com/about/what/

http://processwire.com/videos/

Also templates have a start here:

https://processwire.com/api/templates/