Hints offered: Amending grav notepad blog skeleton

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Installed the excellent Notepad grav skeleton and wanted some theme changes. I’ve done some grav before, but these hints might help someone

see Selgovae for my work in progress blog.

Home Page text

First finding, the home page text comes from the /user/config/site.yaml or the grav admin pages, that took me a while!

Theme colour

There is no config for theme colour, so it needs a change to the css in /user/themes/notepad/css/. I edited both styleb146.css and postb146.css to change the red e51843 to a brown #8b4513

Home Page background

Nothing I could find in the theme, so I dropped my image into the css folder and edited styleb146.css again. Change the summer-site-head-content section

I could not find another way to ‘inject’ into the home page

.summer-site-head .summer-site-head-content {
  width: 100%;
  text-align: center;
  background-color: black;
  background-image: url("YOUR-IMAGE.png");
  background-size: cover; }

Remove feed from navigation

Feed on the menu was an annoyance; could not find it in the navigation setup, because it was coded in the twig template /user/themes/templates/partials/navigation.html.twig so I commented the entry

<!-- <li><a href="{{ base_url }}/blog.rss" title="Atom/RSS feed"><i class="icon-rss"></i> Feed</a></li> -->
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@jzedward, Please be advised that themes should be seen as a starting point and do not cater for all possible uses and preferences of end-users. For that reason, themes can be inherited so you can add your preferences/changes to your own child theme.

If you think the 11-year old theme really needs improvement, you can create an issue containing your suggestions on the repo of theme Notepad. The core devs do not visit this forum.

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I think you misunderstand my goal. I am happy to make changes to fit my needs, I posted this as a signpost to other users who may want to make these kind of changes.
The ticket is marked as ‘solution’ and has Hints offered in the title.
Don’t think I could have been clearer - perhaps you didn’t actually read the post?

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@jzedward, but your post is exactly what not to do. Any theme should be extended and any changes should be done in your own theme - not the original. Every section in your post, except home page text, is bad advice and in the last one I believe even the path is wrong - user/themes/templates/partials/navigation.html.twig

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Thank you, that is much more useful comment than your first post, imho. I will review and understand how to mod my own theme