Theming guide

Changed in version 2.0: The CKAN frontend was completely rewritten for CKAN 2.0, so most of the tutorials below don’t apply to earlier versions of CKAN.

The following sections will teach you how to customize the content and appearance of CKAN pages by developing your own CKAN themes.

See also

Getting started
If you just want to do some simple customizations such as changing the title of your CKAN site, or making some small CSS customizations, Getting started documents some simple configuration settings you can use.

Note

Before you can start developing a CKAN theme, you’ll need a working source install of CKAN on your system. If you don’t have a CKAN source install already, follow the instructions in Installing CKAN from source before continuing.

Note

CKAN theme development is a technical topic, for web developers. The tutorials below assume basic knowledge of:

We also recommend familiarizing yourself with: