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Applying a theme - Moodle Tutorial
From the course: Moodle Administration Essential Training
Applying a theme
- In the last video, I selected a decent theme, so now let's go ahead and apply it. Here you can see the zip file that I downloaded. I'm going to go ahead and extract that. Once I extract it, we get a file with a theme name, Dynamic. If we open that, we can see the theme files inside. But I'll just back up here to the folder. Now I need to place this folder inside of the theme folder in Moodle that houses the other themes. For that, we're going to open up XAMPP. I'll click on the Explorer button, and then our Public Folder, which was htdocs. Now, I'll go into my Moodle Project Folder, which was gols. The folder that we're looking for here that houses the themes is actually called, you guessed it, Themes. So, let's scroll down and find that. Here it is. I'll just double-click. Now, I'll go back to my theme folder, Dynamic, and I'll paste that in. You can see the names of some other theme folders over here, like Clean and Canvas. Dynamic will now live side-by-side with those themes…
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