Ten Themes for SharePoint in VSeWSS Projects
A couple of days ago Microsoft released 10 themes for SharePoint. They provided solutions for you, so that you can build features to install and deploy the themes on your SharePoint farm. The problem with the provided themes is, that they are only meant to be installed on English SharePoint sites! The path to the images is hard coded to the English LCID.
Daniel Brown has already created a solution which you can install. His solution has the same limitation with the language as the provided sample by Microsoft.
If you do not want to build the solutions, use mine. I’ve wrapped all 10 themes in one solution, which can be installed with a setup program.
Changes I made:
- themes are not language specific anymore
- all themes can be installed and activated with one feature
- the themes are available for every installed language in your farm
Install Instructions:
- Make sure you have the .NET framework 3.5 installed on all your SharePoint servers!
- Install the solution with the setup program (or via stsadm. The wsp file is in the zip file)
- The feature should be activated after installation
- Choose the theme you like in the site settings of your web (each site can have a different theme)
Update
The setup required MOSS. I’ve changed that. The solution could always be installed on WSS only SharePoint farms, but the installer complained. Sorry about that 🙁
