How to import Liferay theme?

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I am trying to import a default Luminis Platform theme (LP5-ellucian-theme) which I copied from a Test server onto my local machines so I can do some theme development. I copied this theme folder into my PluginsSDK/themes/ directory, but when I go to File->New->Liferay Project from Existing Source and select this theme directory Eclipse tells me "Invalid project location".

What am I doing wrong here and/or is there another way to import this theme onto my local instance of Liferay?

Test server:

  • Liferay Portal 6.1

My local machine:

  • Liferay Portal 6.1
  • Plugins SDK 6.1.2
  • Liferay IDE 2.0
  • Eclipse Kepler

invalid project location

theme folder in SDK directory

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1 Answers

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Theme project has different folder structure in case of plugin-sdk and in tomcat/webapps when its deployed. In plugin-sdk, you will find folder named as _diff which contains custom css,vm etc file which overrides parent theme.

I would suggest to create new theme in plugin-sdk, and just have modified css, vm files of your server theme copied under _diffs folder.