Branding Documentation

[cpanelgermain]

Thinking about branding cPanel? Get started by downloading the documentation.

[markfrompf]

This documentation will certainly be appreciated by many. Thanks for posting this, Germain.

[blahrus]

Is it possible to wget a x3.cpbranding theme, then import it via the command line on a new server?


Thanks!
Clint

[PPNSteve]

any details on editing the x3mail theme? (cloning, downloading to edit, etc..)

[delia]

When I download a style, and open it - it's just gobbletygoop - that using either stuffit or winrar to extract it. I'm clueless and not used to being clueless.

[cPanelDavidG]

When I download a style, and open it - it's just gobbletygoop - that using either stuffit or winrar to extract it. I'm clueless and not used to being clueless.

I recommend copying a style via the cPanel interface and editing that style on the server. It makes debugging and editing MUCH easier.

Styles are stored in ~/cpanelbranding/theme/style where theme is the theme you are using (such as: x3) and style is the style you are editing.

[delia]

I didn't see how to copy a template besides the root one. I changed the style to the one I wanted and tried copying but it still copied the root one.

I did get what I wanted but it was a lot more confusing than it appeared on the surface. Don't think the documentation is correct or it's just not specific enough ---- or I was in a hurry and didn't read it carefully!

Thanks for the reply!

[cPanelDavidG]

After experimenting with this, it appears the documentation is correct: you can only clone the default style - which is the behavior you mentioned (and I didn't expect).

However, you can thwart this limitation by downloading a style then uploading that style. That will create the appropriate files in the paths I mentioned before.

[delia]

that's what I did but it definitely didn't work as expected. Though it was a gz file, it expanded to one unnamed file - which I just now figured out is a tar file. I expanded that and it worked. So that behavior wasn't expected either but it's been a long time since I expanded a gz file.

Now I can play further!