Theme Development

A theme is composed of the following pieces

ThemeDirectory

• Theme.cfc (The CFC that models and configures your theme implementation)

• layouts (The folder that contains layouts in your theme)

  • blog.cfm (Mandatory layout used for all blog views by convention)

  • pages.cfm (Mandatory layout used for all pages by convention)

  • maintenance.cfm (Optional used when in maintenance mode, else defaults to pages)

  • search.cfm (Optional used when doing searches, else defaults to pages)

• views (The folder that contains views for rendering)

  • archives.cfm (MANDATORY: The view used to render out blog archives.)

  • entry.cfm (MANDATORY: The view used to render out a single blog entry with comments, etc.)

  • error.cfm (MANDATORY: The view used to display errors when they ocurr in your blog or pages)

  • index.cfm (MANDATORY: The view used to render out the home page where all blog entries are rendered)

  • notfound.cfm (The view used to display messages to users when a blog entry requested was not found in our system.)

  • page.cfm (MANDATORY: The view used to render out individual pages.)

  • maintenance.cfm (OPTIONAL: Used when in maintenance mode)

• templates (The folder that contains optional templates for collection rendering that are used using the quick rendering methods in the CB Helper. See below for additional information)

  • category.cfm (The template used to display an iteration of entry categories using coldbox collection rendering)

  • comment.cfm (The template used to display an iteration of entry or page comments using coldbox collection rendering)

  • entry.cfm (The template used to display an iteration of entries in the home page using coldbox collection rendering)

• widgets (A folder that can contain layout specific widgets which override core ContentBox widgets)