Plate themes

Owned by Harmen Fuite (Unlicensed)
Last updated: May 04, 2020
2 min read

Every Plate site uses a theme. Themes are made out of plain HTML/CSS/JS, and a templating layer: Liquid, extended with Plate specific functionality.

How to create a theme

You can create an empty theme by going to your partner dashboard, and clicking on ‘Themes’ in the sidebar menu. Next click on ‘Create New Theme’. To download the theme files after creating it, click on ‘Download Theme’. To continue working with your theme, check out Themes & Theme files.

What happens with your theme when it is picked?

When a user picks your theme, a site gets created with not only the theme files, but also the preview content and content types of your preview site. So make sure you keep your preview site just a preview site.

A couple of tips to create a preview site:

  • Use Lorem Ipsum as a placeholder for text content

  • Use stock images as a placeholder for images

  • Make sure to not include any references to existing companies or organizations in content fields, titles, etc.

  • If you are creating a theme for a specific client, still follow these tips. You never know if you can use this theme again in the future, and it’s hard to remove all references to your client afterwards.