Applying a theme to a page

Themes control the look and feel of your Discovery Framework application.

Themes are hot deployable plugins that you can use to customize the appearance of your application. By using your own theme, your Discovery Framework application can adhere to the look-and-feel standards which may be used across all of the Web sites and Web applications in your company's infrastructure.

By default, Discovery Framework ships with the Endeca theme and the Liferay Classic theme. By going to the LIferay Web site, you can download themes from Liferay's Community Plugin Library, which are contributed by the Liferay community of users: 
http://www.liferay.com/downloads/liferay-portal/community-plugins

Your application developer can also create customized themes for your application. For information on theme development, see the Liferay Developer's Guide, which is available from the Liferay Web site.

To apply an existing theme to a page:

  1. From the Dock, choose Manage Pages.
  2. In the Manage Pages dialog, click on a page that is listed in the left column.

  3. Click the Look and Feel tab.
  4. The Themes tab shows the theme that is currently being used by the page and lists any available themes. To apply another theme, click on that theme.

If the new theme was successfully applied, you will see this message:

Note that each page can have a different theme.