Magento 2 create simple theme

Qaisar Satti

7 years ago

Today we discuss how in Magento 2 create simple theme? Creating a simple theme or custom theme is consisting on four easy step in magento2. First you have to create your SpaceName in my case it is QaisarSatti. Create folder in app/design/frontend/QaisarSatti. Now add the theme name after app/design/frontend/QaisarSatti/theme.

First Step:

Create the composer.json file for theme.

app/design/frontend/QaisarSatti/theme/composer.json

{
"name": "magento/theme-frontend-blank",
"description": "My First Theme",
"require": {
"php": "~5.5.0|~5.6.0|~7.0.0",
"magento/theme-frontend-blank": "100.0.*",
"magento/framework": "100.0.*"
},
"type": "magento2-theme",
"version": "100.0.1",
"license": [
"OSL-3.0",
"AFL-3.0"
],
"autoload": {
"files": [
"registration.php"
]
}
}

Second Step:

In this step we will register our theme.

app/design/frontend/QaisarSatti/theme/registration.php

<?php
/**
* Copyright © 2015 Magento. All rights reserved.
* See COPYING.txt for license details.
*/
\Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::register(
\Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::THEME,
'frontend/QaisarSatti/theme',
__DIR__
);

Third Step:
Create the theme.xml file. Here you will define the parent theme for your theme so in my case the magento blank theme.

app/design/frontend/QaisarSatti/theme/theme.xml

<theme xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Config/etc/theme.xsd">
<title>My First Theme</title> 
<parent>Magento/blank</parent> 
<media>
<preview_image>media/preview.jpg</preview_image> 
</media>
</theme>

Fourth Step:

Now add you theme preview image in media folder. This will be show in admin panel where theme are listed.

app/design/frontend/QaisarSatti/theme/media/preview.jpg

Here we create the new theme in magento 2. Now just simply run these command you register you theme in magento.

php bin/magento setup:upgrade