Installing Themes

Installing Themes Distributed as Site Bundles

Beginning with Mura 5.4, themes can now be distributed as a Site Bundle, allowing you to import various aspects of a theme including all theme files and site architecture/content. Eventually all themes will be distributed in this manner but for now, only the following themes include a Site Bundle in their distribution.

  • Merced (Free. Includes Merced HTML 5 Transitional theme (full & lite version) and Merced HTML 5 version.)
  • Cosumnes (Free)
  • Mobile Development (Free. Includes site content and architecture for development with jQuery Mobile.)
  • Solved
  • iStudio
  • Greptem
  • Arthouse
  • Super Skeleton
  • Forceful

After purchasing a theme distributed as a Site Bundle, be sure to unzip the downloaded file. Inside, you'll find any source files (PSDs, static HTML, etc), documentation, and the actual Site Bundle file. All Site Bundles will follow this naming convention: MuraBundle_super-skeleton_2012_01_27_14_03.zip. Be sure to use this .zip file to deploy your site and theme unless you prefer to deploy the theme manually (as detailed below). If so, unzip the bundle and the site files .zip within in it to find the theme files.

More information on Site Bundles can be found here.

Installing Stand-Alone Themes

Some older Mura themes like the Klamath theme are distributed as stand-alone themes. In the future we will be providing these as Site Bundles, but for now you can install them following the directions below.

  1. Unzip the theme folder and upload it to the "/{siteid}/includes/themes/" directory of your chosen site.

    You should end up with a directory structure similar to this:

    /{siteid}/ (folder)
    /{siteid}/includes/ (folder)
    /{siteid}/includes/themes/ (folder)
    /{siteid}/includes/themes/{theme}/ (folder)
    /{siteid}/includes/themes/{theme}/css/ (folder)
    /{siteid}/includes/themes/{theme}/images/ (folder)
    /{siteid}/includes/themes/{theme}/README.txt
    /{siteid}/includes/themes/{theme}/templates/ (folder)

    Note: There may be additional files/folders in this directory (this may vary from theme to theme)

  2. In the Mura admin, go to 'Site Settings' and choose the site that you uploaded the theme to in step 1.
  3. Under the 'Basic' tab of the Site Settings, locate the 'Theme' dropdown, and select the name of the theme, then press the 'Update' button at the bottom of the page.
  4. Once a theme is installed and selected in the admin (step 3 above), Mura will look for template files in '/{siteid}/includes/themes/{theme name}/templates/'

The following Stand-Alone themes are not yet distributed with Site Bundles, i.e. Site Architecture, Content, Plugins, etc.

  • Klamath
  • HTML 5 Boilerplate
  • 960GS
  • Blueprint CSS