Category: theming

Everything a SynaptikCMS theme can contain: required files, the theme.json manifest, asset naming rules, and the fallback-to-default mechanism.

How SynaptikCMS previews an installed theme on the real site without activating it, using a signed per-install HMAC token.

How the built-in Template Editor lets you browse and edit every file of the active theme — PHP, CSS, JS, JSON — with automatic per-file backups.

What front-boot.js and css-async.js actually do, why they're separate files instead of inline scripts, and when a theme or plugin needs to re-include them.

The CSS custom properties SynaptikCMS's bundled system stylesheet reads — define these in your theme so search, galleries, and shortcodes look right.

Build a minimal working SynaptikCMS theme from scratch — the four files you actually need, and how to see it live without activating it.