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title = "Installing & using themes"
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weight = 20
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## Installing a theme
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The easiest way to install a theme is to clone its repository in the `themes`
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directory.
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```bash
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$ cd themes
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$ git clone THEME_REPO_URL
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```
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Cloning the repository using Git or another VCS will allow you to easily
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update. Alternatively, you can download the files manually and place
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them in a folder.
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You can find a list of themes [here](@/themes/_index.md).
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## Using a theme
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Now that you have the theme in your `themes` directory, you need to tell
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Zola to use it by setting the `theme` variable in the
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[configuration file](@/documentation/getting-started/configuration.md). The theme
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name has to be the name of the directory you cloned the theme in.
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For example, if you cloned a theme in `themes/simple-blog`, the theme name to use
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in the configuration file is `simple-blog`. Also make sure to place the variable in the top level of the
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`.toml` hierarchy and not after a dict like [extra] or [markdown].
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## Customizing a theme
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Any file from the theme can be overridden by creating a file with the same path and name in your `templates` or `static`
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directory. Here are a few examples of that, assuming that the theme name is `simple-blog`:
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```txt
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templates/pages/post.html -> replace themes/simple-blog/templates/pages/post.html
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templates/macros.html -> replace themes/simple-blog/templates/macros.html
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static/js/site.js -> replace themes/simple-blog/static/js/site.js
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```
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You can also choose to only override parts of a page if a theme defines some blocks by extending it. If we wanted
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to only change a single block from the `post.html` page in the example above, we could do the following:
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```
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{% extends "simple-blog/templates/pages/post.html" %}
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{% block some_block %}
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Some custom data
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{% endblock %}
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```
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Most themes will also provide some variables that are meant to be overridden. This happens in the `extra` section
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of the [configuration file](@/documentation/getting-started/configuration.md).
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Let's say a theme uses a `show_twitter` variable and sets it to `false` by default. If you want to set it to `true`,
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you can update your `config.toml` like so:
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```toml
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[extra]
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show_twitter = true
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```
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You can modify files directly in the `themes` directory but this will make updating the theme harder and live reload
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won't work with these files.
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