Theme File Structure

All themes files are located in:

~/App_Plugins/Articulate/Themes

File & folder structure for themes

This is the conventional file/folder structure for an Articulate theme which should always be followed. If these conventions are not followed some of the Articulate view helper methods will not work.

• Theme Name
  • Assets
    • css
      • example.css
    • img
      • example.jpg
    • js
      • example.js
  • Views
    • Partials
      • ExamplePartialView.cshtml
    • ExampleView.cshtml
    • web.config

Standard Views

There are 4 standard views located in the /Views folder. These views are:

• Master.cshtml
  • This is the master layout file that all views in the current theme share
• List.cshtml
  • This view is used to list paged blog posts - this is used on the Articulate root node, when listing blog posts by category or tag, and also for search results
• Post.cshtml
  • This is the blog post view
• Tags.cshtml
  • This is the view that lists all posts by categories or tags

Some themes may not have all 4 views included in them if they don't support all features. For example, out of the box the Mini theme does not support the Tags/Categories listing and therefore it doesn't have the Tags.cshtml view.