Hi Bill, Unfortunately, I think that there is a gap in the public documentation regarding this. I am in the same jam as you. The Redworks tutorial teaches us how to clone a skin to add CSS, but if I remember correctly it does nothing if we want to add actual content such as a custom header, footer, or sidebar.
You can read my thoughts on the issue here: http://wikimedia.7.x6.nabble.com/MediaWiki-l-Cloning-Vector-to-modify-its-PHP-td5018300.html Part of me wonders if the reason that no one responded to it is that the people who could answer it prefer a more elegant approach. To me, though, it seems like the most natural thing in the world to clone a skin and the edit it's code. I'm more than happy to do the extra work when it is time to upgrade. Mediawiki is such a mature product that I can skip a lot of upgrades anyway. I think that the best approach is just to follow the directions in the following tutorial on a nonpublic installation of your wiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning/Vector Just do experiments. I found that the html comments were helpful in identifying which sections of the code corresponded to which sections of the final html. I don't know if you've ever made a development server before, but it's only a couple hours of work to figure out. You just copy the filesystem to a new location, use mysqldump to clone the database, and then edit the appropriate files to point the code in the new filesystem toward the new mysql database. Forest Use Google technology to search 10,000 pages about TMS: search.tmswiki.org<http://Search.tmswiki.org> . Want to see what I'm working on? Click here<http://www.tmswiki.org/forum/threads/3368/>. (link fixed) On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Bill Traynor <[email protected]> wrote: > In an old vector based skin on a 1.16 version of MW, the skin author added > custom html and css directly into the skin.php code to add a custom header > above the personal tools links. > > Where do I put that code in a vector subskin in MW 1.22? Do I add it > directly to myskin.php again, or to myskin.skin.php? Do I separate the > html and css and add the html to myskin.skin.php and the css to screen.css? > > Thanks > Bill > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
