Getting Started (for Website Administrators)
Installing a /motif-powered template is exactly the same experience as installing a less-powerful template. Follow these steps to install your new /motif-powered template:
Log into your Joomla! site administrator
Using the main navigation, go to 'Extensions' > 'Install / Uninstall'
In the "Upload Package File" section, click the 'Browse' button…
Your /motif-powered template comes with a number of powerful parameters that will let you customize it to suit your needs. To the left you will see all of the available parameters as of this writing.
Primary Theme - Allows you to define which theme you'd like to be the Primary…
Every theme you load into the /themes folder of your /motif-enabled template will become an option to use as a theme on a particular page, or on all pages. To set a particular theme as the primary (default) theme for all pages, open your template parameters from the Template Manager.…
Just like Joomla! allows you to assign a different template to a menu item(s), /motif allows you to assign a different theme to a menu item(s). However, /motif's cascading theme functionality makes your /motif-powered template far more powerful than Joomla!'s template menu item assigning.
With Joomla!'s template menu item assigning,…
/motif has powerful features built-in that can reduce the load time of your website dramatically (70-80% speed increase in some cases). By utilizing gzip compression on your JavaScript and CSS files, all of your CSS or JavaScript files are combined into one, minified file that takes considerably less time for…
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