Front-side themes starting from Textpattern version 4.7.0 can be installed by uploading them to themes folder. A valid theme ought to have a main folder and inside that manifest.json file that contains an arrayful of details about the theme in question. Other components are put inside these folders: forms, pages and styles. The styles folder is for CSS files if such files are managed using Textpattern’s admin interface.
Structure of an actual front-side theme
This theme is called Linear Gradient (screenshot, download), so root folder is named linear-gradient. It has no image files. In the list below numbers represent how deep in folder hierarchy those components are. 1 = top, 4 = deepest.
linear-gradient(1)forms(2)article(3)about.txp(4)archive.txp(4)article_listing.txp(4)default.txp(4)search_results.txp(4)
comment(3)comment_form.txp(4)comments.txp(4)comments_display.txp(4)
file(3)files.txp(4)
link(3)plainlinks.txp(4)
misc(3)footer.txp(4)header.txp(4)images.txp(4)
pages(2)about.txp(3)archive.txp(3)default.txp(3)error_default.txp(4)
styles(2)default.css(3)
manifest.json(2)
