Custom theme

Streams Manager offers the ability to fully customize your theme as part of the premium feature pack. This allows you to create a fully custom theme with custom color and layout but you need to be familiar with CSS.

Creating your custom theme

It may be easiest to start with an existing Bootstrap 4 theme (system is build on Bootstrap 4 so maximum version of Bootstrap that is supported is 4) and modify from there, but that is completely up to you. You can find Bootstrap 4 themes at: https://bootswatch.com/4 and many other places on the Internet. We also have a dark theme with blue nav bar that you can use as a starting point that is based on Darkly bootswatch theme: https://bootswatch.com/4/darkly/ and you can get it here. Alternatively, you can try create a completely custom theme with the help of https://www.bootstrap-live-customizer.com. Modify the theme as you see fit and save the file somewhere on your computer

Testing your custom theme

Follow these steps to see how your custom CSS theme looks before uploading it. Steps below work for Chrome browsers but other browsers work similarly.

• Store your custom CSS file in a folder that is accessible by your user

• Open your Stream Manager site in a browser

• Open developer tools

• Right click anywhere on the page and select Inspect

• Click on the Elements tab

• Expand head element and find client theme link element

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• Replace the href= portion with file:///full-path-to-css-file using the full path to your CSS file (i.e. file:///C:/Users/Admin/Downloads/my.css)

• Press enter and your changes should be reflected

Upload your custom theme

Please note that because CDN caches the file, it may take 6 hrs for changes to take effect.

To see how the theme looks, upload the CSS file in Settings -> Custom Content -> Custom CSS section and fully reload the page. You can also reset the theme to default if something is not looking right.