How it works

Core idea is as following

• Find views created by theme-module and mark them as multi-views (website.theme.asset) additionally to one specified manually via XML (see demo/themes.xml as an example). The method _convert_assets is responsible for it.
• Set active to False for multi-views. See method _find_and_deactivate_views.
• Apply Multi-theme (record in new model website.theme) to the specific website. See method _multi_theme_activate
  • Make some magic with technical views website.assets_frontend and website.layout.
    • Duplicate patterns from templates/patterns.xml
    • In layout_pattern replace {theme_view} placeholder to a duplicate of assets_pattern
    • Corresponding duplicated pattern will be used as a new value for inherit_id field in duplicated multi-views that originally extend web.assets_frontend, website.assets_frontend or website.layout.
  • Duplicate multi-views of the multi-theme and its dependencies (other multi-themes). In duplicates, the field inherit_id is changed to other duplicated views or duplicated patterns when possible

Installation

To make this module work, you need to either:

• Install any of the officially supported themes:
  • theme_bootswatch
• Install any of the unofficially supported themes (at your own risk):
  • theme_anelusia
  • theme_artists
  • theme_avantgarde
  • theme_beauty
  • theme_bewise
  • theme_bistro
  • theme_bookstore
  • theme_clean
  • theme_enark
  • theme_graphene
  • theme_kea
  • theme_loftspace
  • theme_mongolia
  • theme_nano
  • theme_notes
  • theme_odoo_experts
  • theme_orchid
  • theme_treehouse
  • theme_vehicle
  • theme_yes
  • theme_zap

Themes in the above lists will become multiwebsite when installed along this module. If they get installed after ``website_multi_theme``, update this module manually, or it will not be notified of such change.

Configuration

To configure this module, you need to:

1. Go to Website Admin > Configuration > Settings and choose or create

   a Website.

2. Press Advanced > Multiwebsite theme > Reload.
3. In Advanced > Multiwebsite theme, pick one of the available themes.

Once you save, any website that has no Multiwebsite theme selected will have, the default plain Bootstrap theme, and those that do have one will get it.

Of course, your Odoo instance must be reachable by all of the provided host names, or nobody will ever see the effect. But that is most likely configured through your DNS provider and/or proxy, so it is not a matter of this addon.

If you want to test this behavior, think that localhost and 127.0.0.1 are different host names.

Usage

To use this module, you need to:

1. Follow the configuration steps.
2. Enter any of the websites you modified.

Development FAQ

Known issues / Roadmap

• Private themes support is not guaranteed.
• There is no UI to remove websites. Do it through an odoo shell.
• Theme picker should include some kind of thumbnail if possible.
• If you install any of the supported themes after installing this addon, you will have to press Reload in the website config wizard to make it notice the change.
• If you install any unsupported theme along with this addon, it would possibly become the base for all those supported, which can easily lead to weird situations and errors.
• This addon will not work if your Odoo is not patched. Make sure it is updated before installing. It must include these commits:
  • https://github.com/odoo/odoo/commit/15bf41270d3abb607e7b623b59355594cad170cf
  • https://github.com/odoo/odoo/commit/7c6714d7fee4125f037ef194f9cff5235a6c5320
  • https://github.com/odoo/odoo/commit/48fe0a595308722a26afd5361432f24c610b4ba0

Credits

Maintainer

This module is maintained by the OCA.

OCA, or the Odoo Community Association, is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of Odoo features and promote its widespread use.

To contribute to this module, please visit https://odoo-community.org.