.. _Theming Open edX:

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Changing Themes for an Open edX Site
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The theme for a website defines the appearance of its user interface (UI): the
logo, the color scheme, and the links in the page headers and footers are
examples of different aspects of an Open edX site that are defined by its
theme.

Open edX provides a default theme that is defined by page templates, CSS
styling, and assets such as images that are provided in the Open edX code. You
can change the appearance of the following parts of an Open edX site.

* The Studio UI, which is used by course teams.

* The learning management system (LMS) UI, which is used by learners and course
  teams.

* The UI of the E-commerce service, which is used by course offering and order
  managers.

The topics in this section describe how you can change the way an Open edX
site looks, without changing how it works.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   overview_themes
   theme_directories
   create_theme
   enable_themes
   compiling_theme

In addition, an `example theme <https://github.com/openedx/sample-themes>`_ is
available for review.