Getting help with theming

As of January 2025, we can no longer provide theming help to all new wikis on the platform, our request volume is too big and also we've found that our documentation of how to customize the theme is generally clear enough for most wikis. However, we will provide custom theming assistance for some wikis that are either (1) large forks from other platforms or (2) official wikis for topics we're excited about. In those cases this page describes how to get help with your theme!

First, fill out the new wiki form and have your wiki accepted. Once your wiki is created:

1. Upload a favicon (call it Site-favicon.ico) - it MUST be an ico file and it MUST be a multiple of 16x16px in dimensions, ideally 48x48.
   • You can include multiple resolutions if you want, in this case choose 16x16px, 48x48px, and one larger size if you want. If you don't know how to do this, don't worry about it.
   • There are a number of free .ico converters, you can search "ICO converter" and pick one. We don't endorse any particular converter.
   • See wikipedia:Favicon for an explanation of what a favicon is
   • For more info, see Theming
2. Upload a logo (call it Site-logo.png) - it MUST be a png file (and should not be animated).
   • By default, this should be a square at least 160px on the larger dimension, but a little larger is recommended, especially if you want the logo to be at the top of your wiki.
   • For more info, see Theming
3. Upload a background image to your onboarding Discord channel. This image should ideally be a screenshot of your game without any UI controls showing, or key art for the game without the game's logo.
   • Dimensions should either be one small tile (and we'll do a repeated/tiled background) or a full picture at 1920x1080px.
   • For more info, see Theming
4. Separately, upload several screenshots of the game interface so that we can pick properly thematic colors.
   • If possible, please upload both some screenshots that evoke a light/daytime theme and some screenshots that evoke a dark/nighttime theme.
   • You can also give us a list of hex color codes that you want used for links, borders, etc.
   • Alternatively, you can upload a full mockup of how you want the wiki to look (Figma is ok).
5. Most importantly: Make some content pages on the wiki. We need you to create at least a couple pages (or, if it's an import, create OR update several pages) before we will theme the wiki.

See also

• The Ova Magica Wiki set up an amazing page to help us style their wiki. Do what they did and you'll be great!
• Theming has detailed instructions about how to upload a logo & favicon
• CSS has screenshots of our most important CSS variables so you can see what you need to edit if you want to try making your own theme. Remember to clear your cache by doing a ctrl+F5 (or the equivalent hotkey in your browser) after making a CSS edit so that the changes can show up!