How to use themes?

So I'm trying out ikiwiki locally on a behind-a-firewall server, and I'm having trouble activating themes.

I added "theme" to my config file's "add_plugins" directive, and uncommented the "theme: actiontabs" line. I then ran "ikwiki --setup wiki.setup" and... no change on reload.

I'm on Ubuntu 16.04. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? --STrRedWolf

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I have the same issue

need help please

I build small wiki for my school, in gntrwiki.azzamsa.com, but I can't apply themes, I have uncomment the theme: value in gntrwiki.setup, but the css file still use anti-theme value, when I copy the css file from actionstabs file it works, but the css will change to anti-theme when we do "ikiwiki --setup gntrwiki.setup".

I have follow some tutorial on how to change ikiwiki theme, all of them have the same step, but why I can't achive this ?

NB: I have ask this issue in irc, but no one reply. I also get this massage everythime I do "ikiwiki --setup" There are no candidates for merging among the refs that you just fetched. Generally this means that you provided a wildcard refspec which had no matches on the remote end. 'git pull --prune origin' failed: at /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Plugin/git.pm line 251.

thanks lot for help, we really need this wiki to be ready soon

Comment by azzamsa — Fri Jul 21 04:07:36 2017

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STrRedWolf: I think you need to add the --rebuild command-line option.

Comment by smcv — Sun Jul 23 13:47:55 2017

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azzamsa: It looks as though your gitorigin_branch and gitmaster_branch settings might be incorrect. Set gitorigin_branch to be an empty string ('') for now. When you have committed the wiki content at least once, push it to the origin repository with

git push origin master

then change gitorigin_branch back to origin.

It might be useful to look at how ikiwiki-makeremote does this. In particular, its first commit is done during setup, contains a .gitignore that ignores the .ikiwiki directory, and is pushed to origin before running ikiwiki for the first time.

Comment by smcv — Sun Jul 23 13:52:11 2017

my issue solved

Hy. STrRedWolf, does your problem already solved ?

I can't change my themes too, I have uncommented #theme = value, but nothing change.
I also have add --rebuild parameter, but nothing change too.

this morning, after long holiday, I came to ikiwiki and solved it after reading this, he said "(Be sure to also enable the theme plugin.)", no one said this before in other tutorial, so I add -theme in plugin section and it solved :).

 #plugins to add to the default configuration
add_plugins:
- goodstuff
- websetup
- theme

now my wiki online using actiontabs theme.

have nice day!. hope it help others.

Comment by azzamsa — Wed Sep 6 03:09:20 2017

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No joy in mudville there. I have the plugin added in, and I'm using --rebuild, but it's not working.

Comment by STrRedWolf — Fri Dec 8 11:11:10 2017