Hi all, I’m trying to design a new CMS using Elixir and was wondering about implementing a browsable catalog of themes that a use can just click and install - just like on Wordpress. How would one go about this - since Elixir requires these to be compiled or in the very least would require a serve…

Hi. I think you could just replace the static :root in :put_root_layout with a function, which fetches the layout dynamically, e.g: plug :put_root_layout, {CmsWeb.LayoutView, CmsWeb.current_theme()} and then you need to define a matching render function handling the evaluation of the templete (fo…

I know this is an old thread, but I eventually managed to take the Shopify route - Liquid template parser which Phoenix/Elixir has 100% support for.

Which package did you end up using for liquid templates? Saw that there are multiple libraries

I used this one. GitHub - handlecommerce/liquex: Liquid template processor for Elixir · GitHub To me the 100% compatibility with Liquid gem was kind of a requirement. The other alternative I considered was just exposing EEX/HEEX based templates to the developers, but I wasn’t sure of the security i…

Implementing Wordpress-like dynamic theme selection within Elixir/Phoenix?

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dsignr November 11, 2021, 12:06am 3

Thank you for your suggestion. It looks good!