How-To: Custom Mood Themes

[wychwood]

There's been some discussion of how to set up mood themes here already, but I wrote up my notes on How To Make Your Custom Mood Theme in a comment on someone's journal, and I thought they might be worth sharing here as well:

Basically, you need to:

a) upload your images somewhere

b) copy the text block from here (all the lines of "moodtheme_setpic 1234 90 http://www.yourdomain.com/accomplished.jpg 100 60" etc) into a simple text editor such as Notepad

c) go to the console (the reference is here, if you wanted to look at it).

d) create your moodtheme with "moodtheme_create " - eg "moodtheme_create "SGA moodtheme" "SGA doodle moodtheme"" or whatever

e) find-and-replace:

• www.yourdomain.com with whatever the actual path to your image files is


• .jpg if your files are .png or .gif, etc


• 100 60 if your images are a size other than 100px by 60px


• 1234 with your actual theme number, as created in step c)

f) go back to the console and paste in the edited block of text

ta-da, instant moodtheme!

Comments

[kahtyasofia]

Oh thank you! I just finished my existing list of tweaks last night and I was sitting here wondering how I might go about making a mood theme!

[wychwood]

Yay! :)

[trickster]

Oh, geez, I'd completely forgotten about the console. That would've saved me so much time.

[wychwood]

Haha, I did my last one by hand, too, and it took forever. This method is a lot easier!

[sorchasilver]

Thanks so much for this, it made life really easy and I got my mood theme up and running in a few minutes.

[wychwood]

Glad it helped! :)

[pseudo_tsuga]

I was just wondering how to replicate my mood theme. Thank you so much!

[wychwood]

Glad to help!

[starwinds]

Thank you! I'm adding this to my memories.

[wychwood]

Huzzah! This is mostly a compilation of other people's guides, so I'm glad it was helpful :)

mood theme for community

[starglyph]

These are the first set of instructions I've ever understood for creating a mood theme, and it all worked perfectly for my journal. Thank you!

I also want to use the same mood theme for my community, which is where I run into a problem. At the console, there's no option to switch from my journal name to my comm name, and I only end up creating the same mood theme for my journal. But if I try it by going to the journal customizing page and am able to work as the comm name, once I enter the information to "create" a theme, the mood theme creator gives me a page with hundreds of blank boxes to fill in with the text, instead of a nice big window I can paste it all into at once.

What am I missing?

Re: mood theme for community

[wychwood]

Huzzah! I'm glad it was useful.

Hmm. It looks as though it's not possible to edit community mood themes through the console - I don't think you can on LJ, either. So you'll have to do it manually through the creator, unfortunately!

Re: mood theme for community

[starglyph]

Well, the good news is that it wasn't just a case of dumb on my part! :)

And thanks to you making it so understandable, I'm sure I'll have no trouble creating it manually. Thanks again!