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| author | Louise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com> | 2015-02-06 12:07:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Louise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com> | 2015-02-06 14:16:14 +0000 |
| commit | 768cd16d15ccb555bf0e20d755f2f35942ff6c70 (patch) | |
| tree | 3c527a28bf3ade66e8cb71f12c69877d14c9e3db /docs | |
| parent | 3177c0d53170574b26987dc3fd1e11dd76bed89e (diff) | |
Info on how to replace help pages.
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diff --git a/docs/customising/themes.md b/docs/customising/themes.md index cf53aeaee..d5fa9c816 100644 --- a/docs/customising/themes.md +++ b/docs/customising/themes.md @@ -198,6 +198,15 @@ your jurisdiction. The important pages to customise and translate are: * [unhappy](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/blob/master/app/views/help/unhappy.html.erb): users are taken to this page after a request that has been somehow unsuccessful (e.g. the request has been refused, or the authority is insisting on a postal request). The page should encourage them to keep going, e.g. by starting a new request or addressing it to a different body. * [why email](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/blob/master/app/views/help/_why_they_should_reply_by_email.html.erb): a snippet of information that explains why users should insist on replies by email. This is displayed next to requests that have "gone postal". +You can add your own help pages to your site by replacing the default +pages in your theme with your own versions, using a locale suffix for +each page to indicate what language the page is written in. No locale +suffix is needed for pages written for the [default locale]({{ site.baseurl }}docs/customising/config/#default_locale) for the site. +For example, [alavetelitheme contains help +pages](https://github.com/mysociety/alavetelitheme/tree/master/lib/views/help) +for the default 'en' locale and an example Spanish 'about' page. + + ## Adding new pages in the navigation `alavetelitheme/lib/config/custom-routes.rb` allows you to extend the base routes in |