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Painting Plone Live: Runtime Bootstrap Theming for Plone Blicca with plone.palette

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Changing how a Plone Blicca site looks still tends to end up on a developer's desk: copy the theme, edit the stylesheets, rebuild, reload — every time a client wants a slightly different blue. But modern Bootstrap keeps almost all of its design decisions in values the browser reads at runtime, which means most of that detour has quietly become unnecessary.

Details

plone.palette is a theming customizer that lives inside the site. Changes appear immediately on the real page and are saved with the site's other settings.

The result is that "can we try a different blue?" stops being a ticket and becomes a two-minute conversation with the client in the room. No build step, no restart.