Manual:Skins

Some notes about MediaWiki Skins.

Instructions on creating a new skin can be found at Manual:Skinning.

User CSS
A feature allows users can specify CSS rules by creating a page "User:Username/skinname.css". Enable this with $wgAllowUserCss in LocalSettings.php

Suppress various skins
(for MediaWiki 1.6.7)

The administrator can limit the skin choices that are offered sitewide in User Preferences by listing skin(s) to suppress in the $wgSkipSkins array. To do it, put something like this in LocalSettings.php: $wgSkipSkins = array("chick", "cologneblue", "myskin", "nostalgia", "simple", "standard"); "standard" is the skin called Classic. Omit skins from above line that you want to remain as choices.
 * 1) To remove various skins from the User Preferences choices

Remove Skin tab from User Preferences
(for MediaWiki 1.6.7)

The system administrator can completely remove the Skin tab/link so that it does not show up at all in User Preferences. This makes sense if your site will use a customized skin and would not look right in any other skin.

To remove the Skin link/tab from User Preferences, go in includes\SpecialPreferences.php and comment out (put another # at the beginning of each line or put /* before the first line and */ after the last line) these lines (starts on line ~719, ends on line ~747): It is also possible to just remove all the choices for skins, except for one: see $wgSkipSkin and $wgDefaultSkin.

Related topics

 * Manual:Skinning How to make a new skin
 * m:Help:User style Introduction of skins on meta
 * Gallery of user styles Gallery of skins on meta