# Creating a subskin in MediaWiki 1.18+

<http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/28/mediawiki-subskin-tutorial/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Nice way to do something similar to child themes in WordPress for skins in MediaWiki.

> This tutorial goes over how to use a subclass to create a derivative of Vector and create a new skin with some extra css.

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- [Tutorial: Creating a custom skin for MediaWiki 1.18+](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/74afc82ab673/) (blog.redwerks.org, February 13, 2012)

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