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I am new to Magento2 and I am confused how to proceed when I want to rewrite default part of the Luma theme page completely. For example the header - I want to rebuild it from scratch, adding whatever I want in it. Can someone share a brief list of what is the best way to approach this. I already did all of this - 

http://magento.stackexchange.com/a/102359/36102

After that I created a new module in

app/code/MyVendor/MyTheme

registered it and everything. I put the dependency that MyTheme depends on Magento_Theme. After that I am a bit lost as how should I proceed re-writing the 

vendor/magento/magento-theme/Block/Html/Header.php

What is the best approach for that. Can someone give detailed list of steps like:

1)Create Custom module MyVendor_MyTheme
2)extend or re-declare Magento_Theme.. 
3)Create app/code/MyVendor/MyTheme/Block/Html/Header.php

And so on and so on, so I can re-write

vendor/magento/magento-theme/Block/Html/Header->getWelcome();

functionality and link it to 

app/design/frontend/{Vendor}/{theme}/MyVendor_MyTheme/templates/html

so it can use the functionality from MyTheme module block and the template for the header.phtml file I've set in

app/design/frontend/{Vendor}/{theme}/MyVendor_MyTheme/templates/html/header.phtml.

Thank you.

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I had similar frustrations when trying to customise my theme which was extending the blank theme. I've now opted to create a fresh theme that does not inherit from a parent theme and I've found it far easier to manipulate. The difficulty is no doubt due to the fact I don't yet fully understand the underlying architecture and how it works. However, this is what I have done using the '//Magento_Theme/layout/default.xml':

<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
    <body>
        <!-- Remove Blocks -->
        <referenceBlock name="report.bugs" remove="true"/>
        <referenceBlock name="header.container" remove="true"/>
        <referenceBlock name="catalog.topnav" remove="true"/>
        <referenceBlock name="footer" remove="true"/>

        <referenceContainer name="page.wrapper">
            <container name="custom.header" htmlTag="header" htmlClass="header">
                <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template" name="row" template="Magento_Theme::html/row.phtml">
                    <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template" name="header.column1" template="Magento_Theme::html/header/column1.phtml" before="header.column2"/>
                    <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template" name="header.column2" template="Magento_Theme::html/header/column2.phtml" after="header.column1">
                        <block class="Magento\Theme\Block\Html\Header\Logo" name="logo" after="header.column1" />
                    </block>
                    <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template" name="header.column3" template="Magento_Theme::html/header/column3.phtml" after="header.column2"/>
                </block>
            </container>
        </referenceContainer>
    </body>
</page>

Now, whether this is considered bad practice or not, I'm not entirely sure.

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You have to start following tutorial based on magento devdocs, http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/frontend-dev-guide/themes/theme-create.html

After setup custom theme, You have to set your theme from adminpanel,

Stores -> Configuration -> General Tab -> Design

Set Your custom Design Theme.

Now remove var folder from root.

You can append files from vendor/magento/theme-frontend-luma to your custom theme.

Header related files coming from module-theme folder

Get files from magento2/vendor/magento/module-theme/view/frontend/templates/html to app/design/frontend/{Vendor}/{theme}/Magento_Theme/templates/html folder

Thanks.

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  • yeah, I already did all of that, i will restructure the question, because I can't get it working
    – Lachezar Raychev
    Feb 18, 2016 at 13:04

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