Custom skin not loading

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I'm using askbot 0.11. I've followed the instructions here to create a custom skin:

Created a directory for skins <app_dir>/skins/customskin
Set the ASKBOT_EXTRA_SKINS_DIR setting to that dir
Created <app_dir>/skins/customskin/templates/base.html with some test HTML in there
In the /settings UI, set the skin to "customskin" (it shows in the dropdown so it apparently detects the directory)
Reloaded the site

The custom skin, however, is not showing. It still shows the default skin.

There will be a change in the template directory, it must be called jinja2 instead of the templates.

In your context it would be <app_dir>/skins/customskin/jinja2/base.html

Also remember that the ASKBOT_EXTRA_SKINS_DIR must be appended to the STATICFILES_DIRS tuple:

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    <other values>,
    ASKBOT_EXTRA_SKINS_DIR
)

Otherwise the extra.css file and other theme media will not be found.

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