Where do we place the new theme folder in 2.3

[umesh_rai]

The official documents for Magento 2.3 says that for creating a new storefront theme the folder should be placed at  app/design/frontend/<your_vendor_name>/<your_theme_name> along with the existing theme. But the Magento folder in app/design/frontend/ is empty.

The theme folders for Luma and Blank are available in /vendor/Magento/ folder.

So where should the theme folder be placed? And how do you register them? Refreshing the admin pages doesn't register them.

[Patel_Chirag · Accepted solution]

@umesh_rai  You do not have to create a custom theme inside /vendor/Magento/ folder.

Don't worry about empty app/design/frontend/ folder just create a theme to this path app/design/frontend/<your_vendor_name>/<your_theme_name> and follow the instruction Create a new storefront theme 

But you have to take care when defining parent theme in theme.xml file it should be 

<parent>Magento/blank</parent> 

 It will take from /vendor/Magento/ folder

[Vimal Kumar]

Hi @umesh_rai ,

You can create a custom theme in app/design/frontend folder and can set parent from any existing theme.

You can use the following tutorial for the new theme creation.

https://www.cloudways.com/blog/create-custom-theme-magento-2-part-1/

https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.3/frontend-dev-guide/themes/theme-create.html

I hope it will help you!

[umesh_rai]

Thanks @Patel_Chirag , it worked as you said.