diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
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--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
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@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-devel:    
-  stage: deploy
-  script:
-    - echo "pipeline started"
-    - cp -r ckanext-theme_hft/* /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckanext-theme_hft/
-    - . /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/activate
-    - cd /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckanext-theme_hft
-    - python setup.py develop
-    - deactivate
-    - supervisorctl restart all
-  tags: 
-    - testing
-  only:
-    - testing
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4fdcff5122bfdee1dfb580233446fe92dc39afaa..4639189da5df221a76eeb60af5376444bce56213 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,33 +1,3 @@
-# Customized Theme of CKAN Data Catalog of HFT Stuttgart
-The extension and files for the customization are structured as follows in the **`ckan`** source code's parent directory:
-- ckanext-theme_hft
-  - ckanext
-    - theme_hft
-      - assets
-        - theme.css
-        - webassets.yml
-      - public
-        - (pictures).jpg/png
-      - templates
-        - home
-          - index.html
-          - snippets
-            - promoted.html
-        - base.html
-        - header.html
-        - footer.html
-      - plugin.py
-  - setup.py
+# ckan theme
 
-### Steps to implement the customized theme
-1. Run the following command to create a new extension and place its directory in the **`ckan`** source code's parent directory:
-   > ckan generate extension
-   - New extension name: _`ckanext-theme_hft`_
-   - theme name: _`theme_hft`_
-1. Put the files in this repo to the their respective directories.
-1. Go to **`ckanext-theme_hft`** directory and run the following command:
-   > python setup.py develop
-1. Add the new plugin to the ckan.plugins setting in `/etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini` file:
-   > ckan.plugins = stats text_view recline_view theme_hft
-1. Start CKAN
-   > ckan -c /etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini run
+The theme for the Data Catalog of HFT Stuttgart
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/assets/theme.css b/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/assets/theme.css
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--- a/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/assets/theme.css
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-/* ========================================================================
-   The main masthead bar that contains the site logo, nav links, and search
-   ======================================================================== */
-
-.masthead {
-  background-color: #ffffff;
-  color: black;
-}
-.masthead .nav > li > a {
-  color: black;
-  text-shadow: none;
-}
-/* The "navigation pills" in the masthead (the links to Datasets,
-   Organizations, etc) when the user's pointer hovers over them. */
-.masthead .navigation .nav-pills li a:hover {
-  background-color: #C14531;
-  color: black;
-}
-/* The "active" navigation pill (for example, when you're on the /dataset page
-   the "Datasets" link is active). */
-.masthead .navigation .nav-pills li.active a {
-  background-color: #C14531;
-}
-/* The "box shadow" effect that appears around the search box when it
-   has the keyboard cursor's focus. */
-.masthead input[type="text"]:focus {
-  -webkit-box-shadow: inset 0px 0px 2px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7);
-  box-shadow: inset 0px 0px 2px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7);
-}
-
-@media (min-width: 768px) {
-  .hero {
-    background: url("/header.jpg");
-  }
-}
-
-/* ====================================
-   The footer at the bottom of the site
-   ==================================== */
-
-.site-footer,
-body {
-  background-color: #ffffff;
-}
-/* The text in the footer. */
-.site-footer,
-.site-footer label,
-.site-footer small {
-  color: rgba(128, 128, 128, 1);
-}
-/* The link texts in the footer. */
-.site-footer a {
-  color: rgba(128, 128, 128, 1);
-}
diff --git a/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/assets/webassets.yml b/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/assets/webassets.yml
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index c52403a9c948fa02b8d1655ea7c550684c3e820d..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/assets/webassets.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-theme:
-  filters: cssrewrite
-  output: assets/%(version)s_theme.css
-  contents: theme.css
diff --git a/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/plugin.py b/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/plugin.py
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index db33b6fbe2c6b786e6f8b3f7c4b0583080cce0bb..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/plugin.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-import ckan.plugins as plugins
-import ckan.plugins.toolkit as toolkit
-
-
-class ThemeHftPlugin(plugins.SingletonPlugin):
-    plugins.implements(plugins.IConfigurer)
-
-    # IConfigurer
-
-    def update_config(self, config):
-        toolkit.add_template_directory(config, 'templates')
-        toolkit.add_public_directory(config, 'public')
-        toolkit.add_resource('assets', 'theme_hft')
-
diff --git a/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/public/header.jpg b/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/public/header.jpg
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diff --git a/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/public/logo.png b/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/public/logo.png
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diff --git a/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/templates/base.html b/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/templates/base.html
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index d8ebc5ce6ae72837bc3404a45b5bb9b4af040746..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/templates/base.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-{% ckan_extends %}
-
-{% block styles %}
-	{{ super() }}
-	<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.8.2/css/all.css" integrity="sha384-oS3vJWv+0UjzBfQzYUhtDYW+Pj2yciDJxpsK1OYPAYjqT085Qq/1cq5FLXAZQ7Ay" crossorigin="anonymous">
-	{% asset 'theme_hft/theme.css' %}
-{% endblock %}
diff --git a/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/templates/footer.html b/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/templates/footer.html
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--- a/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/templates/footer.html
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@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-{% ckan_extends %}
-
-{# override footer.html #}
-{% block footer_content %}
-	<div class="row">
-		<div class="col-md-4 attribution">
-			<img src="/img/footer/Innovative_Hochschule_Initiative_BMBF_GWK_RGB.png" height='90'/>
-		</div>
-		<div class="col-md-2 attribution">
-			<img src="/img/footer/M4_LAB_LOGO_Graustufen.png" height='80'/>
-		</div>
-		<div class="col-md-3 footer-links">
-			<a href="https://twitter.com/InnolabM4">
-				<i class="fa fa-twitter fa-3x"></i>
-			</a>
-			<a href="https://wwww.facebook.com/HfTStuttgart/">
-				<i class="fa fa-facebook-square fa-3x"></i>
-			</a>
-			<a href="https://www.instagram.com/m4_lab/">
-				<i class="fa fa-instagram fa-3x"></i>
-			</a>
-			<a href="https://de.linkedin.com/school/hochschule-f%C3%BCr-technik-stuttgart-%E2%80%93-university-of-applied-sciences/">
-				<i class="fa fa-linkedin fa-3x"></i>
-			</a>
-			<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi0_JfF2qMZbOhOnNH5PyHA">
-				<i class="fa fa-youtube-play fa-3x"></i>
-			</a>
-		</div>
-		<div class="col-md-3 footer-links">
-			<div class="row">
-				<div class="col">Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart</div>
-			</div>
-			<div class="row">
-				<div class="col-md-6">
-					<a href="https://www.hft-stuttgart.de/impressum">Impressum</a>
-				</div>
-				<div class="col-md-6">
-					<a href="https://www.hft-stuttgart.de/datenschutz">Datenschutz</a>
-				</div>
-			</div>
-		</div>
-	</div>
-{% endblock %}
diff --git a/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/templates/header.html b/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/templates/header.html
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index df7c8d8f2cb346316de03b25f86b5fcc793cec27..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/templates/header.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-{% ckan_extends %}
-
-{# exclude About #}
-{% block header_site_navigation_tabs %}
-	{{ h.build_nav_main(
-		('dataset.search', _('Datasets')),
-		('organization.index', _('Organizations')),
-		('group.index', _('Groups')) ) }}
-{% endblock %}
diff --git a/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/templates/home/index.html b/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/templates/home/index.html
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--- a/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/templates/home/index.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-{# process the default index.html first #}
-{% ckan_extends %}
diff --git a/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/templates/home/snippets/promoted.html b/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/templates/home/snippets/promoted.html
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index 9166e5c07d2e4fc6ad3911a17b10d4ecc5d9b22e..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/ckanext-theme_hft/ckanext/theme_hft/templates/home/snippets/promoted.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-{% ckan_extends %}
-
-{# remove promoted image #}
-{% block home_image %}{% endblock %}
diff --git a/ckanext-theme_hft/setup.py b/ckanext-theme_hft/setup.py
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index fdfee06e615db3b6bde893eb0a6d68f0dbf97fd8..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/ckanext-theme_hft/setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,97 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Always prefer setuptools over distutils
-from setuptools import setup, find_packages
-from codecs import open  # To use a consistent encoding
-from os import path
-
-here = path.abspath(path.dirname(__file__))
-
-# Get the long description from the relevant file
-with open(path.join(here, 'README.md'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
-    long_description = f.read()
-
-setup(
-    name='''ckanext-theme_hft''',
-
-    # Versions should comply with PEP440.  For a discussion on single-sourcing
-    # the version across setup.py and the project code, see
-    # http://packaging.python.org/en/latest/tutorial.html#version
-    version='0.0.1',
-
-    description=''' Customized UI of CKAN of HFT Stuttgart''',
-    long_description=long_description,
-    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
-
-    # Choose your license
-    license='AGPL',
-
-    # See https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=list_classifiers
-    classifiers=[
-        # How mature is this project? Common values are
-        # 3 - Alpha
-        # 4 - Beta
-        # 5 - Production/Stable
-        'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
-
-        # Pick your license as you wish (should match "license" above)
-        'License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Affero General Public License v3 or later (AGPLv3+)',
-
-        # Specify the Python versions you support here. In particular, ensure
-        # that you indicate whether you support Python 2, Python 3 or both.
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
-    ],
-
-
-    # What does your project relate to?
-    keywords='''data catalog''',
-
-    # You can just specify the packages manually here if your project is
-    # simple. Or you can use find_packages().
-    packages=find_packages(exclude=['contrib', 'docs', 'tests*']),
-        namespace_packages=['ckanext'],
-
-    install_requires=[
-      # CKAN extensions should not list dependencies here, but in a separate
-      # ``requirements.txt`` file.
-      #
-      # http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/extensions/best-practices.html
-      # add-third-party-libraries-to-requirements-txt
-    ],
-
-    # If there are data files included in your packages that need to be
-    # installed, specify them here.  If using Python 2.6 or less, then these
-    # have to be included in MANIFEST.in as well.
-    include_package_data=True,
-    package_data={
-    },
-
-    # Although 'package_data' is the preferred approach, in some case you may
-    # need to place data files outside of your packages.
-    # see http://docs.python.org/3.4/distutils/setupscript.html
-    # installing-additional-files
-    # In this case, 'data_file' will be installed into '<sys.prefix>/my_data'
-    data_files=[],
-
-    # To provide executable scripts, use entry points in preference to the
-    # "scripts" keyword. Entry points provide cross-platform support and allow
-    # pip to create the appropriate form of executable for the target platform.
-    entry_points='''
-        [ckan.plugins]
-        theme_hft=ckanext.theme_hft.plugin:ThemeHftPlugin
-
-        [babel.extractors]
-        ckan = ckan.lib.extract:extract_ckan
-    ''',
-
-    # If you are changing from the default layout of your extension, you may
-    # have to change the message extractors, you can read more about babel
-    # message extraction at
-    # http://babel.pocoo.org/docs/messages/#extraction-method-mapping-and-configuration
-    message_extractors={
-        'ckanext': [
-            ('**.py', 'python', None),
-            ('**.js', 'javascript', None),
-            ('**/templates/**.html', 'ckan', None),
-        ],
-    }
-)