By planner on

Folks:

I am new to drupal and have just completed a new installation. The install was quick and easy, and I chose
a theme (garland) for the admin, and different theme for the public. Here are some of the issues I'm facing:

  • Pages on the admin side seem to alternate between the chosen admin theme and the
    public theme. I have no idea why this is happening, but it happens all the time.
  • On the captcha settings page, (Aminister>>Site Configuration>>Captcha), the
    "Captcha points for the role anonymous user" and "Captcha points for the role authenticated user"
    are not clickable. Same is true for some other aspects of the admin setting that are supposed to have
    additional options.
  • There are no fields for username and email in the comments section.

    • Will appreciate any input to help me figure out what I did wrong.

    TIA

    ⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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    mrbert’s picture

    mrbert commented

    All these have already been answered .....................read the handbook http://drupal.org/handbooks

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    anj’s picture

    anj commented

    I've been working with Drupal for many years now, but I still find it difficult to find the right parts of the handbooks sometimes. I'll try to help as best as I can, as I'm pretty sure the documentation does not directly answer your questions.

    The admin theme flipping is, I would suspect, a problem with your browser caching the pages. Try a forceful reload and see if that helps. I can find nothing about the 'Admin Theme' in the handbook.

    The Captcha docs start here http://drupal.org/node/151584. But before looking at that, it is important to say that you should have already gone to 'User management', then 'Access control' and enabled comments to be submitted by the type of users you want to allow to post comments. If that's all good to go, check you've got a module installed for the type of Captcha you want, e.g. the textimage module (http://drupal.org/project/textimage).

    As for your last point, looking at the configuration docs (here I think http://drupal.org/node/23703) it seems they don't include the fact that you can ask users to leave contact information. Go to your-site/admin/content/comment/settings and you'll find the options you want about halfway down the page.

    I hope that helps.

    Andy J
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    http://anjackson.net/

    planner’s picture

    planner commented

    Thanks anj. I have solved the most important problem - that being the second in my original post.
    Btw, that was not only limited to the captcha settings, but to any admin setting in a clickable link.

    I figured it had to do with a mod I had installed ( I installed a bunch of them ), so I disable them all (problem was solved at this point) and started enabling them anew. Using this approach, I found that the culprit mod was LiveSearch. I do not know why livesearch will cause the issue, but it's now disabled and I can live without it.

    Has anyone had a similar experience with livesearch?

    I have not found a solution yet to admin theme flipping, but I can live with that.

    Cheers