Is there any way that this theme engine could corrupt my Drupal database or anything else?

If you look at my site it's all messed up, after I tried most of the themes available from drupal.org. I don't remember which theme caused the problem, so I have to contact all theme developers and ask them for support. I also installed this theme engine since it was required by some themes, and I wonder whether it could corrupt a drupal database. I have installed Drupal from scratch so it can't be any code or file, therefore the problem must be about the database.

Can you help me with this?

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Dublin Drupaller’s picture

Dublin Drupaller commented

Is there any way that this theme engine could corrupt my Drupal database or anything else?

The quick answer is probably not, nsk.

I remember playing around with themes on a test site a while back and the kubrick theme and the marvin 2k theme didn't work properly when I first installed it.

I can't remember which one was the messier, but, one of them made my text so small I could barely read it...so I used the following steps to retrive the situation:

a) use the following link to get to your THEMES SETTINGS PAGE:

http://www.yoursite.com/pathtodrupal/?q=admin/themes

b) disable all new themes and make the bluemarine theme the default (i.e. the one 4.5.0 starts with as default is bluemarine)

c) save settings

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If you cannot access your themes settings page....suggest you:

a) download the bluemarine theme.

b) create a new folder in your themes folder..call it something like "safe" and upload the bluemarine theme files into the safe folder.

c) Open your drupal database using PHPMYadmin

d) select the VARIABLES table

e) find the default_theme setting under the VARIABLES table.

f) change the default_theme setting to be s:10"safe"

g) go back to your browser window and refresh your drupal site, it should load with the "safe" (bluemarine) theme.

Hope that's of use. the bottom line is that changing themes is very very unlikely to break your database or mess it up.

I do notice however when I was trying out different themes on a test drupal site there seemed to be inconsistencies when changing the ADMINISTER - THEME - CONFIG settings for each theme & the global settings......

Hope that's of use nsk....

Dublin Drupaller

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TDobes commented

Duplicate, where the problem was solved.

Please do not cross-post. It makes site maintenance a nightmare and lowers the quality of information obtained by the search function.