Theme not consistently used
welded - May 12, 2008 - 16:13
I'm new to Drupal so please speak slowly and use small words. ;)
So I'm using a custom theme from the public facing part of a site currently under development and Garland for the admin pages. By and large this has worked very well, but in (so far) two places the wrong theme is used:
admin/build/block (Block administration) uses the custom theme
node/add/forum/1 (New forum topic) uses Garland
I know Drupal can't magically know what theme to use in all cases, but these seem pretty obvious. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
(I've looked through existing topics but couldn't find a solution, but I also don't really know what to look for...)
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the block admin page has been discussed here http://drupal.org/node/256466 (bottom line, it's supposed to be that way.)
I'm not sure about the forum. Did you add anything that modifies the forum (in template.php or a forum add-on module?)
~silverwing
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Thanks for the quick reply.
Thanks for the quick reply. I can live with the blocks using the custom theme; it's still useable, if a little awkward, but I suppose the logic makes some sense. The forum is pretty crucial as you'd imagine...
So as far as that goes, I have added a handful of modules but nothing that I think would be causing it. I'll try turning stuff off and on again and see what happens. Since I'm so new to Drupal I've hesitated/been unable to edit anything that isn't a CSS or simple tpl file... :\
i understand....
My 'coding' technique is simple copy/pasting from the handbook and forum pages!
If you select another theme, does that affect the forum at all?
~silverwing
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Land of Midnight | MisguidedThoughts | showcaseCMS
Then you're one step past
Then you're one step past me! :p
I changed to one of the other default themes as well as disabled and uninstalled all modules except Comment, Forum, and Taxonomy and the behaviour is the same. I'll try removing the unused modules from the parent folder, but I don't think that'll do anything...
well
You know it's a module then.
If you can't figure it out with the modules, you can try creating another user and give them forum posting permission and see what happens when that user is logged in.
~silverwing
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I'm not positive it's a
I'm not positive it's a module because I've installed a second copy of 6.2 and besides setting up the two themes (both defaults) and adding the forum module, it is completely stock. However, the behaviour is exactly the same as described in my first post. If this is how the software behaves out of the box, the logic is beyond me or there is a problem with my set up (and my web host, for that matter). I tired this using a new, standard authenticated user type.
I'm losing hope. :\
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Update: I've changed the admin them from Garland to Minnelli and the problem is apparently no more. Very weird...
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Update2: OK, as far as I can tell, leaving the box unchecked for 'Use administration theme for content editing' will prevent the admin theme from stealing the add topic page, but then ALL content edits going forward don't use the admin theme, of course. My conclusion is that the root of this problem is some problem with the create new topic code, but unfortunately I haven't the slightest clue how to go about fixing it. I guess I can just install a 3rd party forum on a subdomain and just cut my losses.
*bunp*
I don't typically bump threads, but I would really appreciate some help with this. I've confirmed that Drupal treats new topics the same as new pages or stories and uses the admin theme. If I leave 'Use administration theme for content editing' unchecked it uses the correct theme for new topics, but then editing pages and stories use the admin theme, obviously. This seems really counter-intuitive to me and I'm hoping somebody else has had the same issue.
Thanks.