Making a custom theme
raindrop - November 7, 2009 - 05:05
Hi to all.
I've made a custom theme, a modification of Chameleon and put it in the sites/all folder and I changed the names in the copied files, eg something.info something.theme as well as the name of the folder but it doesn't appear as an option?
I'd really appreciate it if someone could say something here.
Thanks & regards
Your theme needs to go in
Your theme needs to go in sites/all/themes, not sites/all.
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"Nice to meet you Rose...run for your life." - The Doctor
My first public Drupal site - EyeOnThe503
Thanks for that I can see the
Thanks for that I can see the theme now and have made it the Administrator theme.
I renamed all the references so it works now but is there any way to deny this theme to regular users?
Thanks again
Don't enable it. And/or don't
Don't enable it. And/or don't give them permissions to select a theme.
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"Nice to meet you Rose...run for your life." - The Doctor
My first public Drupal site - EyeOnThe503
It works kind of but the
It works kind of but the administrator theme does not pervade all areas of the site unfortunately since it changes even just to make a page.
Why does it do this and is there a way to change or override it somehow?
While I am administering the site and/or creating content it's rather annoying having the theme change like it does.
Anyone else notice this?
are you wanting to have
are you wanting to have "theme one" start when admin logs in, and "theme 2" to start when other users logon?
if so, i dont think that is possible. basically if you want your site to look one way for you at all times, you need to enable the theme across the site for all users.
Yes, this is what I am
Yes, this is what I am wanting to have, and I do not understand why for such a standards' compliant system as is Drupal, that I can't.
Honestly I think it is ridiculous that as an admin or super-user I cannot have a consistent look and feel wherever I go and that dimensions, graphics and the placement of objects etc., must change when all I want to do for example is edit some content.
It's been said recently in another thread that you can't be logged on twice, ie for testing purposes but lets say you were using Firefox and had two windows open, even if technically it might work you have what amounts to a "bumpy ride" and this to me seems to be not very smart for a system that possesses such well written styles as does Drupal.
I am really at a loss as to why it is (or must be) this way and I'd very much appreciate someone explaining the (technical) reason why.
"Technically" I think no one
"Technically" I think no one has been perturbed by the two issues you've mentioned enough to address them. But since Drupal is open source, sooner or later someone might tackle them. Who knows, maybe it will be you?
By the way, have you seen RootCandy. That is a nice admin theme.
I will certainly look at
I will certainly look at that, but I guess it won't fix what I perceive as "gross" inconsistency.
There's a module for that
Anyone in this thread try:
http://drupal.org/project/role_theme_switcher
let me just add this to the
ah, screw it...