Administration theme doesn't work

By gstoyle on 1 Apr 2011 at 13:20 UTC

I've just transferred by Drupal site to a new server. Everything is working fine except the administration theme. I'm trying to select Garland as the administration theme, but it will only use the default (front-end) theme.

Garland is selected in the menu and enabled in themes so it should work.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

Comments

Make sure that selected theme

Ayesh commented 1 April 2011 at 15:08

Make sure that selected theme setting in your profile (user/X/edit) is reset back to default theme.

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Default theme ignored

asb commented 15 April 2011 at 16:57

I have a similar issue on D6; I'm trying to enable different themes for anonymous users (= default theme), and logged in users (in this case just user #1). Usually I'd set something like 'Garland' as default theme at ./admin/build/themes/select, and the customized (Fusion/Skinr) theme at ./user/1/edit. However, this doesn't work as expected: Everybody gets 'Garland', and the customized setting for user #1 is being ignored.

Even worse, if I set the customized theme as system default, everybody actually gets the customized theme - at least partial: Only the logged-in users get the "full" theme, anonymous user see ony broken fragments of it (some CSS isn't loaded properly, e.g. all Skinr classes are missing).

This is a dev site; the live site behaves similarily strange: The default theme settings are also ignored. There lives an old, Minelly-based sub theme which gets loaded no matter what default theme is configured.

Maybe also noteworthy: Switching the admin theme works flawlessly in this case (e.g. to 'Seven' or the 'Fusion core' base theme).

Any ideas?

This has just randomly

willeaton commented 20 May 2011 at 14:25

This has just randomly happened to me and I don't have a clue why, I haven't changed anything that would cause this and I am not specifying it in the settings.php either. One day its garland as the admin theme, the next, no matter what I choose in the settings page it shows the default theme only. I even checked to make sure that garland was activated.

Incidentally, I tried going

willeaton commented 20 May 2011 at 14:27

Incidentally, I tried going to my user profile page and changing my preferred theme to something else, then back to the default, and although it didn't do anything straight away, it did suddently start working after I wrote the above message and visited the admin home page - typical

Same issue here!! It worked

cssdru commented 1 June 2011 at 20:25

Same issue here!!

It worked perfectly but has gone without touching anything!!

Has anyone got a solution for this problem?

Thank you in advance.

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I just had the same issue and

Aries-Belgium commented 20 August 2011 at 11:09

I just had the same issue and for me it was the Theme Role Switcher module that was causing this problem. All of the sudden the admin theme stopped working and no matter what I did I couldn't get it back. After disabling Theme Role Switcher, it worked again.