Needs work
Project:
AdminLTE 4
Version:
1.0.0-beta1
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Code
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Normal
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Created:
8 Jul 2026 at 09:36 UTC
Updated:
9 Jul 2026 at 12:11 UTC
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Problem/Motivation
Please see: #3567667: Deprecate Stable9
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Proposed resolution
I tried using https://www.drupal.org/project/bootstrap5 as the base theme, and it seems to have improved things.
Of course, there are alternative Bootstrap base themes to consider, but Bootstrap5 seems fine. It's not bloated with SDCs (nothing against SDCs, but I don't think we will benefit from them in this project), etc., and it's pretty straightforward.
Remaining tasks
- [x] Replace base them in info file
- [ ] Remove duplicate theme settings
- [ ] Alter theme setting for theme mode 'auto' (BS5 theme only provides dark and light)
- [ ] Unset further not required settings from the BS5 theme
- [x] The Bootstrap Lib is loaded twice, disable the BS5 theme library in adminlte.info.yml:
libraries-override: bootstrap5/global-styling: false bootstrap5/bootstrap5-js-latest: false - [x] Override the bootstrap5 themes ckeditor_stylesheets (info file).
- [ ] We can override the base themes ckeditor styles, but we can't replace them #3458077: Allow overriding/disabling base theme's ckeditor5-stylesheets value
- [x] Add Dependency (composer.json / .info)
User interface changes
API changes
Data model changes
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Comments
Comment #2
anybody#3608934: Add important Drupal base css from a starterkit theme is unresolved and would be resolved this way, at least for now. The bootstrap5 theme would build the foundation and reduce the need for managing all these templates.
Still in the future it could also cause issues, so for the maintainer to decide if this is the final solution, but at least me might use it as basis for 1.x and then decide if 2.x should instead implement all the specific template files itself (by copy).
Please note that also settings are inherited and would need to be addressed.
There are pro's and con's but I think in the end this is much better than building all the foundation ourselves again!
Comment #3
thomas.frobieterComment #4
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thomas.frobieterComment #6
anybodyBTW bootstrap5 is generally made as base-theme, it also has a child-theme generator in the theme settings!
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thomas.frobieterComment #8
anybodyOkay I'd definitely vote to do this for 1.x!
I created #3609256: [Discuss][2.x] Maybe decouple from bootstrap5 theme and copy relevant elements? as follow-up to re-evaluate how this worked out later for 2.x.
Comment #9
thomas.frobieterComment #10
thomas.frobieterThe combination with the bootstrap5 theme as base theme still looks very good to me.
After removing the duplicate library files using:
Things look very nice. This way, we benefit from the Drupal-specific Bootstrap5 theme styles and the Bootstrap-specific template tweaks. Meanwhile, AdminLTE sticks with its customized Bootstrap Lib.
Comment #11
thomas.frobieterComment #12
anybody@thomas.frobieter thanks - will you prepare a MR here finally?
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anybodyComment #17
anybody@thomas.frobieter further changes needed? See the commit here for the diff.
Comment #18
thomas.frobieterI've highlighted the completed items in the assignment text.
Comment #19
anybody