Custom Admin Theme
Our Objective
If you need to make adjustments to the adminhtml theme files (template, layout, or skin), you have two options for accomplishing this. Here's an example of what we would want to accomplish: Files in /app/design/adminhtml/default/custom_admin_theme/ need to override files in: /app/design/adminhtml/default/default/ Likewise, files in /skin/adminhtml/default/custom_admin_theme/ need to override files in: /skin/adminhtml/default/default/ The following two options accomplish this functionality:Option 1 - "Admin Theme" module
Ivan Weiler from Inchoo has created a module that allows you to specify your own custom theme using the same config page you use to specify custom frontend themes. You can download this module here (note: this module is currently in Alpha, so you'll need to modify the setting of your downloader before being able to download it). Here is a screenshot of this module in action: [caption id="attachment_23" align="alignnone" caption=""Admin Theme" Screenshot"]
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Option 2 - Add XML to your module's config file
If you don't want to install a module just to enable this functionality, you can add the following XML code inside the<config> ... <stores> <admin> <!-- custom admin theme --> <design> <theme> <default>custom_admin_theme</default> </theme> </design> </admin> </stores> ... </config>
<stores> <admin> <!-- default admin design package and theme --> <design> <package> <name>default</name> </package> <theme> <default>default</default> </theme> </design> </admin> </stores>
Comments
It can be done but you will
It can be done but you will have to code for this. I have not done this before but it can be done.
Hi Is it possible to get
Hi
Is it possible to get this to apply different themes depending on the store view being edited in the admin?
Thanks
Mark
Thanks, I'll try it. -C
Thanks, I'll try it.
-C
It worked for CE as well.
It worked for CE as well. Check for the XML files which loads default theme.
@charles, it didn't work in
@charles, it didn't work in your Magento 1.6 CE because of the community extension "Find" located in app/code/community/Find.
A quick way to make it work is to either remove the extension, if you don't use it, or, remove the lines 121 to 129 (included) from the config.xml of the extension:
find
It should work then. Don't forget to clean your cache.
Hope that helped.
-Hugues
Does this work in 1.6 CE ? I
Does this work in 1.6 CE ? I tried it and I can't get any custom templates to load. :(
First of all thanks to your
First of all thanks to your guys for providing such informative code. I have also search web for this and fond this use full post. Our problem was we wanted it to be worked for enterprise edition. You code was only to overwrite the theme. Which as not working well for enterprise edition. I have added code to overwrite skin as well and that worked.
Thanks again,
Rizvan
Thx ! Spent ages looking
Thx !
Spent ages looking for this, found loads of wrong ways to do it.
This was simple and it worked
j