How to not allow Theme Changes in the user Profile

Hangin' Around Joined: Feb 06, 2008 Posts: 27

I wonder how I can disable the option for users to change the Theme in their Profile. Because i don´t find anything to turn that off in the Administration. Or when, where would it be ?

Wolfseye

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:36 pm

I removed all the ones I was not going to use. Saves backup space, time and they can't change the theme all in one.

You could also move them in a new DIR. On one of my sites I created a DIR called OLD and moved all the unused themes in there.

Dawg

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:24 pm

Dawg wrote:

I removed all the ones I was not going to use. Saves backup space, time and they can't change the theme all in one.

You could also move them in a new DIR. On one of my sites I created a DIR called OLD and moved all the unused themes in there.

Dawg

So a simple disabling of that is not possible ?

Wolfseye

registered · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:24 pm

Yeah, just remove the theme folders you don't want under the themes directory and you are good to go. That might cause some pain for the users that already selected a theme, but you can run a SQL query to reset everyone back to the same theme if you need to.

registered · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:52 pm

wolfseye, this is how its done. Been like this for as long as I can remember.

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:52 am

Check this and comment out the lines navbar.php:

http://www.cybertipps.com/ftopict-235-benutzer.html

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:27 am

Thank you, had that already. Wink

That was the solution.

Wolfseye

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 6:32 am

Well, I cannot read German, but I still do not understand. When you remove all but one theme, Your Account already does not display the Theme icon/link. And, if you are not wanting people to change their themes, that implies that you are wanting to have only one theme. So, why change code that you are going to have to remember to change each time you upgrade? I must be missing something here.

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 7:27 am

Montego that thread shows what to comment out in Your Account navbar.php and there is also a note about CNB wich can handle theme changes through the settings there.
The reason why this method is used:
As admin you can still configure themes and change the default theme.
I do this often as admin and can work online with my other themes.

To not loose images e.g. in the forums block from another theme I need to have both themes available otherwise I need to change my forums block and my css completely. Quess there are some more reasons. its just a simple method to not allow theme changes and often used beneed to delete all other themes. Wink

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 6:24 am

Ah, interesting. Shows my ignorance of phpBB themes. Makes sense now. Thanks!