One of the - small - downfalls of Drupal is the lack of a really nice built-in administration interface. When you install Drupal, by default the admin area uses the same theme as the main site, and if you’ve a site with heaps of columns, or one that is just plain old thin, your admin [...]
One of the - small - downfalls of Drupal is the lack of a really nice built-in administration interface. When you install Drupal, by default the admin area uses the same theme as the main site, and if you’ve a site with heaps of columns, or one that is just plain old thin, your admin interface will be a dog to use. Rootcandy is an excellent admin theme for Drupal that is easy to use and will ensure your site building is a breeze.
So, how do you go about installing it? It’s as easy as this:
1. Download the theme from http://drupal.org/project/rootcandy (it’s for Drupal 6 only at this stage)
2. Unpack it and upload to your Drupal themes directory. For the purposes of being a neat freak, i’ve set up a folder for it at /sites/all/themes/administration - just pop the rootcandy folder in there, and move onto the next step.
3. Log in as an administrator, and browse to http://yoursite.com/admin/settings/admin. Select ‘Rootcandy’ (or the other Rootcandy variants!) from the dropdown, click ‘Save configuration’ et voila - you now have beautiful, and very easy to use admin interface. When your visitors arrive to visit your site, don’t worry - Rootcandy will be replaced with your default site theme.
This is one of the great things about Drupal, the ability to specify an administration theme as well as a default layout for the main site.
Heres a screenshot of the Rootcandy theme, as nicked from the developers site at http://sotak.co.uk. Enjoy!
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Hi, i have done what you´ve suggested here, but i can´t sem to get it working with different front/backend theme using D6.9 , Goofy/Rootcandy where Goofy should be frontend, RC backend.
I can´t seem to save Goofy as “activated” but not “standard” and RC as “activated and standard”. This way i get RC as Front AND Backend.
Saving Goofy as “activated and standard” won´t let me save RC other then “activated”. But that only shows the Goofy Theme in Front/Backend.
At which point does Drupal6 get to know what to use as Front and what to use at backend?
e.g. In your Howto above, what happens here that lets you have the described effect and me not???
Select ‘Rootcandy’ (or the other Rootcandy variants!) from the dropdown, click ‘Save configuration’