On Discourse 1.9.2 (stable) if there exists a theme “A” that gets saved as a user’s default theme and then you create a theme “B” and make theme “A” not selectable by users, people who have selected theme A still get theme A. And if theme B is the only available theme, then there is no selector on /my/preferences/interface to be able to select theme B.

Even if you make theme B the default? Can I assume that the theme choice is saved inside the session? I’ve been messing with my themes all day and have noticed that sometimes if I disable a theme I still have it until I clear the browser cache.

[image] Vaping_Community: Even if you make theme B the default? Yes. Theme B is the default and no other themes are user-selectable. You have to change the theme in the user profile to get to it (or perhaps clear the browser cache?).

Thanks. I suggested that to my not-so-technically-adept client who is more adept than most of their community.

Hopefully that fixes the problem, I guess the other way is to go through admin and change it manually for them (headache)

It’s possible to update them all from the Rails console.

Oh, nice, I’m still learning the basic commands, is there a cheat sheet for discourse commands?

Not quite what you’re looking for. In Completely disable mailing list mode? - #10 by techAPJ I found this ./launcher enter app rails c UserOption.update_all(mailing_list_mode: false) You’d do something similar, like UserOption.update_all(theme_key: 666) Which I found by looking in discourse/app/models/user_option.rb.

So you force the same theme_key on every user, I assume that is the theme ID?

That’s what it looks like. That’s not tested. It might kill your dog or something.

Previously selected user themes can override allowed themes

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Vaping_Community February 7, 2018, 10:16pm 4

I cleared the browser cache and it reset to the default for me, I’m running v2 though..

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