# How to change theme for all users
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-theme-for-all-users/99752
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 17, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-theme-for-all-users/99752 "2018-10-17T20:18:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@JohnGeorge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JohnGeorge)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-theme-for-all-users/99752/1 "2018-10-17T20:18:22Z")
I’d like to make it so all new and existing users are set to see the newly customized theme I created.
How can I do that?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2018, 12:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-theme-for-all-users/99752/2 "2018-10-18T00:17:06Z")
If you want to set a theme as default, select the theme, click “Theme is enabled by default” and then hit the blue tick.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2018, 12:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-theme-for-all-users/99752/3 "2018-10-18T00:29:03Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> click “Theme is enabled by default” and then hit the blue tick.
Does that mean it will be force-enabled for all users or just all new users that sign up after the setting is ticked? I think the copy here is less than ideal.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2018, 12:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-theme-for-all-users/99752/4 "2018-10-18T00:31:22Z")
When you switch default it switches the default for all users that did not pick a different user selectable theme explicitly (if there is one available). A bit of a mouth full, but yeah we can improve the copy here.
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### Author:  [@JohnGeorge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JohnGeorge)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2018, 12:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-theme-for-all-users/99752/5 "2018-10-18T00:42:05Z")
Thank you all! And I’m including this sentence to appease the 20-character minimum comment requirement.
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### Author:  [@2Scoops](https://meta.discourse.org/u/2Scoops)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-theme-for-all-users/99752/6 "2019-04-10T14:13:37Z")
The default in my forum is LIGHT, but the moment i log in with my user - it appears in DARK. NO idea why this is happening or how to fix it and its frustrating…
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-theme-for-all-users/99752/7 "2019-04-10T14:47:13Z")
If you go to your user preferences… can you successfully change your theme there? If you’ve previously selected a theme, changing the default won’t effect you.
`community.example.com/my/preferences/interface`
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2022, 9:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-theme-for-all-users/99752/9 "2022-07-02T21:35:00Z")