Previously selected user themes can override allowed themes

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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.

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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.

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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?).

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

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

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

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

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

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Not quite what you’re looking for. In Completely disable mailing list mode? 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.

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

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

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Ok, I just ran a test and clearing the browser cache DOES change the theme to the default one in v2 if the one the user was previously using has been removed and a new one has been set as default.

If Make this my default theme on all devices is checked it should revert on the next refresh.

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This is only the case if you are an administrator, as an end user this can not happen. I just confirmed cause we do a security check and only allow end users to see themes that are user selectable.

I am recategorizing this as support for now cause I feel it is too minor to need fixing.

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Sorry to drag this one up. How can I find out what a ‘theme_key’ is per theme?

**Edit: Is it the number at end of URL if you go to settings/customise/themes and select the one you want?

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Theme_key is no longer used. Instead, you would do

UserOption.update_all(theme_ids: [666])

Where 666 is the id of the theme (the number in the URL when you go to edit it in the admin panel)

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So for my instance I typed this:

./launcher enter app
rails c
UserOption.update_all(theme_ids: [3])

Worked super fast (<1 sec) and changed all my user themes to my predetermined default. Perfect, thank you @pfaffman

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