# Theme changes only apply to admin
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-changes-only-apply-to-admin/286369
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 22, 2023, 8:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-changes-only-apply-to-admin/286369 "2023-11-22T20:48:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@P\_O](https://meta.discourse.org/u/P_O)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 8:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-changes-only-apply-to-admin/286369/1 "2023-11-22T20:48:28Z")
Hi, I am new to Discourse. I am running Discourse 3.2.0.beta4-dev. If I make a theme change, only Admin can see the theme change.
In admin/customize/themes I have Clean enabled.
In /u/admin/preferences/interface I have the following:
Color Scheme
Regular Theme Default (greyed out text)
Dark mode Same as regular
As the Admin user I see the Clean theme and it looks great (it has a white background).
Other users, not logged in using Brave, Safari, Firefox see the Default Dark Theme (with a dark background).
So my question is, what do I need to do so everybody will see the Clean theme with the white background?
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 8:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-changes-only-apply-to-admin/286369/2 "2023-11-22T20:52:05Z")
Is your clean theme selectable by users?
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### Author:  [@P\_O](https://meta.discourse.org/u/P_O)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2023, 10:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-changes-only-apply-to-admin/286369/3 "2023-11-23T10:14:30Z")
This is what my admin/customize/themes looks like.
You will note the default theme is missing as I deleted it from the admin area. I had the same problem with the default theme in that if I changed it to white, only admin would see the change.
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### Author:  [@P\_O](https://meta.discourse.org/u/P_O)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2023, 12:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-changes-only-apply-to-admin/286369/4 "2023-11-23T12:33:27Z")
Laptop 1:
Brave: Admin logged in (white background)
Firefox: unregistered (black background)
Safari: unregistered (black background)
Laptop 2:
Brave: unregistered (white background)
Firefox: unregistered (white background)
Safari: unregistered (white background)
Ipad:
Safari: unregistered (white background)
Brave: unregistered
- white header bar where logo login search hamburger
- rest of the page has a grey background
Firefox: unregistered (white background)
Even if I close all browsers on Laptop 1 and restart the machine, Firefox and Safari will load the site with a black background. So I presume there is a setting stored in the browser cache somewhere. But then I tested by clearing the Firefox history, clearing every history and data setting. When I loaded the site afterward it still loaded with a black background!
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### Author:  [@Firepup650](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Firepup650)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2023, 12:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-changes-only-apply-to-admin/286369/5 "2023-11-23T12:55:32Z")
If you want people to be able to select it, you’ll need to check that middle check box in the settings on the right.
Also, might I ask why you’re forcing all your users to have a very bright theme?
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### Author:  [@P\_O](https://meta.discourse.org/u/P_O)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2023, 1:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-changes-only-apply-to-admin/286369/6 "2023-11-23T13:01:43Z")
I have found out the reason why Laptop 1 was showing a black background using Firefox and Safari. On MacOS I had Settings/Appearance/Dark selected.
This was also the reason why Brave on the iPad was not displaying the white background, as that was also using a Dark Mode.
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### Author:  [@Lize\_Gibson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lize_Gibson)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2024, 2:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-changes-only-apply-to-admin/286369/7 "2024-01-24T14:32:52Z")
Similar to this but we have uploaded our logos and they appear in top left corner of the page when in admin view but not when in non-admin view? can anyone please help with this
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### Author:  [@Firepup650](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Firepup650)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-changes-only-apply-to-admin/286369/8 "2024-01-24T14:45:31Z")
Do you have `force-https` on for your site?
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### Author:  [@Lize\_Gibson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lize_Gibson)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2024, 4:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-changes-only-apply-to-admin/286369/9 "2024-01-24T16:31:45Z")
I dont believe so. Refreshing it - it actually seems to work sometimes but other times it doesn’t so don’t know whether its just a glitch
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### Author:  [@Firepup650](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Firepup650)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2024, 6:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-changes-only-apply-to-admin/286369/10 "2024-01-24T18:44:19Z")
> [@Lize\_Gibson](#):
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> I dont believe so
Could you try enabling it then? That should resolve the issue.