Managing seasonal theme

[frogs]

Hello everyone

Till recently, I have one normal theme available to all members. We thought it would befun to have seasonal themes from time to time while allowing member to switch to normal theme should they choose to. So, I created a Halloween theme (only changes are background image and background colour), made it as default, made sure it is active along side with the normal theme. So far so good.

Expected behaviour: guest see halloween theme, logged in members see halloween theme, logged in members have option to choose from the two themes now available (normal + halloween)

Observed behaviour: guest see halloween theme, logged in members stay on normal theme unless they change theme option in their profile after logging in.

What have I done wrong to switch default theme for eveyrone? Could that even be possible on Proboards?

I guess I'm looking for an option to let members have whatever is the current default theme of the board. How can I do that?

Thank you in advance for any guidance!

[Chris]

Feb 9, 2021 17:44:25 GMT -8 Michael said:

The default theme will appear automatically for those who are not logged in. Logged in users will have the default theme automatically, unless they have selected another theme from the theme list. It sounds like you had another theme selected and when you changed the default, you didn't see a change, which is the intended effect.

If you want to force all users onto a theme you would need to set that theme as default, and then disable all other themes. If members have selected their own theme from the list, they will remain on that theme until they select a new theme, or when that theme is no longer available they'll be forced to the default theme.

[frogs]

Thank you Chris, that's what I figured and I currently disabled the normal theme while looking for another way to do this.

However, prior to the change, there is only one (1) theme available. So the normal theme is already selected as chosen on the list without member intervention. In this case, the sentence (or the if branch) "Logged in users will have the default theme automatically" would never happen, right ?

Then it is inconvenient to have to disable all other themes just because of this logic.

If possible, I would like to request an extra option "same theme as forum default".

[Scott]

frogs, I have marked this as a Feature Request.

[frogs]

Thank you Scott!