Themes not showing up anywhere in the CMS so I can change from one to another

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Silverstripe Version: 4.1.1

Question:

I have created a SS 4.1.1. installation at Fastcomet. I tried installing two others besides “simple” that it cam with: Starter (via composer) and highway (via FTP)

I can find nowhere in the new CMS backend where it shows a selection of the themes that are installed. Certainly this all worked well in V2 but does not seem to work at all in v4.

I see no other complaints about his so I assume it is something to do with my installation.

There seems to be a dearth of info on themes for v4 and nothing I have found gives any clue as to how to select one from the other. It is starting to drive me crazy.

Can anyone help please.

Cheers
Pete

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Hi Pete, the active theme no longer comes from a user selection but a developer configuration. See Themes – SilverStripe Documentation

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WHY?!!?! What a stupid, pointless change. Why do you dev types always, ALWAYS have to make everything needlessly over-complicated? Ugh.

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I made this module a while ago when it first disappeared:

That will basically restore the old functionality, on most sites.

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Hi Andante

I tried installing your theme picker in a fresh install but alas it did not work and the screen threw a server error. I’m using ss 4.1.1 which seems to be bastard-software-from-hell!!

So I tried to install silverstripe-bootstrap-4 using composer.and after I edited the theme.yaml it lost ALL formatting. I am so NOT impressed.

I’m going to try a few more but I’m about ready to jettison Silverstripe for something that actually works

Cheers
Pete

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