Setting default theme for mysites

18. May 2009 10:13 by sashashev in   //  Tags:   //   Comments (0)

MOSS does not allow you to set a default custom theme to your sites upon creation. The most painful example is in mysites. There are articles that give you the full detail on how to get around this but here is the quick and easy way thanks to our good friend Scot Hillier and his SharePoint 2007 Features on Codeplex.

Download Themechanger from http://www.codeplex.com/features/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2502

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Install it on server

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Find both WSP files and deploy.

 

Edit the Feature.xml file in 12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES\Themechanger

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The last bit is to assign which site definitions should apply the theme.
You edit this in the Elements.xml file.

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I added the line for mysites - SPSPERS#0

To see how to get a list of all site templates go here - http://stsadm.blogspot.com/2007/08/set-available-site-templates.html

Make sure you recycle your app pool for changes to take effect.

That’s it, should all work!!

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