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Differentiating administrator and visitor views

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Differentiating administrator and visitor views

By now you've noticed that a Drupal site looks quite different when you're administering it from when you're just visiting it. That wasn't quite true in Drupal 6, but it was something that a lot of people ask for. But not everybody likes it. This video shows you a simple trick to change the way the administration interface looks so it matches what everybody else sees. To do it, go to Appearance. Right now, our main theme is Bartik, and you will notice from its screenshot, that looks very much like what we saw on the main site. When we click an administrative link, we go to this Seven theme. The Bartik theme is what's called the default theme, as you see right next to its name. Now if we scroll down to the bottom of the screen, you see we have a separate choice of what we want the administration theme to be. We have chosen Seven, but all we'd have to do is change it to either Bartik or default theme. By changing this pop-up menu to default theme, the administration theme will stay in…

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