Joomla! Documentation™

To change the default Template for the Site (Front-end) or Administrator (Back-end), follow these steps:

Access the template manager

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• Log in to the Administrator (Backend). If you are not sure how to do this see: To log in to the Administrator (Backend)</translate>

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• Click on: Extensions → Templates</translate>

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<translate> You will now see the Template Manager screen.</translate>

<translate> Note If you do not see Templates listed as an option on the Extensions menu, then it is most likely because you are not logged in as a Super User. Only Super Users will see this menu item.</translate>

Managing default template

From here you manage your templates for Front-end and Back-end. The default view shows your installed Front-end templates styles. The default style for the Front-end is marked with a star; in the image below it is protostar - Default.

To change the default style to beez3:

• click the checkbox left from the style name to select it;
• click "Default" on the toolbar;

the star changes from protostar to beez3 and you are done. Alternatively, you can click on the shadow of a template's default start to quickly set the template as default.

Assigning more than one template for the Front-end

Joomla! gives you the option of switching between two or more styles on the Front-end. This is done with "Menu Assignment", so you can set different styles for each menu or only a menu item. This allows specific "pages" that are defined by menu links to set for a "specific" style. Styles can be of different templates.

Template manager method

Click on: Extensions → Template Manager

• You will see your installed template styles, now choose a style which is not set as your default one. Yellow star indicates the style is a default.

• Click on the style name or hit the checkbox to the left of the style name, and click "Edit" on the toolbar.
• You now see the page "Template: [ Edit style] ", and go to the section "Menu Assignment" block and choose the menu items on which the style should be shown.

• Click "Save" on the toolbar and you´re done. The menu item will now show the selected template.
• Go to the front-end of your website and refresh the page to view the modifications.

Menu manager method

• Access menu item Menus → Menu Name
• Choose a menu item by checking the box to the left of its name and then click on the Edit toolbar button. Alternatively, simply click the name of the menu item to edit it.
• On the Edit Menu Item screen, in Template Style, choose the desired template style and click on the Save button.

• Go to the frontend of your website and refresh the page to view the modifications.

See also

• Template style