Magento – Custom Magento Theme Not Showing

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I have installed a magento theme (Milano), which installs at:

app/design/frontend/default/milano

I want to customize this theme and I have set up new theme directories:

skin/frontend/default/mycustomtheme
and
app/design/frontend/default/mycustomtheme

with a varied css at

skin/frontend/default/mycustomtheme/css/styles.css

In System->Configuration->Design I have changed the Skin to mycustomtheme and left everything else as the default milano, but it still won't show the customisation to the css on my store.

I have refreshed the cache and reindexed the data.

I have also checked the System > Design and there is no design themes listed there either.

Best Answer

You can utilize 4 theme fallbacks via System > Configuration. You should set it up as follows:

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This way, when Magento looks for a theme file (design or skin), it will look through the package/themes and use whatever it finds first (in this order):

default/mycustomtheme
default/milano
default/default (even though it's not specified, Magento will always use the default theme of a package)
base/default (this theme is always included last)

Other things to check:

Change store scope and make sure your settings are making it down to the store view
Check var/log/. It's possible that your files aren't readable/visible/misplaced

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You seem to be talking about two different things. In Magento, there are

a) packages
b) themes

The package defines the first folder and the theme the underlying "child" folder. An example:

app/design/frontend/PACKAGE/THEME

Furthermore, you can specify a separate folder for your skin via the backend settings, but it will be in the same package that you configured.

So, say you put package = mycompany and theme = mytheme and skin = myskin,

then your paths will be:

app/design/frontend/mycompany/mytheme/template -> for phtml files
app/design/frontend/mycompany/mytheme/layout   -> for layout xml files, e.g. local.xml
skin/frontend/mycompany/myskin                 -> for skin files like css, js, images

Magento1.9 – Changing the Default Theme

Create a new directory in app/design/frontend and in skin/frontend. And in those new directories, create one more folder, name it as default and copy required files within default folder.
Go to System->Configuration->Design. Give the name of newly created directory as package name. Save it. You may need to clear cache. And you should see that custom theme in front end.

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