Ability to change default theme for network sites

[fuwaneko]

As stated in summary. I use WP 3.0 RC and I've found out that there is no way to set up a theme which should be used by default for newly created sites in network. Even then I disable all the themes except the one I want to be used, WP still set thentyten as theme for newly registered site. The only solution I was able to find is to change theme description and name to twentyten and delete all other themes. It's so simple to let administrator choose default network theme, and this option is present in many other CMS.

Define WP_DEFAULT_THEME.

I'm going to re-open into a future release, I can't seem to find a ticket discussing this otherwise. I agree there should probably be a way to define a default (radio button on ms-themes perhaps?), and that can simply be used in the schema when we're creating a new blog in a network.

Replying to nacin:

Define WP_DEFAULT_THEME.

Oh, thank you. But still I think that this option should be present in admin interface rather than as php define in wp-config.php. At least this should be mentioned in docs somewhere more obvious than WP 3.0 Changelog :)

Replying to fuwaneko:

Oh, thank you. But still I think that this option should be present in admin interface rather than as php define in wp-config.php. At least this should be mentioned in docs somewhere more obvious than WP 3.0 Changelog :)

As you suggested.

​http://codex.wordpress.org/Super_Admin_Themes_SubPanel#Default_Theme

Related #13768

Because WordPress requires a functional theme to function, changing the default theme should remain a wp-config.php edit. People should be aware of what they are doing before changing it. As a config edit, the admin is more likely to look it up in the codex, ask in the support forum, etc.

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