To customize the admin, we need the AdminTheme module provided by Inchoo, one of the most popular companies that provides great Magento tutorials and services.
The module simply gives you the possibility to define the theme folder of the admin skin in the admin configuration.
You can download the module from http://inchoo.net/ecommerce/magento/custom-admin-theme-in-magento/. The following screenshot shows the module page on the Inchoo website, where you can download the module:
Read the article that opens on the website, and there you will find the link to download the module. After downloading it, use the following steps to install it and to create the admin theme folder:
[root]/
folder.bookstore
in the app/design/adminhtml/default/bookstore
folder.skin/adminhtml/default/bookstore
.bookstore
, inside the field as shown in the following screenshot:Done. Now the admin theme will take the files from the bookstore
folder.
If you refresh the page, you will not notice any change, because the fallback system will always take the files from the default admin theme.
Thus, it doesn't need to download all the base theme files to customize the admin skin, but just the files you need to edit.
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