Enable Modern Theme Easily

We’ve had our fair share of posts about the Modern theme, including various ways to install it and the problems that came along with 1.4.0 when it didn’t apparently sit properly. One way around it was to move the modern theme contents into the /base folder and change the package to the base package. This worked perfectly well and was a nice solution. Want a nicer one?

After you install Magento, simply go to System > Design

Click on ‘Add Design Change’ and simply choose ‘modern’ from the dropdown list. Save this and look at the frontend, you should be greeted by the nice, sleek and grey-looking modern theme. Much easier. You can obviously continue to customise themes for different websites or store views in the usual System > Configuration > Design area.

I declare this the last ever post about the Modern Theme at the Magento Blog by Ecommerce Web Design. Next week, due to high demand, I’ll be showing you how to use multiple domains on the same Magento installation with Plesk.