Question

I have set up a custom theme in Magento admin panel under “Design” tab

I can now put my custom code in

 \app\design\frontend\default\MYTHEME\template

instead of

 \app\design\frontend\base\default\template

I would like to do the same for the admin panel code. In other words, I would like to selectively replace vanilla code in this directory

  \app\design\adminhtml\default\default\template

with custom code, likely in this directory

   \app\design\adminhtml\default\MYTHEME\template

Magento does not seem to recognize this automatically.

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For the sake of maintainability it would be beneficial to have a global over-ride like we have in ‘frontend’. Over-riding module by module in the module layout may not be obvious to next person that looks at the code.

Answer 1

Try

In /app/code/local/MageIgniter/AdminThemeAndMod/etc/config.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
    <modules>
        <MageIgniter_AdminThemeAndMod>
            <version>0.1.0</version>
        </MageIgniter_AdminThemeAndMod>
    </modules>
    <stores>
        <admin>
            <design>
                <theme>
                    <default>mageigniter</default>
                </theme>
            </design>
        </admin>
    </stores>
</config>

In /app/etc/modules/MageIgniter_AdminThemeAndMod.xml

<!-- /app/etc/modules/MageIgniter_AdminThemeAndMod.xml -->
 <config>
  <modules>
    <MageIgniter_AdminThemeAndMod>
       <active>true</active>
        <codePool>local</codePool>
     </MageIgniter_AdminThemeAndMod>
    </modules>
 </config>

Then add your newly add/update files to

/app/design/adminhtml/default/mageigniter/layout/
/app/design/adminhtml/default/mageigniter/template/

/skin/adminhtml/default/mageigniter/