Installing and uninstalling themes

The act of installing or uninstalling a theme is a common practice when administering a Drupal website. Let's try installing Stark and making it our default theme in place of Bartik.

Step one - installing a theme

Currently, the only uninstalled theme is Stark, and we can easily move this into the installed state by following these two steps:

1. Click on the Install and set as default link.
2. Scroll back to the top of the Appearance admin.
3. If we now look at the Installed themes section, we should see that we now have three themes installed: Stark, Bartik, and Seven. We can also tell that Stark is now our default theme by looking at the right of the theme, which will be marked as (default theme).

We can also see what the Stark theme looks like by clicking on the Back to site link in the Admin menu. We are now presented with an un-styled page, which helps to demonstrate the clean markup of Drupal.

Step two - uninstalling a theme

Let's navigate back to the Appearance admin...