Finding Additional Themes

There are several factors to consider when determining the suitability of an existing theme.

The first issue is compatibility. Due to changes made to Drupal in the 5.x series, older themes will not work properly with Drupal 5.x. Accordingly, your first step is to determine which version of Drupal you are running.

To find the version information for your installation, go to Administer | Logs | Status Report. The first line of the Status Report tabular data will show your version number.

The Status Report screen showing Drupal version number. Note also this screen includes other useful information, like your MySQL and PHP version numbers

Note

If you do not see the Status Report option, then you are probably using a Drupal version earlier than 5.x. We suggest you upgrade as this book is for Drupal 5.x.

If you know your Drupal version, you can confirm whether the theme you are considering is usable on your system. If the theme you are looking at doesn't provide versioning...