Current theme version: 1.5
What can I say? This theme is now permanently installed on thebombsite and Textgarden even in preference to my own themes. Personally I think it is absolutely gorgeous.
Gile (pogonik) says…
“Txp admin themes are mostly light, white and simple, which is close to Txp’s concept and philosophy however I wanted to created something a little different… to show Txp’s dark side. ;)
Stuart “the Bomber” has fixed my dirty code and taken care of some of the little details.
Hope you’re going to like this one.”
This theme is aimed at users with Txp 4.3.0 and above because by default it removes the “tagbuilder” column on the “Pages” and “Forms” tabs and extends their textareas to occupy the free-space (see the images). This is all done with CSS though so if you haven’t moved up yet you can still use it by “commenting out” the appropriate styling which is conveniently contained in a single block near the bottom of the style sheet.
The default logo displays “TEXTPATTERN” but it is easy to create your own. I already have as you can see. A blank logo image (logo_blank.png) displaying just the Txp logo is supplied for your convenience. The font used is Verdana 16pt bold #e0dfca expanded to 125% width with a little drop shadow applied top left. Once you have created your logo simply rename it to logo.png and upload it to the theme folder overwriting the existing logo.png image.
Mini icons used on the “Write” tab supplied by the wonderful people at Webtreats Etc.
Go on. Treat yourself!
Change Log
v1.5 - 10th June 2011
- Modified styling for Forms page (view thumbnail above)
- Fields below textarea now display inline
- Preview button permanently hidden
v1.4 - 16th March 2011
- Modified multiple-select styling
- Modified [type=“Submit”] styling
- Modified [value=”×”] styling
v1.3 - 14th November 2010
- Added extra CSS blocks for Language tab
- Includes styling for “tru_tags” plugin
- Added “Textile” link to footer menu
v1.2 - not released
v1.1 - 10th October 2010
- Added z-index to drop-down menus to cope with some plugins
- Modified “not-ok” text display.
- Added “opacity” hover effect to buttons
v1.0 - 5th October 2010
- Initial release


Really nice, I will install it when 4.3 will be released.
05/10/2010
Dragondz
Nice alternative look, it’s got a real modern feel to it.
05/10/2010
Simon
Delicious. Stellar work. I’ll upgrade smd_admin_themes to fix the inline styles when I get a chance: that hover is brutal! :-(
Would you mind altering the zip package to include the theme’s directory, please? It won’t install directly in smd_admin_themes unless I unpack it and rezip it up with ‘vitraux’ at its top level. Ta.
06/10/2010
Stef Dawson
Done Stef.
06/10/2010
Stuart
A minor thing, when accessing this page, it gives the following:
Tag error: <txp:image_list id=“441” form=“pretty_photo_image” /> -> Textpattern Warning: tag does not exist on line 1183
By the way really nice theme :)
02/11/2010
skualito
Damn! I thought I had caught all of those. Fixed thank you. :)
02/11/2010
Stuart
This is just right for creating content on my Android Tablet 7inch - plain white-based themes are too bright on the small screen but this one works just fine. Many thanks!
31/05/2013
Peter Garner
nice & very good thanks for sharing
14/08/2013
webment