The Adaptivetheme starter base theme comes with many default theme setting. In this video we walk through setting up the theme settings for Adaptivetheme, including how to enable the hidden settings for LayoutSP, horizontal login block and color schemes.

Most of the default theme settings are self explanatory and you can adjust them to see what they do, however there are some theme settings that are hidden by default and you must edit some of the themes files to enable them.

The Hidden Settings

The advanced layout settings known as "LayoutSP", the horizontal login block and the color schemes settings are all hidden by default. This is because not all themes or designs can support these settings so its up to the theme developer to first decide if they want to support these settings and then enable them.

To enable these settings, either all or some of them you need to follow this process:

1. Open up template.php and theme-settings.php
2. There are two large arrays near the top of those files that set the theme settings defaults.
3. The hidden settings are set to "off", you need to change these to "on". You need to do this in both files!
4. Save the files, go back to the theme settings page and and click "Reset to defaults".

Notes for the Layout Settings

You can either enable all the advanced LayoutSP settings or just the ones you want. There are three settings:

* Page width
* Sidebar widths
* Sidebar layout

You do not need to enable all of them. For example you may only want end users to be able to change the sidebar width and layout, and not the overall page width. In this case only enable the settings you require.