Hello everyone! I'm currently in the process of setting up several test pages in Silverstripe and seem to have encountered a problem where the CMS itself is picking up a style that's intended for a particular page on my site. My _config.php is as follows (I think this is pretty well the default):

global $project;
$project = 'mysite';

global $databaseConfig;
$databaseConfig = array(
   "type" => "MySQLDatabase",
   "server" => "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx",
   "username" => "xxxxxxxxx",
   "password" => "xxxxxxxxx",
   "database" => "xxxxxxxxx",
);

// Sites running on the following servers will be
// run in development mode. See
// http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=devmode
// for a description of what dev mode does.
Director::set_dev_servers(array(
   'localhost',
   '127.0.0.1',
));

// This line set's the current theme. More themes can be
// downloaded from http://www.silverstripe.com/themes/
SSViewer::set_theme('blackcandy');

When I just had a blackcandy subfolder in the themes folder then everything worked well. However, I created a page called (rather unimaginatively) test and created a subfolder called blackcandy_test in the themes folder so that I could specialise the theme specifically for the test page.

Unfortunately, when I logged out of Silverstripe and went back to its login page, the CMS itself seemed to be using the blackcandy_test theme rather than the original blackcandy. If I delete the blackcandy_test subfolder then the CMS reverts to the blackcandy theme. I've tried clearing my browser cache and the Silverstripe cache so I don't think it's caching confusion.

Have I misunderstood how theme specialisation works or have I just made a silly mistake somewhere? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Thanks for your reply willr and sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I came to the office after your reply to find it locked up and to find myself another victim of the recession. Apparently our now business has a new owner and the doors have opened again so I should be getting back to Silverstripe in the next couple of weeks. Thanks again for your help and I'll let you know how I get on.