If you are unaware, the best way to modify the look and feel of the Movable Type Admin UI is to use the alt-tmpl folder. I have done this for a number of the application templates.
login.tmpl
asset_options.tmpl
asset_upload.tmpl
chromeless_header.tmpl
footer.tmpl
header.tmpl
It is worth noting up front that if you modify any of the default application templates, Six Apart Support will require that you remove any customizations and ensure you are using the current code. This is yet another reason to use alt-tmpl files, as they are non destructive.
login.tmpl
asset_options.tmpl
asset_upload.tmpl
chromeless_header.tmpl
footer.tmpl
header.tmpl
It is worth noting up front that if you modify any of the default application templates, Six Apart Support will require that you remove any customizations and ensure you are using the current code. This is yet another reason to use alt-tmpl files, as they are non destructive.
Running the svn diff command on all of the above files, the only one that has differences is header.tmpl, and they are minor. I suggest making your modifications (again) to the 4.25 version of header.tmpl, just to make life easier.
Hopefully this will be usefull to someone who is upgrading to MT 4.25 and has modified the administrative interface.
Also worth noting is that chromeless_header.tmpl and chromeless_footer.tmpl are not in /tmpl/cms/include in 4.25 (but were there in 4.24). I am not sure where they have gone to, but I imagine they are no longer used at all since Motion-based blogs do not use the Chromeless templates at all, only non-Motion sites do that. That is just a guess though, I have not asked Support about that.
Hopefully this will be usefull to someone who is upgrading to MT 4.25 and has modified the administrative interface.
Also worth noting is that chromeless_header.tmpl and chromeless_footer.tmpl are not in /tmpl/cms/include in 4.25 (but were there in 4.24). I am not sure where they have gone to, but I imagine they are no longer used at all since Motion-based blogs do not use the Chromeless templates at all, only non-Motion sites do that. That is just a guess though, I have not asked Support about that.
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