Themes

A theme in WHM and cPanel is the skeletal frame on which the style, or “skin”, is placed. This area of WHM allows you to manage themes.

• Change WHM Theme — This feature allows you to select the theme your WHM interface will use.

• Universal Theme Manager — The theme contains many underlying elements like HTML and CSS. We recommend that you use the x theme for WHM and the x3/x3mail theme for cPanel, as these are the most current themes supported by cPanel.

A note about working with custom themes

When creating your own themes or using themes that are not provided by cPanel, you will need to ensure that the following 2 files exist:

• /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/$theme/passwd/changepass.html
• /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/$theme/passwd/index.html

These files control interfaces that are used whenever a cPanel user's password must be changed. Failing to copy or create these interfaces (files) will prevent users from changing their passwords under the following conditions:

• You have used the Force Password Change feature to require the user to change the account's password (Main >> Account Functions >> Force Password Change).
• The user's password is too old, as defined in the Configure Security Policy feature (Main >> Security Center >> Configure Security Policies).
• The user's password is too weak, as defined in the Configure Security Policy feature (Main >> Security Center >> Configure Security Policies).

Note: We do not currently support custom theme or localization efforts for WHM.